APRIL 2017 RAW THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. EXHIBIT 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. Raw

IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB IFI EXPLORERS Handsome Devil

This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and Are you between 15–18? You can avail of IFI Explorer €3 Alliance Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket – tickets to a range of films each month. For our IFI Explorers takes place on April 10th at 18.30. This month’s film is Julia screening this April we’ve chosen the coming-of-age Irish Ducournau's multi-award winning Raw, a horror film about a drama Handsome Devil. Set in a Dublin school and focussing college ritual in which vegetarian student Justine is forced to on an unlikely friendship, this is a wonderful story about eat raw meat. See www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for growing-up and being brave. Buy three IFI Explorers tickets further details. and get your fourth ticket FREE! Tickets from IFI Box Office only. See www.ifi.ie/explorers for more details.

NT LIVE: TWELFTH NIGHT GOETHE INSTITUT Who Am I - No System Is Safe

Following a violent shipwreck, Viola is washed ashore, her The IFI teams up with Goethe Institut Irland for two twin brother Sebastian lost. Determined to survive on her screenings as part of their Fading Memories: Privacy own, she steps out to explore a new land, and so begins a and Data Ownership in the Digital Age global initiative. whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. Simon On April 1st, we will screen Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Godwin’s joyous new production of Shakespeare’s epic The Conversation, starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale. screens at the IFI on April 6th at 19.00, and stars Tamsin On April 5th, we will present Baran bo Odar’s Who Am I Greig (Black Books, Episodes) as Malvolia. See page 16 for – No System Is Safe, a German crime drama about a young more details. computer hacker. See page 15 for more details.

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Welcome to the IFI’s April programme with a special focus on Irish film. APRIL

AT THE IFI Living the Heal During the month of April, the IFI will, for the fifth time, To coincide with the One City One Book initiative and this present IFI Spotlight, our dedicated focus on Irish film. year’s selection of Joe Joyce’s novel Echoland, our free Throughout the year the IFI is committed to showing Archive at Lunchtime programme throughout the month a range of Irish work through a combination of new will present Irish films from our collections relating to releases, programming strands and free lunchtime archive World War II. screenings. A returning component of IFI Spotlight this year will be its emphasis on discussion and debate, considering Another programme of archival films will be presented the production of film and television made in or about in our monthly From the Vaults strand. This fascinating Ireland during 2016. The day will comprise of panels and collection of silent films is presented as part of MusicTown guest speakers, including an opening address by Dr. Roddy 2017 and will see a combination of Irish and German Flynn (DCU) and Dr. Tony Tracy (NUIG) looking at the past musicians provide a live and improvised score to the year of Irish film production. This year, following on from material. Keeping a historical theme, our Irish Focus a broader discussion in 2016, there will be an update on this month is Revolution in Colour, which, presented on gender equity in the Irish film and television industry to see Easter Monday, reclaims the story of the struggle for what improvements, if any, there have been. In a returning Irish Independence. strand, In the Pipeline, we welcome Pat Collins to share his production experiences on his upcoming We hope you’ll join us for this celebration of Irish film title Song of Granite. throughout the month of April!

Two special panels throughout the day will focus on Ross Keane two key areas – the parallels between the filmmaking Director and advertising worlds, and the threat of piracy and illegal downloading to the film and home entertainment industries in Ireland. It promises to be a very valuable and informative day.

This month, as part of our dedicated focus, we’re also delighted to present John Butler’s Handsome Devil, the closing film of the recent ADIFF, a classic coming-of-age story set in an Irish boarding school.

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A QUIET PASSION OPENS APR 7TH DATE SCREENING TIME I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO OPENS APR 7TH 1ST IFI & GOETHE INSTITUT: THE CONVERSATION 16.00 SAT NERUDA OPENS APR 7TH 2ND WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? 16.00 RAW OPENS APR 7TH SUN + SATELLITE PERFORMANCE THE HANDMAIDEN OPENS APR 14TH 4TH EVENING COURSE: THE COMMISSAR 18.30 TUES IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 MULHOLLAND DRIVE OPENS APR 14TH 5TH IFI & GOETHE INSTITUT: WHO AM I – NO SYSTEM IS 18.20 ONE FLEW OVER THE WED SAFE + PANEL DISCUSSION 6TH NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: TWELFTH NIGHT 19.00 CUCKOO’S NEST OPENS APR 14TH THU THE SENSE OF AN ENDING OPENS APR 14TH 7TH SPOTLIGHT 2017 10.30 CLASH OPENS APR 21ST FRI 8TH : MORAVIAN HELLAS + 14.00 HANDSOME DEVIL OPENS APR 21ST SAT FROM THE VAULTS: MUSICTOWN 14.00 THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE - SOUND OF SILENTS 20.30 LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI OPENS APR 21ST 9TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE 14.00 THE TRANSFIGURATION OPENS APR 21ST SUN 10TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: RAW 18.30 HEAL THE LIVING OPENS APR 28TH MON LADY MACBETH OPENS APR 28TH 11TH EVENING COURSE: NIGHT WATCH 18.30 SUNTAN OPENS APR 28TH TUES 12TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: INTIMATE LIGHTING 18.30 WED 17TH IRISH FOCUS: REVOLUTION IN COLOUR 14.00 MON GET SOCIAL! 18TH IFI FILM CLUB: RAW 18.15 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! TUES EVENING COURSE: LEVIATHAN 18:15 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 19TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: NOBODY WILL LAUGH 18.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics WED FEAST YOUR EYES: NERUDA 18.40 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 20TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA 18.30 THUR VON KANT Join the IFI Community online: 22ND INTIMATE LIGHTING: A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND 14.00 SAT THE GUESTS @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 23RD INTIMATE LIGHTING: CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS 20.00 SUN + Q&A @IrishFilmInstitute 24TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: JAROMÍR ŠOFR MASTERCLASS 18.30 MON linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 25TH EVENING COURSE: HIPSTERS 18.30 TUES 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: BRIDGE OF SPIES 11.00 WED INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE SEVENTH DAY, 18.15 Open Captioned screening THE EIGHTH NIGHT IFI EXPLORERS: HANDSOME DEVIL 16.00 Audio Described screening 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: BRIDGE OF SPIES 11.00 FRI 29TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE FIREMEN'S BALL 14.00 SAT ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LADY MACBETH* 16:00 30TH IFI FAMILY: THE BIG KNIGHTS 11.00 SUN INTIMATE LIGHTING: 14.00 TIMES MYSTERY MATINEE 14.00 For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our * Denotes screenings which are open captioned and audio described. For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule www.ifi.ie/accessible or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and † The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

