NOVEMBER 2018 SUSPIRIA THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes.

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL Sink or Swim IFI KINOPOLIS

The IFI’s flagship festival, the IFI French Film Festival, The IFI’s annual Polish Film Festival, Kinopolis, returns from returns for its 19th edition from November 14th to 25th. December 6th to 9th with the very best in new Polish cinema. Highlights of this year’s festival include Lukas Dhont’s Girl, Previous Irish premieres have included Andrzej Wajda’s Gilles Lellouche’s Sink or Swim, and Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Afterimage and Tomasz Wasilewski’s United States of Love. Sauvage. Guests scheduled to appear include acclaimed The full programme will be announced in November at writer-actor-director Cédric Kahn, and directors Claire Burger, www.ifi.ie/kinopolis. Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer. Full festival details and booking available from www.ifi.ie/frenchfest.

FEAST YOUR EYES MYSTERY MATINEE

Every month we pair a new release with a specially This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just devised main course from the IFI Café Bar. This month’s €5, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 4th. Sometimes it will film choice will be the 18.30 screening of Billy Wilder’s be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title one comedy classic Some Like It Hot on Wednesday 7th. might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for this The menu on the evening will include a choice of Philly month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous Cheese Steak with Sweet Potato Fries, New England surprise screenings have included a preview of Greta Clam Chowder, or Waldorf Salad. Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth.

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Welcome to the November edition of the IFI Programme which sees the return of the annual IFI French Film Festival. NOVEMBER

AT THE IFI Suspiria This month, the IFI French Film Festival returns for its All of this alongside a special new menu of French cuisine 19th edition, bigger and better than ever before. This year’s created for the festival at the IFI Café Bar, a family screening, programme contains a massive 39 screenings, not only and a focus on LGBT+ titles, it promises to be twelve days reflecting the remarkable quality of French films made in the to remember. For further information on festival guests last year, but also the appetite our audiences have for this yet to be announced, please visit our website: national cinema, making this festival the largest celebration www.ifi.ie/frenchfest. of French culture in the country. Highlights include the latest work from directors such as Stéphane Brizé (At War), Of course, we couldn't present a festival of this scale Christophe Honoré (Sorry Angel), Agnès Jaoui (Place publique) without our various funders and partners, and would like and Mia Hansen-Løve (Maya). The programme also features to thank our principal funder the Arts Council, alongside many of the most familiar faces of French cinema including our Festival Partners Airbus, CRH, The Irish Times, Romain Duris (Our Struggles), Emmanuelle Devos (Amin), RTÉ Supporting the Arts, Brooks Hotel, Alliance Française, Vanessa Paradis (Knife + Heart) and Jean Dujardin Europa Cinemas, Institut Français, Unifrance, and the (I Feel Good). French Embassy in Ireland.

This year's programme also includes a number of Irish If that isn’t enough to keep you busy, we have some fantastic premières, alongside a focus on the work of legendary master new releases, classics and even more guests lined up this of suspense, writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot – often month. IFI favourite Mike Leigh will return on Wednesday called ‘the French Hitchcock' – which will include screenings 7th for a special Q&A to discuss his new filmPeterloo (which of Les Diaboliques and The Mystery of Picasso. opens on the 2nd). Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, Shoplifters is another beautiful and moving drama from We are particularly delighted that our Festival Guest the wonderful director Hirokazu Koreeda. Fans of the work of Honour this year is screenwriter, director and actor of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Winter Cédric Kahn, who will be here to discuss his new film Sleep) won’t be disappointed by his latest, the stunning The Prayer and his classic Roberto Succo. We are thrilled The Wild Pear Tree. Finally, we’re delighted to be welcoming that we’ll also be hosting a masterclass, a unique opportunity director Rebecca Daly to the IFI on Friday 9th to discuss her in which this cinematic great will discuss his screenwriting, intriguing new drama, Good Favour. editing, directing and acting career. Another special guest this year will be director Claire Burger who will be here for We hope you'll find plenty of reasons to visit the IFI during our Opening Gala to introduce her touching new drama the month of November. Real Love. One of the most memorable films from Cannes this year was Little Tickles, so we’re pleased to be welcoming À bientôt, not one but two of the creative minds behind it; co-directors Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer will be here to discuss Ross Keane their powerful new feature, in which Bescond also plays Director the lead role.

