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IFI KINOPOLIS: FRANZ

Agnieszka Holland,

A self-professed admirer of the Czech writer since her early years, Agnieszka Holland’s ambitious biopic manages to combine a straightforward account of Kafka’s life with a number of stylistic flourishes that paint him on a much larger canvas, separating the…

IFI KINOPOLIS: HOME SWEET HOME

Wojciech Smarzowski,

A peerless chronicler of the ills of Polish society, Wojciech Smarzowski turns his fierce gaze on relationships of coercive control and domestic violence. Vivacious, luminous Gosia (Agata Turkot) meets recently divorced politician Grzesiek (Tomasz Schuchardt) on a dating site. When…

IFI KINOPOLIS: THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

Wojciech Has,

We celebrate the centenary of one of the great Polish directors with this screening of one of his best-known films. The work of Wojciech Has is famed for its rich, often surreal imagery, a characteristic very much in evidence in…

IFI KINOPOLIS: THIS IS NOT HAPPENING

Artur Wyrzykowski,

Artur Wyrzykowski’s feature debut is an extremely tense and gripping portrayal of parental love even in the face of the most horrific of circumstances. Bartek (Tomasz Schuchardt) is a crisis management expert whose skills come to unexpected use when his…

The Image You Missed

Donal Foreman, 73 minutes, 2018

The complexities of a father/son relationship are explored in this documentary from Irish director Donal Foreman. Foreman, a passionate cinephile and keen filmmaker since childhood, grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian, Arthur MacCaig, whose decades-long…

In America

Jim Sheridan, 103 minutes, 2002

Jim Sheridan’s most autobiographical film, this tale of an Irish family settling in New York following the death of their young son drew on his two older daughters’ memories of coming to the city as children. The loss of a…

In Bruges

Martin McDonagh, 107 minutes, 2008

In his first effort in feature filmmaking Martin McDonagh racked up numerous accolades – including an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay – with this delightfully-black comedy about a pair of Irish hitmen hiding out in Bruges after a botched…

In the Name of the Father

Jim Sheridan, 133 minutes, 1993

Drawn from real-life individuals and events, In the Name of the Father continued Sheridan’s collaborations with Daniel Day-Lewis in this re-enactment of the miscarriage of justice that led to the Guildford Four being wrongly imprisoned for the pub bombings of…

In View

Ciaran Creagh, 93 minutes, 2016

Ruth (Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a woman filled with rage, guilt and self-loathing, unable to forgive herself for a drunken indiscretion with a colleague which resulted in the loss of her husband and her unborn child. As her moodswings and angry…

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