In the Shadow of the Moon • As You Like It Comme Une Image • Warchild • Tsotsi The Kite Runner • Twelve Angry Men Razzle Dazzle • Control • Pan's Labyrinth Persepolis • Kings • Inside I’m Dancing Education 'Kings' Colm Meaney stars in Tom Collin's Irish film Colm Meaney stars in Tom Spring/Summer 2008 Welcome Senior Cycle IFI Education: Supporting film in school curricula and English promoting moving image culture for young audiences. 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 1 www.irishfilm.ie Senior Cycle Senior Cycle French German Spanish 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 2 IFI Education Spring/Summer 2008 3 www.irishfilm.ie Transition Year Transition Year Module 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.