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A FORTNIGHT OF FILM… AND YOU BOOKING INFORMATION................................................3 PICK YOUR FILMS.........................................................4 FOREWORDS............................................................9-11 FILM LISTINGS......................................................13-109 WORKSHOPS & EVENTS.............................................. 111 FILM INDEX...............................................................125 SCHEDULE OVERVIEW...............................................128

OPENING GALA BROKEN............................................13 CLOSING GALA BLOOD RISING..................................109 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS LA CONFIDENTIAL........................................................74 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.......................................98 ROBOT & FRANK.........................................................92 SPIES.........................................................................43 THE WAR OF THE ROSES..............................................81

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Afternoon Screenings.......................€7* Evening Screenings..........................€11 Special Presentations......................€15** Galas ..................................................€18 Dario Marianelli - Film Composer prices from........................................€15 Please note: tickets for this event are only available from the National Concert Hall – visit www.nch.ie or call 01 417 0000 * For screenings before 6pm weekdays ** Please note that the Jameson Cult Film Club screening of LA Confidential is invitation only

SPECIAL PASSES AND DISCOUNTS Season Ticket................................. €245 Does not include industry events or National Concert Hall Screen Test Pass ...................€50/€90 Multi-Purchase Tickets*: 10 films ....................................... €90 5 films ......................................... €50 * Individual evening screenings only. Excludes galas and special presentations.

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Film Categories

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Film Categories

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EACH FILM IS GROUPED IN A CATEGORY WHICH IS COLOUR-CODED. USE THE SECTIONS BELOW TO FIND ALL THE AMAZING FILMS YOU WANT TO SEE. FOR A DAY-BY-DAY BREAKDOWN OF THE FESTIVAL, SEE THE OVERVIEW ON PAGES 128-9.

FOR AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ALL FILMS, SEE PAGE 125.

GALA

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Blood Rising 109 Broken 13

80 Million 68 Aftermath 78 A Hijacking 68 Beyond the Hills 84 Blancanieves 26 Bypass 50 Caesar Must Die 96 Call Girl 75 Capital 65 Clip 30 Cloud Atlas 32 Easy Money 1 & 2 104 Eat Sleep Die 44 Home for the Weekend 102 In a Bedroom 28 In the House 45 Kelly + Victor 83 Kuma 99 Looking for Hortense 17 Lore 34 Love is All You Need 95 Manhunt 18 Mercy 28 Museum Hours 94 Our Children 99 Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy 54 Populaire 75

SPECIAL PRESENTATION LA Confidential 74 Much Ado About Nothing 98 Robot & Frank 93 Spies 43 The War of the Roses 81

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Rebellion 50 Reported Missing 40 Shell 67 Something in the Air 55 Strings 52 Summer in February 39 Teddy Bear 31 The Body 33 The Deep 51 The Look of Love 73 Thérèse Desqueyroux 100 The Rise 16 Vanishing Waves 58

IRISH FOCUS

SPECTRUM

REAL TO REEL

A Terrible Beauty 33 Black Ice 69 Broken Song 56 Earthbound 65 Fionnuala: Small Puppet on a Big Journey / An Cat 89 Get the Picture 41 IFB Shorts 66 JDIFF Shorts 79 Jump 59 Kieran Hickey Programme 1 92 Kieran Hickey Programme 2 92 Milo 95 NATAN 15 The Frames: in the Deep Shade 44 The Good Man 29 The Hardy Bucks Movie 51 The Moth Diaries 96 The Summit 105 Where I Am 31

28 Hotel Rooms 40 A Cube of Sugar 37 After Lucia 64 A Late Quartet 100 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 76 Arbitrage 58 Babygirl 17 Bernie 76 Everybody Has a Plan 56 Helpless 73 Helter Skelter 72 John Dies at the End 42 Like Someone in Love 55 Motorway 29 Neighbouring Sounds 32 Night of Silence 18 Pietà 49 Post Tenebras Lux 64 Prime Time Soap 90 Rhino Season 71 Short Stories 83 Side Effects 38 Sleepless Night / Vanishing Point 78 Stoker 85 Struck by Lightning 82 The Bay 86 The King of Pigs 52 The Paperboy 30 The Place Beyond the Pines 36 Una Noche 72 White Elephant 88 White Tiger 42 With You, Without You 19

Beware of Mr Baker Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic Colin Dunne - Sculpting Space Far Out isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story Jem Cohen Shorts 1 Jem Cohen Shorts 2 Love, Marilyn Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God Pablo The Gatekeepers The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology The Road: A Story of Life and Death ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

West of Memphis

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OUT OF THE PAST Blind Chance 27 Buster Keaton Double Bill 105 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 107 Scarecrow 38 Shampoo 37 Sunset Blvd.

89 The Killing 90 Throw Momma from the Train 71

OTHER Dario Marianelli: Film Composer 57 Surprise Film 106

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Sponsors

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Supporters

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Official Partners

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Highlights

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

Director’s Foreword

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

WELCOME TO THIS YEAR’S JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – OUR ANNUAL SNAPSHOT OF THE BEST OF WORLD CINEMA. THIS YEAR’S DIVERSE LINE-UP OF FILMS REFLECTS THE WIDE R ANGE OF PERSONAL VISIONS FROM FILM-MAKERS AROUND THE GLOBE, WHOSE PASSION AND ARTISTRY WE CELEBRATE.

We kick start our celebrations with a superb drama: Broken is the film debut by the renowned British theatre director Rufus Norris, with Tim Roth in attendance. Ten days later the festival will conclude with the world premiere of Mark McLoughlin’s Blood Rising; this provocative documentary (about the victims of femicide in Juarez, Mexico) is a stunning film which was funded under the Arts Council’s Reel Art programme.

Over the months of preparation I have been struck by some emerging trends: a resurgence in powerful and challenging documentaries and a complementary rise in hybrid, docu-dramas, and we have a wonderful line up, including Oscarnominated Israeli documentary The Gatekeepers, Amy Berg’s West of Memphis and the controversial Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God from Alex Gibney, who will also participate in a masterclass.

Also highly recommended are the fascinating portraits of the drummer Ginger Baker, legendary graphic designer Pablo Ferro and famed children’s author Tomi Ungerer.

