After travelling to Italy on the anniversary of her son’s death, Magda – a Polish immigrant to Ireland – returns to Donegal, where she has a life changing encounter with a refugee, newly arrived from Rwanda. With Malgosia Bela (Muse, 2025, Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski). Shot on location in Bagno Vignoni, Italy, and Donegal, Ireland.

This work of exquisitely slow, contemplative cinema gradually reveals its narrative through audaciously long takes and meticulously choreographed scenes of epic beauty.

Dramatist and film director Yvonne McDevitt was the first woman to receive the Arts Council’s Authored Works Award for Trumpets, her second feature.  Her first, 2Graves (2013), was scored by Michael Nyman. Several of her short films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.

Trumpets was made through the Arts Council’s Authored Works initiative in which IFI are Exhibition Partners.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Yvonne McDevitt.