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WHAT'S ON - 23/09/2025

BEST OF IRISH 2025: SANATORIUM

On the outskirts of Odesa, stands Kuyalnyk Sanatorium. Each summer, thousands of Ukrainians come here, drawn by Soviet-era therapies and the chance to relax beside the salt lake. The biggest attraction though, is the mysterious black mud, said to cure... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 16:45
FROM GROUND ZERO

SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH.

Charming, wistful, heartbreaking, hopeful and urgent. Palestine’s official entry to the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, brings dozens of emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:30
GHOST TRAIL

The conventions of a John Le Carré-style spy thriller are imaginatively applied to a study of trauma and PTSD in Jonathan Millet’s nail-biting debut fiction feature. The year is 2015; Hamid (Adam Bessa) is a bereaved Syrian exile living a... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:40, 20:30
I SWEAR

I Swear tells the extraordinary true story of John Davidson, who was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome at age 15, during a time when the condition was largely misunderstood. A rift develops between John and his long-suffering mother, Heather (Shirley Henderson), when he forms... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18:00 (Preview + Q+A)
MARGO HARKIN: HUSH-A-BYE BABY

Produced by Tom Collins

Goretti (Emer McCourt) and her friends are four happy-go-lucky 15-year-olds living in the Catholic ghettos of the Bogside and Creggan estates in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1984. When Goretti meets Ciarán (Michael Liebmann) at an Irish... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.20
SORRY, BABY

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on, at least for everyone around her. Writer-director and lead actor Eva Victor shuffles the chronology of her wonderfully delicate and surprisingly humorous feature debut, presenting fragments of several years in the... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 12:45