It’s a testament to the growing reputation of the festival that we have such a dazzling array of talent joining us this February, including Frank Langella (Robot & Frank), Joss Whedon (Much Ado About Nothing), Tobias Lindholm (A Hijacking), casting legend Margery Simkin (Top Gun, Erin Brockovich) and gaming master Guillaume de Fondaumière (Heavy Rain). This year’s Film Concert will celebrate the music of the Oscar-winning film composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Anna Karenina).

s ’ r o t c e r i D d r o w e r o F To counterbalance the darker films in our programme, we also have a lovely strand of comedies, including the effervescent Struck

by Lightning (written by Glee’s Chris Colfer), Suzanne Bier’s valentine to Italy Love is All You Need; Basque comedy Bypass; a new film (In the House) by that master of social comedy François Ozon and, of course, who could forget the bad boys of Mayo, now on the big screen in The Hardy Bucks Movie? Our guest of honour will be American comedy legend Danny DeVito, who will take part in our Jameson Cult Film Club screening as well as receive a Volta Career Achievement Award.

TOP ROW BROKEN, BLOOD RISING MIDDLE ROW ROBOT & FRANK, SPIES BOT TOM ROW THE WAR OF THE ROSES, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, L A CONFIDENTIAL (JAMESON CULT FILM CLUB)

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Our packed Irish programme features new feature films, documentaries in Irish, English and 3D and two great programmes of short films. In partnership with the Irish Film Board we will celebrate screenwriting with our Story Campus programmes which this year include Robert Towne amongst their tutors, as well as Untitled – our script pitching competition now in its third year.

The festival will tour the Buster Keaton classic caper films One Week and Cops in eight venues round Ireland, including six care centres in Dublin, with Morgan Cooke again presenting select screenings and providing accompaniment. Our Out of the Past programme will feature a very special screening of the 1928 silent classic Spies, with music by the acclaimed German pianist Günter Buchwald, as well great classics such as Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion and Kubrick’s The Killing.

As ever there are many, many people to thank: our funders, government agencies, supporters, friends of the festival, embassies and of course our title sponsor Jameson; my colleagues, both national and international, who help put this programme together, and our much valued Board of Directors. To all the distributors, sales agents and film-makers who give so generously of their time and their films to our festival each year, a heartfelt thanks – we couldn’t do it without you.

‘I am big – it’s the pictures that got small!’

Norma Desmond memorably protests. There are no small films in this years’ festival, but we have tried to define pathways through the programme which I hope will encourage you to discover some of the many exciting new talents presented this year.

Enjoy!

Gráinne Humphreys, Festival Director

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Chairman & Jameson Forewords

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WHE THER YOU ARE LIVING IN IREL AND, RE TURNING HERE FOR THE GATHERING, OR VISITING DUBLIN FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE, IT IS A GREAT JOY TO WELCOME YOU TO THE 11TH JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

The BAI is pleased to support the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

We had a fantastic 10th birthday last year with record attendances. I am confident that, with the brilliant programming of our wonderful Director, Gráinne Humphreys, we have a line-up of films and events that will enthral and captivate our ever-expanding audience.

We are particularly glad to be able to mark Ireland’s presidency of the EU with a very special strand of work devoted to the best of European cinema.

As always, I acknowledge our extraordinary 11-year partnership with our title sponsor, Jameson. The longevity of this arrangement is testament to the maturity and vibrancy of what is, in terms of Irish arts sponsorship, a unique and exemplary working relationship.

I also acknowledge with much gratitude the continued support of The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon and The Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann, as well as our many other supporters and sponsors.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Joanne O’Hagan for her years of service to the festival and to warmly welcome Jackie Ryan in her stead. Also, I salute our wonderful staff and our dedicated army of volunteers.

I particularly wish to thank our splendid voluntary Board of Directors who give so generously of their time to guide the festival with their wisdom and expertise. This is especially warranted this year following an extensive review of the organisation after its first 10 years of existence.

Thank you, the audience, for being here – you are our raison d’être. I hope you have a brilliant festival.

Arthur Lappin, Chairman

The Broadcasting Funding Scheme Sound & Vison II provides funding to broadcasters and producers enabling them to make high quality television and radio projects.

Sound & Vision II offers funding to programmes that explore the themes of Irish culture, heritage and experience in both historical and contemporary contexts. The Scheme also provides funding to programmes that improve adult and media literacy, raise public awareness and understanding of global issues impacting on Ireland and those programmes in the Irish language.

Sound & Vision II is financed by 7% of the net receipts of the annual television licence fee. In 2012, the Scheme offered funding of ¤18.3 million to support the production of 350 TV/Radio projects.

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Closing Dates 2013 January 31st June 6th September 19th

2013 MARKS THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY FOR JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. IT HAS BEEN SUCH A DELIGHT FOR US AT IRISH DISTILLERS PERNOD RICARD TO SEE HOW YEAR ON YEAR THE FESTIVAL IS GAINING STRENGTH AND AT TR ACTING MORE AND MORE VISITORS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The festival contributes to showcasing Dublin as a cultural hot spot and, as proud makers of Irish whiskey, this is of course something that we very much enjoy seeing.

Our association with film began in 1998 and I am very proud to say that, today, Jameson is involved with some of the most dynamic and successful film festivals around the world, including the Jameson Empire Awards in London and the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles.

At the heart of our film association is, of course, our sponsorship of JDIFF, which has grown from strength to strength since 2003. In support of this, we have once again developed an integrated marketing campaign consisting of TV, print, radio, outdoor, online and extensive in-bar and retail promotions around Dublin. This year’s programme will once again feature the hugely popular Jameson Cult Film Club where we will bring to life Curtis Hanson’s classic film LA Confidential.

Film and Irish whiskey go together well. The art of storytelling, in a pub, with friends, is still very much alive in Ireland. And one way for this heritage to be expressed, is storytelling through film. We would like to raise a glass to the eternal art of storytelling! Sláinte!

We have great ambitions for Jameson this year and I very much look forward to an exciting and successful 2013 festival.

I hope over the coming weeks you will join us for a Jameson at one of the many after-show parties taking place during the festival.

Anna Malmhake CEO & Chairman Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard

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BROKEN

Thurs 14 Feb / Savoy 1 / 7.30pm / 90 minutes Director: Rufus Norris / 2012 / UK Cast: Eloise Laurence, Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy

OPENING GALA Tim Roth, Rufus Norris, writer Mark O’Rowe and producer Dixie Linder will attend the screening

‘newcomer Eloise Laurence is a real find’, The Guardian

Skunk (Eloise Laurence) is an 11-year-old with diabetes, a bothersome condition that impinges on her otherwise seemingly blissful life. Her devoted single father Archie (Tim Roth) worries about her, and her minder Kasia (Zana Marjanovic) is frequently distracted by issues with her teacher boyfriend Mike (Cillian Murphy), though all recognise that she is a special kid with wit and smarts beyond her years. As the summer begins, Skunk witnesses a violent incident involving her neighbours in the isolated North London cul-de-sac where she lives.

