The Kindergarten Teacher the Irish Director’S Film Institute Note

MARCH 2019 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER THE IRISH DIRECTOR’S FILM INSTITUTE NOTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s This month the IFI unveils its EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. exciting plans for 2019. 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. MARCH

AT THE IFI Alien 2019 looks set to be one of the most significant and ambitious in September, and IFI Horrorthon over the October Bank Holiday years for the IFI across its core areas of film exhibition, weekend. Also scheduled to return are collaborations with East preservation and education. In order to successfully deliver Asia Film Festival Ireland and IFI Kinopolis, the annual focus on IFI IRISH FILM EAST ASIA FILM many of these programmes, the IFI will undergo a major capital the best of new and classic Polish cinema.

Asako I & II refurbishment project in summer 2019 which will see, amongst ARCHIVE TOURS FESTIVAL IRELAND other improvements, two completely refurbished cinema spaces, 2019 promises to be another key year for the award-winning offering IFI audiences the opportunity to see films in the most IFI Irish Film Archive. This summer will see the launch of the comfortable of environments with the best of facilities. The second part of the Irish Independence Film Collection which Get a behind-the-scenes perspective of the IFI Irish Film The third edition of East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) major refurbishment will maintain all the charm of the existing features repatriated newsreels from international news crews, Archive and visit the film vaults beneath our building. This returns to the IFI from April 11th to 14th, once again 18th century Quaker building in which the IFI makes its main bringing material that relates to one of the most important tour gives a unique insight into the collections held in the IFI showcasing the rich diversity of filmmaking from East and home, but will see changes that will bring increased enjoyment periods in Irish history back home, where it belongs, and Irish Film Archive, shows you around the film vaults, and talks South East Asia. The programme will feature a number of Irish to the many film lovers who visit. We are really looking forward to presented to audiences for free on the IFI Player. Meanwhile, in through how we safeguard our collections that span from premieres including Hong Sang-Soo’s Hotel by the River, Ming unveiling our wonderful new facilities the summer, and offering April, the release of the Loopline Collection will be made public on 1897. Attendees will then be treated to lunch at the IFI Café Zhang’s The Pluto Moment, Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into our audiences the opportunity to enjoy our curated events and the IFI Player and apps celebrating the exceptional documentary Bar. Tours will take place in March on Fridays 15th and 29th. Night, and Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II. See www.ifi.ie programmes in even better surroundings. output of the pioneering Irish production company established by See www.ifi.ie/archivetours for further details. and www.eaffi.ie for full details. Sé Merry Doyle. The IFI's comprehensive exhibition programme will include a complete retrospective of the work of one of the most pivotal The IFI’s education plans for the year include the hugely popular figures in French cinema, Robert Bresson; a season entitled and comprehensive 2019–2020 Schools Programme which will Memory on Film will highlight how this most abstract of concepts be launched in September, while the second and third phases has been represented on screen; a short focus will explore the of the IFI Film Clubs pilot, offering film presentations to young films of Derek Jarman, one of the most influential figures in 20th people right around the country in an after-school setting, will century British culture; and the return of a spotlight on the work run throughout 2019. The IFI's commitment to lifelong learning of forgotten filmmakers, Hidden Figures, will this year showcase continues with spring and autumn Evening Courses, which will American Dorothy Arzner (1897–1979), the only female director in focus on British and Asian cinema respectively. SONIC YOUTH: Hollywood in the 1930s, who launched the careers of many of the era's finest talents including Katherine Hepburn. IFI will continue its vast programming in IFI National and IFI 30 YEARS OF International strands, bringing the best of local cinema to Irish filmmakers and their work will remain central to the IFI's communities across the country with Local Films for Local DAYDREAM NATION MYSTERY MATINEE focus throughout the year with seasons including Neglected People programmes travelling to counties including Leitrim, Perspectives, co-curated by director Donal Foreman, looking Fermanagh, Cork, Sligo and Galway. IFI International, in at work that challenged the prevailing representations of the collaboration with Culture Ireland, will bring the very best of Celebrating the recent 30th anniversary of Sonic Youth's This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just Northern Ireland Troubles, while the work of Trish McAdam will Irish cinema to cities and countries across the world including seminal Daydream Nation album, the IFI is delighted to €5.20, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 31st. Sometimes it be celebrated with a retrospective and public interview. The IFI’s Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, welcome filmmaker Lance Bangs and drummer Steve Shelley will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title ongoing collaboration with One City One Book will continue with Singapore and Vietnam. to present a programme of films related to the album on one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for the Edna O'Brien Trilogy, featuring screenings of The Country Girls, Saturday 2nd, which will include excerpts from the Bangs- this month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Previous Girl with Green Eyes and I Was Happy Here. The IFI's four flagship Full details of our plans can be found on our website. directed concert film and Charles Atlas’s documentary Mystery Matinee screenings have included a preview of Lenny festivals will return, with the IFI French Film Festival in November, Put Blood In The Music. Abrahamson's The Little Stranger and Robert Altman's The the IFI Family Festival in August, the IFI Documentary Festival Ross Keane Long Goodbye. Director