3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

BLACK MOTHER OPENS FRI 2ND DATE SCREENING TIME PETERLOO OPENS FRI 2ND 4TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 SOME LIKE IT HOT OPENS FRI 2ND SUN 5TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: PETERLOO 18.00 GOOD FAVOUR OPENS FRI 9TH MON WIDOWS OPENS FRI 9TH 6TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: PETERLOO 13.00 WILDLIFE OPENS FRI 9TH TUES EVENING COURSE: AMISTAD 18.00 SUSPIRIA OPENS FRI 16TH 7TH PETERLOO + MIKE LEIGH Q&A 18.30 THE CAMINO VOYAGE OPENS FRI 23RD WED FEAST YOUR EYES: SOME LIKE IT HOT 18.30 IRISH FOCUS: THIS IS NICHOLAS + Q&A 18.50 SHOPLIFTERS OPENS FRI 23RD 8TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: MISSISSIPPI BURNING 18.15 DISOBEDIENCE OPENS FRI 30TH THUR THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS OPENS FRI 30TH 9TH GOOD FAVOUR + Q&A 18.15 THE WILD PEAR TREE OPENS FRI 30TH FRI 10TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: WIDOWS 13.00 SAT 11TH IFI & SCIENCE WEEK: LET THERE BE LIGHT 15.30 SUN 12TH FROM THE VAULTS: SALLY’S IRISH ROGUE 18.30 MON 13TH EVENING COURSE: SHORT FILMS AND MUSIC: 18.30 TUES MAURICE SEEZER SELECTS 14TH IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL* WED † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. 15TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: WIDOWS 18.00 THUR 17TH IFI & FESTIVAL OF POLITICS: 17.45 SAT WHEN THE WAR COMES GET SOCIAL! 25TH IFI FAMILY: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS 11.00 Join the IFI community online: SUN FOR LIFE 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: SOME LIKE IT HOT 11.00 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute WED IFI FILM CLUB: SHOPLIFTERS 18.10 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: SOME LIKE IT HOT 11.00 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub FRI

@IrishFilmInstitute *Until Sun 25th. See separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/frenchfest

For bookings and film information, please see our website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily).

Open Captioned screening

Audio Described screening

The F-rating is a classification reserved for any film which is directed and/or written by a woman.

4 NOVEMBER 2018 BLACK MOTHER DOC IFI

OPENS FRI 2ND A collage of interviews, archival footage Organised into ‘trimesters’ marked and photographs, on both digital and by a woman’s developing pregnancy, FILM INFO: film, Khalik Allah’sBlack Mother is a the film is the result of Allah’s tour of 77 mins, USA, 2018, Digital formally daring, associatively edited the country, the birthplace of his Notes by David O’Mahony stream-of-consciousness essay film mother, with a variety of different exploring Jamaican identity and cultural voices contributing to a fractured history. Impressionistic rather than yet ultimately cohesive discourse didactic, Allah’s distinctive approach on Jamaican political and religious to his material has progressed from his history. The cumulative effect is debut documentary Field Niggas (2015), highly distinctive. through to working as director and cinematographer on Beyoncé’s striking Lemonade (2016).

PETERLOO RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 2ND Following the success of Mr. Turner age of industrialisation. Although the (2014), Mike Leigh returns to a historical film is characteristic of Leigh’s work FILM INFO: setting with this dramatisation of with regard to its attention to detail 154 mins, UK, 2018, Digital events surrounding the Peterloo and character, it is also perhaps his Notes by Kevin Coyne Massacre of 1819. Taking the interest first epic. in class that has been common in his work to the fore, the film focuses on There will be Open Captioned screenings the emergence of the working class at 18.00 on Monday 5th and at 13.00 on Q&A in Manchester, battling poverty and Tuesday 6th. Director Mike Leigh will take part in a Q&A following seeking fairer treatment in terms of the 18.30 screening on pay and conditions as the gulf between Wednesday 7th. Tickets €12. them and their employers grows in the

