Irish Film Institute -WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN

WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN

Director: Pat Collins

107 mins, Ireland-UK, 2023, Digital

Special preview screenings for Wild Strawberries of the adaptation of John McGahern’s evocative and final novel, that captures a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1970s. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and, those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and, the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

The screening on Wednesday 24th will be Open Captioned.

These screenings will be on sale from Wednesday March 27th.

Tickets for our preview screening on Thursday 25th at 18.30 with Q&A from Pat Collins are on sale here.

Tickets for all other screenings will be on sale here from Monday April 22nd.

Wild Strawberries is our twice-monthly film club for Over 55s. 

Notes by Alicia McGivern

Book Tickets

Wednesday 24th

Friday 26th

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