4 APRIL 2017 CONTINUING FROM MARCH Graduation

Continuing into April from our March lengths to ensure his daughter’s academic programme is The Age of Shadows, success outside Romania after she is a stylish spy thriller set against the assaulted just before her final exam. backdrop of the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1920s. The tension builds Finally, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s as characters’ motivations and agendas Ali: Fear Eats the Soul depicts the are constantly called into question in this relationship that develops between tense, gripping thriller that also contains an elderly German cleaning lady and a some bravura action set-pieces. considerably younger Moroccan ‘guest worker’ whom she meets at a rundown Graduation, the new film from 4 Months, Munich bar one rainy night. 3 Weeks, and 2 Days director Cristian Mungiu, sees a father go to extreme

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OPENS APR 7TH Cynthia Nixon gives a revelatory wry discussions of social etiquette. performance in Terence Davies’ A familiar melancholy soon descends FILM INFO: delicate portrait of the great American however as the poet’s life becomes 125 mins, 2016, poet Emily Dickinson. Davies charts increasingly interiorised and hermetic, UK-Belgium, Digital Dickinson’s life from her college days her interactions entirely restricted to Notes by David O'Mahony to her final reclusive years in Amherst, her home where she fights with her Massachusetts; the early sections of the authoritarian father (Keith Carradine) film are distinguished by a surprisingly and condescending brother (Duncan breezy tone as Dickinson trades tart Duff), her furtive and ultimately futile aphorisms with her doting younger sister attempts to connect with a local married Lavinia (Jennifer Ehle) and her irreverent clergyman proving especially poignant. best friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), as they patrol the gardens in

5 APRIL 2017 I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO IFI DOC

OPENS APR 7TH James Baldwin was a ground-breaking footage including extracts of the deeply author, essayist and public intellectual charismatic Baldwin on television, in FILM INFO: who played a major role in articulating conversation or debate, most memorably 93 mins, 2016, USA, Digital the complexity and toxicity of race to an enraptured audience at The Notes by Alice Butler relations in America during the Civil Cambridge Union in 1965. While much Rights movement of the 1960s. In this of the film, like Baldwin’s book, focuses riveting, Oscar-nominated documentary on the impact of the assassinations of from Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Baldwin’s own eloquent words, Luther King, Jr. all within a devastating mostly from his unfinished manuscript five year period, I Am Not Your Negro Remember This House, are evocatively incorporates much else besides, adopting read by Samuel L. Jackson and fused, to a nonlinear structure that appropriately powerful effect, with a range of archive dispenses with convention. NERUDA NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 7TH Pablo Larraín’s new film quickly follows Following his criticism of the has last biopic, Jackie, into cinemas, and government, Neruda is forced into EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† sees him expand on its unconventional hiding, a concept he refuses to accept take on the genre in a film that is by as he continues visiting his favourite FILM INFO: turns sly, witty, subversive, meta- brothels and making public appearances, 108 mins, 2016, Chile-Argentina- textual, and above all, playful in its risking capture by the man sent to chase France-Spain, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne approach. Neruda takes as its central him, “half-moron, half-idiot” police character the Chilean poet-diplomat, inspector Óscar Peluchonneau portrayed by Luis Gnecco as a vibrant, (Gael García Bernal). FEAST YOUR EYES committed idealist filled with ideas, who Enjoy this film with a special is also a snobbish elitist who believes Fascinating in its complexity, main course on April 19th at the respect and adoration accorded to Larraín’s invention makes for 18.40. Tickets €20. him is simply his due. deeply rewarding viewing.

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OPENS APR 7TH Raised a strict vegetarian, 16-year-old forms. The tropes of horror have often Justine (an impressive Garance Marillier) been used to explore female coming-of- (GRAVE) parlays her belief in animal rights into age stories, whether in Brian De Palma’s attendance at veterinary college, where Carrie (1976) or John Fawcett’s Ginger FILM INFO: her elder sister is already a student. On Snaps (2000), and while Raw nods to 99 mins, 2016, France-Belgium, arrival, she and her classmates are forced these and other predecessors, director Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne to endure a series of hazing rituals which Julia Ducournau has created something include the eating of raw meat. Despite fresh and original which leaves the her misgivings, Justine is persuaded viewer with much to consider. to assent, and although she initially IFI FILM CLUB experiences a violent physical reaction Join us for a discussion of Raw to her transgression, she soon comes to following the 18.15 screening crave the pleasures of the flesh, in all its on Tuesday April 18th.