The event ushers in a period in her life where childhood innocence is gradually dissolving, and she is forced to confront the realities of the harsh world around her.

The debut feature from award-winning theatre director Rufus Norris, Broken is a powerful drama featuring an outstanding ensemble cast. Among the familiar faces in that cast, newcomer Laurence delivers a wonderfully natural and eye-catching performance that marks her as a star in the making.

‘charmingly off-kilter’, Screen International

Michael Hayden, BFI London Film Festival

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MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD

Fri 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 6pm / 107 minutes Director: Alex Gibney / 2012 / US

REAL TO REEL

Alex Gibney will attend the screening and will host a masterclass on documentary film-making on Thursday 14 February - see p. 120 for details Alex Gibney won an Academy Award® for Taxi to the Dark Side Public revulsion over the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is already so widespread that a film-maker bold enough to retell this tragedy had better be purposeful about it – and Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) definitely is that.

Mea Maxima Culpa is a fire-breathing set of theses nailed on the Vatican’s door. Gibney structures the film with care, beginning with the depredations of Father Lawrence Murphy at St John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee. The priest abused the men in the film when they were schoolboys, favouring with horrendous cunning the ones whose parents couldn’t speak to their sons in sign language. As the boys grew into men they began to communicate with one another, and eventually became some of the first to go public, in the 1970s, with accusations against a priest.

From this group Gibney spirals outward, to those who tried – and failed – to get Murphy away from the school, to the higher-ups who protected the church’s image but not the victims, and finally to the Vatican itself. In the end, decades of such crimes going undetected speaks for itself. And the extraordinary perseverance and courage of the men from St John’s speaks louder still.

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post

NATAN

Fri 15 Feb / IFI 1 / 6.10pm / 65 minutes

Directors: David Cairns, Paul Duane / 2012 / Ireland

E A R LY E V E N I N G

EVENING

MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD

LOOKING FOR HORTENSE

Light House 1 / 6pm 107 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8.20pm 100 mins

NATAN

NIGHT OF SILENCE

IFI 1 / 6.10pm 65 mins

Light House 3 / 8.30pm 91 mins

THE RISE

MANHUNT

Cineworld 11 / 6.15pm 106min

Cineworld 11 / 8.45pm 96 mins

BOB WILSON’S LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC

WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU

Light House 3 / 6.20pm 57 mins

Light House 1 / 8.45pm 90 mins

BABYGIRL Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm 77mins

IRISH FOCUS

Paul Duane and David Cairns will attend the screening Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.

How did the man who, more than any other, paved the way for a French national cinema come to be completely forgotten, especially so in France? How is it that what little attention is paid to him centres on his alleged career as a pioneer and performer in early gay and BDSM porn? Why was Bernard Natan’s name erased from the history of cinema, despite the fact that he dominated the French film industry for most of the 1920s and 30s?

David Cairns and Paul Duane have excavated an extraordinary tale that aims to rewrite the history of European cinema. The man who brought sound cinema to France and Cinemascope to the screen before the word existed, the French equivalent of Cecil B de Mille, came to an end so shockingly tragic that it seems unbelievable. Rumours and lies have swarmed around his story for decades but this documentary finally brings the truth to light.

From the maker of the Grierson award-nominated portrait of writer John Healy, Barbaric Genius, and the award-winning music documentary Very Extremely Dangerous, NATAN is simultaneously a visually experimental murder mystery, an inspiring portrait of the birth of cinema and a savage history of French bigotry in the 1920s and 30s.

Film-maker’s statement

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THE RISE

BABYGIRL

Fri 15 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 6.15pm / 106 minutes Director: Rowan Athale / 2012 / UK Cast: Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon, Gerard Kearns

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

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Fri 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm / 77 minutes A heist thriller with a distinctly British sensibility, The Rise marks an assured and engaging first feature from writer/director Rowan Athale.

Appealing characters, clever plotting and smart dialogue make for a winning combination.

Director: Macdara Vallely / 2012 / Ireland / US Cast: Yainis Ynoa, Rosa Arredono, Flaco Navaja

SPECTRUM

The Rise is set against the backdrop of a ‘broken’ Britain that has nothing to offer a younger generation beyond minimum wage jobs and unrealistic hopes. Released after a short prison sentence, Harvey (Luke Treadaway) wants a second chance with girlfriend Nathalie (Vanessa Kirby), he wants revenge on the local crime boss Roper (Neil Maskell) who framed him and he wants to enlist the help of his mates for a robbery that might allow him to achieve all those goals.

For as long as she can remember, Bronx teenager Lena (Yainis Ynoa) has watched her young mancrazy single mom Lucy (Rosa Arredono) waste her time on a series of less-than-perfect boyfriends.

And even though she should be paying attention to the neighbourhood boys’ flirtations herself, Lena has been spending most of her time being the mother Lucy forgets to be. But when mom’s latest boy toy Victor (Flaco Navaja) quickly proves to be her worst suitor yet, Lena sets up a trap to expose him for the creep she thinks he is.

Set in the uneasy but rhythmic streets of the Bronx, this unassuming story of a passionate Puerto Rican family comes to life with authenticity and just the right amount of restraint and naturalism.

Irish-born director Macdara Vallely captures a vivid portrait of a young mother and her daughter both coming of age while crafting a likeable yet shifty character in Victor, the kind of guy who always keeps one guessing. Newcomer Yainis Ynoa gives a standout performance as the strong but clearly still innocent Lena in this finely tuned urban drama.

There may be nods to The Usual Suspects and the Oceans franchise along the way but The Rise is very much its own film. The pleasures lie as much in the sarcastic banter and blokey chemistry of the four leads as they do in the mechanics of the twisted revenge plot. Treadaway gives one of his best performances, ably supported by a strong ensemble cast. Rowan Athale clearly knows how to bring out the best in his actors and lays down a marker for what should be a promising future career.

Genna Terranova, Tribeca Film Festival

Allan Hunter, Screen International

LOOKING FOR HORTENSE CHERCHEZ HORTENSE

BOB WILSON’S LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Fri 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 6.20pm / 57 minutes

Director: Giada Colagrande / 2012 / US Cast: Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramović, Robert Wilson, Antony Hegarty

REAL TO REEL

Fri 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.20pm / 100 minutes A coming-together of four major talents is captured for posterity in Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramović. Directed by Giada Colagrande, the English-language Italian production is a straightforward behind-the-curtains peek with obvious interest for fans of radical theatre director Robert Wilson, performance artist Abramović, singer/songwriter Antony Hegarty, of Antony and the Johnsons fame, and Willem Dafoe.

