Book your outing now to the Irish Film Festival
The Irish Film Festival returns for its 10th Birthday to Dendy Cinemas in Coorparoo from Friday, November 15th to Sunday, November 17th, sponsored by Queensland Irish Association.
Dendy Cinemas shared: “Dendy Cinemas is proud to partner with the Irish Film Festival as it returns for its 10th Birthday!”
The Irish Film Festival shared: “Celebrating all things community and culture at Dendy Cinemas; we’ve sourced innovative, quality films that showcase the culture, traditions, history and character of Ireland and the Irish people. Enjoy some of the finest Irish stories on screen never seen before in Australia that will move you in the way only Irish stories can.
“Following humble beginnings with our first festival in 2015, the IFF has gone from strength to strength to premiere moving dramas, inspiring documentaries, eerie horror, darkly funny comedies and captivating family films to become Australia’s biggest celebration of Irish culture, language, music and history.” Book your tickets by clicking here.
That They May Face the Rising Sun
2 hr 11 min· Drama
Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 7pm.
That They May Face the Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, lakeside community in rural Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere. That They May Face The Rising Sun is the third full length feature film from Irish auteur director, Pat Collins.
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
A Greyhound of a Girl
1 hr 28 min· Animation
Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 12pm.
Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny is dying. But Granny can’t let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary’s street with a message for her Granny, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure. The woman is the ghost of Granny’s own mother, who has come to help her daughter say good-bye to her loved ones and guide her safely out of this world. She needs the help of Mary and her mother, Scarlett, who embark on a road trip to the past. Four generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out.
Stolen
2 hr 9 min· Documentary
Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 1.45pm.
‘Stolen’ reveals how women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ were treated in an Ireland that was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church. Over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in mother and baby institutions run by nuns from 1922 to 1998. Most were cruelly separated from their babies after birth. Many of the children were adopted within Ireland and abroad–rendered untraceable and unaware of their birth story. Others were fostered out as cheap farm labour from the age of six, often in circumstances abysmally devoid
of care and love. 9,000 infants died in these institutions from 1922 to 1998, a rate that, on occasion, was five times the national average infant mortality rate. Survivors expose the shocking details of their treatment in a scandal that sparked a government inquiry into the fate of unmarried women who fell pregnant in 20th century Ireland
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
Verdigris
1 hr 56 min· Drama
Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 4.10pm.
VERDIGRIS is a powerful story about Marian and Jewel, two very different women who form an unlikely bond. Shabby and unfulfilled, middle-aged middle-class Marian takes a job as a census enumerator and befriends local teenager Jewel as she comes to admire the girl’s independence and strength.
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
All You Need is Death
1 hr 36 min· Horror
Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 6.25pm.
Anna and Aleks are song collectors–tracking down and recording obscure Irish folksongs to sell them to a network of rich collectors. Via the mysterious ‘mentor’ Agnes, they hear about a woman, Rita, who is rumoured to have songs that have never been recorded. They track her down in the remote Irish countryside but find that Agnes has beaten them to it. But Rita refuses to sing for her. Anna gains her trust by unplugging her hidden recording device, and Rita sings a ballad in an ancient tongue that has been passed down from mother to daughter in her family, telling the story of an ancient atrocity. They leave, but Agnes has surreptitiously recorded the song. Rita is viciously murdered by an unseen killer, and her body is found by her middle-aged son, Breezeblock, who vows to find his mother’s killers.
Dance First
1 hr 39 min· Drama
Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 8.20pm.
Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his, way he was a man acutely aware of his own failings.
In 1969, having been awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature, an embarrassed Beckett simply wanted to be rid of it and its prize money. This film revolves around this turning point, the internal debate raging within Beckett as to which of the people in his life most deserve to be the beneficiaries of his shame, overcoming the guilt about his selfishness and the pain caused to those he loved.
Tarrac
1 hr 51 min· Drama
Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 12pm.
In Irish and English language with English subtitles.
Aoife Ní Bhraoin returns home to help her father, Breandán ‘The Bear’ Ó Braoin, recover from a heart attack. Day to day they get along just fine. As we dig a little deeper we find that
there is so much that has been left unsaid about the loss of Aoife’s mother.
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
Ó Bhéal
1 hr 29 min· Documentary
Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 2.15pm.
In Irish & English language with English subtitles.
Ó Bhéal is a cinematic exploration of the rise of Hip Hop and Electronic artists in Ireland embracing oral traditions of folklore, ancient poetry and sean nós singing to create a new fusion sound, a culture clash through music. An ensemble piece, featuring Irish language rappers Mory and Oisín Mac, producer and multi-instrumentalist Fehdah, and Limerick rapper Strange Boy. This beautiful black & white film delves deep into these four artists’ process and how they are breaking new ground in Irish music.
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
Sunlight
1 hr 54 min· Drama
Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 4pm.
Former addict LEON loves his best friend IVER more than anything else in the world. Iver’s the reason he’s clean and romping about the place like an ADHD puppy. So when Iver gets a terminal diagnosis and decides to leave this earth early, Leon’s not about to let him go without a fight, even if that means being a royal pain in the arse. He forces Iver to agree to one last day in Dublin, hoping to convince him to live. Will he succeed? The outcome knock them both off course: sometimes things are so wrong, they’re right…
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s
1 hr 38 min· Documentary
Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 8,15pm.
Screening with short film, Continental Céilí
To some it was an unassuming pub on a side street in Dublin’s city centre. To musicians, dancers, singers and listeners, Hughes’s was a mecca of traditional Irish music for more than 35 years. Oscar-nominated actor Brendan Gleeson played his fiddle there often. It was a kind of hideout for him — its music providing a blanket of escape. In 2021 Hughes’s pub closed its doors for the last time following the death of its owner. In this film, Gleeson interviews musicians, dancers, singers and listeners to tell the story of the unassuming pub and its lasting contribution to traditional music in both Dublin and Ireland at large. Though it’s been around for centuries, traditional Irish music is reaching levels of popularity it never has before. In the midst of this musical renaissance, the story of Hughes’s is a genuine representation of traditional Irish music sessions and those involved in them.
* Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.
Lie of the Land
1 hr 38 min· Thriller
Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 6.15pm.
About to lose everything, the Wards prepare to escape crippling debts for a new life via a mysterious stranger, with big promises for the right fee. But last-minute doubts see the pair fighting for everything they were about to abandon.
*Includes Recorded Q&A with director and actors after the film.