5 NOVEMBER 2018 SOME LIKE IT HOT IFI CLASSIC

OPENS FRI 2ND Regularly voted the greatest comedy Marilyn Monroe), struggling to find ways of all time, Some Like It Hot is to win her heart while keeping their FILM INFO: here presented in a new 4K digital cover. Matters are complicated by an 121 mins, USA, 1959, Digital, restoration. Jazz musicians Joe (Tony aging millionaire’s pursuit of Daphne, Black and White Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are and the arrival of the mob boss to the Notes by Kevin Coyne forced to flee Prohibition-era Chicago city. Despite a troubled production, after witnessing a mobster boss take due in no small part to the difficulties murderous revenge on an informant. of Monroe’s personal life, the film is, Disguising themselves as Josephine according to Roger Ebert, “one of the and Daphne, they mix in with a female enduring treasures of the movies.” FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially band taking the train to Miami. The two created main course following become infatuated with group member the 18.30 screening on Sugar Kane (the utterly luminous Wednesday 7th. GOOD FAVOUR NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 9TH Secluded deep in the forests of Central After his actions avert a potential Europe, a strictly devout Christian tragedy, the community puts him to the FILM INFO: community is suffering a crisis of faith test as it desperately seeks answers. 101 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital following a series of unsettling incidents Notes by David O’Mahony and a devastating loss. When a young man stumbles onto their compound bearing scars of trauma, the community welcomes him in and nurses him back to health. He is slowly initiated into their Q&A farming life and scriptural regime, but There will be a Q&A with the mystery of where he comes from Rebecca Daly following the 18.15 screening on Friday 9th. only grows.

6 WIDOWS RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 9TH When a botched heist kills Chicago gang (Colin Farrell) as he campaigns to win boss Rawlins (Liam Neeson) and his the vote of disadvantaged south side FILM INFO: crew, his devastated wife Veronica (Viola Chicago districts. Working within genre 128 mins, USA, 2018, Digital Davis) is left to pick up the pieces in Steve parameters, McQueen layers the film Notes by David O’Mahony McQueen’s taut, gripping crime thriller. with topical issues of racism and Blackmailed by a rival criminal into paying police brutality. off her late husband’s debts, Veronica recruits the widows of the slain crew in a There will be Open Captioned screenings bid to pull off a dangerous robbery. Based at 13.00 on Saturday 10th and at 18.00 on on Lynda La Plante’s 1983 TV miniseries, Thursday 15th. and co-written by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, the teasingly complex plot expands to involve corrupt politician Tom Mulligan

WILDLIFE RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 9TH Paul Dano’s directorial debut, co-written When Jerry leaves on a whim to by his partner and frequent on-screen fight encroaching wildfires that are FILM INFO: collaborator Zoe Kazan, is a delicate threatening the community, Jean, by 104 mins, USA, 2018, Digital adaptation of Richard Ford’s story of turns liberated from his oppressive Notes by David O’Mahony a family’s self-destruction in 1950s presence and humiliated by his rejection, Montana. Fired from his low-paying must learn to face up to a new reality. job as a golf club groundskeeper, Jerry Her growth as a character, viewed Brinson (Jake Gyllenhaal) succumbs mostly from the perspective of the to his latent anger and depression and wise-beyond-his-years Joe, forms all but gives up, forcing his wife Jean the backbone of Dano’s poignant, (Carey Mulligan) and 14-year-old son brilliantly acted examination of Joe (Ed Oxenbould) into the workplace. post-war American disillusionment.

