Sodome, my love

by LAURENT GAUDÉ

translated and performed by OLWEN FOUÉRÉ directed by LYNNE PARKER

Opens 16 March 2010 Previews from March 12

Booking 01 8819613 www.projectartscentre.ie

Tickets:�25/�20 (conc.)

Francesca Sat 20 Feb / Screen 1 / 2.00pm

Director: Bobby Paunescu

2009 / Romania / 94 minutes

Principal Cast: Monica Barladeanu, Doru Boguta, Teo Corban

Actor Monica Barladeanu and Director Bobby Paunescu will be in attendance at this screening.

Begums

19 january – 27 february

A heartwarming tale of courage, comedy and romance.

WORLD PREMIERE

CHRIST DELIVER US! THOMAS KILROY (AFTER WEDEKIND)

9 february – 13 march

A vivid and resonant play about growing up in Ireland.

30 march – 15 may

Shakespeare’s dark depiction of ambition, guilt and murder.

Francesca is the debut of Bobby Paunescu, a leading producer in new Romanian cinema. Francesca (Barladeanu) is a young kindergarten teacher whose dream is to leave Romania and migrate to Italy for a better life. She is relying on her boyfriend Mita (Boguta) to join her in Italy as soon as he finishes a small business he’s involved in, but her plans are threatened as painful truths come to light.

‘Paunescu makes an intriguing debut with an immigration yarn given substance by its blackly comic view of the characters and an involving performance by Monica Birladeanu… The basic joke is that, though many Romanians think Italians are only a cut above uncivilized, they consider each other equally duplicitous. But Francesca is still in thrall of the post-communist dream that a better life is to be lived elsewhere, preferably in West Europe.’

Derek Elley, Variety

Life During Wartime

Sat 20 Feb / Cineworld 17 / 2.00pm

Director: Todd Solondz / 2009 / USA / 96 minutes

Principal Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Ally Sheedy, Paul Reubens, Shirley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling Actor Ciarán Hinds will be in attendance at this screening.

Todd Solondz starts his latest and finest film to date – a metasequel to his classic Happiness – by introducing us to Joy (Shirley Henderson), whose husband Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) is not quite cured of his peculiar ‘affliction’. Joy’s sister Trish (Allison Janey) is hoping to stabilize her family life by marrying the recently divorced Harvey (Michael Lerner), but her soon-to-be bar-mitzvahed son Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder) isn’t sure he wants another man in the house — especially as it seems his dead father, Bill (Ciarán Hinds) might not be dead after all. His portrait of these characters is tough, tender, at times startling but never mean or condescending. For Solondz, ‘wartime’ is not a historical period but a permanent condition: not only the constant battle between the sexes, but even more so the endless struggle between personal desires and the society set up to contain them.

New York Film Festival Programme

World Premiere Sat 20 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 4.00pm

Director: Ivars Zviedris 2010 / Ireland / 70 minutes Director Ivars Zviedris will be in attendance at this screening.

For 15 years, Latvia has been facing an outflow of inhabitants looking for a better life. One of the most popular countries for Latvians is Ireland. There are officially 42,000 Latvians registered in Ireland – unofficially, the number of Ireland’s Latvians is double.

Latvian entrepreneur extraordinaire Valdis saw a goldmine in the rocks of north Dublin’s coastline. He recruited an army of Latvians to harvest the seashells all year round, in the most abysmal conditions. But Valdis looks after his people, Latvians from all parts of the social spectrum, from grannies to ex-cons. They have created their own world, with their own place names, their own geography, their own economy, their own society. They found a space in Ireland that the Irish didn’t want – and they filled it.

For this intimate observational documentary, Ivars Zviedris and crew lived with the periwinkle pickers, sharing their celebrations, divisions and troubles.

Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two young couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low and the external threats increase, they forge an uneasy alliance with their self-sufficient hippie neighbour. Soon, an unspoken animosity fills the air, and a suspected affair between two of the group begins to drive a wedge between them all. Poorly equipped to cope in a world without technology and saddled with conflicting world views, everything they hold dear begins to disintegrate. Before long, each of them faces a critical decision they never thought they’d have to make.

A cautionary tale as much about the current climate as it is about the importance of coexistence, Conor Horgan’s One Hundred Mornings is a powerful realisation of an all too familiar ideal, and one of the most noteworthy Irish filmmaking debuts in recent years.

