DUBL N I N TER N ATIO N A L FILM FESTIVAL
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FEBRUARY 2012 W W W. J D I F F.C O M
10th Anniversary Edition
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DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 2012 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. This year we celebrate our 10th anniversary with an extensive programme of both indigenous and international cinema and a top-notch guest list to accompany the premieres, workshops, masterclasses and special events we’ve planned especially for you. Amongst our celebrations, we have expanded our touring programme, which will include the classic Buster Keaton silent film Sherlock Jr., while with ‘Picture House’ we bring the festival into Dublin care centres for the first time. We will also host ‘Stargazing in Dublin’, a special gallery exhibition celebrating the film stars who have visited Dublin over the years. Many of you will know by now that Al Pacino will attend the festival to share his new film with Dublin audiences. He will be joined by actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Kenneth Lonergan (Margaret), Martin Sheen (Stella Days), Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress) and Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness) amongst many, many more.
A very special treat on offer is a chance to see Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, accompanied by the Matti Bye ensemble. International cinema is well represented this year, with a particularly fine crop of new films from Scandinavia, Russia and Germany, while our Irish programme is packed with new films, including Pat Collins’ Silence, Ian Fitzgibbon’s Death of a Superhero and Emile Dinneen’s Nightdancers. Our recent focus on documentary continues with wonderful films such as Crulic - the Path to Beyond by Anca Damian and Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss. Out of the Past, our eclectic archive programme, includes Cocteau’s Orphée, Schatzberg’s Puzzle of a Downfall Child and, for its 70th birthday, a rare screening of Walt Disney’s masterpiece Bambi.
1. Go to jdiff.com 2. Call us on 01 687 7974 3. swing by in person: a. Filmbase B. Cineworld C. Light House Ticket Office Details Filmbase Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Opening Hours: 10am – 7pm daily (3 – 26 February) CERT TBC CERT TBC
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Light House Cinema Blackhall Walk, Smithfield Market, Dublin 7 Opening Hours: 10am – 7pm (16 – 26 February) For full details of our ticketing terms and conditions and for further information, check our website www.jdiff.com A fee of €1 per booking applies to phone and online bookings.
In 2003, the first festival ran for a week with a programme of 66 screenings. This year, the festival spreads over 11 days with a programme of 147 screenings, shorts programmes, workshops and concerts, and I would like to conclude with some heartfelt thanks, particularly to our title sponsor Jameson, our key funding partner the Arts Council, the Irish Film Board, film distributors, film-makers and of course our audiences who have supported us since the very beginning and come in increasing numbers each year. Let’s celebrate this birthday together and I truly hope you enjoy this anniversary festival. Gráinne Humphreys, Festival Director
Ticket PRICES Afternoon Screenings* €8 Evening Screenings €10 special presentations €15 Galas** €18 Full Season Ticket*** €235 (except National Concert Hall) BATMAN: DANNY ELFMAN CONCERT (Tickets only available from National Concert Hall – visit www.nch.ie or call 01 417 0000) * For screenings before 6pm weekdays ** Opening Gala (Cloudburst), Closing Gala (Death of a Superhero) *** Terms and conditions apply. For details, visit www.jdiff.com
DISCOUNTED TICKETS Evening Pass (for 10 evening screenings)
€80
Afternoon Pass (for 10 afternoon screenings before 6pm)
€60
123 Happy Hour Every day between 1pm and 3pm we will be publishing a limited number of special offers on tickets for JDIFF screenings. Check our website or join our social media channels. Students, OAPs and unwaged save 10%.
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PICK YOUR FILMS Each film fits into a section which is colour coded Use the sections TO FIND all the AMAZING films you want to see!
Gala
First Look
Spectrum
Irish
Out of the Past
Cloudburst
All in Good Time
Amador
Apples of the Golan
Bambi
Death of a Superhero
Aurora
Best Intentions
Dollhouse
Baraka
Beauty
Café de Flore
Dreamtime, Revisited
Batman
Bel Ami
Chicken With Plums
El Gusto
Blow-Up
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Courage
The Enigma of Frank Ryan
Gallivant
Black Gold
Curling king
The Far Side of Revenge
l’important c’est d’aimer
Blackthorn
Elena
Finding Joy
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Special Presentation
Contraband
The Good Doctor
Flanagan’s Wake
Looking for Richard
Albert Nobbs
Damsels in Distress
The Jewel
Hill Street
Orphée
Haxan: witchcraft through the ages
Elles
Kawasaki’s Rose
Nightdancers
the Panic in Needle Park
In Darkness
The Fairy
The Mole
Nuala
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Stella Days
Faust
Monsieur Lazhar
Saving The Titanic
Santa Sangre
Wilde Salomé
Footnote
Mourning
Silence
Sherlock Jr.
Goodbye, First Love
My Little Princess
Tin Can Man
Terence mcdonald
Le Havre
Superclásico
Wonder House
Hunky Dory
Target
Yellow
Jeff, who lives at home
Terraferma
Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters
The Vanishing of Páto
Margaret
Twilight Portait
Apartment in Athens
Michael
the Yellow Sea
Avé
The Monk
Blame
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Bonsái
The Raid
Breathing
Return
Fort McCoy
A Royal Affair
Hard Labour
Salmon Fishing in The Yemen
Invisible
Silent House
The City Below
Into the Abyss
Play
Sleepless Night
The Day I was Not Born
Khodorkovsky
A Quiet Life
Trishna
Dreileben: Beats being Dead
A Man’s Story
Silver Tongues
Where do we go now?
