Dendy Cinemas is proud to partner with the Irish Film Festival as it returns for its 10th Birthday, November 14 – 17 at Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo.
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 their first festival in 2015, the Irish Film Festival 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.
Check out what films are screening this year!
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN (PG) – Opening Night Friday, 15 November
Join us at 7pm for drinks on arrival and live entertainment. Film will commence at 8:15pm and be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A.
An adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern and the third full length feature film from Irish auteur director, Pat Collins. Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in late 1970s Ireland, Joe and Kate have returned from London to live and work in the close- knit community. He’s a writer, she’s an artist, and the drama of their lives and those of their neighbours unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons. A delicate, meditative exploration of ritual, community bonds, and the question of how best to live.
A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL (G) – Saturday, 16 November at 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.
STOLEN (M) – Saturday, 16 November at 1:45pm
See 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. 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. Screening followed by a pre-recorded Q&A.
VERDIGIRS (PG) – Saturday, 16 November at 4:10pm
Award winning film and 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.
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (M) – Saturday, 16 November at 6:25pm
A young couple, who are a part of a mysterious, secret organization, travel at night with the desire to discover forbidden knowledge. They believe that living, modern alchemy is contained in old, forgotten songs. When they find an elderly, mysterious woman who sings songs that have never been heard before, they open the door to an ancient evil and madness.
DANCE FIRST (PG) – Saturday, 16 November at 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.
TARRAC (G) – Sunday, 17 November at 12:00pm
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. In Irish and English language with English subtitles. Screening followed by a pre-recorded Q&A.
Ó BHÉAL (PG) – Sunday, 17 November at 2:15pm
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. 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. Screening followed by a pre-recorded Q&A.
SUNLIGHT (M) – Sunday, 17 November at 4:00pm
Former addict LEON loves his best friend IVER more than anything else in the world. Iver’s the reason he’s clean but when Iver gets a terminal diagnosis and decides to leave this earth early, Leon’s not about to let him go without a fight. Screening followed by a pre- recorded Q&A.
LIE OF THE LAND (M) – Sunday, 17 November at 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. Screening followed by a pre-recorded Q&A.
BRENDAN GLEESON’S FAREWELL TO HUGHES’S (PG) – Sunday, 17 November at 8:15pm
To some it was an unassuming pub on a side street in Dublin’s city centre. To musicians, dancers, singers and listeners, it was a mecca of traditional music for over 35 years. Oscar-nominated actor Brendan Gleeson played his fiddle there often. 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. Screening followed by a pre-recorded Q&A.
Irish Film Festival 2024
14-17 November 2024
Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo
www.dendy.com.au