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OPENS FRI 16TH Director Luca Guadagnino’s (Call Me troupe’s signature piece. This draws By Your Name, 2017) self-proclaimed her into the power struggle behind the FILM INFO: homage to fellow Italian Dario Argento’s scenes and the future of the witches’ 152 mins, Italy-USA, 2018, Digital seminal giallo sees American Susie coven that operates clandestinely Notes by Kevin Coyne Bannion (Dakota Johnson) arriving in behind the respectable façade of the 1977 Berlin to audition for a prestigious organisation. Although Guadagnino has dance academy run by the exacting updated the source material to form Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton, in the a dense exploration of contemporary latest of a series of collaborations with issues, his film retains the sense the director that began with 1999’s The of dread that permeated Argento’s Protagonists). Having been accepted original, and builds to a suitably into the fold, Susie quickly rises through Grand Guignol finale. the ranks, becoming lead dancer in the THE CAMINO VOYAGE IFI DOC

OPENS FRI 23RD A crew including musicians Glen new relationships, surprising those they Hansard and Brendan Begley, artist met with the simplicity of their vessel FILM INFO: Liam Holden, stonemason Brendan and inspiring them with their courage, 95 mins, Ireland, 2017, Digital Moriarty, and the late writer and poet endurance, storytelling, music, poetry Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Danny Sheehy embark on a voyage to and song. the Camino by sea. Together they take their naomhóg, a traditional boat they Dónal Ó Céilleachair’s uplifting and built themselves, on a gruelling 2,500km extraordinarily beautiful film celebrates modern day Celtic odyssey all the way this expedition which, in the words from Ireland to Northern Spain. Pulling of the late Danny Sheehy, led to the into coastal towns and villages en route, ‘deepening and renewing of friendships, camping, cooking and nursing their creativity and spirituality’. blisters, this eclectic crew forged many

8 SHOPLIFTERS RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 23RD Hirokazu Koreeda (Like Father, Like Son; Osamu (Lily Franky) is the patriarch of Our Little Sister; After the Storm) deserves an extended family of swindlers, thieves FILM INFO: to be recognised as one of the most and con-artists; a Fagin-like character, he 121 mins, Japan, 2018, prolific directors working today. With the schools his charges in the arts of petty Digital, Subtitled superlative Shoplifters, he has delivered pilfering whilst holding down a legitimate Notes by David O’Mahony another brilliantly observed and deeply construction job. One freezing winter moving drama of working-class lives, a night he stumbles upon a little girl lost worthy winner of the Palme d’Or at this and takes her under his wing, ignoring year’s Cannes Film Festival. extensive news coverage of the child’s disappearance, a reckless act that causes IFI FILM CLUB Join members of the IFI team a crisis in his criminal collective. for an informal discussion following the 18.10 screening on Wednesday 28th.

DISOBEDIENCE RELEASE NEW

OPENS FRI 30TH Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s Alessandro Nivola), in her absence, (A Fantastic Woman) English language a fact which complicates but doesn’t FILM INFO: debut is an emotionally complex drama prevent them from resuming their 114 mins, UK-Ireland-USA, set amongst the Orthodox Jewish high-stakes clandestine affair. With an 2017, Digital community of North London. Ronit unobtrusive, observational style and a Notes by David O’Mahony and Esti (Rachel Weisz and Rachel muted colour palette reflective of the McAdams) are old friends and erstwhile restrictive environment, Lelio contrasts secret lovers who are reunited when the sense of duty and obedience Ronit is forced to come home from New Esti feels towards the increasingly York when her father, a rabbi beloved of suspicious Dovid with the exuberant the community, dies suddenly. moments of unbridled passion she Esti has married Ronit’s cousin, the finds with Ronit. devout traditionalist Dovid (an excellent

9 NOVEMBER 2018 THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS IFI DOC

OPENS FRI 30TH Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and luck and coincidence – was a story David Kellman were New York triplets so unlikely that it afforded them some FILM INFO: separated at birth who grew up oblivious measure of celebrity; they appeared 85 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital to one another’s existence until on talk shows, opened a successful Notes by David O’Mahony they reunited in 1980 at age 19. This steakhouse called Triplets, and had a remarkable story is merely the opening cameo in Desperately Seeking Susan. chapter in Tim Wardle’s unsettling documentary which goes some way However, to reveal more about where to prove that truth really is stranger the story goes from this cheerful than fiction. That the three boys were beginning would do the film a adopted separately and managed to disservice. Suffice to say that what find each other – largely due to blind unravels is simply incredible. THE WILD PEAR TREE NEW RELEASE