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ALIEN OPENS FRI 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME AN ENGINEER IMAGINES OPENS FRI 1ST 1ST AN ENGINEER IMAGINES + Q&A 18.20 FOXTROT OPENS FRI 1ST FRI ALIEN CLASSIC IFI SAUVAGE OPENS FRI 1ST 2ND SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION 17.00 BORDER OPENS FRI 8TH SAT SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION 20.00 EVERYBODY KNOWS OPENS FRI 8TH 4TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: SAUVAGE 18.30 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER OPENS FRI 8TH MON MAIDEN OPENS FRI 8TH 6TH BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: WOMEN IN FILM AND 18.30 GIRL OPENS FRI 15TH WED TELEVISION SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 7TH MAIDEN + SATELLITE Q&A 18.00 MINDING THE GAP OPENS FRI 22ND THUR THE WHITE CROW OPENS FRI 22ND 11TH IFI FILM CLUB: BORDER 18.15 AT ETERNITY’S GATE OPENS FRI 29TH MON OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: EVERYBODY KNOWS 20.30 OPENS FRI 1ST Rereleased in a new 4K digital restoration When deep-space mining vessel the THE MAN WHO WANTED TO FLY OPENS FRI 29TH to mark its 40th anniversary, Ridley Nostromo is diverted to an uninhabitable 12TH EVENING COURSE 18.30 3 FACES OPENS FRI 29TH TUES FILM INFO: Scott’s film remains an unimpeachable moon to investigate what may be a 117 mins, UK-USA, 1979, Digital classic of sci-fi horror. From Sigourney distress call of unknown origin, crew 13TH IRISH FOCUS: UNQUIET GRAVES + Q&A 18.20 Notes by Kevin Coyne Weaver’s career-defining role as member Kane (John Hurt) is attacked WED FEAST YOUR EYES: THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER 18.40 central character Ripley, to H.R. Giger’s after entering a mysterious vessel. After 14TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: EVERYBODY KNOWS 13.00 nightmarish creature design (and the receiving medical attention, he seems to THUR creature’s memorable first appearance), recover, but soon his crewmates, including 16TH IFI FAMILY: THE ASH LAD: IN THE HALL OF THE 11.00 to its unusual presentation of futuristic Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Skerritt Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special SAT MOUNTAIN KING screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18 technology with an aging-industrial (reunited in last year’s Lucky), are being years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is FROM THE VAULTS: THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE 15.00 required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction. aesthetic, the film has proven remarkably picked off one by one by the relentless 19TH IFI & AEMI: TERROR NULLIUS + Q&A 18.30 enduring and influential, constantly and lethal alien. † The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. TUES EVENING COURSE 18.30 thrilling and terrifying new audiences. 20TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: COME AND SEE 20.00 WED 24TH THE GREAT ESCAPE + SATELLITE EVENT 18.00 GET SOCIAL! SUN OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE WHITE CROW 20.20 Join the IFI community online: 26TH EVENING COURSE 18.30 AN ENGINEER

