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Fairfield Flicks’ April programme begins on Thursday, April 13th at 2pm with The Rising Hawk: Battle for the Carpathians (12), a 2019 Ukrainian-American historical action film based on the historical fiction book Zakhar Berkut by Ukrainian writer and poet Ivan Franko.

During the 13th century, the Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe and a Ukrainian village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against the Mongolian invaders.

A subtitled screening of the BAFTA multiaward-winning dark tragicomedy film The Banshees of Inisherin (15) will take place on Friday, April 14th at 2pm. Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, the film follows lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán and troubled young islander Dominic, endeavours to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer. But Pádraic’s repeated efforts only strengthen his former friend’s resolve and when Colm delivers a desperate ultimatum, events swiftly escalate, with shocking consequences.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Emmy nominee Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America, The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation, one which shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and impelled a shift in American culture that continues to this day. She Said (15) will be screened on Wednesday, April 19th at 7.30pm.