Castaway on the Moon

One Hundred Mornings

Burrowing

Hadewijch

Sat 20 Feb / Screen 1 / 8.30pm

Director: Bruno Dumont

2009 / France / 100 minutes

Sat 20 Feb / Screen 1 / 4.30pm

Director: Conor Horgan 2009 / Ireland / 83 minutes

Principal Cast: Ciarán McMenamin, Alex Reid, Rory Keenan, Kelly Campbell, Paul Ronan Director Conor Horgan will be in attendance at this screening.

Principal Cast: Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime, David Dewaele

Sat 20 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm

Director: Lee Hey-jun

2009 / South Korea / 116 minutes

Principal Cast: Jung Jae-Young, Jung Rye-Won, Park Yeong-seo, Yang Mi-gyeong

Screening with the short film, Corduroy.

See page 20.

Mr. Kim (Jae-Young) is a victim of the recession: jobless, lost in debt and dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River - only to find himself washed up on one of the small, mid-river islands, far from either bank. Part Robinson Crusoe, part JG Ballard hero, he soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics happen to catch the attention of another Kim (Rye-Won), a young woman who has shut herself away in a room in one of the many high-rise blocks overlooking the river. Fed by her parents, she hasn’t ventured out in three years; she builds a fantasy life for herself on her own website. Her discovery changes both their lives. But can they ever meet? This unlikely rom-com is as delightfully out-ofwhack as it sounds.

Vancouver International Film Festival Programme

Pavel Lungin made his reputation as a post-Soviet Scorsese, with hard-times urban tales (Taxi Blues) set in grubby, materialist Moscow. What a sea change with The Island, a magnificently realized spiritual parable set in a Russian Orthodox monastery on the White Sea. In 1942, a Nazi ship intercepts a Russian barge, whereupon sniveling coal stoker Anatoly (Mamonov) begs for his life. No problem: all Anatoly has to do is shoot his Captain. How will Anatoly live with his crime?

By 1976, Anatoly has become a monk, living in a crumbling shack. Each day he prays fervently, acknowledging his terrible betrayal and murder. Anatoly isn’t just a suffering Christian penitent, however — he’s a mad prankster, terrifying the other monks with his anarchist tricks. Is he a wise fool, doing God’s bidding, or a foolish fool, undoing the Christian work of the Orthodox brethren?

Gerard Peary, Boston Phoenix

The Island (Ostrov)

Sat 20 Feb / Screen 1 / 6.45pm

Directors: Henrik Hellström and Fredrik Wenzel 2009 / Sweden / 77 minutes

Principal Cast: Sebastian Eklund, Jörgen Svensson, Hannes Sandahl

In one of his most uncompromising works to date, Bruno Dumont (Life of Jesus, NYFF 1997) undertakes a topical exploration of the psychology of religious extremism and martyrdom. Expelled from a convent for her overzealous faith, teenage Céline (Julie Sokolowski) reluctantly returns to a life of comfort and privilege as the daughter of a French government minister. Back in Paris and farther from God, she makes a new friend, an Arab boy who introduces her to the cités, housing projects full of Arab and African immigrants, an alien world but one where faith exerts a familiar sway. As hard-headed and at times as enigmatic as its unforgettable heroine, Hadewijch is a movie on a quest: At once a sincere theological inquiry and a provocative political meditation.

New York Film Festival Programme

Sat 20 Feb / Light House / 6.30pm

Director: Pavel Lungin

2006 / Russia / 112 minutes

Principal Cast: Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Screening with the short film, Bye Bye Now.

See page 20.

Taking inspiration from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, this debut feature from Henrik Hellström and Fredrik Wenzel seeks to explore ideas of self-reliance, solitude and contemplation. While the setting of a Swedish suburb may not immediately suggest an easy viewpoint from which to consider these concepts, by focusing separately on several local misfits the directors have created a moody meditation on the individual in contemporary society. The film progresses in a mosaic-like fashion, relying on ambience and suggestion rather than conventional narrative and character development. Small moments of drama, shot from a dispassionate point of view amidst intriguing, beautifully composed scenes, create a growing sympathy for the wayward protagonists. Parallels have been drawn to Harmony Korine’s Gummo and Roy Andersson’s offbeat caricatures of Swedish culture. Both are valid reference points, but like the work of those beautiful losers who went before, Burrowing is truly unique.

Sarah Lutton, London International Film Festival

“… an austere, deeply questioning examination of a devout young woman having an intense crisis of faith… the film is exquisitely molded, dramatically parched and entirely sincere…”

Justin Chang, Variety

Everybody’s Fine

Sat 20 Feb / Cineworld 17 / 8.30pm

Director: Kirk Jones / 2009 / USA / 99 minutes

Principal Cast: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell

Director Kirk Jones will be in attendance at this screening.

Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 classic Stanno Tutti Bene told the story of a widower who, lonely during the holidays, embarked upon a tour of Italy to visit his children. Now, Kirk Jones (Waking Ned) transplants the film to America, where extended families, separated by long distances, increasingly have become strangers to one another. Jones adapted the original screenplay co-written by Tornatore and Tonino Guerra, telling how an impromptu train trip taken by widower Frank (De Niro, in the role originally played by Marcello Mastroianni) leaves him learning more about his grown children than he ever imagined – or, perhaps, wanted to know.

Featuring a quartet of splendid performances (Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell join a quietly powerful De Niro), this is a moving, deep and surprisingly funny exploration of the family ties that bind.

AFI Los Angeles Film Festival Programme

Best wishes to Neil Jordan’s Ondine at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010

Samson and Delilah

Set in a remote desert Aboriginal community, Samson and Delilah portrays the relationship between two teenagers: one, a brash boy (McNamara) who spends much of his time sniffing petrol and lost in music; the other, a girl (Gibson) forced to take care of her ailing grandmother.

They rarely speak - the people in this hardscrabble community tend to communicate by blows – but their teasing, testy exchanges will be familiar to anyone who has ever been young and in love.

Warwick Thornton’s remarkable film exerts a rich sense of texture and atmosphere, constantly surprising and even wrong-footing the audience: are we watching a social documentary, a teen-romance, or an undercommons comedy? The answer is: all three –and then some.

Mermaid

Sat 20 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 9.00pm

Director: Warwick Thornton

2009 / Australia / 101 minutes

Principal Cast: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson

Orlando

Samson and Delilah looks and sounds like no Australian film I’ve seen. Timeless and also utterly contemporary, it will leave hearts bruised, but aching with joy.

Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph

Sun 21 Feb / Screen 1 / 1.30pm

Director: Anna Melikyan

2007 / Russia / 107 minutes

Principal Cast: Masha Shalaeva, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Maria Sokova, Nastya Dontsova, Irina Skrinichenko

Sun 21 Feb / Cineworld 17 / 1.00pm

Director: Sally Potter

1992 / UK / 93 minutes

Principal Cast: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp

Director Sally Potter will be in attendance at this screening.

Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 modernist novel is a beautiful historical pageant of 400 years of English history, full of visual and aural pleasures, sly jokes, thought-provoking insights, emotional truths - and romance. It begins at the opulent court of Virgin Queen Elizabeth (Crisp), where the male immortal Orlando receives favour and an estate; and thence follows his quest for love in 50-year jumps through the Civil War, the early colonial period, the effete literary salons of 1750 (by which time Orlando is a woman), the Victorian era of property, and finally a 20th century postscript added by Potter. Fine, stylised performances from an idiosyncratic international cast are headed by Swinton’s magnificent Orlando, who acts as the film’s complicitous eyes and ears.

Time Out

’A classic. A model for independent film makers who follow their own irrational muses to glory.’

Vincent Canby, New York Times

A prizewinner at Edinburgh, Berlin and Sundance, Mermaid conjures up a seaside fairy tale mixed with the darker elements of an unrequited urban romance. Alisa (Shalayeva) grows up on the shores of the Black Sea. With only her raunchy, man-chasing mother and her feeble grandma for companions, she grows up adventurous and independent, but stubborn to the point of refusing to speak for a decade after her mother denied her ballet lessons. She discovers, however, the possibility that she can make her wishes come true with a kind of telekinesis…

Laced with magical realism and a wonderfully oddball sensibility, a level of tenable comparison can – and has – be made to Amélie; however, make no mistake: here Melikian carves a darker tale of whimsy, rippled by a distinct undercurrent of melancholy not seen in its French counterpart. The results are beautiful and resonant in every way.

Accident Special Presentation

Accident is one of the finest Hong Kong crime dramas since Infernal Affairs. Cult director Soi Chang has graduated to the master class with this gripping, smartly constructed and psychologically fascinating thriller.

In a brilliantly executed early sequence, a seemingly mundane traffic jam transforms into a meticulously planned set piece. Innocuous little events, lined up like dominoes, gradually fall into place to build up to a deadly conclusion. This is the work of a gang of professional assassins, who commit murder by making perfectly staged crimes look like unfortunate accidents.

But there is growing tension within the tight-knit group, which consists of four experts headed by the austere Brain (Koo). When their next assignment goes disastrously wrong, Brain begins to suspect that someone else has planned an ‘accident’ on them.

The film was produced by Johnnie To, and bears some of the master Hong Kong filmmaker’s hallmarks, especially in its elaborate action scenes. Given its tightly plotted, highconcept script, this might just be the next film to get a Hollywood remake.