Dreileben: Don’t follow me Around
Samsara
Turn me On, Goddammit
Your Sister’s Sister
Dreileben : One Minute of Darkness
Sing Your Song
Up There
If not us, who?
This is not a Film
Womb
Sleeping Sickness
This Our Still Life
three
Unfinished Spaces
Discovery
Real to Reel Buck Calvet
German
Crulic – The Path to Discovery Family Instinct
wed 22 feb / cineworld 17 / 8.10pm In Darkness is the fact-based saga of Jews hidden from Nazis in Lvov sewers by a Polish Catholic crook who does it for the money until he discovers his better self.
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In Darkness
TUES 21 FEB Quentin Tarantino’s debut feature is a tour-de-force of casual violence and quickfire repartee and a riveting treatise on the theme of betrayal, set in an urban wasteland which renders redemption impossible.
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Reservoir Dogs
gala
from thrillers to documentaries, costume dramas to cult classics, this year’s jameson dublin international film festival offers a bumper crop of unmissable films. book your tickets now!
Cloudburst
albert nobbs
Stella Days
SAT 18 FEB / SAVOY / 7.30PM Glenn Close excels in the title role of this period drama, chronicling the courageous story of a woman passing as a man, just in order to work and survive in 19th-century Ireland.
THURS 23 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6.30PM Faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood, and one man and his conscience collide in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s Stella Days, starring Martin Sheen as a forward-thinking parish priest in the rural Ireland of the 1950s.
Batman: Danny Elfman Film Music
special presentation
suprise
gala
SAT 25 FEB / NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 8PM A rare opportunity to hear live performances of this prolific composer’s works, including his award-winning scores for Batman, Spider-Man, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mission Impossible, and the theme for The Simpsons.
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THURS 16 FEB / SAVOY / 7.30PM Boasting outstanding performances from Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, Cloudburst details the story of a lesbian couple who escape from their nursing home to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker on the way.
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HÄXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES
Wilde SalomÉ
surprise films
Death of a Superhero
mon 20 Feb / savoy / 7.30pm Al Pacino’s Wilde Salomé is both a play and an intimate self-portrait of the actor/director as he simultaneously performs Salomé on stage and shoots a film.
Sun 19 FEB / Cineworld 17 / 6.40pm Sun 26 FEB / Savoy / 5pm The surprise films always get people talking and this year’s mystery screenings will be no exception. Be sure to book your ticket early!
sun 26 feb / savoy / 7.30pm Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, Death of a Superhero uses a mix of live action and animation to tell the story of terminally ill teenager Donald Clarke, who escapes life to fulfill his illustrated comic adventures.
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.15PM Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan is arguably the most original and impressive of all Swedish silent films, as it recounts popular beliefs in the devil and superstition throughout the ages – with director Christensen himself playing Lucifer.
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stargazing in dublin
3 – 26 February Top Floor, Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, Stephen’s Green West, Dublin 2 Opening Hours: Mon-Weds: 9am-7pm Thurs: 9am-9pm Fri-Sat: 9am-7pm Sun: 11am-6pm
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From Cary Grant to Kevin Spacey, Dublin has played host to more than its fair share of film talent over the years, and this year, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, we’re delighted to present Stargazing in Dublin, an exhibition of over 100 photos celebrating sixty years of international film stars in the city. Curated by Sheamus Smith, who was CEO of Ardmore Studios (1975-82) and Ireland’s Film Classifier (1986-2003), the exhibition is located in the heart of the city, on the top floor of the Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre and runs throughout February. Drawing on a wide range of sources including the RTÉ Stills Library, Lensmen Press & PR Agency, Maxwell Photography, The Irish Times, the Colman Doyle Collection at the National Gallery and JDIFF itself, Stargazing in Dublin celebrates the moments when a little bit of Hollywood stardust was sprinkled over the capital.
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“Since my earliest childhood memories of the cinema in my home town of Ballaghaderreen, the big screen has played a major part in my life and career. I was very pleased when Gráinne Humphreys, the Director of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, invited me to curate an exhibition showing photographs of movie stars who visited the capital over the years. As a young press photographer in 1950s Dublin, I had photographed important international stars such as Danny Kaye, Maureen O’Hara, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, James Cagney and Rod Steiger. Assembling this exhibition from many sources has been a challenging but enjoyable experience. My sincere thanks to those who so generously assisted me in this undertaking.” Sheamus Smith
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FRI 17 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 2.30PM Filmed at the height of Swinging London, Blow-Up stars David Hemmings as a David Bailey-style fashion photographer who stumbles across what appears to be a brutal murder in a London park.
FRI 17 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 3PM High-spirited and infectiously energetic, Looking for Richard is a masterclass in Shakespeare and acting conducted by Al Pacino himself, an uncommonly passionate and delightful teacher.
FRI 17 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 6PM The Irish Film Board presents a selection of short films which showcase the wealth of cinematic talent currently at work in Ireland. This year’s selection is a tour-de-force of strong, original storytelling, visual flair and consistently high production values.
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 2PM A high-flying corporate bigwig meets his match in Christoph Hochhäusler’s tense drama set in the upper echelons of Frankfurt’s banking sector.
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 2.30PM The Fairy is a colourful, burlesque comedy from the famed Belgian comedy duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, focusing on the bizarre love affair between Dom and Fiona – the former a receptionist in a seaside hotel, the latter an idiosyncratic fairy.
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 2.30PM Family Instinct is an insightful but often disturbing account of a Latvian community where the men are always drunk, the women try to pick up the pieces and the children look on, taking everything in.