THE RELEASE NEW HANDMAIDEN

OPENS APR 14TH Opulent, erotic and replete with exquisite those of Japanese aristocrat Lady Hideko period detail and sly narrative trickery, (Kim Min-hee), Korean thief Sook-hee (AH-GA-SSI) The Handmaiden is everything we have (Kim Tae-ri), and arch con man Fujiwara come to expect from director Chan-wook (Ha Jung-woo). Posing as a Count, FILM INFO: Park (Oldboy, Thirst, Stoker) who has, Fujiwara has enlisted Sook-hee to play 144 mins, 2016, South Korea, with great flair, transposed Fingersmith, handmaiden to Lady Hideko whom he Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O'Mahony Sarah Waters’ Victorian England-set plans to marry for her inheritance, but bestseller about a pickpocket turned Sook-hee is soon far more interested servant and the heiress she conspires in her vulnerable, repressed mistress to swindle, to Japanese-occupied Korea than she is in his nefarious schemes. in the 1930s. Park utilizes the book’s three-part structure to tell the intricate story from three distinct perspectives,

7 APRIL 2017 MULHOLLAND DRIVE IFI CLASSIC

OPENS APR 14TH A dark and twisting tale of Hollywood film shifts into a parallel realm where ambition, love and betrayal, Mulholland Watts plays Diane Selwyn, an embittered FILM INFO: Drive is one of David Lynch’s most failed actress whose unrequited love for 146 mins, 2001, USA, Digital renowned and scrutinised works. In a glamorous, manipulative star called Notes by Alice Butler the film’s first half, Naomi Watts plays Camilla Rhodes (also played by Harring) Betty, a bright and implausibly cheerful is a source of deep inner torment. Similar young actress who arrives at her aunt’s to Bergman’s Persona and Altman’s supposedly unoccupied apartment only 3 Women in its preoccupation with to find another woman (Laura Harring) female identity and the subconscious, staying there, who it transpires has been this is a work of ingenuity and in an accident and doesn’t remember skill, open to an enticing multitude who she is. Before the now-inseparable of interpretations. pair resolve what has taken place, the ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST IFI CLASSIC

OPENS APR 14TH Jack Nicholson gives what is perhaps his to undermine her authority are the most indelible performance as Randle source of the film’s irreverent humour, FILM INFO: Patrick McMurphy in Miloš Forman’s yet Forman’s larger concerns about 133 mins, 1975, USA, Digital masterpiece, one of just three films to oppression and the place of the Notes by David Mahony win all five major Academy Awards. individual in society are evident in the The film sees recidivist criminal emotive last act which culminates in an McMurphy being moved from prison iconic act of defiance. to a mental institution where he hopes to serve out his sentence in Miloš Forman’s The Loves of a Blonde peace. However, he immediately locks and The Firemen’s Ball will screen as horns with nurse Ratched, a harsh part of our Intimate Lighting: The Czech disciplinarian memorably played New Wave season. See pages 18–21 for by Louise Fletcher; RP’s attempts more information.

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OPENS APR 14TH An aging man tries to reconcile fateful he has been bequeathed some undefined decisions of decades past in Ritesh personal affects; upon learning that said FILM INFO: Batra’s (The Lunchbox) imaginative items include a diary, he tracks down 108 mins, 2017, UK, Digital adaptation of Julian Barnes’s 2011 and reconnects with Veronica (Charlotte Notes by David O’Mahony Booker-winning novel which ruminates Rampling) who for similarly unclear upon the fallibility of memory, reasons is withholding information about self-deception and the desire for the mysterious diary which Tony believes closure. Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is is intended for him. a semi-retired divorcee who manages a small vintage camera shop specialising in Leicas. He receives a vague yet intriguing letter from Sarah, the mother of his old university flame Veronica, indicating that

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OPENS APR 21ST Egypt 2013, President Morsi has been fundamentalists and both against the toppled; as riots break out, a disparate army. Diab brings real cinematic flair to (ESHTEBAK) group of dissidents and journalists are the claustrophobic scenario, aided in rounded up and bundled into the back no small way by his script, co-written EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† of a police van in director Mohamed by Khaled Diab, which delineates the Diab’s bracing political allegory, the complexities of multiple characters and FILM INFO: 97 mins, 2016, Egypt, opening film of the IFI’s 2016 Dublin their motivations in lucid fashion. Digital, Subtitled Arabic Film Festival. With great Notes by David O'Mahony economy, Diab restricts the action to the interior of the truck where warring parties of all factions have been thrown together as civil war erupts around them – it’s revolutionaries against Islamic

9 APRIL 2017 HANDSOME DEVIL NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 21ST Returning to boarding school after An unlikely friendship develops the holidays, Ned (Fionn O’Shea), complicated by sexuality, secrets and FILM INFO: a bullied but resilient outsider, is the need to find one’s own voice. 95 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital dismayed to find he has been assigned Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn a new roommate, Conor (Nicholas John Butler’s (The Stag) new film fits Galitzine), a rugby-playing Adonis. the classic coming-of-age / coming-out When Conor is drafted into the gang of mould with equal measures of comedy jocks who are Ned’s prime tormentors, and drama peppering the road to the animosity between them deepens self-acceptance. Featuring a 1980s until English teacher Mr Sherry indie soundtrack, a top-notch cast and (Andrew Scott) insists they work some damn fine rugby, the film is an together on a variety show duet. absolute gem. THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 21ST Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard elevated to the rank of national hero, at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Juho and must endure the attendant media (HYMYILEVÄ MIES) Kuosmanen’s heart-warming début circus. However, he has little confidence feature tells the true story of one of in his chances of winning and would EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† the biggest events in Finnish sporting prefer instead to pursue Raija (Oona history, in which the titular boxer had Airola), the woman with whom he has FILM INFO: 92 mins, 2016, Finland-Sweden- a shot at the world featherweight fallen head-over-heels in love. Beautifully Germany, Digital, Black and White, championship title. In order to compete, crafted and performed, it’s a film of Subtitled Olli (Jarkko Lahti), previous winner of genuine sweetness that is sure to Notes by Kevin Coyne the European lightweight title, must charm audiences. lose weight, a difficult task when added to his existing training regime. As excitement grips the nation, Olli is

