Colm Meaney stars in Tom Collin's Irish film 'Kings' Spring/Summer 2008 Education Education Persepolis •KingsInsideI’mDancing Razzle Dazzle•ControlPan's Labyrinth The KiteRunner•Twelve AngryMen Comme UneImage•Warchild • In theShadowofMoon•AsYou Like It Welcome Senior Cycle

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We currently reach 20,000 students around Ireland at secondary and primary level with our extensive programme. This includes films in Irish, French, German and Spanish, alongside Leaving Cert. English titles, new Irish films, documentaries and films for primary school audiences. Inside I’m Dancing Mar 6, 10.30am James McAvoy (Atonement, The Last King of Scotland) gives Are you on our mailing list? The IFI Education programme reaches over 4000 named a great performance as Rory, whose rebellious ways motivate Twelve Angry Men Feb 5, 10.30am Michael to leave the nursing home, in this stimulating addition education contacts twice yearly, with details of our events at venues around the country. We IFI is hosting a retrospective of the work of Sidney Lumet, to the Leaving Certificate Comparative study. the highly regarded director. Lumet’s career began in 1952 IRELAND/UK• 1999 • DRAMA • 104 MINS • DIR: DAMIEN O’DONNELL are currently updating our database: if you would like to be included for future mailouts, with this film starring Henry Fonda as the jury member who please contact us with your details at [email protected] manages to sway the opinions of the other jury members ALSO SHOWING AT: one-by-one over the course of an unbearably hot day. Cinemobile, various venues USA • 1952 • DRAMA • 88 MINS • DIRECTOR: SIDNEY LUMET Booking via (091) 751 629 or see www.cinemobile.net Carrick Cineplex Mar 3 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Lights out! is a brand new film festival for young people which will take place in July 2008 in Dublin, Louth, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Clare, Cork and Westmeath.

Coming July 2008 My Left Foot Feb 21, 10.30am Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker star in this story of Christy Brown, taken from his autobiography, depicting the Philadelphia, Here I Come Mar 4, 10.30am harsh childhood and growing-up of the Dublin artist and writer. Gareth O’Donnell (Gar) is about to emigrate to Philadelphia. IRELAND/UK • 1989 • DRAMA • 103 MINS • DIRECTOR: JIM SHERIDAN On the eve of his departure, we learn of his small town life and relationships. His father (Old Screwballs), with whom he ALSO SHOWING AT: has little communication, his friends and his former girlfriend, Cinemobile, various venues Kate, all make an appearance. First performed in 1964, the Booking via (091) 751 629 or see www.cinemobile.net play launched Brian Friel on the international stage. Showing in conjunction with 3DD Entertainment. IRELAND • 1975 • DRAMA • 90 MINS • DIRECTOR: JOHN QUESTED

For up to date information, check the website www.lightsout.ie Revision Workshops for Leaving Cert 2008 Hour-long workshop focussing on key moments for students of Leaving Cert 2008. Please note: the complete film For booking or more information on Please note will not be shown. Booking essential. €3 per student IFI Education events, contact • Book early to avoid disappointment. Alicia or Deirdre: • No-shows of 5 students or more will be charged to your school. My Left Foot Feb 28, 10.30am t (01) 679 5744, e [email protected] • Cancellations must be made 3 days in advance. Strictly Ballroom May 1, 10.30am Admission to all IFI events €5 unless • Teachers must sit among students and supervise them Cinema Paradiso May 1, 11.45am otherwise stated. closely during screenings. Booking through IFI on (01) 679 5744