TUES DOC IFI linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: ALL THE MONEY 11.00 WED IN THE WORLD IMAGINES @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 28TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE WHITE CROW 13.00 THUR @IrishFilmInstitute 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: ALL THE MONEY 11.00 FRI IN THE WORLD 31ST MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 For bookings and film information, please see our SUN website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). OPENS FRI 1ST This sumptuous documentary pays Georges Pompidou to his untimely homage to the life and ideas of Peter death in 1992. Using 35mm FILM INFO: Rice, widely regarded as one of the time-lapse photography interwoven Open Captioned screening 83 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital most distinguished engineers of the with reminiscences of colleagues, Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn late twentieth century. Without his family and friends, Marcus Robinson Audio Described screening innovations and collaborations with the celebrates Rice’s extraordinary legacy, leading architects of his time, some of unfolding the story of one of Ireland’s Q&A the most recognisable buildings in the great minds; a man who pushed the The 18.20 screening on Friday world would not have been realised. boundaries of art and science to The F-rating is a classification 1st will be followed by a Q&A with Marcus Robinson The film traces Rice’s career from his reach unimaginable heights but who reserved for any film which is and Heidi Rice, hosted by Dundalk childhood to his work on the has, until now, stood in the shadow of directed and/or written by a woman. Professor Kevin Barry. Sydney Opera House and the Centre architectural icons.

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OPENS FRI 1ST Samuel Maoz's highly anticipated second bureaucracy of the officials who deliver OPENS FRI 8TH With her uncanny ability to sniff out at the centre of a complex narrative that feature delivers on the promise of his the news is chillingly portrayed. Fate wrongdoing and guilty thoughts in includes Tina’s ongoing investigation FILM INFO: debut, the claustrophobic 2009 war intervenes in unexpected ways and the (GRÄNS) others, Swedish border security guard into a paedophile ring and her issues with 113 mins, Israel-Switzerland- drama Lebanon, which was distinguished plot thickens considerably in Maoz's Tina (Eva Melander) is perfectly suited her ailing father. Ali Abbasi’s wonderfully Germany-France, 2017, by being set entirely within the confines cruel, brilliant drama that is told with a FILM INFO: to her role. More problematic is her strange and imaginative romantic Digital, Subtitled 110 mins, Sweden-Denmark, Notes by David O’Mahony of a tank. The first act ofFoxtrot is streak of mordantly absurd humour. 2018, Digital, Subtitled dysfunctional relationship with her fantasy is based on a short story by John similarly confined to one space, the His confidence with camera movement Notes by David O’Mahony dog-breeding housemate-cum-boyfriend Ajvide Lindqvist – of Let The Right One well-appointed apartment of Michael and composition in cramped spaces Roland (Jörgen Thorsson). Tina’s In fame – and, like the character of Tina, and Daphne Feldman (Lior Ashkenazi reveals a true cinematic sensibility. horizons broaden when she encounters the film is a true original. and Sarah Adler), stunned parents who Vore (Eero Milonoff), a beguiling have just received the awful news of character whose uncommon appearance Join members of the IFI team for an their son’s death ‘in the line of duty’ at a and behavioural eccentricities mirror her informal discussion following the 18.15 border shooting incident. The unfeeling own. Their bizarre courtship-of-sorts is screening on Monday 11th.

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OPENS FRI 1ST 22-year-old Léo (Félix Maritaud) is a rent the comforts of being a kept man. This OPENS FRI 8TH When a family wedding is interrupted by Paco runs the local vineyard which boy on the streets of Strasbourg. He is by bracing first feature by writer-director a shocking crime, secrets and lies that employs many villagers, yet there are EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† turns a hustler and a lonely boy lost, who Camille Vidal-Naquet balances raw (TODOS LO SABEN) span generations are brought to light in suspicions as to how he acquired the craves intimate connections amidst his authenticity with moments of profound Asghar Farhadi’s (A Separation) layered land. During the wedding celebrations, FILM INFO: succession of anonymous clients. Léo is tenderness and compassion. FILM INFO: psychological drama. Laura (Penélope Laura’s daughter goes missing, with 99 mins, France, 2018, 132 mins, Spain-France-Italy, Digital, Subtitled sick with unrequited love for one of the 2018, Digital, Subtitled Cruz) returns with her children to the a text message revealing that she Notes by David O’Mahony fraternal group of prostitutes he hangs Sauvage is presented in association with Notes by David O’Mahony small Spanish village of her youth for her has been abducted by kidnappers with, who counsels him to find an older, GCN, Ireland’s national LGBTQ press. sister Ana’s wedding, leaving her husband demanding a ransom. IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB financially secure man as a means of Alejandro behind in their adopted home Tickets for the 18.30 screening on Monday 4th cost escape. Although struggling with health in Argentina. There she is reunited with Screenings with Hard of Hearing subtitles just €7.80 for IFI and Alliance and drug problems, Léo is reluctant to old flame Paco (Javier Bardem), who is will be available at 20.30 on Monday 11th Française members. sacrifice what he views as freedom for now happily married to Bea. and 13.00 on Thursday 14th.