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OPENS APR 21ST Michael O’Shea’s low-key, absorbing film to avoid, she is drawn to his quiet self- centres on teenage loner and orphan assurance, and a bond is formed that EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Milo (Eric Ruffin), a usually taciturn distracts Milo from his former concerns boy who only becomes animated when as a plan to solve all of his and Sophie’s FILM INFO: discussing a topic with which he is problems in one sweeping move takes 97 mins, 2016, USA, Digital seemingly obsessed – vampirism. His shape. While strongly influenced by films Notes by Kevin Coyne encyclopaedic knowledge of related such as George Romero’s Martin (1978), lore has led him to identify with the The Transfiguration also functions subject to an extent that includes the as a subtle and tender examination drinking of human blood. When Sophie of the coping mechanisms employed (Chloe Levine) moves into his apartment during grief. building, rather than sharing in the general perception of Milo as someone

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OPENS APR 28TH A terrible car accident on the outskirts with the help of her two sons but her of Le Havre has left 17-year-old Simon time is limited. The dynamics of what (RÉPARER LES VIVANTS) on life-support; his parents Marianne transpires may be familiar, but director (Emmanuelle Seigner) and Vincent (Kool Katell Quillévéré (Love Like Poison, FILM INFO: Shen) are barely able to comprehend Suzanne) treats the material in such an 103 mins, 2016, France, the magnitude of their tragedy, let imaginative and empathetic fashion as Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony alone the well-meaning entreaties of to create a wholly involving, emotionally Doctor Remige (Tahar Rahim) to consider resonant drama during which she organ donation options as their son’s permits ample space for reflection and recovery is impossible. Meanwhile moments of transcendent visual beauty. in Paris, Claire (Anne Dorval) learns her degenerative heart condition is worsening; she manages as best she can

11 APRIL 2017 LADY MACBETH NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 28TH Beautifully directed by William Oldroyd for which she will ultimately go to ever from a screenplay by noted playwright more extreme lengths. Pugh’s Katherine FILM INFO: Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth sees teenage is an astonishing creation: the coy 89 mins, 2016, UK, Digital Katherine (Florence Pugh) sold into Victorian bride who, through frustration Notes by Kevin Coyne marriage to an older man, Alexander, and boredom, finds strength and and the household of his father, Boris defiance, ultimately becoming murderous (Christopher Fairbank). Scorned by her in order to preserve her freedom. husband, who quickly abandons his new OPEN CAPTIONED bride, and with her daily routine one of There will be an Open Captioned crushing tedium under the hostile eye of (OC) screening on April 29th (16.00). her father-in-law, Katherine begins an Audio Described (AD) will be available illicit affair with arrogant groomsman on all screenings. AUDIO DESCRIBED Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), a relationship SUNTAN NEW RELEASE

OPENS APR 28TH As what director Argyris island’s nude beach with her and Papadimitropoulos describes as her friends. Casually invited into their EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† “a coming-of-middle-age story” fold, he becomes part of the in-crowd, begins, Kostis, a doctor in his early spending his nights partying while FILM INFO: forties, arrives on a sleepy resort island he neglects his responsibilities and 104 mins, 2016, Greece-Germany, to take up his new position as its sole becomes increasingly obsessed with Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne resident physician. It is winter, and the Anna, blind to the realities of the sleepy island, population 800, is lashed situation and the uncomfortable by inclement weather. However, in chasm that separates this doughy, summer, the population explodes as ageing introvert from the lithe, it becomes a destination for hedonistic beautiful younger people who move holidaymakers. After treating Anna, from tolerance to irritation at his Kostis engineers a meeting on the constant presence.

12 ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times. Immerse yourself in the World War II world of Echoland, this year’s One City One Book choice. PROGRAMME 2 EMERGENCY ECHOES MARCH OF TIME: IRELAND Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn A US film about Ireland in 1945: The Ford factory; PROGRAMME 1 Shannon Hydro-Electric scheme; Guinness factory; DUBLIN CAPITAL CITY OF IRELAND Kildare turf-cutting and a maternity hospital in Dublin. Dubliners bask in the peace of their neutrality. FILM INFO: 14 mins, 1945 FILM INFO: 11 mins, 1940, Silent LIFELINE NORTH STRAND BOMBING-NEWSREEL A young boy learns how Irish Shipping provided a FILM INFO: 1 min, 1941, Silent lifeline for the country during World War II. FILM INFO: 19 mins, 1949 ULSTER A British Forces recruiting film aimed at Ulster civilians On Sat April 1st at 13.00, Echoland author shows Ulster landscapes, shipyards and factory workers. Joe Joyce will introduce the double-bill. FILM INFO: 11 mins, 1940