Colagrande foregrounds extracts from the rehearsals for The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, the Manhattan-based Serb’s follow-up to the much more austerely conceptual one-woman MoMA show The Artist is Present. An elaborate affair of opulently imaginative production design – with eye-catching hair, costuming and make-up effects – the stage Life and Death is nevertheless a relatively conventional project by Abramović’s avant-garde standards. Devised almost entirely by Wilson, the piece features occasional songs from the effortlessly transcendental Antony Hegarty and copious on-stage narration by a rasp-voiced Dafoe, who steals both show and the film with his exuberantly puckish, white-faced demon-clown persona.

Upbeat talking-head interviews perkily punctuate the politically-charged on-stage shenanigans.

Colagrande’s spouse (Willem Dafoe) provides invaluable flashes of flinty humour, grounding what might otherwise have veered off into airy realms of precious self-congratulation.

Director: Pascal Bonitzer / 2012 / France Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Kristin Scott Thomas

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Pascal Bonitzer will attend the screening Pascal Bonitzer’s new comedie de moeurs is a pleasant, lightweight piece of entertainment, very French in spirit. Downbeat Damien Hauer (JeanPierre Bacri, The Taste of Others), specialises in Chinese civilization, teaching businessmen how to handle their future partners in the Far East, because, as everyone knows, that is where the future lies. His theatre director wife Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas) stays out late every night preparing a Chekhov adaptation for the stage and their precocious bespectacled son Noe (Marin Orcand Tourrès) watches his parents’ marriage going stale.

A study of characters in crisis; smart, often witty but never over-dramatised, the film benefits from a series of unforced, natural performances.

Bacri, comfortable, ruffled and unshaven, looks just like the kind of academic who’d be harassed by any demand taking him out of routine while Scott Thomas fits in perfectly as the spouse in need of fresh excitement without taking the time to consider the consequences. Isabelle Carré contributes a luminous presence as a restless young woman with a weakness for the wrong partners, and there is even a walk-on guest appearance by well-known stage and film director Benoît Jacquot as one of Damien’s chess-playing cronies.

Dan Fainaru, Screen International With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland

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NIGHT OF SILENCE LAL GECE

Fri 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.30pm / 91 minutes Director: Reis Çelik / 2012 / Turkey Cast: Ilyas Salman, Dilan Aksut

SPECTRUM

Reis Çelik will attend the screening Winner, Crystal Bear, Berlin International Film Festival

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WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU OBA NATHUWA, OBA EKKA

Fri 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.45pm / 90 minutes Director: Prasanna Vithanage / 2011 / Sri Lanka / India Cast: Shyam Fernando, Wasantha Moragoda, Anjali Patil

SPECTRUM

In a remote Turkish village, an ancient blood feud between two families has finally been put to rest, and a marriage arranged to seal the union; a man (Ilyas Salman) just released from a life behind bars has been pledged to a teenage girl he has never met. It is their wedding night, and tradition demands their stained bedsheets be displayed by morning’s light but, fearful of their consummation, the bride distracts her broken husband with tales, like a modern-day Scheherazade, rounding out the hours as dawn draws ever nearer.

Prasanna Vithanage will attend the screening Acclaimed Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage (Pura Handa Kaluwara, Akasa Kusum) returns with arguably his best work so far. Akin to The English Patient, it is set in the months after war and deftly explores the emotional fall-out of such trauma on the lives of ordinary people.

Selvi is a beautiful but quiet Tamil refugee (powerfully played by Anjali Patil) who catches the eye of a middle-aged Buddhist pawnbroker when she comes to cash in her last jewellery.

Immediately captivated, the pawnbroker follows her back to her temporary home. Discovering she is about to be wed for money to a very old man, he throws caution to the wind and offers to marry her instead. Selvi soon moves into his house and slowly falls in love with her saviour, but neither of them ever talk about their past; until an old army friend of the pawnbroker turns up, and a terrible secret emerges. Tightly scripted, with a wonderfully nuanced plot and haunting cinematography, this is Sri Lankan independent cinema at its best.

Written and edited by director Reis Çelik, this lyrical, compelling film trains an unhurried lens on its characters, trapped in a claustrophobic bridal chamber that neither chose. Sensitively shot and surprisingly intimate, this is a nuanced two-hander, driven by stellar performances.

Brisbane International Film Festival

Cary Sawhney, BFI London Film Festival

MANHUNT OBŁAWA

Fri 15 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 8.45pm / 96 minutes Director: Marcin Krzyształowicz / 2011 / Poland Cast: Marcin Dorociński, Maciej Stuhr, Sonia Bohosiewicz

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Winner, Silver Lions Award, Gdynia Film Festival Manhunt finds desperate times calling for desperate measures deep in the forests of Axis-occupied Poland. Anchored by the unforced macho gravitas of Marcin Dorociński’s hero, a merciless executioner for the Resistance, this sometimes visually and viscerally striking third feature for writer/helmer Marcin Krzyształowicz is said to be inspired by a reallife figure.

‘Wydra’ (Dorociński) is introduced marching a Nazicollaborating fellow Pole to his fate, and delivering a single bullet to the head. It’s a job to which he’s by now coldly accustomed, hesitating just long enough for propriety’s sake when it turns out his next mission is to serve the same justice to old schoolfriend Henryk (Maciej Stuhr). But before he can follow through, Henryk attempts a panicked escape that results in death nonetheless – albeit an accidental one.

Returning from this mishap, Wydra discovers that, while absent, his entire special-ops unit has been slaughtered. It’s now his obsession to uncover the informer who revealed their secret camp to the enemy, letting no personal ties stand in the way, even if they involve Henryk’s wife (Sonia Bohosiewicz).

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JDIFF, in partnership with Universal Pictures International Ireland, Screen International and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board are delighted to introduce the new CINE Talent Award which aims to spotlight and promote Irish talent to the international industry. Three individuals will be shortlisted for the prize, from which one winner will be selected during the festival.

The prize will include promotional editorial from Screen International and networking opportunities at their events at the Toronto, Cannes and Berlin film festivals. The winner will also be assisted by Universal Pictures International Ireland and Bord Scannán na hEireann/the Irish Film Board with networking introductions to relevant international contacts. The prize also aims to include mentoring opportunities with an established industry alumnus from the previous JDIFF Irish Talent Spotlight Award.