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OPENS FRI 8TH A schoolteacher locates an unhealthy to recite mature, polished poetry of OPENS FRI 15TH A gender non-conforming teenager Anchored by stunning central outlet for her frustrated literary which he is seemingly the author. prepares for imminent sex reassignment performances by 15-year-old Victor FILM INFO: ambitions in Sara Colangelo’s assured Disapproving of her own less creatively FILM INFO: surgery whilst having to prove her Polster as Lara, and Arieh Worthalter as 96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital remake of Nadev Lapid’s 2014 original. inclined teenage children, Lisa’s fixation 109 mins, Belgium, 2018, credentials as a ballerina in Lukas Dhont’s her concerned yet accepting single father Notes by David O’Mahony The film’s knotty premise investigates with Jimmy crosses boundaries into Digital, Subtitled strikingly assured debut feature, which Mathias, Dhont’s naturalistic film grows in potential child abuse borne from the increasingly ambiguous territory Notes by David O’Mahony resonates with empathy and respect for power as Lara pushes herself to breaking sincere, if misguided, intentions of when she brings the boy’s work to the its bravely resilient heroine. Admitted on point in her determination to excel and be a damaged individual. Lisa (Maggie attention of her night course literary a probationary basis to one of Belgium’s accepted by her peers. Girl was the winner Gyllenhaal) is a dissatisfied wife and tutor Simon (Gael García Bernal). Maggie most prestigious ballet academies, Lara of the Queer Palme and Best Actor in the mother who becomes convinced that Gyllenhaal gives a nuanced performance (Victor Polster) approaches her craft with Un Certain Regard strand of last year’s FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially one of her pupils, five-year-old Jimmy, as the increasingly unstable Lisa. punishing discipline, whilst becoming Cannes Film Festival. created main course for €21 is a child prodigy when he begins increasingly impatient with delays with following the 18.40 screening her hormone therapy. on Wednesday 13th. MAIDEN MINDING THE GAP DOC IFI IFI DOC

OPENS FRI 8TH Maiden is the inspirational story of how sponsors rejected her, fearing they OPENS FRI 22ND Growing up in the economically deprived as the years pass, his confidence as a Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on would die at sea and generate bad town of Rockford, Illinois, teenagers Bing director growing as he tackles the veiled FILM INFO: charter boats, became the skipper of publicity. But Tracy refused to give up: FILM INFO: Liu and his best friends Zach and Keire subject of the trio’s variously damaged 97 mins, UK, 2018, Digital the first ever all-female crew to enter she re-mortgaged her home and bought 93 mins, USA, 2018, Digital are united by their love of skateboarding. upbringings, cycles of abuse and toxic the Whitbread Round the World Race a second-hand boat, putting everything Notes by David O’Mahony From early on in their friendship Liu has masculinity. Winner of the Special Jury in 1989. on the line to ensure the team made it been videoing their skateboarding antics Prize for Documentary at Sundance, to the start line. With the support of her with the dynamism and flair of a natural Liu’s insightful Oscar-nominated debut Tracy’s dream was opposed on all remarkable crew she went on to shock filmmaker. Soon the boys must negotiate feature is graced by empathy and a great PREVIEW sides: her male competitors thought the sport and prove to her opposition the rocky transition to adulthood: Zach visual poetry. A special preview of the film including a satellite Q&A with an all-women crew would never make that women are the equal of men. learns he is to be a father and Keire Tracy Edwards will take place it, the chauvinistic yachting press struggles with his identity as an African on Thursday 7th at 18.00. took bets on her failure, and potential American. Liu begins to shift focus