FROM THE IRISH FOCUS VAULTS REVOLUTION SOUND IN COLOUR OF SILENTS APR 8TH (14.00, 20.30) APR 17TH (14.00)

Sound of Silents is a programme of short, silent Reclaiming the story of the Irish struggle for films accompanied by live music. The selection has independence during the first quarter of the 20th a distinct German flavour and includes: the first century from the remote world of black and white transatlantic flight by Irish and German pilots (1928); to the vibrant world of living colour. A meticulous portraits of German-born artists Irina Brady (1943) job of colourisation brings a fresh perspective to and Imogen Stuart (1955); and Aran Islands scenes the familiar history, imbuing the subjects with a by ethnographer Heinrich Becker (1940s). The music, humanity and tangibility that is often absent from curated by Shane Latimer of Bottlenote, features the more austere black and white originals. Martin performances by Seán MacErlaine and Ailbhe Nic Dwan, experienced director of historical portraits Oireachtaigh, joined by saxophonists Julius Gabriel (T.K. Whitaker, Shay Elliot, John McCormack) and Florian Walter, and electronic artist Achim traces the narrative through newsreel and Zepezauer from the Ruhr area in Germany. photographs to represent the century-old history Supported by Dublin City Council MusicTown 2017, with clarity and rigour. Narrated by Allan Leech. the Goethe Institut, Irland and Jazz Offensive Essen. The film will be introduced by Martin Dwan. Tickets €12 (€10 concession). DIRECTOR: Martin Dwan FILM INFO: 65 mins, 1914 –1955, Ireland-Germany, FILM INFO: 90 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Black and White / Colour. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

13 combined with Tom Hanks as the WILD defending lawyer may be a winning STRAWBERRIES ticket but the success of the film rests with Mark Rylance’s Oscar- BRIDGE winning performance. To see Rylance OF SPIES act is to watch someone for whom performance is more than an art APR 26TH form, it’s their way of breathing. & 28TH (11.00) Don’t miss it.

DIRECTOR: With US-Russian relations Tickets: €4.25 including regular Steven Spielberg dominating the political landscape, tea / coffee before the event. FILM INFO: here’s a superb, old-fashioned drama Wild Strawberries is our film club 142 mins, 2015, from Steven Spielberg set during the for over 55s. If you happen to look USA-Germany-India, Digital Cold War, as envisioned by the likes younger, please don’t take offence Notes by Alicia McGivern of spymaster John Le Carré. if we ask your age. Spielberg’s assured direction

Manifesto in 1962, declaring old THE BIGGER cinema dead. Among them, Rainer PICTURE Werner Fassbinder went on to direct forty films, in which he explored THE BITTER themes of prejudice in society TEARS OF PETRA through race, sexuality and class. VON KANT In this film, he uses Sirk-style melodrama to depict the lonely and APR 20TH (18.30) obsessive state of fashion designer Petra and the model with whom she (DIE BITTEREN TRÄNEN A new wave in cinema, as explored falls in love. DER PETRA VON KANT) through our Czech season, suggests DIRECTOR: the emergence of innovative ideas, or Writer and director Paul Duane Rainer Werner Fassbinder a desire to align film with political or will present the film, arguing that FILM INFO: social movements. Spurred on by the Fassbinder, despite the controversies 124 mins, 1972, West Germany, Nouvelle Vague, a group of German that he engendered, produced Digital, Subtitled filmmakers signed the Oberhausen canonical work.

Doris the Hamster. The two brothers IFI FAMILY live in Castle Big in the far away THE BIG kingdom of Borovia. Together they have heroic adventures, saving the KNIGHTS world, fending off wicked witches and rescuing princesses. Woe betide any unfortunate citizen of Borovia who gets in the way! APR 30TH (11.00) This is a newly remastered DIRECTORS: From the makers of Peppa Pig compilation of the original, hugely Neville Astley, Mark Baker come the hilarious adventures of popular BBC Children's TV series. FILM INFO: two brothers – Sir Boris, the finest 70 mins, 1999 –2015, UK, Digital swordsman in the world, and Sir Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 Notes by Alicia McGivern Morris, the not-so-finest swordsman family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, – and their noble, armour-plated 1 adult + 3 children). pets, Sir Horace the Dog and Sir

14 WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? + PERFORMANCE

APR 2ND (16.00) Saar Maoz is an affable forty-year-old a deserving Audience Award winner at gay Israeli man living in London who the 2016 Berlin Film Festival - charts his DIRECTORS: sings regularly in the Gay Men’s Chorus; journey home to confront the resentment Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann he’s also living with the burden of being and prejudices that saw him flee EVENT INFO: HIV+ and the rejection he experienced his homeland. 140 mins, Israel-UK, 2016, at the hands of his conservative family Digital, Subtitles who expelled him from their kibbutz This special screening is followed by a Notes by David O’Mahony many years ago on account of his sexual Q&A with the film’s directors and star orientation. Saar may be living freely in Saar Maoz, and a performance by the London, but he yearns to reconnect with London Gay Men’s Chorus, broadcast his estranged siblings; Tomer and Barak live from London’s Barbican Centre. Heymann’s exceptionally moving film –

IFI + GOETHE INSTITUT: FADING MEMORIES

THE CONVERSATION APR 1ST (16.00) DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Coppola