Touki Bouki (The Hyena’s Journey)

Fusing elements of old African folk tales with the avantgarde sensibilities of the French New Wave, Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty created one of the most startling and distinctive films of African cinema.

Mambéty’s colourful and comical parable tells the story of two young lovers, Mory and Anta, who dream of escaping a poverty-stricken existence in Senegal for a new life in Paris, the City Of Lights – to finance their passage, they turn to crime, with mixed results.

Sun 21 Feb / Light House / 2.00pm

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973 / Senegal / 86 minutes

Principal Cast: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall

Broken Tail

Like its talented creator, who only completed a handful of features before his premature passing in 1998, Touki Bouki remains a true one-off. Eschewing a formal, linear approach to filmmaking in favour of rhythmic smash cuts and dissonant soundscapes, the film positively crackles with the frenetic energy of the streets of Senegal. Don’t miss this rare big screen outing for a truly seminal work – you won’t regret it.

Rory Bonass, JDIFF

Meeting Room

Sun 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 2.00pm 2010 / Ireland / 80 minutes

Director: Colin Stafford – Johnson

A first for JDIFF, I am delighted to include a wonderful Irish produced nature documentary, a film focused on one of the rarest and most elusive of all animals the Indian tiger. Colin Stafford Clarke spent almost 600 days filming Broken Tail and his family, one of the most flamboyant tiger cubs he’d ever seen in Rathambhore, one of India’s premier wild tiger preserves. He was the focus on Colin’s camera for the first few years of his life, then Broken Tail abandoned his sanctuary and disappeared into the Indian wilderness for nearly a year - he was three years old. This fascinating documentary charts the obsession of a man who spent more time filming wild tigers than anyone on the planet, who obsessively searches for the one who broke his heart.

Broken Tail is much more than a wildlife documentary – it’s a valentine to cat lovers everywhere.

Gráinne Humphreys, JDIFF

World Premiere

Sun 21 Feb / Cineworld 17 / 3.30pm 2010 / Ireland / 72 minutes

Director: James Davis

Screening with the short film, Doll’s House. See page 21.

Angry, provocative and sure to engage and enrage in equal measures, Jim Davis new documentary shines a powerful searchlight on a controversial moment in recent Dublin history. In early 1982, residents of Hardwicke Street called a meeting to address the epidemic of heroin use in the flats and the lack of action from the authorities to address the impending catastrophe. The concerned parents of the area decided to take matters into their own hands and soon had formed a group known as Concerned Parents against Drugs (CPAD) to confront the dealers and drive them out of the neighbourhoods. Checkpoints were set up and patrols put in place. Unrepentant pushers were publicly evicted by large crowds – and a mass movement was born. Using film, newspaper and photographic archives, Davis’s film reconstructs the social history of the Concerned Parents through their rise and fall in the 1980’s Ireland.

Gráinne Humphreys, JDIFF

Schedule Schedule

Salvador Screen 1 / 2.00pm

Altipiano Screen 1 / 4.30pm

L’affair Farewell Cineworld 17 / 6.00pm

Ward No 6 Light House / 6.00pm

Mother Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm

DLIADT Tribute IFI 1 / 6.30pm

His & Hers Screen 1 / 6.40pm

Enter the Void Light House / 8.00pm

Scouting Book For Boys, The Screen 1 / 8.40pm

Promise and Unrest Cineworld 9 / 9.00pm

Capitalism: A Love Story Savoy 1 / 11.00am

Silent Army, The Cineworld 9 / 1.30pm

La Dolce Vita Light House / 2.00pm

Francesca Screen 1 / 2.00pm

Life During Wartime Cineworld 17 / 2.00pm

Kenneth Anger 1 IFI 1 / 2.30pm

Begums Cineworld 9 / 4.00pm

One Hundred Mornings Screen 1 / 4.30pm

Castaway on the Moon Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm

IFB shorts IFI 1 / 6.30pm

The Island Light House / 6.30pm

Burrowing Screen 1 / 6.45pm

Hadewijch Screen 1 / 8.30pm

Everybody’s Fine Cineworld 17 / 8.30pm

Samson and Delilah Cineworld 9 / 9.00pm

The festival opens on Thurs 18 Feb with the Opening Gala, Ondine, at the Savoy at 7.30pm.

Please check www.jdiff.com for screening times. All information in this brochure is correct at the time of publication. Programme is subject to change.