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OPENS FRI 22ND Ralph Fiennes’s latest directorial effort unsupervised socialising with European OPENS FRI 29TH Bobby Coote, 80-something Cavan Inviting us into the quiet hinterland of the sees him working from a script by Sir dancers and a Chilean heiress (Adèle bachelor, lives next door to his brother, Irish border, we are wholly captivated by a FILM INFO: David Hare to tell the story of legendary Exarchopoulos), initially frustrate, FILM INFO: Ernie, and spends his days pottering gently eccentric character and his friends 122 mins, UK-Serbia-France, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and his and eventually anger his minders, 82 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital about, fixing clocks, making violins who are determined to realise a crazy 2018, Digital defection from the Soviet Union to the resulting in a dramatic showdown in Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn from old furniture and zipping about the dream at any cost. In this debut feature, Notes by Kevin Coyne West. The film crosscuts between his Le Bourget Airport. countryside on his motorbike. But despite award-winning journalist and playwright impoverished childhood and his early his apparent contentment he has never Frank Shouldice has created a truly training, but mainly focuses on the There will be Open Captioned screenings lost sight of a lifelong dream – to take uplifting and joyful piece of cinema. fateful trip of the Kirov Ballet to Paris in at 20.20 on Sunday 24th and at 13.00 on to the skies. Securing the help of his 1961. Filled with an insatiable thirst for Thursday 28th. neighbour Sean, and to the derision of culture, his unaccompanied trips to the Ernie, Bobby sets about building a runway city’s museums and bars, as well as his and a hangar and investing his life savings in his own private flying machine.

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OPENS FRI 29TH Vincent Van Gogh’s brief period in the fellow painter Paul Gauguin (Oscar OPENS FRI 29TH Since he was forbidden to engage in any government-sponsored censorship, and Provençal town of Arles in the south Isaacs), who recognised his inherent filmmaking activities for 20 years after the value of art in society. 3 Faces also FILM INFO: of France was a time of heightened genius, provided his only connection to (SE ROKH) being arrested on charges of propaganda returns to a topic familiar to viewers 111 mins, USA-France, creative fervor where he completed the art world. Eschewing the clichés of a against the Iranian government, Jafar of Panahi’s pre-2010 work, that of the 2018, Digital 75 paintings in 80 days, many of them traditional biopic, Julian Schnabel’s FILM INFO: Panahi has found inspiration in his status of women in Iranian society. After Notes by David O’Mahony 100 mins, Iran, 2018, Digital, renowned masterpieces. Living in (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) Subtitled circumstances. Made through a variety receiving an apparent suicide note from penury save for a stipend sent by his imaginative, intimately conceived film Notes by Kevin Coyne of subterfuges, his productions This Is a girl whose family oppose her decision beloved brother Theo (Rupert Friend), recreates the artist’s process with Not A Film (2011), Closed Curtain (2013), to study drama, actress Behnaz Jafari and scorned by locals who saw him as a vivid immediacy, his restless camera and Taxi Tehran (2015) have acted as (playing herself) and Panahi undertake dangerous eccentric, Van Gogh (Willem capturing the agony and ecstasy of multi-layered examinations of subject to seek her out and to discover the truth Dafoe) began to succumb to debilitating Dafoe’s remarkable performance. matter such as the contemporary Iranian of the matter. mental trauma. His friendship with state, the nature and motivations of

10 11 EVENING COURSE EXIT THROUGH THE CINEMA ROBINSON MAR 12TH – APR 16TH 28 DAYS LATER IN RUINS A Six-Week Evening MAR 26TH (18.30) ( ) Course on British Film APR 2ND 18.30 since the 1980s. Danny Boyle’s debut, Shallow Grave, showed his The films of Patrick Keiller show a Britain through the distictily British cinematic style. In 28 Days Later, eyes of wandering Robinson, researching locations Amid the trade-dominated Brexit This six-week course will look at some London is hit by an apocalyptic vision through viral and commenting on an England in decline. Robinson debates, there has been much less key British films from the past 40 years. infection. Boyle’s digital video and effects generate connects history and geography through imagery. discussion of the impact on British The course will run on consecutive enough horror, the city dark and seedy as survivors try culture, in particular cinema, which Tuesdays, commencing at 18.30. to escape. Rod Stoneman, former Director of the Huston School of has long enjoyed a presence on the Order of screenings may vary slightly. Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway, CEO of the Irish Film international stage. British cinema has Dr Sian Barber (QUB) will discuss 28 Days Later as a Board and a commissioning editor for Channel 4, will TICKETS evolved with a wealth of talent, funding genre piece, as well as looking at the broader sphere of discuss Keiller’s work, and its place within the broader €83 (including tea/coffee) and the distinct styles and genres that British horror and sci-fi. remit of television commissioning. for complete course (concessions €78). Booking make up a recognisable national cinema, for the complete course reflecting a richly diverse society. DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle DIRECTOR: Patrick Keiller through our website. Film FILM INFO: 113 mins, UK, 2002, Digital FILM INFO: 101 mins, UK, 2010, Digital tickets not individually sold.

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE RATCATCHER IONA LADY MACBETH MAR 12TH (18.30) MAR 19TH (18.30) APR 9TH (18.30) APR 16TH (18.30) A landmark film by director Stephen Frears, adapted Scottish filmmaker and writer Lynne Ramsay burst onto Scottish filmmaker Scott Graham followed his debut The period drama has been a constantly revisited genre from a Hanif Kureishi screenplay. Pakistani and the scene with this lyrical, evocative coming-of-age story feature Shell with this island-set drama, in which young in British cinema. This 19th century-set adaptation is English communities live side by side in 1980s on the grim Glasgow streets, as seen through the eyes of mother (Ruth Negga) returns to her birthplace with her a disconcerting, pared-back revenge costume drama, London, both caught up in the ‘loadsamoney’ 13-year-old James. Ramsay’s award-winning first feature teenage son to escape from a violent Glasgow scene. centring on a young woman, Katherine, stuck in a cruel economic policies of Thatcher’s government. depicted grim places and characters that she imbues Stepdad Daniel offers refuge but the claustrophobic marriage to an older man while finding passion with the When racist Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls in with her particular style. atmosphere of strict religion and tradition weigh heavily. estate’s groom. love with laundrette manager Omar, the men are awoken to new possibilities. Artist, sculptor and photographer Ruth McHugh will Film critic and writer, Justin MacGregor, the John Sherlock Dr Ruth Barton (TCD) will discuss Lady Macbeth and how present Ratcatcher in the context of Ramsay’s work to Assistant Professor TCD, will talk about the ‘new’ new the costume drama has evolved and been reworked up to Dr Jennie Carlsten will discuss the film’s impact at the date, and her status as a female filmmaker working in the wave of British cinema and Scottish film’s place within current hit The Favourite. time of release. international filmmaking arena. the genre. DIRECTOR: William Oldroyd DIRECTOR: Stephen Frears DIRECTOR: Lynne Ramsay DIRECTOR: Scott Graham FILM INFO: 89 mins, UK, 2016, Digital FILM INFO: 97 mins, UK, 1985, Blu-ray FILM INFO: 94 mins, UK-France, 1999, Blu-ray FILM INFO: 85 mins, UK , 2015, Digital

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DIRECTOR: In this quintessential Irish rural drama, threatens to drive her into the arms of Pat O’Connor screening as part of the St Patrick's drunken Bowser Egan (John Kavanagh).