FILM INFO: Conversation The 113 minutes, 1974, USA, 35mm The IFI, in collaboration with the (Tom Schilling) joins a group of WHO AM I – Goethe Institut Irland, is pleased to hackers who must face the NO SYSTEM IS SAFE present two screenings which examine consequences when they catch APRIL 5TH (18.20) the role new technologies can play in the government’s attention. undermining our rights. DIRECTOR: Baran bo Odar The screening of Who Am I – No In Francis Ford Coppola’s classic The System Is Safe will be followed by a FILM INFO: Conversation, surveillance expert Gene panel discussion with Renate Samson, 102 minutes, 2014, Germany, Digital, Subtitled Hackman faces a moral dilemma after Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch recording a young couple who he feels (London) and Una Mullally, journalist Notes by Kevin Coyne is in danger. In hacking thriller Who and columnist with The Irish Times. Am I – No System Is Safe, Benjamin

15 The nearby households of Olivia NATIONAL and Orsino are overrun with passion. THEATRE LIVE Even Olivia’s upright housekeeper, Malvolia, is swept up in the TWELFTH madness. Where music is the food of NIGHT love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible. APR 6TH (19.00) Simon Godwin directs this joyous new production with Tamsin Greig DIRECTOR: A ship is wrecked on the rocks. as a transformed Malvolia and an Simon Godwin Viola is washed ashore, but her twin ensemble cast that includes Daniel FILM INFO: brother Sebastian is lost. Determined Rigby, Tamara Lawrence, Doon 150 mins, UK, 2017, Digital to survive on her own, she steps out Mackichan and Daniel Ezra. to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and Tickets €15 / €13. unrequited love.

idealist filled with ideas, poet- FEAST diplomat Pablo Neruda is forced YOUR EYES into hiding following his criticism NERUDA of the Chilean government. The screening of Neruda on Wednesday, April 19th at 18.40 will be followed by a meal inspired by the APR 19TH (18.40) film. See page 6 for film notes.

DIRECTOR: Our monthly feature followed by Tickets €20, free list suspended. Pablo Larraín a meal in the IFI Café Bar. FILM INFO: 108 mins, Chile-Argentina- Pablo Larraín’s new film, Neruda, France-Spain, 2016, Digital follows hot on the heels of his last biopic, Jackie. Portrayed by Luis Gnecco as a vibrant, committed

of film will only be revealed when MYSTERY it appears on screen. Sometimes it MATINEE will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. We intend to keep audiences guessing, and hope that you will enjoy taking the risk. APR 30TH (14.00)

Notes by Kevin Coyne This month, the IFI begins a new strand in which we invite our audiences to take a leap of faith, and to attend a screening about which only two things will be known: it could be literally anything from the history of cinema, and the choice

16 IN CINEMAS APRIL 28 theatrical fashion. theatrical aheightened, in participants its and festival Vachek’s unconventional the approach presents with sequences, traditional staged reportage Blending Festival. Folklore Strážnice the on essay graduation film, short andocumentary experimental Moravian on Hellas largely based was reputation Wave’, Vachek’s New the of Karel personality strongest ‘the as Švankmajer Jan by Described Subtitled 35mm, White, and Black Czechoslovakia, 1963, mins, 34 INFO: FILM ( MORAVIAN HELLAS 8TH APR mordant, slyly subversive slices of life under communism. are they such as and conservatism, cultural of a period from emerging society of a symptomatic being as films recognise the deliberate aesthetic approach of these must We outright. banned or shelved indefinitely were many hence and films state-funded their into government the of critiques damning smuggling were FAMU, school, film the of students were whom of most on, focusing are we filmmakers The 1968. August in Czechoslovakia of invasion Soviet-led the after country the left filmmakers imaginative, politically engaged cinema. A number of highly their through times the of measure the taking abarometer, as act to directors and writers young astute of acadre led opportunity of window brief This creativity. artistic flourishing of atime 1960s, the in Czechoslovakia in liberalisation political of period relaxed in this season were produced during the comparatively presented films Wave –the New Czech the of those as Few cinematic movements have parameters as defined MORAVSKÁ HELLAS MORAVSKÁ

( 14.00 ) ) DOUBLE BILL DOUBLE , his , his Casts No Shadow No Casts Darkness novel, autobiographical Lustig’s Arnošt of reduction alean feature, début Němec’s Jan survive. youths muststarving in endure order extremes to terrified, the terrain, forbidding though pursued Relentlessly camp. aconcentration to them taking train German a flee boys teenage unnamed two simplicity: of amodel is Night the of Diamonds of premise the Wave, New nascent the to entry A vital Ireland. in Republic Czech the of Embassy the with association in Presented €45. for events –5 only Office Box IFI the from phone the over or person Wave in New Czech The Lighting: Intimate for available is pass A multi-event O’Mahony. David by notes film and Introduction 24th. Monday of evening the on Trains participate in a discussion following Observed Closely will Šofr Professor honour; of guest our is season this in Professor Jaromír Šofr, cinematographer titles on two distinctive filmmaking styles. and personal highly create to camerawork edgy and editing associative spiky, subjects, allegorical dialogue, used improvised non-professionaldirectors actors, Czech neorealism, Italian of vérité cinéma the and Wave New French the of subjectivity the by Influenced intoxicating cinematic experience. cinematic intoxicating an create to coalesce design sound textured and editing associative the camera, hand-held the of rush forward The poeticism. raw and minimalism 63 mins, 1964, Czechoslovakia, Black and White, 35mm, Subtitled 35mm, White, and Black Czechoslovakia, 1964, mins, 63 INFO: FILM ( OF NIGHT THE DIAMONDS DÉMANTY NOCI DÉMANTY on Sunday 23rd April, and in a career masterclass masterclass acareer in and April, 23rd Sunday on

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Diamonds of the Night INTIMATE LIGHTING to their son’s whereabouts. Displaying THE LOVES a canny ear for the rhythms of speech, Miloš Forman’s poignant tale of OF A BLONDE thwarted romantic idealism foregrounds long, semi-improvised and often highly amusing dialogue exchanges between the principals, for whom the director ( ) has clear sympathy in spite of their APR 9TH 14.00 manifest flaws.

