ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: EURO-PAENS (DOUBLE BILL)

Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.

EURO-PAEANS: CELEBRATING IRELAND AND EUROPE IN FILM (PART 2)
To celebrate Ireland’s Presidency of the EU (until June 2013) we present a second collection of shorts exploring impressions of Ireland and Europe in film.

PROGRAMME 1:
AMHARC ÉIREANN
Ireland’s fascination with Europe was often evident in Gael Linn newsreels and there are stories here from Germany, Spain, France and Sweden.
FILM INFO: 5 minutes, 1960s, Black and White

THE SAINTS WENT MARCHING OUT
George Fleischmann’s film explores Ireland’s missionary past to frame its relationship with Europe in the 1960s.
FILM INFO: 26 minutes, 1967, Colour

PROGRAMME 2:
THE SALMON OF KERRY
Designed to entice French folk to Ireland on fishing holidays this film takes us from Le Bourget Airport to the rivers of Kerry.
FILM INFO: 11 minutes, 1973, Colour

THE POLISH SCHOOL
Michael Ryan’s film highlights the experience of the students of a Saturday school for Polish children in the grounds of the Holy Trinity National School in Galway.
FILM INFO: 11 minutes, 2012, Colour