Pobal FILM INFO: Festival, Bridie (Brenda Fricker), a 52 mins, Ireland, 1982, Digital lonely farmer’s daughter, goes to the This is a rare chance to see Pat Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn country ballroom where as a young girl O’Connor’s film of William Trevor’s short Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film UNQUIET GRAVES: she danced and dreamed of a happy story (set in Leitrim but filmed in Mayo) Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office marriage. Now, surrounded by younger, – a perfectly observed evocation of the – please see www.ifi.ie for more information. THE STORY OF THE livelier women, she decides that she has desolation and despair of Irish country suffered the indignities of spinsterhood life in the 1950s. Fricker, outstanding as Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn GLENANNE GANG long enough and vows that tonight will a woman stoically resigned to her fate, WED 13TH (18.20) be her last bid to find a husband. But is joined by a fine cast including Cyril SCANNÁIN GAELACH the eligible men have all emigrated or Cusack, Ingrid Craigie, Mick Lally and are already spoken for and loneliness Niall TóibÍn. In celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge we present a Unquiet Graves: The Story of the Glenanne Gang series of short films made in the Irish language. All details how members of the RUC and UDR films are presented in Irish with English subtitles. (a British Army regiment) were involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the PROGRAMME ONE recent conflict in Ireland. It reveals how state POBAL collusion accommodated the actions of known THE BIGGER Pobal is Louis Marcus’s breathtaking panorama sectarian murderers in the assassinations of of Irish life in 1970. The spirit and character of farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and others in a PICTURE the Irish people are observed through the lens of campaign aimed at terrorising the most vulnerable Bob Monks in a dynamic series of rural and urban in society. COME portraits, accompanied by the rousing music of Seán Ó Riada. The so-called Glenanne Gang rampaged through counties Tyrone and Armagh and across the Irish AND SEE FILM INFO: Louis Marcus, 25 mins, Ireland, 1970 Republic in a campaign that lasted from July PROGRAMME TWO 1972 to the end of 1978. This powerful new work, CÁ nIMÍONN AN tAIRGEAD? narrated by Stephen Rea, continues Seán Murray’s WED 20TH (20.00) In the first of two short films made by the investigation into the legacy of the Northern Irish conflict though testimony-based documentary. Department of Posts and Telegraphs to encourage ( ) The final film from Russian director Elem a further series of encounters with thrift, a slovenly housewife wastes food and ИДИ И СМОТРИ The work offers an empowering voice to victims Klimov (whose wife Larisa Shepitko’s The partisans, Nazis, and collaborators. electricity; a young woman fritters away her DIRECTOR: and contributes to a new understanding of the Ascent was recently screened as part of An extremely powerful and harrowing earnings on hats and magazines; and a bachelor Elem Klimov complexities of the conflict. this series), Come And See follows Florya, film that is utterly unflinching in its spends his money on horses, drink and dogs. FILM INFO: a young boy in Belarus in 1943, when depiction of the horrors of battle, its 142 mins, Soviet Union, 1985, FILM INFO: Gerard Healy, 10 mins, Ireland, 1954, Black and White DIRECTOR: Seán Murray Digital, Subtitled the Nazis began to invade. Determined mixture of lyricism and nightmare makes FILM INFO: 75 mins, Ireland-UK, 2018, Digital A THAISCE AGUS A STÓR Notes by Kevin Coyne to fight with the partisan forces for an unforgettable experience, and is against those attempting to occupy his an incontrovertible reminder of the cost In this Technicolor cautionary comedy, Milo O’Shea Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn and Maureen Toal play two young office workers homeland, he is instead forced to remain of war to its participants. whose engagement is doomed unless they create behind in the camp. There he meets This screening will be young nurse Glasha. The two escape some financial security. Q&A introduced by Frank Berry, FILM INFO: Ronald Liles, 15 mins, Ireland, 1961 The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Seán writer-director of Michael a sudden German attack and make for Murray, hosted by Margaret Urwin (Justice for the Forgotten). Inside and I Used To Live Here. Florya’s village, after which they endure

14 15 a wilful narrative space where cinema Despite familiarity, there is a fascination IFI & AEMI fictions and historical facts permeate WILD still in watching the rarified world of TERROR NULLIUS each other in new ways. The apocalyptic STRAWBERRIES extreme wealth versus the impoverished, desert camps of Mad Max 2 become desperate criminal, and a mother’s + Q&A the site of refugee detention, flesh- ALL THE MONEY unstinting love, determined as she is to eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial IN THE WORLD save her son. insurgents and a feminist motorcycle gang goes vigilante on Mel Gibson. WED 27TH & Wild Strawberries is our film club for over TUES 19TH (18.30) FRI 29TH (11.00) 55s. Tickets: €4.45 including regular tea/ Terror Nullius was commissioned by the coffee before the event. If you happen to DIRECTORS: Part political satire, eco-horror and road Australia Centre for the Moving Image, DIRECTOR: The John Paul Getty III kidnap story, the look younger, please don’t take offence if Soda_Jerk movie, Terror Nullius is a political revenge and this screening is supported by the Ridley Scott subject of a recently-aired TV series with we ask your age. FILM INFO: fable which offers an unwriting of Glasgow Short Film Festival. FILM INFO: Donald Sutherland as the megalomaniac 55 mins, Australia, 2018, Digital Australian national mythologies. Binding 132 mins, Italy-UK-USA, 2017, Digital oil billionaire, was given big screen aemi is a creative platform for the support Notes by Alicia McGivern This screening of Terror together a documentary impulse with & exhibition of artist and experimental attention in this gripping mystery thriller, Nullius will be followed by a the bent plotlines of Australian film texts, moving image practice. See www.aemi.ie. with Christopher Plummer in a role re- Q&A with Soda_Jerk. Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens cast after Kevin Spacey’s fall from grace.