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 4PM A road movie sustained by the soulful performances of two youngsters barely out of their teens, Avé tells the story of Kamen, who meets a young woman while travelling from Sofia to a small town close to the Romanian border.
SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 4.15pm Apples of the Golan is an incisive critique of the clandestine occupation of Golan, an area which was annexed by Israel from Syria in the closing stages of the Six Day War, in 1967.
Yellow
SAT 18 FEB / SAVOY / 11AM An Algerian immigrant is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically in this inspiring character study which excels through tackling controversial topics with a delicate touch.
SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 1.15PM Filmed over four years and in over twenty countries, Samsara is a unique documentary fusing the ancient with the modern, transporting us though through multiple cultures to sacred grounds, disaster sites, industrialized zones and natural wonders.
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 4 / 2PM This film of Amanda Coogan’s mesmerising six-part performance piece, Yellow, first performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival, is an Irish film unlike any other you’ll see this year.
Puzzle of a Downfall Child SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 2PM A lost classic from 1970 returns to the big screen with Faye Dunaway starring as Lou Andreas Sand, a former model desperately trying to piece together her dramatic and wayward past in the fashion world.
SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6.30PM Director Mia Hansen-Løve fuels her depiction of adolescent romance with an undeniable emotional force as teenagers Camille and Sullivan enjoy a summer of love which rapidly unravels amidst departures and depression.
THE ENIGMA OF FRANK RYAN SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 6.30PM This richly-textured film portrait looks back at the action-packed life of Frank Ryan, an IRA volunteer, dissident socialist and fighter of fascism in the Spanish Civil War before his untimely death in wartime Berlin.
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SAMSARA
Goodbye, First Love
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MONSIeur lazhar
sat 18 FEB
OUT OF THE PAST
irish
FRI 17 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 9PM Whit Stilman’s latest film takes a unique look into the psyche of privileged American youth, this time focusing on a group of undergraduates at a leafy East Coast university – a heady yet deceptively light take on the all-girl clique subgenre of Heathers and Clueless.
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Damsels in Distress
FRI 17 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.45PM Kate Connor’s Fort McCoy is a retelling of her grandmother’s childhood experiences as the daughter of a barber on the post-World War II military base of the title, which includes a German POW camp.
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FORT McCOY
FRI 17 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.45PM Unfinished Spaces is a stirring study of the euphoric creation and unfortunate aftermath of Cuba’s National Art Schools, an ambitious architectural project seemingly conceived on a whim by Fidel Castro.
Terraferma
salmon fishing in the yemen
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.30PM Emanuele Crialese returns to Sicily and the island of Linosa for this beautifully evocative film focusing on the plight of migrants landing on the southern Lampedusa island from Africa.
SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 9PM Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) directs this witty and charming adaptation of Paul Torday’s bestselling novel, starring Ewan McGregor as a fishing expert reluctantly coerced into filling a barren Yemeni valley with leaping Scottish salmon.
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FRI 17 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.40PM Helmed with style and aplomb by first-time director Ruggero Diapola, this adaptation of G. Wescott’s 1945 novel Apartment In Athens is a remarkably accomplished tale of hatred, revenge and freedom, set in 1940s Greece.
CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 6.10PM Narrated from beyond the grave by its main protagonist, Crulic - The Path to Beyond is an unusual animated feature telling the story of a 33-year-old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while on hunger strike.
Blame SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 /6.15PM Young vigilantes find their coldly-calculated murder plot unravelling at the seams in this compact thriller set in a remote corner of Australian bushland.
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FRI 17 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6.15PM The world premiere of Irish director Maurice Sweeney’s recreation of the last hours of the famously ‘unsinkable’ ship, telling the dramatic story from below deck, exploring what happened in the engine and boiler rooms after the collision.
SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 3.45PM John Madden steers this star-studded feature about a disparate collection of English retirees enchanted by the promise of living out their remaining years in romantic grandeur.
SuperclÁsico
The Monk
SAT 18 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.15PM Ole Christian Madsen’s Superclásico is a slyly funny, often magical romantic comedy about the mercurial, confounding nature of love and desire. A fine and funny addition to the oeuvre of one of Denmark’s most consistently intriguing filmmakers.
SAT 18 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.30PM Vincent Cassel stars as a pious monk whose goodness is a magnet for supernatural forces in Dominik Moll’s suitably torrid adaptation of the legendary novel about good, evil and dark desire.
sun 19 FEB
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FRI 17 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.15PM Juliette Binoche stars as Anne, a well-off Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for Elle, who is writing an article about university student prostitution.
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FRI 17 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 6.10PM Womb is a haunting tale set in a future where cloning is commonly available. Rebecca (Eva Green) has waited twelve years to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart - now she can bring him back from the dead.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Apples of the Golan
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AvÉ
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APARTMENT IN ATHENS
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Saving the Titanic
discovery
elles
Real to reel
Womb
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FAMILY INSTINCT
irish
german
The Fairy
discovery
shorts
The City Below
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OUT OF THE PAST
IFB shorts
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Looking for Richard
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Blow-Up
unfinished spaces
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FRI 17 – SAT 18 FEB
THE YELLOW SEA SUN 19 FEB / SAVOY / 11AM This kinetic South Korean noir-thriller follows Gu-nam as he descends into a nightmarish world of double-crossing gangsters after he is forced into drastic measures to combat his chronic gambling debts.
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Where do we Go Now?
SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 1.30PM Set in the Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, Black Gold centres on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.
SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 2PM Buster Keaton stars as a theatre projectionist trying to clear his name and win the hand of his sweetheart, and as the world-famous detective Sherlock Jr., a man capable of amazing feats of physical daring.
SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 2PM The ghosts of communism come back to haunt not only the generation that resisted it but their children as well in this slowburning thriller about a hero of the Solidarity movement who finds himself accused of betrayal.
SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 3.45PM The mercurial Jean Cocteau transposes the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to the Paris of 1949 in this magical and enduring classic, where Orpheus is a celebrated poet, Death is driven in a Rolls-Royce and Hades is entered through mirrors.
MON 20 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 6PM Irish writer/director Neil Dowling’s debut feature is a wise and delicate story aboutt Lukas who happens upon Joy, a Korean girl studying in Berlin. After a wonderful evening together, he follows her to Seoul to relive the dream.
MON 20 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.10PM Thoroughly researched and highly entertaining, Khodorkovsky recounts the strange story of its eponymous subject, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the famous oligarch who’s been languishing in a Siberian prison since 2003 on trumped up tax-evasion charges.
MON 20 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 6.10PM Isabelle Huppert excels in this poignant and autobiographical exploration of the intense relationship between mother and daughter in the 1970s Parisian art world.
MON 20 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6.15PM In a war-ravaged Middle Eastern village, Muslim and Christian women band together to prevent further sectarian violence in the comic fable Where Do We Go Now? The resourceful femmes try almost every means at their disposal to pacify their menfolk.
TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT
Footnote
THE JEWEL
INVISIBLE
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Faust
Return
SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 4.15PM Dazzlingly inventive, Footnote is a darkly witty tale of father-son rivalries within the Israeli academic establishment, a black comedy of thwarted dreams and encroaching middle age.
SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 6PM Andrea Moloaioli’s The Jewel cleverly and entertainingly plots the collapse, by massive mismanagement and corruption, of a gigantic food company, anchored by a magnificent performance by Toni Servillo.
SUN 19 / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 6PM Michal Aviad’s powerful debut feature Invisible is the gripping story of two women who meet by chance and realise they were both victims of a serial rapist 20 years earlier.
MON 20 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8PM Hanna and Simon live together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both fall in love with a younger man, Adam. When Hanna becomes pregnant, the question pops up: who is the father?
MON 20 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.30PM Acclaimed Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov returns to the theme of corrupting power in his new film Faust, an interpretation of the German legend in which a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
MON 20 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.30PM ER’s Linda Cardellini shines in this gently powerful story of a US army servicewoman struggling to adjust to small town life after returning from active duty.
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Play
Le Havre
Bel Ami
SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.20PM An insightful and troubling film about race, ethics and manipulation, Play is based on an incident in Gothenburg when a group of black kids manipulated white and Asian teenagers into surrendering their valuables.
SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.30PM Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is a seamless blend of political compassion and meticulous drama. André Wilms stars as wily shoeshiner Marcel, who dodges cops as he cheerily dispenses his eccentric homespun philosophy.
SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 8.50PM Bel Ami is a sumptuous adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s 1885 novel about an ex-soldier turned journalist who ascends the social ladder, trading one well-connected wife for another.
SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 8PM Irish director Ivan Kavanagh’s black-andwhite thriller Tin Can Man tells the story of Peter, recently dumped by his girlfriend, who one night hears a knock on his apartment door that will change his life forever.
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TUES 21 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 4PM The breakthrough movie for Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zuławski tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress, and Servais Mont, a photographer in the unforgiving world of French showbiz.
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SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8PM Fernando León De Aranoa’s Amador, a portrait of a young immigrant woman living in Spain, is a wickedly subversive slice-of-life drama, laced with black comedy and subtle social critique.
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SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.45PM Hill Street is an unmissable independent feature, offering a unique charting of the development of the Dublin skate scene, from the early private parks to the public park boom of the last decade.
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SUN 19 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 6PM A day in the life of acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, under house arrest in Tehran on political charges. This warm documentary does not shirk from the grim reality of his situation.
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MICHAEL TUES 21 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 6.15PM Markus Schleinzer’s Michael deals with an incendiary subject in a restrained fashion, focusing upon the relationship between a paedophile and his young victim.
The Far Side of Revenge TUES 21 FEB / IFI / 6.30PM This documentary is an exploration of theatre director Teya Sepinuck’s engagement with a group of Northern Irish women from diverse backgrounds and histories, creating a joyful bond that transcends their painful backgrounds.
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INTO THE ABYSS
Mourning
TUES 21 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 5.50PM Werner Herzog’s latest documentary is the startling account of a triple homicide case in Texas; the legendary director deftly probes the legacy of the crime and the psyches of the people involved.
TUES 21 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.10PM In Morteza Farshbaf’s stunning tour de force an Iranian boy goes on a road trip with his deaf relatives after his own parents mysteriously leave in the middle of the night and are killed in an accident.
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Amador
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Hill Street
MON 20 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 8.30PM The Duplass brothers return with another fresh spin on familial weirdness - when Jeff leaves his house on an errand, he discovers that the universe might be sending him messages about his destiny.
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irish
This is Not a Film
TUES 21 FEB
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SUN 19 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 4.15PM This Norwegian coming-of-age movie takes an affectionately candid approach to female adolescent eroticism, focusing on Alma’s search for love, her active fantasy world and even more active libido.
OUT OF THE PAST
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My Little Princess
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Khodorkovsky
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FINDING JOY
german
OrphÉe
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The Mole
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SHERLOCK JR.
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Black Gold
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
TUES 21 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 8PM Kenneth Lonergan’s long-awaited follow up to You Can Count On Me stars Oscarwinner Anna Paquin as a young woman who witnesses a bus accident and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects innumerable lives.
