ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 1: SEPTEMBER 2018 Director: Book cinema tickets LENNY ABRAHAMSON: EARLY WORKS Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office Coinciding with the release of his sixth feature film The Little Stranger, we look back at the first film projects of Lenny Abrahamson and his long-time collaborators Stephen Rennicks and Ed Guiney. PROGRAMME ONE – MENDEL WALZMAN Of this short, filmed in the IFI buildings in 1987, Abrahamson said, ‘Mendel Walzman was the first thing I ever shot on film. It was a time when I had begun to get interested in my grandfather’s background, and the lost world of Jewish Poland. I wanted primarily to record my grandfather’s stories and his extraordinary accent!’ FILM INFO: Lenny Abrahamson, 10 mins, 1987 Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Director: