99 Events in February 2008

There are 50 million blind people in the world; 90% of these people live in developing countries.

‘What use is an exterior view of the factory if I cannot see what is going on inside the building in terms of relationships, wage ... (click to read more)

Father of three, Juha is a caring husband to his depressed wife. Every morning before leaving the house he counts her pills to make sure she has taken the correct dose. He’s trying to keep his family together, although unbeknown to them he’s ... (click to read more)

Autumn Ball is a new Estonian film that talks about six inhabitants of Soviet-era tower blocks whose lives touch together, and who are all united by a feeling of loneliness. The young writer, Mati, lurks outside the window of his ex-wife and ... (click to read more)

The riots that confronted the World Trade Organization’s 1999 meeting in Seattle forced politically minded citizens into some tough intellectual deliberation. First there were the horrible images of smashed windows and police brutality on the ... (click to read more)

Li Yang’s intense psychological drama was one of the stand-outs at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Portraying the kidnapping of a young female student by a peasant family – who force her to be their only son’s bride – the film grips with ... (click to read more)

Say the name Maria Callas and a multitude of associations come to mind: diva extraordinaire; one of the greatest opera stars the world has ever known; lover of Aristotle Onassis; fashion icon. Callas was a larger-than-life personality, still ... (click to read more)

Balabanov having put his idiosyncratic stamp on the perverse art-movie (Of Freaks and Men) and and the populist gangster film (Brother 1 & II) turns to to the horror genre in this provocation, set in a grimy industrial town in Kazakhstan ... (click to read more)

Few films can claim a roster of talent comparable to this one, which boasts contributions by 33 of the most acclaimed directors in world cinema, each responsible for three minutes of celluloid.Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes Festival, ... (click to read more)

Karcsi Szabó is a member of the Hungarian water polo team, one of Europe’s leading teams. Last year, the team’s only defeat was in Moscow, where they only lost because the referee refused to let them win. Now the team are training ... (click to read more)

If you’re reading this, the chances are that you spend more time than is necessarily healthy sitting in dark auditoria revelling in the communal experience of watching movies. You will love this film.

Directed by Uli Gaulke, Comrades ... (click to read more)

In 1959, about the same time that Doris Day defended her honor from Rock Hudson’s assault in “Pillow Talk,” an extraordinarily pretty Bronx girl named Linda Riss fought off a married lawyer. Burt Pugach was thirty-two, Linda ten years ... (click to read more)

Losey’s Don Giovanni is a social study out of Brecht, who once argued: ‘We find the glamour of this parasite less interesting than the parasitic aspects of his glamour’. As the orchestra strikes up the Overture, the Don is touring his ... (click to read more)

Like his Oscar-winning Kolya, Jan Sverák’s new film stars and is scripted by his father, Zdenek Sverák. Past retirement age, schoolteacher Josef Tkaloun finds he no longer understands his pupils and decides to resign. However, unaccustomed ... (click to read more)

As a student, director Neasa Ní Chianáin first encountered Irish poet, Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Writing in her native Irish, the charismatic figure of Ó Searcaigh cast a spell on her: his poetry spoke of the land, the pain of lost love, and ... (click to read more)

Theo, a rapist, is released after nine years in a psychiatric hospital’s prison ward. His fear of women and the unfulfilled desire this generates turns normal life into a kind of martyrdom.

At the age of 27, Nettie finally manages to ... (click to read more)

“My films aspire to the condition of documentary. If you’re a newsreel cameraman and you go and shoot a real event, you know that a world exists whether you film it or not. What I want to do is create a world with that kind of solidity to ... (click to read more)

Jan Díte has one ambition: to be a millionaire. And he has only one notion of how to achieve this: to be the best maitre d’ at the flashiest hotel. Or at least at the best brothel. Or, for that matter, in Nazi human breeding camps…

For our Opening Night Presentation, we are delighted to introduce one of the most anticipated and astonishing new films of the year. Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh takes audiences on a killingly funny trip In Bruges, which ... (click to read more)

A rollicking comic ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Wilson (Scoot McNairy), a twenty-nine-year old would-be screenwriter who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los ... (click to read more)

Jameson Dublin International Film festival is delighted to present a showcase of new work in the short film format. This exciting programme will feature of both established and emerging short filmmakers and the films diverse range of subjects ... (click to read more)

Husband and wife team Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen may just be the golden couple of Israeli cinema right now following the success of Jellyfish. The film, which was awarded the prestigious Camera d’Or at Cannes for best debut, is a ... (click to read more)

The Brig

USA / 1964 / 68 minutes / Black & White / 16mm

The Brig, written by a veteran who survived incarceration in a U.S. Marine Corps prison during the 1950’s, is a chilling portrait of the ... (click to read more)

I consider this to be my first real video work, where I finally mastered video. I was just collecting footage, just filming because I’m always with a camera in my pocket. And then my friends began asking, “So, how is your life in Greenpoint? ... (click to read more)

Set in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, and everybody has strongly held opinions about how others should conduct their affairs (but wouldn’t dare voice those opinions publicly), Just Like Home recounts what happens when those ... (click to read more)

An impressive example of the vitality and the formal potential of silent cinema, the long-awaited second feature by Esteban Sapir is also welcome proof of the continuing attraction it has for contemporary film makers. Inspired by the cinema of ... (click to read more)

80-year-old Martha manages to overcome her sorrow over her husband’s death when she starts living out a secret dream. She closes down the grocery store and instead opens a shop selling homemade lingerie. Since she is the mother of the town’s ... (click to read more)

Mala Noche was the 33-year-old Gus Van Sant’s debut feature and is the first of his bittersweet odes to tender outcasts, remaining the simplest and least burdened.

Arriving on the damp streets of Portland, Johnny (Cooeyate) and ... (click to read more)

Noah Baumbach’s follow-up to 2005’s The Squid and the Whale retains traces of his breakthrough’s squirmworthy fixations. In fact, the awkward social fumbling of the new movie’s pubescent lad could pass as outtakes from the director’s ... (click to read more)

Sergei Bodrov has fulfilled a long-time dream in bringing the heart-wrenching story of one of the great rulers of the Mongol Dynasty to the screen. The tale of how a young boy ascended to become Khan centres Bodrov’s epic tale of love and ... (click to read more)

The contrasting lives of Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) and his younger brother, Accio (Elio Germano), provide the narrative fuel for Daniele Luchetti’s finely honed portrait of Italian society in the turbulent sixties and seventies. Luchetti ... (click to read more)

Kiumars Pourahmad’s spare, masculine Night Bus, taking place during a single night on a dangerous desert road, has a realism that aids in punching home its anti-war sentiments. During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, 18-year-old Essa (Mehrdad ... (click to read more)

The lovely Audrey Tautou (Amélie) brings out all her charm as the frivolous Irène, a girl who likes to hunt for sugar daddies on the French Riviera. She loves all things luxurious and has an addiction to Chanel and Lacroix. But the branded ... (click to read more)

The Grammy-winning Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour takes us on a musical journey in the footsteps of slaves.

Guided in his mission by his friend, the blind pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N’Dour travels across the click to read more)

Tom Kalin’s long-awaited new feature is based on the award-winning book of the same title, and like his earlier (and highly influential) Swoon, draws its material from a real life crime story tinged with sexual undertones.

Beginning ... (click to read more)

Three adult brothers have had no contact with their father since he abandoned them in their childhood. The father has other sons by a second marriage. When he dies, bottled up conflicts break out between the half brothers, creating a spiral of ... (click to read more)