TUES 21 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.10PM Nuri Bilge Ceylan crafts yet another mesmerising, hypnotic film that explores the human condition through side glances and offhand remarks. It is a deep and haunting work that lingers in the memory.
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Looking for Richard lh1 / 3pm
ifB shorts light house 1 / 6pm
blow up light house 2 / 2.30pm
apartment in athens light house 2 / 8.40pm Damsels in Distress cineworld 17 / 9pm
Saving the Titanic Cineworld 17 / 6.15pm The Fairy lH1 / 2.30pm
Avé light house 3 / 4pm
The City Below light house 2 / 2pm
crulic light house 2 / 6.10pm
Superclassico lH1 / 5pm
Family Inst. lH3 / 2.30pm The Best Exotic Marigold c17 / 3.45pm Puzzle of A downfall c9 / 2pm
Fort McCoy Cineworld 9 / 8.45pm
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Albert Nobbs savoy / 7.30am
Goodbye first Love cineworld 17 / 6.30pm
haxan light house 1 / 8.15pm
The Enigma of Frank Ryan light house 3 / 6.30pm
yellow Light House 4 / 2pm
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Unfinished Spaces light house 1 / 8.45pm
elles cineworld 9 / 6.15pm Womb Light House 2 / 6.10pm
Monsieur Lazhar savoy / 11am
11PM thurs 16 FEB
Cloudburst SAVOY / 7.30pm
FRI 17 FEB
sat 18 FEB
10PM
Terraferma light house 2 / 8.30pm
Blame cineworld 9 / 6.15pm
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen cineworld 17 / 9pm
Apples of the Golan Cineworld 9 / 4.15
the monk cineworld 9 / 8.30pm
Samsara cineworld 17 / 1.15pm
sun 19 FEB
The Yellow Sea savoy / 11am
Sherlock Jr. light house 1 / 2pm Orphée lH1 / 3.45pm
The Jewel light house 1 / 6pm
The Mole cineworld 9 / 2pm
Invisible light house 2 / 6pm
Amador light house 2 / 8pm
This is not a Film light house 3 / 6pm
Tin Can Man light house 3 / 8pm
Turn me on cine 9 / 4.15pm
black gold cineworld 17 / 1.30pm
Hill Street cineworld 9 / 6.45pm
Footnote cineworld 17 / 4.15pm
play cineworld 9 / 8.20pm
SURPRISE FILM Cineworld 17 / 6.40pm
mon 20 FEB
Bel Ami cineworld 17 / 8.50pm
mon 20 FEB
Wilde Salome savoy / 7.30pm My Little Princess light house 1 / 6.10pm Finding Joy light house 3 / 6pm
Faust light house 1 / 8.30pm Three light house 2 / 8pm
Khodorovsky cineworld 9 / 6.10pm
Return cineworld 9 / 8.30pm
Where Do We Go Now? cineworld 17 / 6.15pm
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tues 21 FEB
L’important C’est d’aimer light house 1 / 4pm
wed 22 FEB
Gala
thurs 23 FEB
jeff, who lives at home cineworld 17 / 8.30pm
Bonsai light house 1 / 8.30pm
Mourning cineworld 9 / 6.10pm
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia light house 2 / 8.10pm
The Far Side of Revenge ifi / 6.30pm Into The Abyss Cineworld 17 / 5.50pm
German
Silver Tongues cineworld 9 / 8.20pm Margaret Cineworld 17 / 8pm
Buck CINEWORLD 9 / 6pm
Irish
Discovery
Real to Reel
First Look
Out of the Past
A Quiet Life light house 2 / 8.10pm
Your Sister’s Sister CINEWORLD 17 / 6pm
Best Intentions light house 3 / 8.20pm
Dreamtime Revisited IFI / 6.30pm
Silent House CINEWORLD 9 / 8.30pm In Darkness CINEWORLD 17 / 8.10pm
Calvét CINEWORLD 9 / 4pm
Spectrum
Sleepless Night light house 1 / 6.15pm
The Day I was not Born light house 2 / 8.45pm
A Man’s Story CINEWORLD 9 / 6.10pm
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Santa Sangre CINEWORLD 9 / 8.10pm
Stella Days CINEWORLD 17 / 6.30pm
The Good Doctor CINEWORLD 17 / 9.15pm
Wonder House IFI / 6.30pm
fri 24 FEB
fri 24 FEB
Contraband SAVOY / 7.30pm DIFF Shorts light house 1 / 6.30pm
Twilight Portrait light house 1 / 8.20pmt
The Vanishing of Pato light house 2 / 6.10pm
Hard Labour light house 2 / 8.50pm
Night Dancers CINEWORLD 9 / 6.10pm
All in Good Time CINEWORLD 9 / 8.45pm
Chicken with Plums CINEWORLD 17 / 6.10pm The Raid SAVOY / 11Am
Flanagan’s lh 3 / 2pm
Sleeping Sick. LH2 / 4.10pm
Breathing CINEWORLD 9 / 2pm Gallivant IFI / 2pm Baraka CINEWORLD 17 / 1pm
Trishna CINEWORLD 17 / 8.40pm
Nuala light house 1 / 5pm
Beauty light house 1 / 7.30pm Blackthorn CINEWORLD 9 / 6.30pm
Dreileben 1 lH1 / 1pm
Up There light house 1 / 9.30pm Dollhouse Factory / 12AM
Curling King Cineworld 9 / 9pm
A Royal Affair CINEWORLD 17 / 6.10pm El Gusto CINEWORLD 9 / 4.15pm
Kawasaki’s Rose light house 2 / 6.10pm
If not us, who? light house 2 / 8.30pm
Hunky Dory Cineworld 17 / 3.15pm Headhunters SAVOY / 11Am
sat 25 FEB
DANNY Elfman NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 8pm
This Our Still Life IFI / 4pm
Colonel Blimp light house 1 / 1.30pm
sun 26 FEB
thurs 23 FEB
Silence light house 1 / 8.45pm
Batman light house 2 / 6pm
CINEMA CODE USED IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES
wed 22 FEB
Target light house 1 / 8.10pm
Panic in Needle Park light house 1 / 5.30pm
Special Presentation
tues 21 FEB
Reservoir Dogs
Michael light house 1 / 6.15pm
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sat 25 FEB
sun 19 FEB
Le Havre light house 1 / 8.30pm
Bambi SAVOY / 2.30pm
Elena CINEWORLD 17 / 8.45pm Dreileben 3 light house 1 / 5pm
sun 26 FEB
Death of a Superhero SAVOY / 7.30pm
Aurora CINEWORLD 9 / 1pm Courage light house 2 / 2pm
SURPRISE FILM savoy / 5pm
Terence McDonald IFI / 2pm
Chicken with Plums CINEWORLD 9 / 4.30pm
Dreileben 2 light house 1 / 3pm Café De Flore Cineworld 17 / 2pm Sing Your Song Light House 3 / 2pm
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THURS 23 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.45PM Silence is a haunting meditation on those unseen aspects of the Irish landscape, following an Irishman living in Berlin who has been commissioned to travel to remote areas of Ireland to record silence.