OPENS FRI 30TH Sinan (Aydın Doğu Demirkol) is about Sleep, and the equally impressive Once to graduate from college; an aspiring Upon a Time in Anatolia, with another FILM INFO: yet unpublished novelist, he hopes to intimate epic, an emotionally complex 188 mins, Turkey-France- avoid following in the footsteps of his reunion between estranged father and Germany, 2018, Digital, Subtitled father Idris (the superb Murat Cemcir), son played out against the magnificent Notes by David O’Mahony a resolutely upbeat rural school teacher. Çanakkale locations. Ceylan once again Returning home to visit his family, Sinan foregrounds intricate dialogue, with his finds his father mired in debt he refuses characters engaging in wry verbal jousts to acknowledge. that encompass philosophy, religion and ethics and everything in between. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan Heartfelt, elegiac and deeply poignant, follows his Palme d’Or-winning Winter it is one of the director's very best.

10 ARCHIVE AT IRISH LUNCHTIME FOCUS Tribulations Irlandaises Tribulations

VUES DE L’IRLANDE THIS IS NICHOLAS: Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film LIVING WITH AUTISM Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office – please see www.ifi.ie for more information. SPECTRUM DISORDER Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn WED 7TH (18.50) Whet your appetite for the IFI French Film Festival Nicholas Ryan-Purcell was diagnosed with with some French perspectives on Ireland. Asperger Syndrome aged 13. He was also faced with mental health challenges, brought on by an PROGRAMME ONE early childhood trauma which triggered TRIBULATIONS IRLANDAISES a lengthy depression. Nicholas overcame a This French newsreel presents a whirlwind tour series of obstacles to complete his Leaving of 1960s Ireland. Certificate and then undertake and graduate from FILM INFO: 5 mins, 1965, Black and White a three-year course in TV Production at Ballyfermot LA RÊVE CELTIQUE College Dublin. Made by Frédéric Rossif for French television, Now aged 28, Nicholas’s mental health La Rêve Celtique presents Ireland as a country challenges are a thing of the past. He has made of ethereal landscapes, inspiring generations this documentary to chronicle his experience of of traditional Irish musicians. living with Asperger Syndrome and depression FILM INFO: 25 mins, 1978 and to celebrate the invaluable support of his PROGRAMME TWO family, his teachers and his neighbours in the BELFAST, 1897 village of Emly, Co Tipperary. The first films made on the streets of Belfast This is a brave and inspirational piece of produced by the film pioneers Les frères Lumière. work, made with clarity and insight by an FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1897, Black and White insider, to greatly enhance our understanding 81 of Asperger Syndrome. Director Stephen Burke imagines a French film DIRECTOR: Nicholas Ryan-Purcell crew in Belfast to cover the Hunger Strikes in 1981. FILM INFO: 52 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital They interview a Catholic and Protestant family, living within feet of each other, similar in every way Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn but for their politics. FILM INFO: 28 mins, 1997 The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Nicholas Ryan-Purcell. The IFI French Film Festival runs from November 14th to 25th. See www.ifi.ie/frenchfest for details.

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FROM THE VAULTS SALLY’S IRISH ROGUE

MON 12TH (18.30)

DIRECTOR: A young man (Tim Seely) is more to get an American release, due perhaps George Pollock interested in motorcycles than in the to the popularity of its star, Julie Harris, FILM INFO: farm he is about to inherit. He breaks fresh from her role opposite James 74 mins, Ireland, 1958, Digital, off with Sally (Julie Harris), the girl he Dean in East of Eden. Written by the Black and White has promised to marry, and goes off ever-reliable duo Blanaid Irvine and Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn with another girl. He soon finds himself Patrick Kirwan and with a terrific cast caught between being sued for breach of Abbey actors featuring the comic of promise or a shotgun wedding. genius of Harry Brogan and Marie Kean, this rarely-seen comedy is an Directed by Englishman George Pollock unmissable delight. (of the popular Miss Marple series), this early Ardmore production was one of the few Irish-made films of the 1950s

THE BIGGER PICTURE MISSISSIPPI BURNING

THURS 8TH (18.15)

