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Between Heaven and Hell: The Films of Ingmar Bergman
The 9th East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2025 (EAFFI) brings to audiences memories, collective stories and personal journeys of identity and culture, with themes of understanding, tolerance and hope, through works by writers and directors across East Asian cinema. To discover Vietnamese cinema, we are presenting three rare classic films in digital 2K restorations from the Vietnam Film Institute (VFI), each film to be introduced by Ms Khuất Thi Thu Trang, Ngoc Khanh Cinema House at the VFI. We are also delighted to welcome two wonderful guests: Chinese writer-director, Lin Jianjie who will take part in a series of talks and screenings with his debut feature, Brief History of a Family (the festival’s opening night film), including an In-Conversation event on Saturday, March 22nd; and Qiuyan Chen, founder and director of Queer China UK who will take part in a Q&A session following the screening of the documentary, Love Bound. Thank you as ever to the Arts Council for their continued and vital support, and as ever to the Irish Film Institute, to our sponsors and partners supporting EAFFI, and most importantly to you! See more at EAFFI (www.eaffi.ie) - Maria O'Brien, co-organiser, EAFFI; Marie-Pierre Richard, Programme Curator & Co-organiser, EAFFI Festival notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.
PART TWO: The second instalment of IFI’s two-month Ingmar Bergman retrospective finds the director operating at his creative zenith, producing some of his most enduring works while embracing the opportunities afforded by the small screen. The 1960s were a period of heightened experimentation, when Bergman, as his focus increasingly turned towards women, produced films with strikingly modernist flourishes, with uncompromising use of the close-up employed to explore his female characters’ psyches. The Baltic Island of Fårö, now his home, became the director’s preferred location for these excoriating dramas of bourgeois malaise, many featuring his core actors: Bibi Andersson, Eland Josephson, Max von Sydow, and Liv Ullmann. In the 1970s, Bergman continued to produce masterpieces such as Cries and Whispers, whilst developing projects that would exist in both a theatrical and extended, episodic form for television. We are pleased to present a very rare screening of the complete four-part TV-version of Face to Face. To conclude the retrospective, on Sunday, March 30th, Dr Jan Holmberg, CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, will deliver an IFI Talk on The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman. Between Heaven and Hell: The Films of Ingmar Bergman screens now on both IFI@Home and in cinema at IFI. The season will continue until the end of March. To find out more about the films available on IFI@Home, please see here. TICKET INFO :
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 13.00
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND 13.40, 18.05
I’M STILL HERE 20.20
INGMAR BERGMAN: CRIES AND WHISPERS 18.30
MICKEY 17 15.10, 18.00, 20.30
THE BRUTALIST (70MM) 14.00
THE LAST SHOWGIRL 16.00
VERMIGLIO 20.50
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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