WED 22 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6PM Emily Blunt stars in this wonderfully rich tale of grief, romance and sibling rivalry unfolding on a remote island, directed by dynamic auteur Lynn Shelton (Humpday).
WED 22 FEB / IFI / 6.30PM Dreamtime, Revisited is a “walkabout in dreamtime Ireland” inspired by the works of writer John Moriarty and weaves together contemporary and archive material following his mythological lead into the depths of the nation’s dreamtime.
WED 22 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.10PM Toni Servillo gives another masterful, award-winning performance in this gripping, expertly-executed thriller, starring as a conflicted family man inviting more pain by protecting those he loves.
THURS 23 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 9.15PM Orlando Bloom stars as a California-based English doctor in Lance Daly’s psychological thriller The Good Doctor. Black comedy and Lolita-esque absurdity abound as the doctor falls under the spell of a blonde high school patient.
FRI 24 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.20PM Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.
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batman
A Man’s Story
Sleepless Night
Trishna
All in Good Time
HARD LABOUR
THURS 23 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 4PM The phenomenal story of French artist Jean Marc Calvet, marked by a troubled childhood, violent adolescence and extreme self-destruction, is masterfully told in this harrowing documentary.
THURS 23 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 6PM Tim Burton effortlessly takes the helm of the Batman series with his noir interpretation of the comic book with Michael Keaton providing a darkly intense take on the superhero’s crusading exploits, while Danny Elfman provides the irrepressible score.
THURS 23 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.10PM A Man’s Story is a wonderfully nuanced documentary film covering the last 12 years of British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng’s dizzying rise to the top.
THURS 23 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 6.15PM Frédéric Jardin’s gripping Sleepless Night maintains a consistently high, tension-fuelled pitch as a cop races through a packed nightclub, dodging drug dealers and corrupt cops to rescue his kidnapped son.
FRI 24 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 8.40PM Michael Winterbottom re-imagines Tess of the d’Urbervilles as a spontaneous and tragic Indian woman. Freida Pinto excels in the title role of this seductive and distinctive take on a classic story.
FRI 24 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.45PM Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham) directs this sensitive portrait of intergenerational conflict as a pair of shy newlyweds struggle to kick start their marriage.
FRI 24 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.50PM Hard Labour is a blistering dissection of Brazilian class structures, focusing on a family of three, bereft of income in a precarious economic climate where past privileges offer no guarantee of future security.
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Twilight Portrait
FRI 24 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 6.30PM From documentaries to animation, JDIFF presents another hand-picked selection of the best new Irish shorts.
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jDIFF shorts
FRI 24 FEB / SAVOY / 7.30PM A scorching performance from Mark Wahlberg drives this devilishly twisty tale about a former smuggler dragged back into the life he thought he’d left behind.
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Contraband
FRI 24 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 6.10PM Combining elements of Italian farce, detective story and buddy cop movie, The Vanishing of Pato is by turns funny, touching, and joyously entertaining.
first look
the vanishing of pato
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WED 22 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.30PM Silent House is a skilfully directed psychological thriller set in a decaying lakeside summerhouse, featuring Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) in a remarkably adept lead performance.
Real to reel
Silent House
WED 22 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 8.20PM A mother’s mild stroke brings out the control freak lurking inside many an Everyman frightened by the vulnerability of loved ones in Adrian Sitaru’s tense and atmospheric film.
FRI 24 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6.10PM The creators of Persepolis follow their terrific debut with an inspired adaptation of another of Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning graphic novels. Set in 1958 Tehran, Nasser is a famous violinist locked both in vivid dreams of his own childhood and projections of his own children’s futures.
OUT OF THE PAST
Best Intentions
WED 22 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.10PM A boldly-conceived dystopian epic, Target is set in Russia in 2020 where Viktor and Zoya, members of the rich elite, go ruthlessly in search of eternal youth.
FRI 24 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.10PM Irish-Ugandan filmmaker Emile Dinneen’s Nightdancers follows group of African b-boys taking a show based upon fire-breathing human-flesh-eaters to London’s biggest hip-hop dance theatre festival, Breakin’ Convention.