DIRECTOR: Head of the National Film School and Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, Alan Parker documentary filmmaker Rónán Ó which uncovers the racism and FILM INFO: Muirthile has selected Alan Parker’s prejudice at the heart of society. 128 mins, USA, 1988, Digital searing drama for our November Bigger Parker draws on the police procedural Notes by Alicia McGivern Picture slot. Released thirty years ago and the brilliant performances of his and set in 1964, the film’s race relations leads, including Frances McDormand theme has contemporary relevance in as the sheriff’s wife, to depict the today’s Black Lives Matter climate. power that was within the civil rights movement, and the endemic bigotry Based on a true story, it centres on that it set out to overcome. the murders of three young civil rights activists and the resulting investigation led by two FBI opposites, played by

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WED 28TH & FRI 30TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: So many reasons exist for repeat and an infamous last line: all of these Billy Wilder viewings of this classic screwball and much more to guarantee some FILM INFO: comedy. Consistently nominated November laughs. 121 mins, USA, 1959, Digital, funniest film ever with its one-liner Black and White filled dialogue, it displays magical Wild Strawberries is our film club for over Notes by Alicia McGivern on-screen chemistry between the 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/ three leads: Marilyn Monroe as the coffee before the event. If you happen to singer/rich husband hunter, and look younger, please don’t take offence if Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as the we ask your age. musicians who join the girl band to escape the mob. The fuzzy end of the lollipop, Shell oil, that gold dress

IFI FAMILY BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS FOR LIFE SUN 25TH (11.00)

(BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN 3, The hugely successful French family film The arrival of bad guy Joseph, claiming LE DERNIER CHAPITRE) trilogy, adapted from the much-loved to be Belle’s rightful owner, kick starts DIRECTOR: novel by Cécile Aubry, features young another terrific Alpine tale. Sebastian Clovis Cornillac Sebastian and his rescued dog, the and his bumbling but loving grandad, Pyrenean Mountain Dog, Belle. Having set out to save their dog. FILM INFO: 97 mins, France, 2017, won many hearts with the first two Digital, Subtitled stories of adventure and bravery (which Age Recommendation 8+; Subtitles Notes by Alicia McGivern you don’t need to have seen to enjoy this will be read by an experienced reader. instalment), this final chapter sees the 12-year-old boy deciding not to follow Tickets: €4.80 per person, his father to Canada, so he can stay in €14.40 family ticket (2 adults snow-covered Saint Martine to watch + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). over Belle and her three new pups.

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IFI & SCIENCE WEEK LET THERE BE LIGHT

SUN 11TH (15.30)

DIRECTORS: Clean, safe and unlimited power has been Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko an obsession of scientists and inventors to prove that fusion is viable. FILM INFO: for centuries. Since the 1940s, when we 80 mins, Canada-France-Italy- first understood how the Sun creates The film chronicles the work of the Switzerland-USA, 2017, Digital energy, nuclear fusion has been energy’s passionate scientists who are struggling holy grail. However, for many years, to make the breakthrough that could alter fusion has been delayed and thwarted by the course of human history. failure, miscalculation, fraud and politics. The screening will be introduced by But could we now be on the brink Professor Miles Turner, Director of the of producing an ‘artificial sun’ here National Centre for Plasma Science and on Earth? 37 countries are currently Technology. Presented in association with collaborating on ITER (International Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

IFI & FESTIVAL OF POLITICS WHEN THE WAR COMES

SAT 17TH (17.45)

(AŽ PRIJDE VÁLKA) At first glance Peter lives the life of a great politician. Director Jan Gebert DIRECTOR: typical European teenager – he lives portrays a leader on the rise and Jan Gebert with his parents, has a pretty girlfriend, touches on the very topical themes he goes to college. However, he is also of nationalism and the mechanism FILM INFO: the head of a paramilitary group called of power. 77 mins, Czech Republic-Croatia, 2017, Digital, Subtitled ‘Slovenskí branci’ that recruits hundreds of Slovak teenagers with the silent Presented in association with Temple Bar approval of the authorities. The group’s Festival of Politics. goal is simple: to prepare for war and create a model community based on military drill, obedience and fear. Peter dreams that one day he will be able to govern the entire society as a

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