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BLANCANIEVES Savoy 1 / 11am 104 mins

E A R LY A F T E R N O O N

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

E A R LY E V E N I N G

EVENING

BLIND CHANCE

MERCY

CLIP

CLOUD ATLAS

Light House 1 / 1.15pm 114 mins

Light House 1 / 3.45pm 132 mins

Light House 3 / 6pm 100 mins

Savoy 2 / 7.30pm 172 mins

LOVE, MARILYN

MOTORWAY

THE PAPERBOY

NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS

Cineworld 11 / 1.20pm 107 mins

Cineworld 8 / 4pm 90 mins

Cineworld 11 / 6pm 107 mins

Light House 3 / 8.20pm 131 mins

IN A BEDROOM

THE GOOD MAN

TEDDY BEAR

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Cineworld 8 / 2pm 76 mins

Cineworld 11 / 4pm 74 mins

Cineworld 8 / 6.05pm 93 mins

Cineworld 11 / 8.40pm 92 mins

WHERE I AM

THE BODY

Light House 1 / 6.45pm 69 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm 110 mins

LORE Light House 1 / 8.45pm 109 mins

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GANGS OF WASSEYPUR 1 & 2 Part 1: Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 10.30 am / 156 minutes

Part 2: Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 10.30 am / 159 minutes

Director: Anurag Kashyap / 2012 / India Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Reemma Sen, Tigmanshu Dhulia

Director: Anurag Kashyap / 2012 / India Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadda, Reemma Sen, Tigmanshu Dhulia

Anurag Kashyap will attend the screening

Anurag Kashyap will attend the screening

SPECTRUM

‘A brilliant collage of genres, by turns pulverizing and poetic in its depiction of violence’, Variety Set in the titular district around the north-eastern Indian city of Dhanbad, Gangs of Wasseypur is an extraordinary gangland saga following two rival clans over 70 bloodstained years.

Screening to critical praise during Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the two-parter begins with the rise of the sadistic Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat), who makes a living impersonating a legendary train robber, Sultana Daku, and working as a hired goon for local mining boss Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia). But, threatened by Khan’s growing power, Singh has Khan killed, kick-starting a multi-generational, action-packed blood feud between the two rival families that lasts until the final reel.

Loosely based on a true story, Gangs of Wasseypur balances brutal violence with tongue-in-cheek comedy, taking the cinematic spectacle of Bollywood and adding a healthy dose of gritty realism.

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The second instalment of Anurag Kashyap’s incredible crime saga, Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 focuses on a new generation in a Wasseypur almost unrecognisable from that in Part 1. With the war between Shahid Khan’s philandering son Sardar (Manoj Bajpayee) and Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia) now a memory – but still a reason for revenge – Sardar’s sons have found new and increasingly sophisticated criminal pursuits. But their sole ambition remains to annihilate Ramadhir Singh.

Where Part 1 delves into the history of the conflict and, to an extent, of post-war India, Part 2 examines a Bollywoodobsessed generation growing up on an inheritance of vengeance. An exhilarating cocktail of carnage and comedy, Gangs of Wasseypur is an extraordinary achievement.

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BLIND CHANCE PRZYPADEK

Sat 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 1.15pm / 114 minutes

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski / 1982 / Poland Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

OUT OF THE PAST

Strikingly modernist and compulsively watchable, European film master Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1982 Blind Chance has profoundly influenced cinematic storytelling for nearly two decades. Kieslowski (The Dekalog, Three Colours) blends his trademark passion for character and poetic imagery with a boldly novelistic narrative conceit.

Blind Chance illuminates the intersection of fate, coincidence and choice.

Facing an unclear future, Witek, an earnest young Polish medical student, chooses to put his education on hold. With his head full of the promising and ominous portents of his new adult life, Witek hurries to catch the last train to Warsaw. But as he races down the platform, Blind Chance blossoms into three successive scenarios in which Witek’s catching or missing his train spawns three completely different futures. Whether as an idealistic Communist Party member, an ambivalent dissident or a devoted healer and husband, the young Pole’s destiny is shaped by the unhappy youth threatening to hobble him, the troubled present poised to engulf him and, in Kieslowski’s words, ‘the powers that meddle with our fate.’

Through three complex lives, actor Boguslaw Linda portrays Witek with an effortless magnetism remarkable even for a Kieslowski film. Actor and director’s commitment and vision succeed in creating three entirely different portraits, each compellingly real.

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Gary Tooze With the support of the Embassy of Poland

LOVE, MARILYN

Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 1.20pm / 107 minutes

Director: Liz Garbus / 2012 / US

Director: Pablo Berger / 2011 / Spain / France Cast: Macarena García, Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho

REAL TO REEL

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES If The Artist is a love letter to the heyday of Hollywood silent cinema, then Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves (the Spanish name for ‘Snow White’) is an homage to sumptuous European silent melodrama. Relocating the Grimm fairy tale to 1920s Spain and working in atmospheric black and white, Berger takes full advantage of the silent film’s expressive potential.

Borne along by Alfonso de Vilallonga’s lush, vigorous score, Berger’s darkly sketched fantasia weaves its exotic spin on this much-told tale. With its enthralling musical sequences, Blancanieves plunges us into a fantastical realm where the chatter of voices is replaced by the intoxicating sounds of the soul.

Young Carmen (played as a child by Sofía Oria, and later

by Macarena García) is the daughter of once-renowned matador Antonio Villalta (Daniel Giménez Cacho), crippled in the ring and grieving for his wife, who died during childbirth. We are given a swift and fiery account of Carmen’s upbringing by her grandmother (Ángela Molina), her torment at the hands of her tyrannical stepmother Encarna (Maribel Verdú) and her secret schooling in the art of bullfighting. Carmen escapes Encarna’s custody and joins a travelling troupe of bullfighting dwarves, eventually rising to fame under the stage name ‘Blancanieves’.

Diana Sanchez, Toronto International Film Festival

Marilyn Monroe invented a public persona that concealed a private side known only to her closest confidants. This is an actress who, at the height of her fame, abandoned Hollywood to study acting with Lee Strasberg because she wanted to be taken seriously.

This is a wife who took pills because the husband she had saved from infamy no longer believed in her. Fifty years after her death, her creation still blazes brightly in our cultural imagination, while the creator continues to lurk in the shadows. Love, Marilyn brilliantly reverses this polarity, casting the icon aside and bringing the real woman to life.