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Persepolis Apr 22, 24, 10.30am A prize-winner at Cannes, this humorous and moving story is about a young girls struggle for freedom, in Iran during the Comme une Image/Look at Me Feb 5, 19, 10.30am Islamic Revolution. Using hand-drawn animation, the tale is Stille Sehnsucht/Warchild Feb 7, May 8, 10.30 am El Laberinto del Fauno May 7, 10.30am This is the story of Lolita, a talented but insecure teenager based on co-director Marjiane Satrapi’s autobiographical Our German film tour continues throughout Spring with this /Pan’s Labyrinth who is trying to develop a classical singing career and a more graphic novels. Marjane is an energetic little girl, clever and tense and emotional story of Bosnian woman Senada. She Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s earlier film, The positive sense of herself, despite being almost completely fearless, who outsmarts the ‘social guardians’ and discovers is determined to find her daughter, who was taken into care Devil’s Backbone, was set towards the end of the Spanish Civil ignored by her self-obsessed famous father. The film takes a punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. But when religious extremism during the war and ended up in Germany. Director Christian War. This dark fantasy takes place in 1944, when the remnants look at the contemporary obsession with image and celebrity sweeps the country her outspoken parents make the decision Wagner explores issues such as displacement, borders and of the Republican army are being hunted down by sadistic – issues that are just as relevant here as in the French setting. to send her overseas. the ‘patchwork family’, topics which have relevance Captain Vidal. FRANCE/ITALY • 2004 • DRAMA • 112 MINS • ENGLISH SUBTITLES FRANCE • 2007 • ANIMATION • BLACK & WHITE • 95 MINS throughout all of Europe today. Vidal welcomes his new and pregnant wife to his forest DIRECTOR: AGNES JAOUI DIRECTOR: MARJANE SATRAPI & VINCENT PARONNAUD GERMANY/SLOVENIA • 2006 • DRAMA • 103 MINS • ENGLISH home but her daughter, Ofelia, is terrified of him and finds SUBTITLES • DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN WAGNER escape in a labyrinth beneath the house. Here lives a giant ALSO SHOWING AT: Gaeilge faun who assigns her tasks, and some other fabulous crea- Enniscorthy, Slaney Plaza Cinema Feb 25 ALSO SHOWING AT: tures that include a giant toad and a Pale Man with eyes in Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Cork, Kino Cinema Feb 18 his hands. Cork, Gate Cinema Feb 29, Mar 4-6 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Del Toro combines politics with fantasy in this often brutal Booking through Tracy, Gate Cinema, on (086) 889 5608 Carlow, Cineplex Feb 22 but frequently beautiful tale that is a must-see for Spanish Letterkenny Cineplex Mar 10 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 language students. Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Ballina, Omniplex Cinema Feb 28 SPAIN/MEXICO/USA• 2006 • DRAMA • 119 MINS • ENGLISH SUBTITLES Dundalk, Cineplex Mar 14 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 DIRECTOR: GUILLERMO DEL TORO Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Enniscorthy, Slaney Plaza Cinema Mar 4 Athlone IMC Apr 3 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Look out for the Spanish Film Festival at the IFI from Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Limerick, Omniplex Cinema Mar 7 March 19 – 30 Booking through Fresh Film Festival on (061) 319 555 The accompanying Thurles, Capitol Cinema Mar 12 Attention Spanish Teachers! studyguide, available Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 to download free Kings Mar 12, 13, 10.30am In conjunction with Instituto Cervantes Dublín, we are from our website, Five Irishmen meet again in London for a friend’s funeral The accompanying developing a Spanish Film Project, comprising film tour www.irishfilm.ie, and over the course of a few hours, their former hopes and studyguide, available and studyguide. We would welcome your ideas and input. focuses on themes dreams and their present realities are laid bare. In 1977, to download free of self-image, these Irish speaking young west of Ireland men headed off from our website, Following the VIVA Spanish Film Festival, there will be a family, talent together, full of youth and optimism. Thirty years later, Joe www.irishfilm.ie, special screening of Pan’s Labyrinth for teachers on April and celebrity. (Colm Meaney) uses cocaine to get through the reunion. Jap focuses on themes of 2nd. Please email [email protected] if you would like and Git are drinkers, Mairtin’s marriage is crumbling. Only conflict, family and to attend. In partnership with Shay seems to be coping, running a vegetable stall, organising decision-making. the French Cultural the funeral and meeting the dead man’s father who has Institute. come over from Ireland. With outstanding performances In partnership with the from the whole cast, Jimmy Murphy’s stage play is brilliantly Goethe Institute. adapted in this honest and moving portrait of the Irish emigrant experience. IRELAND/UK• 2007 • DRAMA • RT • ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTOR: TOM COLLINS Showing for Seachtain na Gaeilge 2008

