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This small selection of recent German films, presented in association with the Goethe-Institut Irland, opens and closes with new works by two of contemporary cinema’s finest directors, Volker Schlöndorff and Andreas Dresen.

On Saturday the 5 May, Film Fatale — Dublin’s most glamorous film event — will screen Bette Davis’ finest performance in the superb All About Eve in The Sugar Club, Dublin.

Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with ‘Serenity’, the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series, ‘Firefly’. A mix of space western, comedy, and drama, ‘Serenity’ follows captain Malcolm Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his ragtag crew as they trade their way around [...]

Though several iconic images from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s final silent film (The Passion of Joan of Arc) and his first talkie (Vampyr) are rightly famous, his status in the cinematic pantheon hasn’t been helped by the difficulty in recent years of catching his films on the big screen where they belong [more].

Film Fatale presents: the sophisticated 1950s Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest On Saturday 31 March, Film Fatale, Dublin’s most glamorous film event, will screen Hitchcock’s classic suspense thriller, North by Northwest in a night of cinema nostalgia and old–style Hollywood  glamour that will transport the audience back to the 1950s for a night of film, [...]

Celebrating 25 years of outstanding theatre, sell out tours and a West End run, Big Telly, the company who brought you the ‘deliriously chaotic’ Puckoon (****What?s on Stage) brings to life another extraordinary book – Melmoth the Wanderer – the first ever horror novel, a brilliant mix of comedy and suspense.

To celebrate the St Patrick’s Festival, we’re handing over a screen to the purveyors of all things wonderfully trashy, Trashfest,for an alternative approach to celebrating Irish culture. Trashfest will be screening the achingly funny horror film Leprechaun on the eve of St Patrick’s Day. Long before we became ‘friends’ with Jennifer Aniston, she was keeping [...]

Programme A-Z 2012 18:30 Wed 07 March, 2012 @ The Gate Cinema As Long As Your’re Healthy* Tant qu’on a la Santé *Double Bill Pierre goes to the countryside to seek respite from the hustle and bustle of Paris. [Book Tickets] 21:00 Sat 10 March, 2012 @ The Gate Cinema Bel Ami A sumptuous adaptation [...]

Dublin-based Fastnet Films are producers Macdara Kelleher and Morgan Bushe, plus director Lance Daly. Right now, they’re at the forefront of an exciting new wave of Irish cinema, overseeing noteworthy features, television programmes and shorts at a dizzying rate. In the process, Fastnet are nurturing a stable of remarkable home-grown talent, like filmmakers Rebecca Daly, Andrew Legge and Ross McDonnell, as well as in-house creative dynamo Lance Daly himself. In a few short years, they’ve enjoyed both critical and box-office success, been fêted at Toronto, Tribeca and Cannes, and bagged numerous international awards. The consensus suggests they’re only getting started.

The programme at the IFI

Films from IFI at Triskel

Films at Screen Cinema

Triskel Christchurch presents, in association with Dublin Chinese New Year Festival, the Chinese Film Festival. Showcasing the best contemporary films from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the festival comprises of five films from Friday 20th January until Saturday 21st January.

The programme at the IFI

The programme at the IFI