Drawing on never-before-seen personal papers, diaries and letters, Academy Award®-nominated director Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola USA, Bobby Fischer Against the World) works with acclaimed actors to evoke the multiple aspects of the real Marilyn. Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Jennifer Ehle, Lindsay Lohan, Lili Taylor, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood appear on screen to enact Marilyn’s words and Garbus weaves these performances together, along with newly released out-takes, home movies, photos and interviews with Monroe’s closest companions to create the most intimate picture yet of an American icon we all think we know.

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IN A BEDROOM W SYPIALNI

Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 2pm / 76 minutes

Director: Tomasz Wasilewski / 2012 / Poland Cast: Katarzyna Herman, Tomek Tyndyk, Agata Buzek

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘Wasilewski is clearly a young talent to watch’, The Hollywood Reporter Winner, Best Actress, Koszalin Debut Films Festival Male movie directors have long had a slightly dubious fascination with female prostitutes, but thankfully this contemporary Polish drama does not pander to tired screen stereotypes about sex workers. The featurelength debut of 32-year-old writer/director Tomasz Wasilewski is an artfully shot character study that reveals its psychological depths with guarded caution.

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MOTORWAY CHE SAU

Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 4pm / 90 minutes

‘ full-throttle entertainment’, Screen International

Director: Soi Cheang / 2012 / Hong Kong Cast: Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong, Xiaodong Guo

Don’t let the title fool you. After its opening scene, which resembles a multi-angle replay in your favourite driving game, very little of the action in Soi Cheang’s surprisingly low-key action melodrama takes place on the open road. Most of the locations are considerably more interesting.

SPECTRUM

This Kowloon cops-and-robbers pursuit thriller features car chases in a maze of small roads on a mountain top, in a darkened parking lot where the vehicles prowl like deadly sharks, and through narrow alleyways where astonishing feats of vehicular agility – including an incredible ninetydegree turn – are required to catch the bad guys.

Statuesque, intense, 40-year-old beauty Edyta (Katarzyna Herman) has a neat scam going. Posing as a call girl on the internet, she meets up with wealthy men in their homes, knocks them out with sleeping pills, then steals cash or sometimes just a free bed for the night. Edyta’s glacially aloof surface poise begins to crack when an encounter with artist Patryk (Tomek Tyndyk) ends badly. After an initial period of distrust, these two misfits form an uneasy bond that blossoms into a budding romance.

Restless young cop (Shawn Yue) receives the baton of ace driver from wizened partner (Anthony Wong) in a decades-long attempt to catch veteran getaway driver Xiaodong Guo. ‘It doesn’t matter how well you steer, if you lose your drive you’re worse off than a broken car,’ says Wong’s Obi-Wan like voice inside Yue’s head at the film’s climax, underlining the film’s fusion of man and machine, vehicle and driver as in so many of its venerable forebears. Comparisons with Nicolas Refn’s Drive are off the mark. Motorway is pure genre, but brings welcome variety by reining in the hyperkinetics.

Despite his relative youth and inexperience, Wasilewski shows an impressive flair for tightly controlled emotional tone and striking geometric compositions. Eventually the characters and their motives are shaded in, and the film’s visual grammar becomes more conventional, but it remains an eyepleasing experience throughout.

Dr Harvey O’Brien, Lecturer in Film Studies, UCD

Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter With the support of the Embassy of Poland

MERCY GNADE

Sat 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 3.45pm / 132 minutes

Director: Matthias Glasner / 2012 / Germany / Norway Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Birgit Minichmayr will attend the screening Matthias Glasner’s polished, accessible moral melodrama is less about the eponymous virtue than assorted states of guilt. Charting the fallout of a hit-and-run fatality, this gripping if ostentatiously spare film from the director of The Free Will (JDIFF 2008) boasts pristine production values and a tersely moving performance from Birgit Minichmayr (The White Ribbon).

The film is set in the remote Norwegian coastal town of Hammerfest but revolves chiefly around a German migrant family. Even the earliest peeks into the domestic life of engineer Niels (Jürgen Vogel), his nurse wife Maria (Minichmayr) and their son Markus (Henry Stange), point to a less-than-idyllic existence: interactions between the couple are politely chilly, and that’s before we learn Niels has been sleeping with attractive blonde colleague Linda (Ane Dahl Torp).

THE GOOD MAN

Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 4pm / 74 minutes Director: Paul Harrison / 2011 / Ireland / UK / South Africa Cast: Aidan Gillen, Thabang Sidloyi, Kelly Campbell

IRISH FOCUS

Paul Harrison will attend the screening Daring in its structure and disquieting in its message, The Good Man unfolds parallel stories in Belfast and South Africa, posing a multitude of moral questions that lead viewers to a collision with their own conscience.

Michael (Aidan Gillen) is an upwardly mobile Belfast banker. Leaving a pub one night, he steals another man’s cab, and when the offended party gives chase, he’s struck and killed by an oncoming car. Michael is wracked with guilt. He confides in no one, his work suffers and his wife is at her wits’ end. Meanwhile, in a South African township, Sifiso (Thabang Sidloyi), a student with a budding political conscience, joins activists in his impoverished Cape Town settlement in ‘diverting’ electricity to homes in need.

When Maria hits an unknown object on her drive home one night she fears the worst well before the news spreads that one of Markus’ schoolmates has been killed by an unidentified vehicle. Maria and Niels agree to keep mum, but guilt gnaws away at them as they become acquainted with the dead girl’s grieving parents.

One expects the two stories will intersect in clichéd fashion, with Michael perhaps atoning for his sins in a manner that benefits young Sifiso. But that’s only partly true, as the scope of writer/director Paul Harrison’s story reaches far beyond the relatively banal tale of a stolen cab and a hit-and-run. Nothing here is simple, and the film drives that home in a way that leaves the viewer with a distinct sense of foreboding.

Guy Lodge, Variety

John Anderson, Variety

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CLIP KLIP

TEDDY BEAR

Sat 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 100 minutes

Director: Maja Miloš / 2012 / Serbia Cast: Isidora Simijonovic, Vukašin Jasnic, Sanja Mikitišin

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Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.05pm / 93 minutes Winner, Best Director, Transylvania International Film Festival Brimming with energy, anger and a sense of youthful frustration, Clip is a film that will divide opinion, but it is also one that demands attention.

Of course, teenage angst is a subject matter much beloved of film-makers, but writer/director Maja Miloš shows a lot of courage with this bleak and harsh story of teenage self-destruction, with the sense of hopelessness amongst the young generation in Serbia the backdrop.

Director: Mads Matthiesen / 2012 / Denmark Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Scenes – and there are plenty of them – of Isidora Simijonovic stripping and writhing in her underwear as she poses for the ever-present mobile phone are uncomfortable. But what saves the film is that it dives headlong into the brutal, unpleasant and desperately sad world that may be facing young Serbs as they try and fit in at all costs and become personalities that can deal with their circumstances around them.

