Autumn Season starting Thu. 11 Sep. 2025

Every Thursday, 8pm
Admission €10 / €8 (conc.)

Tickets can be purchased on the door.

The Marching Band

Thu. 11 Sep. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Cast: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco
Info: 103 mins, France, 2024, Digital, Subtitled

Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe), an internationally renowned orchestra conductor, is diagnosed with leukaemia, and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. His search for a donor leads him to discover that that he was adopted, a revelation that introduces him to his biological brother Jimmy (Pierre Lottin), a divorced dad with a daughter who works in a factory cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Although worlds apart – Thibaut was raised in a posh Parisian suburb while Jimmy lives in a small working-class town – they are drawn together by a profound connection to music, and soon the sophisticated maestro finds himself rehearsing with his brother’s scrappy brass band.

The Marching Band is a warm, funny, and socially conscious crowd-pleaser from the director of The Big Hit, the opening film at IFI French Film Festival 2021.

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Thu. 18 Sep. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Sinéad O’Shea
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Declan Conlon, Gabriel Byrne
Info: 100 mins, Ireland, 2024, Digital, F-Rated

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her marriage and acrimonious divorce from Ernest Gebler; publications in the New Yorker and the creation of screenplays for British and US cinema. She lived in London with her two sons where she hosted star-studded parties and conducted numerous love affairs. Her later work was inspired, at times controversially, by real life events.

This documentary portrait, completed shortly before her death last year, features extracts from her journals (read with verve by Jessie Buckley), contributions from Gabriel Byrne, Anne Enright and other luminaries, and a remarkable final interview with Edna, now aged 93 as she reflects with dignity and candour on her extraordinary life.

Hidden

Wed. 24 Sep. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou
Info: 117 mins, France-Austria-Germany, 2005, 35mm

The bourgeois complacency of a Parisian family is severely tested when surreptitiously-recorded videos of their lives begin arriving anonymously to their well-appointed home. Anne (Juliette Binoche) senses Georges (Daniel Auteuil) is concealing something, though he denies knowledge of the provenance of the tapes. As the surveillance grows more sinister, George is prompted to reconnect with Majid (Maurice Bénichou), a long-forgotten childhood friend who may, or may not, be the source of the recordings. Michael Haneke’s ambiguous, claustrophobic nightmare fuses George’s repressed memories with the guilt and shame of a nation.

Red Path

Thu. 2 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Lotfi Achour
Cast: Ali Helali, Yassine Samouni, Wided Dabebi
Info: 97 min, Tunisia/France/Belgium/Poland/Saudi Arabia/Qatar, 2024, Arabic

A group of men attack two young shepherds. Achraf, 14, is obliged to bring the head of his cousin Nizar to the family as a macabre message. Based on a true story.

Late Shift

Thu. 9 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Petra Biondina Volpe
Cast:Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen,Alireza Bayram
Info: 91 mins, Switzerland-Germany, 2025, Subtitled, German & Schwyzerdütsch

Floria Lind (Leonie Benesch) is a dedicated surgical nurse in a Swiss hospital, navigating the relentless pace on her ward with unwavering professionalism, infusing humanity and warmth into her patient care despite the punishing workload and incessant demands on her time. When a colleague calls in sick one evening, she’s left understaffed and overwhelmed with patients: a critically ill mother, an elderly man anxiously awaiting his diagnosis, and a demanding private patient accustomed to extra perks. With the pressure mounting, and the added burden of having to mind a trainee, Floria makes a simple mistake, and a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Leonie Benesch (The Teachers’ Lounge) delivers a powerful, nuanced performance, portraying Floria’s unwavering empathy, proficiency, and vulnerability as she navigates an increasingly fraught set of circumstances.

Dreams

Thu. 16 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Michel Franco
Cast: Isaac Hernández, Eduardo Gonzalez, Hugo Costa Ramos
Info: 95 min, 2025, Mexico, English, Spanish

Fernando (Hernández), a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international recognition and a life in the U.S. Believing his lover, Jennifer (Chastain), a socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaves everything behind, narrowly escaping death in the process. However, his arrival disrupts Jennifer's carefully curated world. She will do anything to protect both their futures--and the life she has built.

Deaf (Coda)

Thu. 23 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Sian Heder
Cast: Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur
Info: 111 mins, 2021, USA/France

Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working the family’s fishing boat every day before school. On joining her high school’s choir club, Ruby discovers a gift for singing, and is drawn to duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between family obligations and the pursuit of her own dreams.

Happyend

Thu. 30 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Neo Sora
Cast: Makiko Watanabe, Yûta Hayashi, Ayumu Nakajima
Info: 113 min, Japan/United States, 2024, Japanese

Set in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school. One night, they pull a consequential prank on their Principal, which leads to a surveillance system being installed in their school.