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Films listed here are eligible for the 25 & Under card pricing, offering €5.00 to people aged 16-25 (excludes free-list suspended events such as festivals/70mm screenings).
Some years ago, during a talk-show interview, Keanu Reeves was asked, somewhat facetiously, what he thinks happens when we die. He replied, “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” The truth behind this simple, brilliant answer... Read More
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While Ponette focuses on the experiences of an individual child trying to come to terms with a loss whose meaning she is trying to grasp, the incomprehensible grief suffered in The Sweet Hereafter is that of a community that loses... Read More
Germaine de Staël opined that “we understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” Although the loss of loved ones is part of the natural order, it can be even more devastating... Read More
Our next foray into the beyond sees us descend into the Underworld with poet, playwright, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau as our guide as he transposes the Greek myth of Orpheus to 1950s Paris.
Orphée (Jean Marais), a celebrated poet,... Read More
While A Ghost Story focused on a romantic relationship, Lake Mungo, also of a more overtly supernatural bent, looks at the love that endures following the loss of a family member, and the unique difficulties caused by the recurring waves... Read More
Concluding the season, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gorgeous, humane film is our final representation of what may await in the great beyond. It puts an idiosyncratic spin on the relationship between death and memory explored in other, more emotionally turbulent films in... Read More
OPENS MAY 22ND
1980s Bailieboro, Co. Cavan, four school friends Justin, David, Noel and Paddy form a punk band and set their sights on world domination. They have fun but not a huge amount of talent and when the big... Read More
Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece. As she fights for survival in... Read More
OPENS MAY 15TH
Socially awkward Bear (Michael Johnston) harbours an unrequited crush for childhood friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette). On a whim he buys a ‘One Wish Willow’ novelty toy and wishes for Nikki to love him “more than anything in... Read More
OPENS MAY 15th
Gifted art restorer Lori (Michaela Coel) has been engaged by the estranged children of Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), a once infamous, now reclusive, London artist, to help them in a scheme to secure their inheritance. Posing as... Read More
Budapest 1957: Andor, a teenage Jewish boy, who has been raised to believe his absent father was a hero of the violently supressed Hungarian Revolution, is thrown into confusion when his mother brings home a mysterious interloper... Read More
Donegal teenager Shóna McAnally feels conflicted about her prodigious talent as a traditional Irish fiddle player. She takes to the road with her little brother Mickey and a troupe of wandering musicians, on a cross-country journey of adventure, romance and... Read More
Eighteen-year-old Marina was orphaned at a young age; she travels to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. There, she navigates a sea of new aunts, uncles, and... Read More
A reclusive horror writer (Adam Scott) travels to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes, only to become entangled in unsettling local lore surrounding the ramshackle building. As strange visions intensify and a mysterious disappearance occurs, his grief... Read More
Albert Camus’s enduring and enigmatic 1942 novella L’Étranger follows Meursault, a detached young man in 1930s Algeria whose indifference to social conventions and emotional expectations sets him apart from others. When he impulsively kills an Arabic man, he must face... Read More
When the titular trawler mysteriously returns, having disappeared from a Cornish fishing village thirty years ago, local man Nick (George Mackay) and brash out-of-towner Liam (Callum Turner), unwittingly take her out to sea. With its grainy, richly textured 16mm visuals,... Read More
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wonderfully quirky and irresistibly enchanting Amélie returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary. After a lonely childhood, the adult Amélie (an adorable Audrey Tautou) devises elaborate, secret stratagems for bringing happiness to those around her. In... Read More
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 15.40
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: TO DIE FOR (DOUBLE BILL) 12.15
CRONOS (4K RE-RELEASE) 18.30
HOKUM 18.05
OBSESSION 15.45, 20.30
ORPHAN 13.15, 20.20
ROMERÍA 11.00
ROSE OF NEVADA 20.40
THE CHRISTOPHERS 13.30, 18.15
THIS MORTAL COIL: PONETTE 16.10
TRAD 13.40
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