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The Kite Runner Feb 20, 27 , 10.30am Control Apr 9, 16, 10.30am Mean Creek Tsotsi This faithful adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel A film about the life and death of Ian Curtis (newcomer Sam Showing again for our TY Moving Image Module, this highly Tsotsi is the young leader of a criminal gang of youths in opens on a glorious afternoon in 1970s Kabul, during a kite- Riley), lead singer with the groundbreaking late 1970s band watchable debut feature from Jacob Aaron Estes takes an South Africa, who spend their time carjacking and robbing. fighting tournament. Amir and Hassan are childhood friends, Joy Division. Directed by Dutch photographer, Anton Corbijn, original look at the subject of bullying. High school bully Appearing without remorse when one of their victims is despite their class differences, but their friendship becomes who photographed U2, this film explores the emotional pres- George finds himself on a boat trip with his victim, Sam, and killed, he then robs a car and shoots the female owner marred by an act of betrayal. When the Russians invade sures that led to the depression of the singer and to his eventual other older friends who plan to exact revenge. before driving off. When he realises that her baby boy is on Afghanistan, Amir and his father emigrate to the US while suicide at 23, in 1980. Based on a memoir by the singer’s USA • 2004 • DRAMA • 90 MINS • DIRECTOR: JACOB AARON ESTES the back seat he has to decide: will he abandon or kill the Hassan and his father remain throughout the war and the widow Deborah (Samantha Morton), and with Curtis’s surviving baby to cover his tracks? The hero of this tense and gripping subsequent rise of the Taliban. Amir’s childhood action band mates New Order supervising the soundtrack, this first ALSO SHOWING AT: drama has to work hard to gain our sympathy till we watch continues to haunt him however and he ultimately returns to feature from Corbijn celebrates the success of Joy Division Tralee Omniplex Feb 19 him embark on a path to change. Kabul in search of redemption. Shot on location in the western and offers us an insight into the life of an extraordinary song- Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 UK/STH. AFRICA • 2005 • CRIME/DRAMA • 94 MINS • DIR: GAVIN HOOD Chinese desert, bordering Afghanistan, and using the Dari writer and performer. A must see, not just for music fans, language, this powerful film depicts a country not often seen but for those seeking a perspective into the anguished spirit ALSO SHOWING AT: outside of the news in a universal story of friendship and the of one of the most influential alternative bands. Tralee Omniplex Apr 25 desire for forgiveness. CANADA• 2007 • DOCUMENTARY • 121 MINS Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 USA • 2007 • DRAMA • 122 MINS • ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTOR: ANTON CORBIJN DIRECTOR: MARC FORSTER Dave Fanning will introduce the film. Teacher Training Other screenings of interest to Transition Year in this programme Our Moving Image Module for Transition Year, run in con- Kings See Irish/Gaeilge section, page 2 junction with the Second Level Support Service, the Arts In the Shadow of the Moon See History/Physics section, page 7 Council, the Irish Film Board and the Irish Film Censor’s Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance See Junior Cycle section, page 6 Office, is being extended this term to Kerry.

Special Events for Transition Year For more information on the Module, download the Pilot Report and related resources on www.irishfilm.ie or Garage contact us on 01 679 5744 for copies. Meet the Director: & Director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran’s Apr 15, 10.30am follow-up to their award-winning Adam and Paul. Starring Teaching the Moving Image Module Paddy Breathnach, director of zombie film Shrooms, will Pat Shortt as Josie, a harmless oddball who is caretaker of a Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 present one of his earlier works. This road movie/gangland local petrol station, this is a tragic-comedy that gives us a Feb 5 Tralee Mar 5 Tralee Apr 7 Tralee story stars Brendan Gleeson as Bunny Kelly – a kind of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Award: glimpse of a life that would usually be ignored. Josie forms gangster – and the late Peter Caffrey as the man on the run Dublin Heat Feb 26, 10.30am an unlikely friendship with teenage David who comes to Teaching Film in the Junior and Leaving Cert. from crime boss Tom French (Tony Doyle). Fresh out of jail, Are you entering the competition to find Ireland’s Young work with him. A careless act causes everything to deteriorate Day 1(LC) Day 2 (JC) young Git and Bunny end up working together, being sent Filmmaker? The Dublin heats of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker around him and Josie’s world begins to fall apart. Feb 26 Carrick Mar 13 Carrick off to find Frank. Driving across the country, their sharp Awards at the Fresh Film Festival will take place at IFI. If you IRELAND • 2007 • DRAMA • 85 MIN • DIRECTOR: LENNY ABRAHAMSON dialogue and encounters make for hilarious scenes. have entered or would like to see some of the fantastic films Booking is through the SLSS. See SLSS Staff Development IRELAND • 1998 • DRAMA • 107 MINS • DIRECTOR: PADDY BREATHNACH being made by young filmmakers, this is the event for you. ALSO SHOWING AT: Handbook for more information. Admission is free but booking essential through IFI Tralee Omniplex Mar 11 During a follow-up Q&A, the director will talk about this film Education on (01) 679 5744. Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 and his other work, including Shrooms and the box-office smash, Man about Dog. Animation & Other Shorts May 10, 10.30am See some of the latest short films and meet the filmmakers behind them. Animations, live actions and documentaries will make up this special selection for schools.

