No Other Choice (Eojjeol Suga Eopda)

Thu. 5 Mar. 2026, 8pm

Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon
Info: 139 mins | South Korea | Cert: 15A

Yoo is a paper expert who is abruptly fired after his company is taken over by an international firm. Yoo and his wife Lee are determined to keep the family home and sustain their lifestyle, which includes expensive cello lessons for their prodigy daughter. However, Yoo struggles to get a new role in the paper industry. Desperate, he sets up a fake job ad to identify the more qualified candidates in his specialist field, with the goal of taking them out of the running by any means necessary…

The new film from Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave) is a playful yet scathing satire of life under capitalism, full of wildly imaginative camerawork and set pieces.

One Battle After Another

Thu. 12 Mar. 2026, 8pm

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti
Info: 2h 42mins | USA | 2025

Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their pasts.

Sirāt

Thu. 19 Mar. 2026, 8pm

Director: Oliver Laxe
Cast: Sergi López, Brúno Nuñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson, Tonin Janvier, Jade Oukid
Info: 114 mins | Spain, France | 2025 | Cert 15A

A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar – daughter and sister – who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

The Presidents Cake

Thu. 26 Mar. 2026, 8pm

Director: Hasan Hadi
Cast: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Info: 105 mins, Iraq-Qatar-USA, 2025, Cert: 12A

Hasan Hadi’s award-winning debut feature follows nine-year-old Lamia, who has been selected to bake the cake for her class’s obligatory celebration of President Saddam Hussein’s birthday, a nearly impossible task in a country ravaged by war and scarcity. With her grandmother, loyal friend Saeed, and pet rooster, Hindi, Lamia embarks on a perilous journey through chaotic markets and city streets to find the requisite eggs, flour, and sugar, confronting hardship, danger, and resilience along the way.

The Secret Agent

Thu. 2 Apr. 2026, 8pm

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário
Info: 161 mins, Brazil-France-Netherlands-Germany, 2025, Cert: 15A

Brazil, 1977. On the run, Marcelo (Wagner Moura) returns to his hometown of Recife where he is welcomed into a covert community of refugees presided over by aging matriarch Dona Sebastiana. He takes a job in an Identification Records Office, partly as cover and partly to seek out a record of his mother’s life, yet soon becomes entangled in a web of espionage, conspiracy and murder involving the corrupt local police chief who knows more about Marcelo’s past than he lets on.

My Father's Shadow

Thu. 9 Apr. 2026, 8pm

Director: Akinola Davies Jr
Cast: Sope Dirisu, Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, Godwin Egbo
Info: 94 mins, Nigeria-UK-Ireland, 2025, Cert: 12A

Against the backdrop of the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, two young brothers, Akin and Remi, accompany their estranged father, Folarin (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù), on a journey through the sprawling metropolis of Lagos as he tries to reclaim unpaid wages while all around them political tensions threaten to reach boiling point. Unfolding over the course of a single day, Akinola Davies Jr’s extraordinary, semi-autobiographical debut feature explores family bonds, identity, memory, and fatherhood.

Sound of Falling

Thu. 23 Apr. 2026, 8pm

Director: Mascha Schilinski
Cast: Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest
Info: 155 min | Germany | 2025 | Cert: 16

A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.

Spanning roughly a century, from WW1 to contemporary times, Mascha Schilinski’s extraordinary, novelistic film delineates the effects of intergenerational trauma on four girls – Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka – who each spend their youth in the same farmhouse in the German countryside. Visual motifs reappear throughout the shuffled chronology, as key images take on the quality of dreams and premonitions; the cumulative emotional power of the film builds as the disparate pieces are woven together to form a satisfying and deeply moving whole.

In Time: Dónal Lunny

Thu. 30 Apr. 2026, 8pm

Director: Nuala O’Connor
Cast: Dónal Lunny
Info: 95 mins, Ireland, 2025, F-Rated

Dónal Lunny is one of Ireland’s outstanding artists, a peerless contributor to Irish culture and music. As a founding member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts, Lunny helped revive and transform Irish traditional and folk music. The film reveals how significant events of his creative and personal life converged with major cultural and political changes in Ireland and around the world. Nuala O’Connor’s exquisite portrait, revels in the pleasures of the musical odyssey while acknowledging much sadness along the way. The film features rare performances and a powerful reunion with Christy Moore.

Sligo Film Society 2025/26

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

No Other Choice (Eojjeol Suga Eopda)

One Battle After Another

Sirāt

The Presidents Cake

The Secret Agent

My Father's Shadow

A Pale View of Hills

Sound of Falling

In Time: Dónal Lunny

Past Films

Sponsors & Partners

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Sligo Film Society 2025/26

Sligo Film Society 2025/26

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

No Other Choice (Eojjeol Suga Eopda)

One Battle After Another

Sirāt

The Presidents Cake

The Secret Agent

My Father's Shadow

A Pale View of Hills

Sound of Falling

In Time: Dónal Lunny

Past Films

Sponsors & Partners

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