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See details of our Wong Kar Wai and Kinuyo Tanaka seasons below, as well as partner festivals such as the East Asia Film Festival Ireland.
Screening from December 27th to January 5th At year’s end, we are delighted to re-present to audiences the best performing Irish films of the year – to give people another opportunity to catch something that they may have missed the first time around, or to return to enjoy one of their favourite Irish films of the year one more time.
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) started his career in film as a writer, coming to prominence during the post-Second World War neorealist movement in Italian cinema with contributions to the screenplays of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946). Having also gained experience as an assistant director on these two films, his first directorial credit was shared with Alberto Lattuada in 1950’s Luci del varietà (Variety Lights). As he began his solo career, Fellini left his neorealist roots behind and forged a more picaresque style that nonetheless retained great compassion and empathy for his characters. Inspired by his experiences with psychoanalysis, his work became more lushly visual as he explored aspects of memory and sexuality, giving full rein to his imaginative flights of fantasy. Fellini’s body of work is one that remains hugely influential, even as his name has become an adjective for describing a certain style of filmmaking. International directors as varied as Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee have cited his work as an inspiration, not to mention the generations of Italian filmmakers from Bernardo Bertolucci to Paolo Sorrentino in whose work his influence is readily apparent. This opportunity to savour these feasts for the senses on the big screen is one not to be missed. Notes by Kevin Coyne. Multi-film passes are available – 5 films for €50, or a full season pass (12 films) for €100 – from the IFI Box Office, and over the phone at (01) 679 3477.
We are delighted to announce the seventh East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2023 (EAFFI), March 30th – April 2nd, in which we bring to Irish audiences works from prominent and emerging writers and directors from diverse cultural and social backgrounds across East Asian cinema. These films reflect on individual and communal experiences and dynamics in insightful and human ways. Inspiring fiction, documentary, classic and self-reflexive film essays explore and expose the world around them in vivid ways, asking questions about society, culture, politics, personal and collective history in our ever more challenging times. We are thrilled and very privileged to welcome this year's guest of honour, the great Japanese writer-director Kōji Fukada. His masterful Love Life (Official Competition, Venice Film Festival 2022) opens the festival on Thursday, March 30th followed by Harmonium (winner, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2016), and he will participate in a masterclass on Saturday, April 1st. In-cinema multi-film bundles available: all 9 films plus masterclass for €90, 5 films for €50, or 3 films for €30. Available from the IFI Box Office or over the phone at 01 679 3477. EAFFI Organising Committee: Maria O'Brien, co-organiser/ academic officer; Marie-Pierre Richard, co-organiser/ programmer & artistic director. The East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) would like to thank the Arts Council, the IFI and all its sponsors and partners for their invaluable support, including Asia Market, Taipei Representative Office in Ireland, Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, Brooks Hotel, aemi, Young Critics Programme by Young Irish Filmmakers, the Japanese Film Festival Ireland, Belltable Arts Centre, Pálás Cinema and Triskel Arts Centre.
AN CAILÍN CIÚIN 13.00
BROKER 15.00
EAFFI 2023: BLUE ISLAND 18.00
EAFFI 2023: FAR AWAY EYES + A MOMENT TWICE LIVED 15.45
EAFFI 2023: THE NOVELIST’S FILM 20.10
GOD’S CREATURES 13.00, 20.20
TÁR 15.05
THE BEASTS 17.40
THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH 13.20, 20.30
THREE COLOURS: BLUE 18.10
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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