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We are pleased to announce an extensive touring schedule for an excellent and informative documentary that will be of particular interest to those studying Senior History/Physics/Transition Year, and indeed to anyone interested in the extraordinary moon landings.

FREE PREVIEW

As You Like It Apr 17, 23, 10.30am National Treasure: Book of Secrets Feb 6,10.30am Kenneth Branagh continues his commitment to bringing In this follow-up to the box-office hit National Treasure, Ben Shakespeare to cinema audiences. Whether Shakespeare had Gates (Nicholas Cage) once again sets out on an exhilarating, In the Shadow of the Moon Apr 1, 2 , 29, 10.30am ALSO SHOWING AT: ‘chick flicks’ in mind when he wrote the play is debatable but action-packed global quest to unearth hidden history and Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged Letterkenny, Century Cinemas Apr 7 © Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Jerry Bruckheimer, Inc. All rights reserved © Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Jerry Bruckheimer, this bright and breezy adaptation has all the ingredients of treasures. When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes to the Moon, and twelve men walked upon its surface. They Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 the modern romantic comedy. Banished lovers, parental Booth surfaces, Ben’s great-great grandfather is suddenly remain the only human beings to have stood on another Galway, Eye Cinema Apr 10 interference, confused identities, mischief, beauty and implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s death. world. This documentary brings together for the first time Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 ultimately true love feature in this 19th century Japanese Determined to prove his ancestor’s innocence, Ben follows surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission Athlone, Omniplex Cinema Apr 15 kingdom. Alfred Molina plays Touchstone and Bryce Dallas an international chain of clues. which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Howard is a terrific Rosalind, whose mischievous cross-dressing Suitable for 4th, 5th, 6th Class. 35 free places per school. their own words. BBC veteran David Sington’s documentary Dundalk, Omniplex Cinema Apr 18 as Ganymede provides the dynamic behind the action. Booking essential on (01) 679 5744. Preview courtesy of combines the astronaut’s unique personal reflections with Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 UK/USA• 2006 • DRAMA • 107 MINS • DIRECTOR: KENNETH BRANAGH Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Ireland. Opening newly available images from the NASA archives, and on Waterford, Garter Lane Theatre Apr 22 Nationwide: Feb 8 board shots from the Apollo missions. For TY, History (Case Booking through Garter Lane on (051) USA • 2007 • COMEDY• 97 MINS • DIRECTOR: ZACH HELM Study: The Moon Landing 1969) and Physics students, Cork, Kino Cinema Apr 25 (mechanics, forces and conservation of momentum) this Booking through Kino on (021) 427 1711 feature documentary offers us a rare account of one of Tallaght, UCI Cinema Apr 29 mankind’s most successful achievements. Booking through IFI on (01) 679 5744 UK/USA• 2007 • DOCUMENTARY • 100 MINS DIRECTOR: DAVID SINGTON

Mid-term Break Family Screening: Feb 8-14

Razzle Dazzle: FREE PREVIEW A Journey into Dance May 6, 14, 10.30am Pictures © 2007 Paramount Where last year’s hit film Little Miss Sunshine revealed some The Spiderwick Chronicles Mar 11, 10.30am unpleasant truths about American child beauty pageants, Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family this mockumentary from Australia takes a swipe at the world leave New York and move into the secluded old house of children’s dance competitions. A documentary team follows owned by their great-great-uncle, Arthur Spiderwick. Mr Jonathan’s Dance Academy as it prepares to compete in Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents the Sanosafe Troupe Spectacular. Unlike their main opponent, that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family Azur et Asmar: The Prince’s Quest Feb 8-14 Cinemobile the traditionalist Miss Elizabeth whose dance studio has the blames Jared. When he, his twin Simon and sister Mallory From the director of Kirikou and the Sorceress comes this A subsidiary of the Irish Film Institute, Cinemobile is a state- motto ‘Less eating, more stretching’, Mr Jonathan devises investigate what’s really going on, they uncover the original fairytale. In 18th century France, Azur and Azmar of-the-art travelling cinema that travels to towns and villages routines for his troupe from global issues such as the plight of f0antastic truth of the Spiderwick estate. Preview courtesy grow up like brothers, enjoying bedtime stories about around the country.Extensive schools programme includes sweatshop workers. of Paramount Pictures. Opening nationwide March 21. magical fairy princess Djinn. Later on, their lives move apart. screenings for Primary and Secondary schools. Check out AUSTRALIA • 2006 • MOCKUMENTARY • 91 MINS Suitable for 4th, 5th and 6th class. 35 free places Azur is educated and while on travels, he becomes shipwrecked www.cinemobile.net or (091) 751 629 to find out when it DIRECTOR: DARREN ASHTON per school. in North Africa. He and Azmar are reunited before becoming is coming your way. USA• 2008 • FANTASY • 125 MINS • DIRECTOR: MARK WATERS rivals in the search for Djinn. Beautiful animation and a classic fairytale approach set this apart from other contemporary Please also note that that we have a Mid-term Break Family films and makes for perfect mid-term family viewing. Screening (Feb 8-14) of Azur et Asmar’s The Princes SPAIN/ITALY/BELGIUM/FRANCE • 2006 • ANIMATION • 99 MINS Quest, see next page for details. DIRECTOR: MICHEL OCELOT