The contrast between Dennis’ formidable physical presence and his withdrawn manner is nicely played

by Kold. Seeing him so intimidated by his tiny, frail mother is both funny and moving. Teddy Bear is not the most substantial film, but it has a restrained charm and an emotional payoff in keeping with its prevailing understatement.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

Mark Adams, Screen International

Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 6pm / 107 minutes Director: Lee Daniels / 2011 / US Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Zac Efron

SPECTRUM

‘Undeniably entertaining, The Paperboy captures a corner of the American South and lines up an indelible gallery of grotesques.’ Film Journal International Kicked out of college, Jack Jansen (Zac Efron) moves home to the rural backwater of Moat County, Florida, earning money and passing time delivering newspapers. Then his journalist brother Ward (Matthew McConaughey) returns from Miami to investigate a miscarriage of justice that has landed a local man (John Cusack) on death row. Ward’s investigation is soon joined by Charlotte (Nicole Kidman), the condemned man’s sultry fiancée, and the obviously smitten Jack resolves to get increasingly involved in the case.

Based on Pete Dexter’s well-received novel and adapted to the screen by Dexter and director Lee Daniels (Precious), The Paperboy positively oozes a kind of lurid, hothouse sensuality; there are plenty of revelations, but not of the kind anyone was expecting. As Charlotte, Nicole Kidman is simply terrific, conveying a kind of gritty eroticism that threatens to engulf any man who comes too close.

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Danish director Mads Matthiesen’s feature recounts a gentle giant’s struggle to overcome crippling shyness and take hold of his life.

Dennis (Kim Kold) is a mountain of tattooed muscle, a 38-year-old professional bodybuilder with a gruff face and a timid heart. He’s also got a controlling mother, Ingrid (Elsebeth Steentoft), a needy, suffocating nag who treats him like a child. Lying to his mother about his destination, Dennis travels to Thailand, setting out in search of romance. Drawn to the only place he feels at ease, Dennis wanders into a local gym where he begins a hesitant flirtation with Toi (Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard), the widowed owner. Back home, he begins quietly making plans to bring Toi over. But when he tells his mother the truth about his absence, bitter reproach, spitefulness and emotional blackmail follow.

Sixteen year-old Jasna (an impressive Isidora Simijonovic) lives at home with her parents and younger sister, but avoids taking part in family life. Her only real interests are posing for her mobile phone, getting drunk with her friends and pursuing Djole. She starts a ‘relationship’ of sorts with Djole, which mainly involves her submitting to his every whim.

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Mads Matthiesen will attend the screening Winner, World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic), Sundance Film Festival

With the support of the Embassy of Denmark

WHERE I AM

Sat 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.45pm / 69 minutes Director: Pamela Drynan / 2012 / Ireland

IRISH FOCUS

Robert Drake, Pamela Drynan and producer Tristan Orpen Lynch will attend the screening In January 1999 a 35-year-old American author, Robert Drake, was viciously assaulted and left for dead by two young men in a house he was renting with his partner in Sligo town. After a court case that sought to demonise Drake as a predatory gay man, his assailants, Glen Mahon and Ian Monaghan, were sentenced to eight years in prison. Drake, unable to speak and confined to a hospital bed, was not present to represent himself at the trial.

Over a decade later, Pamela Drynan’s intimate film follows Drake as he returns to Ireland, and Sligo, for the first time since the attack which left him permanently brain damaged, unable to walk and, crucially, stopped a writing career just as it was beginning to take flight. He visits with Colm Toíbín and Dermot Healy, along with the people who took care of him after the attack, and on the pavement of a Dublin street one afternoon finds his story abruptly coming full circle.

Juxtaposing lyrical imagery, particularly of the Sligo landscape, against a story of mindless brutality, Drynan mines a heartbreaking but life-affirming tale of pointless loss and hardwon redemption, the power of self respect and the complexity of forgiveness.

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CLOUD ATLAS

Sat 16 Feb / Savoy 2 / 7.30pm / 172 minutes Directors: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski / 2011 / Germany Cast: Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘a dizzily generous ride, scored with real grandeur’, The Daily Telegraph As inventive narratives go, there’s outside the box, and then there’s pioneering another dimension entirely, and this collaboration among Tom Tykwer and Wachowski siblings Lana and Andy courageously attempts the latter, interlacing six seemingly unrelated stories in such a way that parallels erupt like cherry bombs in the imagination.

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A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Sat 16 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 8.40pm / 92 minutes Director: Keith Farrell / 2012 / Ireland Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Owen McDonnell

IRISH FOCUS

Keith Farrell will attend the screening A Terrible Beauty offers a fresh approach to the Easter Rising, mixing archive footage with dramatic reconstructions and eyewitness accounts to tell the little-known stories of ordinary soldiers on both sides.

Focusing on two areas of fierce fighting: North King Street on the north side of the Liffey and, to the south, Mount Street Bridge, the film captures the fear, confusion and tactical blunders – as well as the bravery – of the combatants. It follows ordinary soldiers like the Shouldice brothers, Frank and Jack, holed up around the Jameson Malt House, and Lieutenant Arthur Dickson (Hugh O’Conor) of the Sherwood Foresters; a young officer expecting to be sent to France who found himself marching up Northumberland Road.

Based on David Mitchell’s novel, this adaptation rejects the book’s innovative but overly literary format in favour of a more cinematic approach, opting to tell all half-dozen tales at once. Like juggling Ginsu blades, the tricky feat is part stunt, part skill, but undeniably entertaining.

Each of the stories involves some measure of romance, beginning in 1849, with American lawyer Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) separated from his beloved (Doona Bae) by seafaring adventures among the Pacific Islands, and extending to the year 2346, where a lowly goatherder (Tom Hanks) falls for an emissary (Halle Berry) from the opposite end of the technological spectrum in post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Common themes echo throughout the film, where the gesture of liberating a slave in 1849 reverberates through time, culminating in a paradigm-changing insurrection whose denouement occurs two centuries later.

Writer/director Keith Farrell (Saving the Titanic – JDIFF 2012) builds the tension as British troops converge on the Volunteer strongholds and reveals the human cost of the conflict in a series of compellingly restaged battle scenes. Moving, balanced and meticulously researched, A Terrible Beauty restores the ordinary soldier to the heart of the story.

