Autumn Season starting Thu. 11 Sep. 2025

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

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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.

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams

Thu. 16 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Cast: Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp
Info: 111 mins, Norway, 2024, 15A

17-year-old Johanne becomes infatuated with her charismatic French teacher Johanna. Uncertain whether the teacher’s kindness and affection towards her indicate any romantic intent, Johanne explores her confusing feelings by writing them down as a novella. When Johanne’s protective mother and more liberal grandmother read the manuscript, the three generations of women each contemplate their hopes, dreams and sexuality.

Like the other two entries in Dag Johan Haugerud’s ‘Oslo Stories’ trilogy (all of which are standalone, thematically-linked films rather than a continuous story), Dreams is an elegant and nuanced exploration of intimate thoughts and emotions. Unfolding largely through fascinating conversations, this is a shrewd and insightful film about the joy, confusion, embarrassment and disappointment of one young woman’s coming-of-age experience.

Deaf

Thu. 23 Oct. 2025, 8pm 

Director: Eva Libertad
Cast: Miriam Garlo, Alvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Joaquin Notario
Info: 99 mins, Spain, 2025, 15A

Ángela, a deaf woman, and Héctor, her hearing partner, are in a loving, solid relationship, using sign language and lip reading to communicate. When Ángela becomes pregnant they are both very excited. However, the question of whether their baby will be deaf or hearing charges an unexplored tension between the couple.

After a complicated, emotionally intense labour, their daughter, Ona, is born. It is revealed she can hear, forcing Ángela to come to terms with raising a daughter who may not share her experience of the world. As Ona and Hector gravitate towards each other, communicating with their voices, Angela is left feeling frustrated and isolated.

Eva Libertad’s debut feature is a tender, moving and brilliantly acted drama.

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.