FRENCH CONNECTIONS

Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

Whetting appetites for the IFI French Film Festival we present some French perspectives on Ireland.

Programme 1                         

Tribulations Irlandaises – 1965

This French newsreel presents a whirlwind tour of 1960s Ireland.

5 mins, France, 1965, Black & White, Digital

La Reve Celtique

Made by Frédérick Rossif for French television La Reve Celtique presents Ireland as a country of mystical landscapes, inspiring generations of traditional Irish musicians.

Dir. Frédérick Rossif. 25 mins, France, 1978, Digital

Programme 2

Streets of Belfast– 1897

The first films made on the streets of Belfast produced by the film pioneers Les frères Lumière.

Dir. The Lumière Brothers. 3mins, France, 1897, Black & White, Digital

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Filming one hundred years later, director Stephen Burke imagines a French film crew visiting Belfast to cover events surrounding the Hunger Strikes in 1981, interviewing Catholic and Protestant families living within feet of each other and similar in every way but in their politics.

Dir. Stephen Burke. 28 mins, Ireland, 1997, Digital

See also IFI French Film Festival.