and theme, they all have one thing in Steve McQueen classic, presented in a BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: common: they are directed and created THE GREAT 4K restoration. WOMEN IN FILM by the Irish film industry's most talented ESCAPE + up-and-coming female creatives. The Great Escape is arguably the AND TELEVISION SATELLITE best World War II adventure film SHORT FILM IFI is pleased to provide a space to screen EVENT ever made, a host of big-name stars and critically engage with this work. WFT meshing beautifully for this meticulous SHOWCASE is a voluntary, members-led organisation recreation. Although this is a film WED 6TH (18.30) representing the creative, business, SUN 24TH (18.00) about courage, Sturges takes a low-key educational and technical divisions of the approach, rather than allowing the cast DIRECTORS: Just in time for International Women's Irish audiovisual sector. DIRECTOR: March 24th marks the 75th anniversary to indulge in macho antics. Various John Sturges Day, IFI and Women in Film and Television The films will be introduced by filmmakers of the real-life POW escape from the Tickets for this special event cost €12. EVENT INFO: (WFT) present this inspiring programme FILM INFO: Luftwaffe-run Stalag Luft III prison in 90 mins and the prize for best film (selected by a 172 mins, USA, 1963, Digital of new short films selected from a WFT jury) will be announced on the night. German-occupied Poland. Historian significant volume of work submitted See full details of the programme on and broadcaster Dan Snow will host by WFT members. While these films www.ifi.ie and www.wft.ie. a commemorative pre-show live from couldn’t differ more in style, scope, genre, London, followed by a screening of the

Lisa (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a dissatisfied company Subotica working on the post- FEAST YOUR EYES wife and mother who becomes IFI FAMILY production, creating the scenes of magic THE KINDERGARTEN convinced that one of her pupils is a THE ASH LAD: and mystery as Ash Lad embarks on his child prodigy when he begins to recite trail. Based on an original Norwegian folk TEACHER mature, polished poetry of which he is IN THE HALL tale, there are fairy sprites, trolls, magic seemingly the author. OF THE dust and plenty of lucky escapes to keep Ash Lad on the road to his reward. Disapproving of her own less creatively MOUNTAIN KING SAT 16TH (11.00) inclined teenage children, Lisa’s fixation SAT 16TH (11.00) The film will be shown with English with Jimmy crosses boundaries into dubbing, and is recommended for DIRECTOR: March’s pairing of a new release and a increasingly ambiguous territory when (ASKELADDEN – For St Patrick’s weekend, March’s IFI children aged 10+. Sara Colangelo she brings the boy’s work to the attention I DOVREGUBBENS HALL) specially devised main course menu will Family slot is this period adventure story Tickets: €5.00 per person, €15.00 family FILM INFO: be Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten of her night course literary tutor Simon DIRECTOR: in which a poor farmer’s son embarks 96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital (Gael García Bernal). Mikkel Brænne Sandemose ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult Notes by David O’Mahony Teacher, followed by a specially created on a quest to get a reward and save the + 3 children). main course in the IFI Café Bar. FILM INFO: princess from the wicked Mountain King. Tickets cost €21, free list suspended. 104 mins, Norway-Czech Republic- Ireland, 2017, Digital A very popular title in IFI Family Festival Notes by Alicia McGivern 2018, this Norwegian-set story had Irish

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