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5-10 May // Festival Zones Portuaires // Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story, North Circular, Aontas // Saint-Nazaire, France
5-10 May // ANIFILM | International Festival of Animation // An Cailleach Bheara [The Wise Old Woman... Read More
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Composers Stephen Rennicks (An Cailin Ciúin) and Natasa Paulberg (The Irish Civil War) join musicologists Laura Anderson and Conor Power for a roundtable discussion on composing for the screen. Focussing on how screen scoring has changed in recent years, this... Read More
Age brings with it an inevitable degree of physical and cognitive decline. At its worst, cognitive impairment can evolve into dementia, stealing us from our loved ones and ourselves. This has given rise to the recent concept of “the zeroth... Read More
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
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
Our second speculative interlude on what lies behind the veil is Powell and Pressburger’s magical fantasy-romance, one of their best-loved and most imaginative works, and a near-perfect film.
Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want... Read More
In contrast to Kurosawa’s Ikiru, a more socially-minded film about a man with a substantial number of years behind him, Isabel Coixet’s film stars Sarah Polley as clean-living 23-year-old Ann, wife to Don (Scott Speedman) and mother to two young daughters,... Read More
To paraphrase Heidegger, confronting death can lead to a more authentic relationship with life itself. This confrontation is all too frequently forced upon the unsuspecting with a diagnosis of terminal illness that sometimes precipitates a decline that must be endured... 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
AKIRA (4K RESTORATION) 18.20
ALAN GILSENAN: THE JOURNEY OF WEATHER-EXPOSED BONES 13.30
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 18.15
BEFORE MIDNIGHT 15.50
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER 11.00, 20.55
IFI FAMILY: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO 11.00
MYSTERY MATINEE APRIL 2026 13.00
PRIMAVERA 13.20, 18.30
REBUILDING 10.50
ROSE OF NEVADA 15.50 (OC), 20.50
THE DRAMA 21.00
THE STRANGER 15.40
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