REEFER AND THE MODEL

Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer (Ian McElhinney), an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa (Carol Scanlan), a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider (Sean Lawlor) and Badger (Ray McBride). The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.

Premiere screening of a new digital restoration of the 2023 Director’s Cut.

80 mins, Ireland, 1988/2023, Digital

EMTIGON

In this pitch-black vaudeville of impotence and aggression, Emtigon tragicomically details a homeless old man’s covert intrusion into the life of a young woman social worker.

10 mins, Ireland, 1971, Digital

Notes by Eugene Finn

Screening as part of the Joe Comerford retrospective.