BLACK ICE – advance screenings of the new Sligo-Leitrim based film

BLACK ICE is screening in The Model Cinema on Friday, 08 March at 7pm and 9pm. Sligo and Leitrim audiences have a chance to see an advance screening ahead of the film’s national release, later this Spring. Studio North West tv presents two special advance screenings of the Strandhill and

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Cannes Film Festivals Best Actor Winner on screen this week

Presented in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute & The Model Cinema, welcomes March with a variety of enthralling cinematic experiences and exceptional performances, from winners of The Cannes Film Festival to Oscar nominees. The spring season continues this week with a Danish spine-tingling thriller, ‘The Hunt’. Thomas Vinterberg directs

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The Model Cinema hosts the Guth Gafa International Documentary Roadshow

Friday, Nov 02, 6pm This November, the Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival hits the road and will screen award-winning documentaries in regional centres around the country and on Friday, 02, November their roadshow will be in Sligo for screenings in The Model CInema. Alongside the screening of two key films

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Saki Soto on recording in The Model’s recording studio

Saki Soto Interview with Yasmina Rahmoune Saki Soto are an upcoming band from Sligo, who have been recording their EP here in The Model’s own brand new recording studios. Our music intern Yasmina, got a chance to see how the lads were getting on. Here is what they had to

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Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson is easily my favourite director. He is quirky, imaginative and funny all while staying totally grounded and emotional. His films always tell of slightly unattainable characters that are strange with each other and their surroundings yet are connectable as they are vulnerable and human. Even though they are

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Director Paul Duane on BARBARIC GENIUS

Director Paul Duane talks on the making of the feature documentary Barbaric Genius, the story of John Healy, born in London to Sligo parents – wino, chess prodigy, author of a classic memoir, and forgotten man. Sitting, mildly hungover, on a friend’s couch in Galway on Easter Sunday, 2007, I

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