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Between Heaven and Hell: The Films of Ingmar Bergman
The 9th East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2025 (EAFFI) brings to audiences memories, collective stories and personal journeys of identity and culture, with themes of understanding, tolerance and hope, through works by writers and directors across East Asian cinema. To discover Vietnamese cinema, we are presenting three rare classic films in digital 2K restorations from the Vietnam Film Institute (VFI), each film to be introduced by Ms Khuất Thi Thu Trang, Ngoc Khanh Cinema House at the VFI. We are also delighted to welcome two wonderful guests: Chinese writer-director, Lin Jianjie who will take part in a series of talks and screenings with his debut feature, Brief History of a Family (the festival’s opening night film), including an In-Conversation event on Saturday, March 22nd; and Qiuyan Chen, founder and director of Queer China UK who will take part in a Q&A session following the screening of the documentary, Love Bound. Thank you as ever to the Arts Council for their continued and vital support, and as ever to the Irish Film Institute, to our sponsors and partners supporting EAFFI, and most importantly to you! See more at EAFFI (www.eaffi.ie) - Maria O'Brien, co-organiser, EAFFI; Marie-Pierre Richard, Programme Curator & Co-organiser, EAFFI Festival notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.
PART TWO: The second instalment of IFI’s two-month Ingmar Bergman retrospective finds the director operating at his creative zenith, producing some of his most enduring works while embracing the opportunities afforded by the small screen. The 1960s were a period of heightened experimentation, when Bergman, as his focus increasingly turned towards women, produced films with strikingly modernist flourishes, with uncompromising use of the close-up employed to explore his female characters’ psyches. The Baltic Island of Fårö, now his home, became the director’s preferred location for these excoriating dramas of bourgeois malaise, many featuring his core actors: Bibi Andersson, Eland Josephson, Max von Sydow, and Liv Ullmann. In the 1970s, Bergman continued to produce masterpieces such as Cries and Whispers, whilst developing projects that would exist in both a theatrical and extended, episodic form for television. We are pleased to present a very rare screening of the complete four-part TV-version of Face to Face. To conclude the retrospective, on Sunday, March 30th, Dr Jan Holmberg, CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, will deliver an IFI Talk on The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman. Between Heaven and Hell: The Films of Ingmar Bergman screens now on both IFI@Home and in cinema at IFI. The season will continue until the end of March. To find out more about the films available on IFI@Home, please see here. TICKET INFO :
Few British filmmakers have created a body of work as respected and influential as that of Sir David Lean (1908 – 1991), with seven of his 16 films seeing him Oscar-nominated (twice winning) in the category of Best Director. Starting as teaboy at Gaumont Studios, Lean worked his way up to editor on numerous features, including a number of Powell and Pressburger titles, before taking to the director’s chair. Moving from chamber pieces such as Brief Encounter (1945) to some of cinema’s greatest epics, including Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Lean proved remarkably adept at creating indelible imagery, and never lost sight of the intimate human relationships at each film’s core, whatever its scale. This month’s selection, projecting entirely from 35mm, offers audiences the chance not just to experience some rare screenings, but also to see the films as they were always intended to be seen, on the big screen, and on celluloid. The season will continue in May. Season notes by Kevin Coyne. This season is supported by Expert Air. [embed]https://youtu.be/DKceNonxO6I[/embed] NOW BOOKING Book now for cinema screenings via ifi.ie/david-lean/ or via IFI Box Office in-person or over the phone via 01 679 3477. TICKET INFO: 3 Film Pass* - €30.00 5 Film Pass* - €50.00 8 Film Pass* - €80.00 *Season membership fee of €5.00 is applicable to all bundles for Non-Members. These passes can only be booked in person or by calling the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477. Titles include: Part One: In Which We Serve (35mm) - Saturday, April 5th (15.30) This Happy Breed (35mm) - Sunday, April 6th(16.00) Blithe Spirit (35mm) - Wednesday, April 9th (18.20) Brief Encounter (35mm) - Wednesday, April 16th (18.30) Great Expectations (35mm) - Saturday, April 19th (15.45) Oliver Twist (35mm) - Sunday, April 20th (15.45) The Passionate Friends (35mm) - Thursday, April 22nd (18.20) Madeleine (35mm) - Wednesday, April 30th (18.20) Part Two (Coming in May, full details and tickets available soon - including some 70mm titles): The Sound Barrier Hobson's Choice Summertime The Bridge on the River Kwai Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago Ryan's Daughter A Passage to India
EAFFI: BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY 18.15
EAFFI: DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY 20.50
I’M STILL HERE 13:00, 20:20
MICKEY 17 15:10, 20:15
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? 13.30
SISTER MIDNIGHT 15:50 (OC), 18:00
THE IRISH QUESTION 15:50, 18:10
VERMIGLIO 12:45
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