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Director
Michael Higgins
Credits
Producer:Ciara Gillan
Principal Cast
Adam CarolanRyan Ward
Category
FeatureExperimental
‘Smolt (n.) Young salmon migrating to sea for first time.’ While trying to offload secondhand cigarettes, two 12-year-olds, Darren and Leon, become embroiled in a saga involving counterfeit football jerseys. Conceived in the style of a bootleg VHS, award-winning filmmaker Michael Higgins plunges viewers into the depths of inner-city Dublin, where the kids earn their pocket money and encounter girls, guns, drugs and disorganised crime. Higgins crafts a film that is both highly experimental and entertaining with moments that are genuinely endearing. Unlike many films employing retrograde technologies, Smolt feels genuine and, at times, lingers on the question: are we seeing something we shouldn’t? Notes by Dean Kavanagh
65 minutes, Ireland, 2013, Colour
A REAL PAIN 13:00, 16:00, 18:45, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: NORTHERN ROCK (PROGRAMME 2) 13:10
NICKEL BOYS 13:10, 20:20
NOSFERATU (35MM & DIGITAL) 15:00 (35mm), 17:45 (35mm), 20:30 (35mm)
SPIRITED AWAY 16:10
WE LIVE IN TIME 13:50, 18:00 (OC)
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