Join us for free screening of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday and double-bill Saturday, this December 2023. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office.

PROGRAMME ONE

THE FAMILY

Bob Quinn’s seminal documentary, deemed too disturbing for television viewers and not broadcast until 10 years after its completion, reveals life inside the Atlantis Commune in Co. Donegal where its members, The Screamers, practised Reichian methods of extreme emotional self-expression.

Age rec: 15+
Dir. Bob Quinn. 25 mins, Ireland, 1979, Digital

PROGRAMME TWO

FRANKIE

Fifteen-year-old Frankie, a schoolboy from a poor and dysfunctional family, will soon become a father. He spends his days with a doll in a buggy anxiously preparing for his new role.

Age rec: 12+
Dir. Darren Thornton. 12 mins, Ireland, 2007, Digital

CIRCUS MAN

A documentary portrait of Tom Duffy who has travelled the roads of Ireland with his family circus since the day he was born.

Dir. Jill Beardsworth & Keith Walsh. 12 mins, Ireland, 2009, Digital