Real to reel
Target
THURS 23 FEB
Chicken with Plums
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WED 22 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6PM Buck is an award-winning (and warmly engaging) documentary about real-life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman who tames wild horses by using gentleness and respect, rather than breaking them with beatings and lashes.
Nightdancers
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THE GOOD DOCTOR
THURS 23 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.45PM This devastating, masterfully calibrated film marks a stellar directorial debut from 31-year-old Florian Cossen and is the story of a young German woman who discovers that she was adopted by the people she thought were her birth parents.
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A Quiet Life
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DREAMTIME, REVISITED
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Your Sister’s Sister
spectrum
Buck
FRi 24 FEB
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THURS 23 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.10PM Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary 1989 classic Santa Sangre is a work of hallucinatory brilliance, involving Fenix, the boy magician at the Circus Gringo, a rundown touring show in Mexico.
The Day I was Not Born
spectrum
irsh
THURS 23 FEB / IFI / 6.30PM Wonder House explores the creative process by inviting scientists to recall those childhood memories that sparked their imaginations. This documentary offers a fictional synthesis of fantasy and fact, science and art, imagination and reality.
THURS 23 – SAT 25 FEB
irish
Silence
spectrum
OUT OF THE PAST
OUT OF THE PAST
WED 22 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 5.30PM A pre-Godfather Al Pacino stars as Bobby, a small-time pusher and heroin addict in this bleak, gritty New York love story heroically researched and brilliantly written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.
SANTA SANGRE
discovery
TUES 21 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 8.30PM Hip, funny and moving, Bonsái is loosely based around Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, and centres around the lengthy love affair between two college students, Julio and Emilia.
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Real to reel
discovery
TUES 21 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 8.20PM Silver Tongues is a fiendish debut feature following Gerry and Joan’s travels across the eastern United States, adopting various personae to mess with the people who cross their paths.
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK
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Bonsái
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Silver Tongues
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10th Anniversary Edition
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10th Anniversary Edition
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UP THERE
Dollhouse
SAT 25 FEB / IFI / 2PM Andrew Kötting’s outstanding feature debut, Gallivant, is both an experimental travelogue and an internsely personal story, detailing the journey undertaken by the director and family around the British coastline.
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 8.45PM Russian maestro Andrei Zvyagintsev returns with Elena, the stunning account of a sixtysomething woman and her tumultuous relationship with Vladimir, her much older husband, and Sergei, her unemployed, slobbish son.
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 9PM Curling King brings together four middleaged men, growing old disgracefully as they compete in a curling championship. A wonderfully comic take on the sporting underdog genre.
SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 9.30PM The exciting new British directing talent Zam Salim brings us the brilliantly Charlie Kaufman-esque comic fable Up There, following the recently-deceased Martin as he struggles to get his head around the afterlife.
SAT 25 FEB / THE FACTORY / 12AM (MIDNIGHT) This fractured fairytale takes the viewer on a wild ride as a quartet of teenage miscreants break into a palatial Dublin home and begin to trash the place … until the arrival of the mysterious boy next door.
EL GUSTO
Nuala: a life and death
Terence McDonald
SUN 26 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 2PM A sibling rivalry and a random act of savagery provide the backdrop for director Greg Zglinski to explore themes of cowardice, guilt and redemption in Courage, a modern-day take on the story of Cain and Abel.
SUN 26 FEB / IFI / 2PM The Irish Film Archive presents a programme of films celebrating the pioneering achievements of Terence McDonald, whose playful fiction films received widespread recognition and numerous awards.
german
Courage
SUN 26 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 2PM Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, Sing Your Song, surveys the life and times of singer/ actor/activist Harry Belafonte.
german
SING YOUR SONG
Sun 26 Feb / Cineworld 17 / 2pm Following his British period drama The Young Victoria, Jean-Marc Vallée returns to Frenchlanguage filmmaking with this unconventional love story in which two narratives are rhythmically woven together to create a tale of emotion and destiny.
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SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 5PM Marian Finucane relates the story of her friend, the writer Nuala O’Faoláin, in this raw and honest documentary, a story which Finucane is uniquely equipped to tell and one that illustrates the enduring power of friendship.
Café de Flore
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 6.10PM Bafta-nominated writer-director Nikolaj Arcel presents a sweeping historical epic about love, loyalty and revolution centred on the love triangle between King Kristián VII, his doctor Johann Struensee and the Queen Karolina Matylda.
spectrum
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 4.15PM Safinez Bousbia crafts a heart-warming and emotional tribute to her native Algerian music tradition of Chaâbi, bringing together the survivors of an orchestra, whose stories paint a picture of Algeria’s turbulent history.
SUN 26 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 1PM Christian Petzold’s cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller focuses upon Dreileben hospital intern Johannes as he falls for the girlfriend of a violent biker while a deranged sex offender escapes the medical facility.
A royal affair
first look
SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 4.10PM Ulrich Köhler’s striking film roams through the incongruous terrain of contemporary Africa as a reckless foreign aid worker attempts to cure a sleeping sickness pandemic in the region.
SUN 26 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 1PM Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu destroys all notions of crime as entertainment in this painstakingly realistic anatomy of a murder, delivering a chilling character study of an ordinary person driven to kill.
BLACKTHORN
Kawasaki’s Rose
BEAUTY
IF NOT US, WHO?
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 6.30PM Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil’s new western stars Sam Shepard as the legendary Butch Cassidy in his “final” adventure, gracefully revitalizing the legend of history’s favourite outlaw.
SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 6.10PM Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Jozek is singled out to receive a national award; however, his past as a morally irreproachable dissident soon falls under suspicion.
SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 7.30PM Beauty tells the story of an Afrikaans man living a tightly controlled life with his family in Bloemfontein which unravels when he becomes infatuated with the 23-year-old son of a long-lost friend.
SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 2 / 8.30PM An explosive historical drama charting the love-hate relationship between two left-wing German intellectuals, one wishing to change the world from within, the other increasingly drawn towards the Baader Meinhof Group.
Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around SUN 26 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 3PM A police psychologist is brought to Dreileben to hunt down an escaped sex offender but unexpected connections between strangers and friends soon begin to haunt her existence.
HUNKY DORY SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 3.15PM Minnie Driver stars as a drama teacher at a high school in Swansea who sets about putting on a rock n’ roll version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest during the hottest UK summer on record in 1976.
german
SLEEPING SICKNESS
SUN 26 FEB / SAVOY / 11AM Based on Jo Nesbø’s eponymous bestseller, this visceral thriller focuses on an insecure but successful recruitment specialist who moonlights as an art thief - until a big heist goes awry.
OUT OF THE PAST
SAT 25 FEB / IFI / 4PM Experimental filmmaker Andrew Kötting returns with this portrait of his own tumbledown Pyrenean farmhouse, as seen through the eyes and ears of the family that have lived there on and off for the last 22 years.
discovery
SUN 26 FEB / SAVOY / 2.30 Bambi is one of Disney’s best-loved and most finely drawn animations. The story of a fawn’s adventures from birth to full-grown deerhood is touching, poignant and ultimately magnificent viewing.
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Real to reel
SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 2PM Renowned filmmaker Peter Bach embarks on a journey of discovery across Europe and the United States, on a picaresque homage to the late sculptor Barry Flanagan.
Aurora
spectrum
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 9 / 2PM Nineteen-year-old Roman has a chance to be released early from his young offenders’ institution but is faced with innumerable obstacles, including his own personality, barring his journey back into society.
Jo NesbØ’s Headhunters
first look
This Our Still Life
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Bambi
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FLANAGAN’S WAKE
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Breathing
SUN 26 FEB
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SAT 25 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 1.30PM Powell and Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp captures the epic sweep of Britain from the Blitz to the Boer War. This masterpiece of British cinema has been ravishingly restored to its full length.
german
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CURLING king
first look
spectrum
Elena
first look
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GALLIVANT
Real to reel
SAT 25 FEB / CINEWORLD 17 / 1PM Consisting of a series of stunning images linked by theme rather than narrative, Baraka is a stunning journey through the urban jungles and civilised savagery in 24 countries.
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SAT 25 FEB / SAVOY / 11AM Gareth Huw Evans’ hard-driving, buttkicking, pulse-pounding, blood-curdling martial arts siege movie is a breathless account of a SWAT team’s battle with heavily-armed drug dealers and killers.
10th Anniversary Edition
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
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THE RAID
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Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness SUN 26 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 1 / 5PM The sex offender who has been hiding out in the forest surrounding Dreileben finds the investigation, led by the increasingly ill police inspector Kreil, is rapidly closing in on his whereabouts.
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20 FEB – 03 MAR 2012 Neil Simon’s comedy Plaza Suite
“It’s theatrical, it’s musical, it’s witty, it’s clever, it’s very, very funny indeed” – The View, RTÉ
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Wed 22 Feb / 11am / Light House Kenneth Lonergan’s debut as a film director, You Can Count On Me, earned him the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and an Oscar nomination. You Can Count On Me was produced in part by Martin Scorsese, for whom Lonergan rewrote the screenplay for Gangs of New York, a task for which he found himself Oscar nominated for a second time.
Light House Cinema Blackhall Walk, Smithfield Market, Dublin 7 Opening Hours: 10am – 7pm (16 – 26 February)
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Cineworld Parnell Street, Dublin 1 Opening Hours: 2pm – 8.30pm (6 – 15 February) 12pm – 8.30pm (16 – 26 February)
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Sat 18 Feb / Light House / 12pm Marin Karmitz has produced over 100 films and distributed close to 350 films, including works by JeanLuc Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Gus Van Sant, Ken Loach, Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas.
Filmbase Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Opening Hours: 10am – 7pm daily (3 – 26 February)
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Sat 18 Feb / Light House / 10am – 4pm See website for admission prices Led by filmmaker David Pope and director and screenwriter David Keating, Story Campus is an all-day event for budding screenwriters exploring the nature (and future) of storytelling for the screen.
Fri 24 Feb / Light House / 10am - 3.30pm Screen Test is a day-long series of workshops, interviews and seminars with film and television professionals aimed at students and members of the public who are interested in taking film courses or alternate paths into the cinema industry. We will also have a number of film courses from around the country who will attend the event with relevant material. Already confirmed to take part are editor Tony Cranstoun (Death of a Superhero), Irish director Kristen Sheridan (Dollhouse), Hardy Bucks director Liz Gill and Gavin Burke (Phantom FM). Screen Test will also feature a panel discussion on music videos with the award-winning company Tidal, as well as panel discussions with the Irish Society of Cinematographers. For updates and additional information please check jdiff.com Screen Test will also feature a panel discussion on music videos and a live radio broadcast.
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€80
Afternoon Pass (for 10 afternoon screenings before 6pm)
€60
123 Happy Hour Every day between 1pm and 3pm we will be publishing a limited number of special offers on tickets for JDIFF screenings. Check our website or join our social media channels. Students, OAPs and unwaged save 10%.