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February April continued 5, 19 Comme une Image Dublin TY/Senior French 10 In the Shadow of the Moon Galway TY/Senior History/Physics 5 Teaching the Moving Image Module Tralee Teacher Training 15 I Went Down & Meet the Director Dublin TY 5 Twelve Angry Men Dublin Senior English 15 In the Shadow of the Moon Athlone TY/Senior History/Physics 6 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Dublin Primary 17, 23 As You Like It Dublin Junior English 7 Warchild Dublin TY/Senior German 18 In the Shadow of the Moon Dundalk TY/Senior History/Physics 8 - 14 Azur and Asmar Dublin Family Screening 22 In the Shadow of the Moon Waterford TY/Senior History/Physics 18 Warchild Cork TY/Senior German 22, 24 Persepolis Dublin 3rd Year/TY/Senior French 19 Mean Creek Tralee TY 22 A Bridge to Terabithia Carrick Junior English/CSPE 20, 27 The Kite Runner Dublin TY/Senior English 25 In the Shadow of the Moon Cork TY/Senior History/Physics 21 My Left Foot Dublin Senior English 25 Tsotsi Tralee TY Module 22 Warchild Carlow TY/Senior German 29 In the Shadow of the Moon Tallaght TY/Senior History/Physics 26 Fresh Heats Dublin Junior/Senior Cycle/TY 26 Teaching Film in the Leaving Cert. Carrick Teacher Training 28 My Left Foot Revision Workshop Dublin Senior English May 28 Warchild Ballina TY/Senior German 29 Comme une Image Cork TY/Senior French 1 Revision Workshops Dublin Senior English 7 Pan’s Labyrinth Dublin TY/Senior Spanish 6, 14 Razzle Dazzle Dublin TY March 8 Warchild Dublin TY/Senior German 15 Animation & Other Shorts Dublin 3 Inside I’m Dancing Carrick Senior English 4- 6 Comme une Image Cork TY/Senior French And don’t forget! 4 Philadelphia, Here I Come! Dublin Senior English 4 Warchild Enniscorthy TY/Senior German 5 Teaching the Moving Image Module Tralee Teacher Training 6 Inside I’m Dancing Dublin Senior English Lights out! is a brand new film 7 Warchild Limerick TY/Senior German festival for young people which 10 Comme une Image Letterkenny TY/Senior French 11 The Spiderwick Chronicles Dublin Primary will take place in July 2008 in 11 Garage Tralee TY Module Dublin, Louth, Kilkenny, Leitrim, 12, 13 Kings Dublin TY/Senior Irish 12 Warchild Thurles TY/Senior German Clare, Cork and Westmeath. 13 Teaching Film in the Junior Cert. Carrick Teacher Training 14 Comme une Image Dundalk TY/Senior French Coming July 2008

April 1, 2, 29 In the Shadow of the Moon Dublin TY/Senior History/Physics 2 Pan’s Labyrinth Teacher Event Dublin Senior Spanish 3 Comme une Image Athlone TY/Senior French 7 Teaching the Moving Image Module Tralee Teacher Training 7 In the Shadow of the Moon Letterkenny TY/Senior History/Physics For up to date information, check the website www.lightsout.ie 9, 16 Control Dublin TY/Senior Music

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Discounts available on all films to schools For a full stock list please see www.irishfilm.ie or call 01 679 5727

Free Studyguides

IFI publishes free studyguides on a number of films to support teachers using film in the classroom. Resources for German, French, English, Film at TY and others are available to download free from our website. www.irishfilm.ie