Join us for an evening of French culture culminating in a special screening from Irish Film Institute (IFI) French Film Festival. LA TETE HAUTE (STANDING TALL) Troubled teenager Malony (Rod Paradot) has been in and out of detention facilities, counselling centres, and even prison, since the age of six, despite the tireless efforts of his

Ken Ochiai’s delightfully nostalgic film is a fascinating delve into Japanese film and television history, and its focus on “jidaigeki” films, (period dramas with sword fighting). These films wouldn't be what they were if it weren't for the "kirareyaku" - extras who are killed, without ever being lit by the limelight. Seizo Fukumoto stars as

John Crowley’s Brooklyn is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s popular novel concerning a woman torn between rural Ireland and the titular New York borough. It tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of United States of America, Eilis

Created by Rory O'Neill, Panti is a drag queen, an accidental activist and in her own words ‘a court jester, whose role is to say the un-sayable'. Over the last few years Rory has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and since the recent scandal around Pantigate, his fight for equality and against

Director Sarah Gavron’s intense drama traces the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote. Maud has worked hard and exploitative hours in the same factory job since she was a girl; her only respite is the affection of her husband and their sweet young

Short documentary covering the life of the Kildare born Irish Fenian John Devoy. One of the leaders of the I.R.B. and Clan na Gael, he played an important role in the 1916 Rising, working closely with Roger Casement to source German arms for the rebels. It focuses on Devoy’s relationship with the 1916 rebels, explores

LOVE & MERCY presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. Starring Paul Dano, John Cusack, Paul Giamatti

Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) spots the beautiful, elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett) perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences. Carol is a creamily sensuous, richly observed piece of work from director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven). Based on Patricia

The new film from Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, Five Minutes of Heaven) tells a tense and largely unknown story based on true events. In 1939 carpenter Georg Elser - impressively played here by The White Ribbon’s Christian Friedel - planted a homemade bomb behind Hitler’s lectern at a Nazi Party meeting. But the Führer left the

Set during the brutal 1992 Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Zaza Urushadze's anti-war story roots inself in the neutral viewpoint of elderly Estonian farmer Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak). After a shootout between Georgian soldiers and Checen mercenaries near the local tangerine orchard, Ivo finds himself nursing two wounded men from opposite sides in his small house. As both men

99 Homes is a searing, impeccably acted indictment of capitalism, especially as it functions in present-day American real estate. The film focuses on Florida construction worker Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments due to lack of work. Desperate to keep the home he shares with his mother and son,

Veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country, D’Artagnan’s Daughter, The Princess of Montpensier) shifts gears for a sparkling and savvy comedy of political manners in Quai d’Orsay. New graduate Arthur (Raphaël Personnaz) is hired as a speechwriter for French foreign minister Alexandre Taillard de Worms (a superb Thierry Lhermitte). As Arthur learns

Following his Oscar-winning screenplay for The Social Network (2010), which recounted Mark Zuckerberg’s founding of Facebook, Aaron Sorkin returns to the digital world with this study of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. We first meet Jobs and recurring figures Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) and John Sculley (Jeff Daniels) in 1984

Fred (Michael Caine), a retired composer and conductor, and Mick (Harvey Keitel), a film director, are old friends and also in-laws through the marriage of their respective daughter and son. The two are spending their summer at a luxury Swiss Alps spa, but while Fred is dodging requests from England for him to come out

Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save

Teenager John (played impressively here by Swedish pop star Ulrik Munther) returns home after serving time in a youth detention centre. He is looking forward to a fresh start; but neither John’s former friends, nor the wider rural farming community his family is a part of, seem ready or willing to forgive or forget his

Eleven ironworkers eat their lunch whilst casually sitting on an iron beam – their feet dangling in the air high above New York, with Central Park and a foggy Manhattan in the depths below them. Everybody knows the photograph "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," taken during construction at the Rockefeller Center in 1932. But its background

Four Decades. Two Brothers. One Really Big Grudge Gummi (Sigurdur Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) are brothers. They have both dedicated their lives to tending sheep and their farms are next door to each other. But they have not spoken in over 40 years, a feud that has reduced any necessary communication between them to

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, French director Jacque Audiard’s latest film tells the story of Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan), a former Tamil Tiger fighter in Sri Lanka. As the civil war ends he decides to flee to France with two strangers, a woman and child who pose as his family

László Nemes’ stunning debut feature takes its title from central character Saul, a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who, in his job as a Sonderkommando, is forced to assist in the grisly day-to-day management of mass exterminations.   When Saul witnesses a young boy briefly surviving the gas chamber, he becomes determined to

In the spirit of their meticulously screwy cult-classics The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading and The Hudsucker Proxy, the Academy Award winning writer-director team re-establish themselves as masters of comedic eccentricity, with a stellar ensemble cast including Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill and Dolph Lundgren. The film represents the third in their ‘numbskull trilogy’

God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a bad-tempered man who lives in a run-down Brussels flat with his wife and young 10-year-old daughter Ea. He takes delight in inflicting misery on humanity on a daily basis with a system of vindictive rules. When Ea decides she has had enough of her father’s pettiness, she escapes and sets

In 1980s recession mired Dublin, 15 year old Connors is forced to move from his comfortable private school to the rough and tumble Synge Street run by the Christian Brothers. Trying to nativage school bullies, a tyrinical principle, and his parents constant fighting, he finds solace in the the beautiful, mysterious, Raphina. In an attempt

Love & Friendship shows just how funny Jane Austen can be! A treat! This acerbic gem must be the most politely impolite film of the year. Intelligently adapting the monologues of Austen’s source material into dramatic dialogue Stillman’s screenplay draws spicy cream from the milk of the author’s formal experiments. An adaptation of Jane Austen’s

As rich visually as it is thematically, Embrace of the Serpent offers a feast of the senses for film fans seeking a dose of bracing originality. Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon, this historical epic from Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra offers ethno-botanical adventure, mysticism, and a heart-rending depiction of colonialism laying waste to indigenous

A gripping true story of incredible bravery against impossible odds, The Siege of Jadotville thrillingly depicts the 1961 siege of a 150-strong Irish UN battalion under Commander Patrick Quinlan (Jamie Dornan) by 3,000 Conoglese troops led by French and Belgian mercenaries working for mining companies. Guillaume Canet plays a French commander who sought to defeat

A gripping true story of incredible bravery against impossible odds, The Siege of Jadotville thrillingly depicts the 1961 siege of a 150-strong Irish UN battalion under Commander Patrick Quinlan (Jamie Dornan) by 3,000 Conoglese troops led by French and Belgian mercenaries working for mining companies. Guillaume Canet plays a French commander who sought to defeat

A romantic comedy worthy of the name isn’t what I expected of Rebecca Miller, whose previous pictures have been strained and unrelaxed exercises, often based on her novels. But Maggie’s Plan is terrifically funny and enjoyable – a metropolitan comedy in the former high style of Woody Allen, directed with elegance and dash by Miller

Mon Roi ( My King) Beautiful people falling apart beautifully. Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to recognize that a relationship has run its course — or more difficult still, that the match may not have been healthy in the first place. In her fourth film as director, Maiwenn is concerned first and foremost

Laurie Anderson strikes an emotional chord or two in this meditation on her relationship with her pet. Laurie Anderson’s refractive musing on matters of life and death revisits the Tibetan Book of the Dead via her relationship with her beloved dog Lolabelle and the lost mother whom she worries she did not love. Animation and