(LÁSKY JEDNÉ Andula works at a shoe factory near Miloš Forman’s 1975 classic One Flew PLAVOVLÁSKY) Prague; at a dance held for local army Over the Cuckoo’s Nest will screen FILM INFO: reservists she meets and falls for Milda, as an IFI Classic in April. See page 8 88 mins, 1965, Czechoslovakia, a young piano player. Some days later for details. Black and White, 35mm, Subtitled she hitchhikes unannounced to Milda’s home where his exasperated parents are forced to reveal their uncertainty as

with his family in their rustic house in INTIMATE the countryside. A beautifully observed drama of the everyday, Intimate LIGHTING Lighting is the only film made in Czechoslovakia, though he co-wrote most of Miloš Forman’s New Wave work. ( ) APR 12TH 18.30 The Soviet invasion saw him leave for the USA where he continued to direct, (INTIMNÍ OSVETLENÍ) Petr, a musician, and his girlfriend, the high point being the undervalued FILM INFO: Stepa, travel from Prague to a Cutter’s Way (1981). 71 mins, 1965, Czechoslovakia, provincial town where he is due to give Black and White, Digital, Subtitled a concert. Whilst there, he reconnects with an old friend, Bambas, who invites the sophisticated couple to stay

hopeless student. A white lie results NOBODY in the manic author of the worthless text aggressively confronting Klíma, WILL LAUGH which wreaks havoc in the latter's professional and personal life. This sardonic story of the minor transgressions of a scholar grown lazy ( ) offers a merciless criticism of a society APR 19TH 18.30 based on hypocrisy and envy.

(NIKDO SE NEBUDE SMÁT) Inspired by a tale from Milan Kundera’s FILM INFO: collection Laughable Loves, Hynek 94 mins, 1965, Czechoslovakia, Bočan’s feature début tells the story Black and White, 35mm, Subtitled of Karel Klíma, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, who gets himself into trouble when he loses a paper written by an aspiring but

19 INTIMATE LIGHTING surrealist streak redolent of Luis Buñuel, A REPORT ON Němec’s second feature is a brilliantly conceived and executed allegory of THE PARTY the corruption of absolute power; it AND THE GUESTS was shelved for two years until the relaxation of censorship during the Prague Spring, after which the Soviets ( ) formally banned it forever and it didn’t APR 22ND 14.00 resurface until the Velvet Revolution of 1989. (O SLAVNOSTI A HOSTECH) A group of picnickers’ blissful summer’s FILM INFO: afternoon is rudely interrupted by the 71 mins, 1966, Czechoslovakia, unexpected appearance of a strange Black and White, 35mm, Subtitled authority figure and his henchmen, who coerce the group into joining his bizarre outdoor birthday party, with its sinister rules and arcane formalities. With a

he is failing to lose his virginity, CLOSELY and sundry Nazi collaborators and resistance fighters bring the naive OBSERVED TRAINS young man into contact with the tragedy of the war. Winner of the 1968 Best Foreign Language Oscar, Closely Observed Trains brought the Czech APR 23RD (20.00) New Wave international acclaim. Professor Jaromír Šofr, the film’s (OSTRE SLEDOVANÉ Miloš is an unambitious 22-year- cinematographer will participate in VLAKY) old student who starts work as a post-screening Q&A with director FILM INFO: a signalman at a train station in Conor Horgan. 93 mins, 1966, Czechoslovakia, German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Black and White, Digital, Subtitled His encounters with a variety of characters, especially Máša, to whom

The masterclass will provide audiences PUBLIC with historic background information on the conditions for filmmakers in MASTERCLASS 1960s Czechoslovakia and provide WITH PROFESSOR a degree of contextualisation for the films presented in the season JAROMÍR ŠOFR throughout April. APR 24TH (18.30)

This unique masterclass will be a discussion of Professor Šofr’s work as a cinematographer, in 1960s Czechoslovakia, working on some of the key films in the Czech New Wave movement.

20 question who these alleged actors really THE SEVENTH DAY, are. Suspicions are turned inward and THE EIGHTH NIGHT soon nobody is to be trusted. A direct response to the Soviet occupation of 1968, Schorm’s pointed allegory was instantly banned by ( ) the authorities and didn’t receive its APR 26TH 18.15 premiere until 1990, by which time the director had sadly passed away. (DEN SEDMÝ, OSMÁ NOC) The stationmaster of an unremarkable FILM INFO: Czech village disappears one day; 100 mins, 1969, Czechoslovakia, almost simultaneously a travelling Black and White, 35mm, Subtitled group of actors arrive to perform a passion play, which is enough to spark an outbreak of collective paranoia amongst the villagers who begin to

a live band, an auction and a beauty THE FIREMEN’S contest all of which is disastrously and hilariously derailed through the BALL rampant corruption, ineptitude and internecine squabbling of the firemen. Miloš Forman’s depiction of a self-serving institute’s descent into ( ) farcical dysfunction can be read as a APR 29TH 14.00 satirical commentary on the failings – although well intentioned – of the (HORÍ, MÁ PANENKO) A grand ball has been arranged by a Communist system. FILM INFO: small town’s fire brigade in honour of 71 mins, 1967, Czechoslovakia, their oldest-serving member because Miloš Forman’s 1975 classic One Flew Digital, Subtitled he is dying of cancer. He will be Over the Cuckoo’s Nest will screen ceremoniously presented with a golden as an IFI Classic in April. See page 8 hatchet at the event which will include for details.

