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 | The First Grader
Dir: Justin Chadwick Kenya/UK 2010
98 mins Cert: 12A
Friday 3rd February 2012 - 14.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
English/ Kykuku subtitled film starring: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Vusi Kunene, Tony Kgoroge, Israel Makoe, Alfred Munyua
The true and uplifting story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time and to get the education he could never afford.
To view trailer;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790663/
|  | Incendies
Dir: Denis Villeneuve Canada, France 2010
130 mins Cert: CLUB
Friday 2nd March 2012 - 14.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Frenche Arabic subtitled film starring: Lubna Azabal, Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Remy Girard.
A dramatic suspense film centred on the true story of Canadian Twins who journey to the Middle East to discover thier family history and to fulfill their mother`s last wishes.
To view trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/
|  | The Hedgehog
Dir: Mona Achache France 2009
99 mins Cert: CLUB
Friday 6th April 2012 - 14.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
French subtitled film starring: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Igawa Togo, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascoride, Wladmir Yordanoff, Sarah Le Picard, Jean-Luc Porraz.
The heartwarming drama of a three-way friendship that develops between three unlikely characters, a young precocious French eleven year old girl, Paloma, Renee, the unhappy middle aged caretaker of the apartment block and Mr Kakuro a sophisticated Japanese man, into whose quiet intelligence both are drawn. The story is based on Muriel Barbery's best-selling French novel, “The Elegance of the Hedgehog.”
To view trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442519/
|  | Cell 211
Dir: Daniel Monzon Spain 2009
112 mins Cert:CLUB
Friday 4th May 2012 - 14.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Spanish subtitled film starring: Carlos Bardem, Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Marta Etura, Felix Cubero, Antonio Resines, Luis Zahera, Monolo Solo, Joxean Bengoetxea
An action dralma telling the story of two men on different sides of a prison riot, the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
To view trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242422/
|  | A Separation
Dir: Asghar Farhadi Iran 2010
123 mins Cert: CLUB
Friday 1st June 2012 - 14.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Iranian subtitled film starring; Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi, Merila Zarei.
A film drama about a married couple who are faced with a difficult decision, to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating ailing parent.
To view trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/
|  | All About Eve
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz USA
138 mins Cert: CLUB
Friday 6th July 2012 - 14.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Classic American film starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter, Walter Hampton
An ingenue (Anne Baxter) insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress (played by Bette Davis) and her circle of theater friends. This film is a brilliantly scripted, acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards and received the most nominations (fourteen) in film history.
To view trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/
|  | The Maid
Friday 4th February 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Chilean subtitled film: a comedic drama that shakes up and humanises the common, Latin American aristocratic tradition of serfdom
|  | Touching the Void
Friday 4th March 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Documentary: an extraordinary gripping story of human endurance in the Peruvian Andes in 1985
|  | Eyes Wide Open
Friday 1st April 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Israelian subtitled film: fictional drama set in a tightly knit Jewish orthodox community in Jerusalem where an outsider enters and unbalances the existing status quo
|  | The Lives of Others
Friday 6th May 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
German subtitled film: Story of a dedicated surveillance expert spying on a playwright and his lover in 1980`s East Germany. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 2007 and members choice.
Germany. Winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2007
Germany. Winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2007 story of a dedicated surveillance expert spying on a playwright and his lover in mid-1980s East G
|  | Loose Cannons
Friday 3rd June 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Dublin 6.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Italian subtitled film: Italian comedic drama story of a wealthy family`s struggle to navigate between "la bella figura" (a good public image) and its members true desires.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6. s East Germany. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 2007 and members choice. East G veillance expert spying on a playwright and his lover in mid-1980s East G
|  | Little White Lies
Dir: Guillaume Canet France 2010
154 mins Cert: 16
Friday 2nd September 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Exhibition Room, Rathmines Library, Dublin 6. Wheelcair access.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 - €5 on the door. Refreshments included.
French subtitled film: Every year, Max, a successful restaurant owner and Vero, his ecofriendly wife invite a merry group of friends to their beautiful bech house to celebrate Antoine`s birthday and kickstart the vacation. This year, however before they leave Paris, threir buddy Ludo is hurt in a serious accident and this sets off a dramatic chain of reactions and emotional responses.
|  | Oranges and Sunshine
Dir: Jim Loach UK/Australia 2010
105 mins Cert: 15A
Friday 7th October 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Exhibition Room, Rathmines Library D6 Wheelchair access
Full membership €30. Guest Membership €4 - €5 on the door. Refreshments included.
English language Film: Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organized deportation of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. - Rome International Film Festival 2010
The film is based on the book Empty Cradles, the memoirs of Margaret Humphreys
View the trailer at www.OrangesandSunshine.com
visit also www.oands-genes.co.uk
|  | Catalan Films By Director Lambert Botey
Friday 4th November 2011 - 4.00 p.m.
Fletcher Room, Christchurch, Rathgar, Dublin 6. Wheelchair access.
Full Membership €30. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
Catalan films: Heaven (2009), a short film with English subtitles re-imagining the bombing of Granollers in 1938
Based on a short story by Lara Ullad and set in La Garriga. Between the Creek and the Train Tracks, a silent film showing the process and work of sculptor Carles Vives in the urban area of Canovelles (Barcelona).
This is a special event showcasing the work of Lambert Botey, Manager of the Filmmakers of Granollers (founded in 1995) and member of Granollers Cine Club. Each film will be introduced and followed by a discussion of the filming process There will also be an imput on the Granollers Cine Club, which is run on a co-operative basis and was voted best cine club in Catalonia this year.
In the spirit of our international partnership we will screen a short non-narrative film Duncaoin by the director, Lanka Haouche Perren. This film in contrast, is set in rural Ireland and is an evocation of an artist and a place, with original music and a poem for the narration. The director, Lanka Haouche Perren, describes it as follows: A 7 minutes non-narrative documentary exploring the work & methods of the renowned Irish artist Maria Simonds-Gooding who has been based in Dún Chaoin, Co. Kerry, Ireland, for the last 40 years. It features a poem by award winning poet & writer David McLoghlin, narrated by Dominic West.
|  | Of Gods and Men
Dir: Xavier Beauvois French 2009
120 mins. Cert: 15A
Friday 2nd December 2011 - 10.30 a.m.
Exhibition Room, Rathmines Library, Dublin 6. Wheelchair access.
Full Membership €30 euro. Guest Membership €4 on the door. Refreshments included.
French subtitled film: Monastic life is disrupted by a massacre perpetuated by local Islamic fundamentalists and trappist monks living in an impoverished Algerian community must confront the problem of how to protect themselves. Set in North Africa and based on real events. View trailer
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