Accident Savoy 1 / 11.00am

Orlando Cineworld 17 / 1.00pm

Mermaid Screen 1 / 1.30pm

Touki Bouki Light House / 2.00pm Broken Tail Cineworld 9 / 2.00pm

Kenneth Anger 2 IFI 1 / 2.30pm

Meeting Room Cineworld 17 / 3.30pm

Women without Men Light House / 4.00pm

Ajami Screen 1 / 4.00pm

Trimpin Cineworld 9 / 4.00pm City of Life and Death Cineworld 17 / 5.45pm

Breathless Cineworld 9 / 6.00pm IFB Musicals IFI 1 / 6.30pm

Scheherazade Screen 1 / 6.30pm

Wolfy Light House / 6.30pm

Between the Canals Cineworld 9 / 8.40pm

New York, I Love You Cineworld 17 / 8.45pm

Chloe Screen 1 / 9.00pm

The Unbelievable Truth Screen 1 / 2.00pm

I’ve Loved You So Long Screen 1 / 4.00pm

Same Same But Different Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm

Nothing Personal Screen 1 / 6.30pm

When You’re Strange Cineworld 17 / 6.30pm

The Beholder IFI 1 / 6.30pm One War Light House / 6.30pm

Nino Rota: Film Music National Concert Hall / 7.30pm

The Dancer and The Thief Cineworld 9 / 8.30pm

Lourdes Screen 1 / 8.30pm

Bad Lieutenant Cineworld 17 / 8.30pm

Best of Youth, The Screen 1 / 1.00pm

The Ape Cineworld 9 / 4.00pm Discussion: Ireland on Screen IFI 3 / 5.00pm

Brand New Life Cineworld 9 / 6.00pm

Outliving Dracula IFI 1 / 6.30pm

Cairo Time Light House 7.00pm

She, a Chinese Screen 1 / 8.00pm

Morphia Light House / 8.15pm

Colony Cineworld 9 / 8.30pm

The Greatest Cineworld 17 / 9.00pm

I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing Screen 1 / 2.00pm

Terribly Happy Cineworld 9 / 4.00pm

Eccentricities Screen 1 / 4.30pm

About Elly Screen 1 / 6.00pm

Hansel and Gretel Cineworld 9 / 6.00pm

Valhalla Rising Cineworld 17 / 6.30pm

Jimmy Murikami: Non Alien IFI 1 / 6.30pm

Hipsters Light House / 6.30pm

Bare Essence Of Life Screen 1 / 8.30pm

Whip It! Cineworld 17 / 8.40pm

Dogtooth Cineworld 9 / 9.00pm

My Beautiful Laundrette Screen 1 / 2.00pm

An Unforgettable Summer Screen 1 / 4.00pm

Celebrating VooDooDog IFI 3 / 5.00pm

Russian Ark National Gallery / 6.00pm

Room and a Half Light House / 6.15pm

Foxes Screen 1 / 6.30pm

Fading Light, The IFI 1 / 6.30pm

What You Don’t See Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm

I Love You Phillip Morris Cineworld 17 / 6.30pm

Father Of My Children Screen 1 / 8.40pm

Daniel and Ana Cineworld 9 / 8.40pm

Shutter Island Cineworld 17 / 8.40pm

Snow White and Russian Red Light House / 8.45pm

Eyes without a Face Light House / 6.00pm

Brotherhood Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm

Ivul IFI 1 / 6.30pm

Videocracy Cineworld 17 / 6.30pm

Applause Cineworld 9 / 8.30pm

Retour De Flamme Light House / 8.30pm

Lebanon Cineworld 17 / 8.30pm

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Savoy 1 / 11.00am

Vincere Cineworld 17 / 2.00pm

Pianomania Cineworld 9 / 2.00pm

Vampyr Light House / 2.00pm

Kenneth Anger 3 with Q&A IFI 1 / 2.30pm

Shameless Cineworld 9 / 4.10pm

Child of the Dead End IFI 1 / 4.30pm

Adrift Cineworld 17 / 4.40pm

Behind The Burly Q Cineworld 9 / 6.00pm

Savage Light House / 6.30pm

Partir Cineworld 17 / 6.40pm

The Weather Station Light House / 8.30pm

A Prayer For A Wind Horse Cineworld 9 / 8.30pm

Revanche Cineworld 17 / 8.50pm

Whatever Works Savoy 1 / 11.00am

Alice In Wonderland 3D Savoy 1 / 2.00pm

All That I Love Cineworld 17 / 2.00pm

Pandora Light House / 2.00pm

La Danse Light House / 4.30pm

Surprise Film Savoy 1 / 5.00pm

I Am Love Savoy 1 / 8.00pm