1930s, the time of Hitler’s invasion of THE Czechoslovakia, the invading force onscreen being referred to only as CREMATOR The Party, an ambiguity designed to provoke the Soviet censors at the time of the film’s release. Kopfrkingl’s gifts for cremation attract the attention of ( ) the Nazis who see a potential role for APR 30TH 14.00 him in their new regime.

(SPALOVAC MRTVOL) Made hastily during the Prague Spring The screening of The Cremator will be FILM INFO: of 1968, Herz’s nightmarish tale of introduced by noted costume and set 95 mins, 1969, Czechoslovakia, Karl Kopfrkingl, a fanatically zealous designer, Joe Vaněk. Black and White, 35mm, Subtitled cremator who believes he is releasing the souls of the dead for , is finally receiving the recognition it deserves. The setting is the late

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IFI Café Bar Special Lunch Deal Soup & Sandwich €7.50* IFI SPOTLIGHT

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

Irish Film in all its guises is a constant feature of This year the day will again be populated by experts the IFI programme – whether as new releases, working in film and TV production, distribution and archival cine-concerts, free lunchtime programmes, exhibition. Chaired by Professor Margaret Kelleher, regional presentations or featured on the IFI Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD Player. Filmmakers and audiences appreciate and Chair of IFI, the day opens with a rigorous the commitment to excellence in presentation academic review of film and TV output in 2016, a and the creation of new contexts in which to year characterised by centenary retrospection and consider the full range of Irish work. IFI Spotlight reflection on national identity; followed by a catch-up is our annual event where we dedicate a full day on IFB and BAI gender equity initiatives introduced to focus on Irish film and television – reviewing in 2015; a panel investigating media piracy; a the past year and considering current trends in panel looking behind the scenes of advertising in production, distribution and consumption of new Ireland and the role of Irish filmmakers within that work. Our point of departure is a belief that an industry; and a return to ‘In the Pipeline’ which offers annual process of considered reflection and review audiences a sneak preview of forthcoming Irish titles. is essential for the development of a healthy Irish Throughout the day there will be plenty media culture, an informed production community of opportunities for audience feedback. and a cine-literate audience body. We look forward to seeing you!

*On presentation of your IFI Spotlight ticket

22 WELCOME (10.30) AD BREAK (14.40) Opening remarks from Professor Margaret Kelleher. Kasandra O’Connell, Head of the IFI Irish Film Archive, will introduce a selection of vintage Irish ads from collections restored by IFI Irish Film Archive in a 2016 IN REVIEW (10.40) major project supported by the BAI. Dr Roddy Flynn of DCU and Dr Tony Tracy of NUIG will review the film and television output of PANEL: AD LIBS (14.50) 2016 considering the impact of 1916 Centenary programming on TV, feature and short film This panel will go behind the scenes of the advertising production, discussing fresh new work in film and TV world to consider the many ways in which the drama, and noting the continuing rise in popularity advertising industry contributes significantly to the of Irish theatrical documentaries. culture and economy of film, TV and animation in Ireland. The panel will celebrate the talent of Irish ad-makers; explore the influence of advertising on Irish filmmaking aesthetics, budgets, pitching and economy PANEL: COPYRIGHT of storytelling; and will look at women in advertising INFRINGEMENT, INTELLECTUAL – their roles and their representation. Facilitator Tania PIRACY, AND THE FILM AND Banotti of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland will be joined by: first AD / director Liz Gill; TV INDUSTRY (11.45) producer Andrew Freedman (Antidote / Venom); executive producer, Max Brady (Pull the Trigger); This panel, presented in association with the Irish animation director, Gavin Kelly (Piranha Bar); and Industry Trust for IP Awareness, will consider the copywriter / director Conor Ferguson. increasing threat of piracy to the film and home entertainment industry in Ireland. It will outline the work of the Trust in educating consumers on legitimate sources of content and promoting IN THE PIPELINE (15.40) the value of copyright and creativity. The session will be facilitated by the Trust’s Communications Generating a great deal of interest when it was Director, Alison Crinion, who will be joined by introduced last year, this strand invites filmmakers Liz Bales, CEO Industry Trust for IP Awareness to discuss forthcoming features. Cartoon Saloon and British Association for Screen Entertainment (Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells) will whet our (BASE); David Burke, General Manager of Universal appetites for their new feature-length animation The Pictures Ireland; Karen O’Malley, Head of Home Breadwinner about a young girl in Taliban-controlled Entertainment at Element Pictures; Garry Walsh Afghanistan. Pat Collins will give us a foretaste of his Writer and Producer at SnackBox Films. new feature drama Song of Granite, a biopic of sean- nós singer Joe Heaney. LUNCH (12.45) WRAP UP (16.20) Round up of the day facilitated by Professor PANEL: CATCH-UP ON GENDER Margaret Kelleher. (14.00) Annie Doona (returning Chair of Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na hÉireann) will provide an update on the response to measures introduced by the IFB / BSÉ to achieve gender equity in particular funding areas within an agreed timeframe. Stephanie Comey will update on BAI activity in identifying gendered anomalies in funding provision, while Sunniva O’Flynn of IFI will report on representation of women directors across IFI programme. Session will be moderated by Rachel Lysaght of Women in Film and Television, Ireland.

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