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IFI Family Festival 2015 on Tour: The Legend of Longwood

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ages 10+ Mickey Miller is a 12-year-old New Yorker whose move to Longwood, a windswept town in Ireland, coincides with the return of the legendary, evil Black Knight. Mickey and her new friend Sean – along with Silver, a wild stallion - set out to redeem the Knight. But first she must save a precious

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Cinema: You’re Ugly Too

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Will is released from prison on compassionate leave to care for his niece Stacey after the death of her mother. As they both head into the sleepy Irish midlands and attempt to be a family, they suffer a series of setbacks; Stacey is refused admission to the local school because of her recently developed narcolepsy;

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Cinema: Timbuktu

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Alan Gilsenan’s Timbuktu, is a characteristically stylish and uncompromising drama, based on a screenplay by Paul Freaney. It features Eva Birthistle as a young Irishwoman, who, with the help of her precocious transvestite friend (Karl Geary), searches for her brother, (Liam O’Maonlai), a monk kidnapped by Algerian rebels in the North African Sahara. The film

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Culture Night: 20,000 Days On Earth

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Writer and musician Nick Cave marks his 20,000th day on the planet Earth. Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and

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Special Screening: Older than Ireland

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Older Than Ireland is a landmark feature documentary that explores what it means to have lived one hundred years in Ireland, as seen through the eyes of its oldest citizens. Featuring thirty men and women, this remarkable group of centenarians, all born before 1916, are the last generation to have borne witness to Ireland’s bloody

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Cinema: A Girl Walks home Alone at Night

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is set in the fictional Bad City, a ghost town whose residents favour a diverse range of retro influences. It finds a small, skateboard-riding vampire known only as ‘The Girl’ (the wonderful Sheila Vand) stalking the townsfolk, dispensing bloody justice. Etched in kohl and doused in dark humour,

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Cinema: Theeb

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. Shot entirely on location against the ravishing landscape of Wadi Rum and Wadi Araba, and cast with

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