Alistair Daniel, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

Peter Debruge, Variety Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland

NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS O SOM AO REDOR

Sat 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.20pm / 131 minutes Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho / 2012 / Brazil Cast: Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings

SPECTRUM

‘captures the very fabric of Brazilian society’, Variety Winner, FIPRESCI Award, Rotterdam Film Festival A dazzling ensemble drama, Neighbouring Sounds is set among a handful of residents in a middle-class street in the northern Brazilian city of Recife. Focusing on the appearance of a gang of private security guards who offer householders the promise of protection, writer/ director Kleber Mendonça Filho offers revealing fragments of a society frayed by paranoia.

A young man wakes up to find his girlfriend’s car has been broken into. A mother struggles to sleep, disturbed by the barking of guard dogs next door. An ageing patriarch seeks refuge from the tumult of the ever-changing city in the rural peace of his one-time plantation hideaway.

The results thrillingly defy categorisation, but what emerges under Filho’s precise, quietly virtuoso direction is a film of novelistic richness and sly provocation; a kind of urban horror story about the fear of violence that ripples under the fragile poise of everyday middle-class life in Brazil. This is a directorial debut of astonishing assurance.

THE BODY EL CUERPO

Sat 16 Feb /Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm / 110 minutes Director: Oriol Paulo / 2012 / Spain Cast: José Coronado, Belén Rueda, Hugo Silva

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘darkly fascinating, full of secrets and highly polished’, Variety Following the murder of pharmaceutical company heiress Mayka Villaverde (Belén Rueda), her body mysteriously disappears from the morgue. Quick-tempered police detective Jaime Peña (José Coronado) is right on the case, immediately suspecting the dead woman’s two-timing husband, Álex Ulloa (Hugo Silva).

The intense investigation, taking place during the course of a single night, is intertwined with flashbacks of Villaverde’s and Ulloa’s complicated relationship. The heiress, it seems, has been callously manipulating her husband.

The short time frame of the investigation creates a feeling of events playing out in real time, making The Body an intense, enthralling and darkly fascinating crime thriller. Following in the steps of last years’ successful Spanish horror wave, The Body won’t let fans of the genre down. With influences from Hitchcock and Rob Reiner’s Misery, the film keeps the audience in suspense, from the first terrifying scene to the final revelation.

Filip Åkerman, Stockholm International Film Festival

Edward Lawrenson, BFI London Film Festival

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LORE

Sat 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.45pm / 109 minutes

Director: Cate Shortland / 2012 / Australia / Germany / UK Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘tense and unrelentingly gripping’, Screen International Winner, Grand Prix, Stockholm Film Festival The long-awaited follow-up to her exquisite Somersault, Australian director Cate Shortland’s adaptation of the novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert is a sensual and complex story that explores the tribulations faced by the young in the aftermath of World War II. When their Nazi SS parents are taken into Allied custody, five siblings are left to fend for themselves.

Teenage Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) takes charge, and the children set out to join their grandmother in Hamburg, some 900km away. Along the journey, the children encounter a populace suffering from post-war denial and deprivation, and for the first time are exposed to the consequences of their parents’ actions. With food hard to come by, and the journey becoming ever more dangerous, the children meet Thomas (Kai-Peter Malina), a young Jewish survivor who helps them negotiate their way through tricky situations. Lore is both repulsed by and attracted to Thomas. All that she has been taught leads her to believe that he is the enemy, but his industriousness, generosity and physicality prove alluring. A coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of a changing world, Lore shows new life emerging out of darkness with great intelligence and subtlety.

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MORNING

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR PT 2 Cineworld 8 / 10.30am 159 mins

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES Savoy 1 / 10.30am 140 mins

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E A R LY A F T E R N O O N

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

SHAMPOO

SUMMER IN FEBRUARY

THE GATEKEEPERS

SPIES

Light House 1 / 12pm 109 mins

Cineworld 9 / 3.30pm 95 mins

Light House 1 / 6.10pm 96 mins

Light House 1 / 8.20pm 145 mins

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EVENING

A CUBE OF SUGAR

28 HOTEL ROOMS

GET THE PICTURE

EAT SLEEP DIE

Light House 3 / 1.15pm 116 mins

Cineworld 8 / 4.15pm 82 mins

Light House 3 / 6.15pm 70 mins

Light House 3 / 8.25pm 104 mins

SIDE EFFECTS

REPORTED MISSING

JOHN DIES AT THE END

IN THE HOUSE

Cineworld 9 / 1.15pm 106 mins

Light House 3 / 4.15pm 86 mins

Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm 99 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8.35pm 105 mins

SCARECROW

WHITE TIGER

Cineworld 8 / 2pm 112 mins

Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm 104 mins

THE FRAMES: IN THE DEEP SHADE

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY Light House 1 / 2.45pm 136 mins

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E A R LY E V E N I N G

Cineworld 9 / 8.35pm 87 mins

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

Sunday 17th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

SHAMPOO

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 1 / 12pm / 109 minutes

Director: Hal Ashby / 1975 / US Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn

OUT OF THE PAST

Robert Towne will attend the screening Robert Towne and Warren Beatty were nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay In Shampoo, Warren Beatty plays George Roundy, one of the genius hairdressers in Los Angeles and a man who is thinking of opening his own salon.

The ladies like him – and not just because of what he can do with their hair. And George surely likes the ladies. In the brief period in which we see him, he is ‘going with’ Goldie Hawn, and he is very vulnerable to an old flame, Julie Christie, the mistress of Jack Warden, whose wife, Lee Grant, is also determined to have George’s dryer on her hair.

Shampoo grew out of the friendship between Beatty and his house writer, Robert Towne. It takes place on election day in 1968 (the first Nixon victory), and it is not just a portrait of sexual promiscuity and of having one’s life ruled by one’s dryer, but a panorama of LA too. Shampoo is very funny when it is most urgent, as with Julie Christie under the table and Warren trying to keep his aplomb. This may be as close as we have come to a modern screwball classic – we can only marvel that it doesn’t stimulate imitation.

David Thomson

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES Sun 17 Feb / Savoy 1 / 10.30am / 140 minutes

SPECTRUM

SPECTRUM ‘Dense and enthralling’, The Daily Telegraph

Gosling plays Luke, a motorcycle stunt rider and habitual loner who works for a travelling carnival, roaming from town to town. After reuniting with his sometime girlfriend Romina (Eva Mendes), Luke discovers that he has fathered a son. Determined to meet his responsibility but unable to support a family, Luke opts to start robbing banks.

On one heist he draws the pursuit of rookie cop Avery (Bradley Cooper). It proves a fateful confrontation.

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Sun 17 Feb / Light House 3 / 1.15pm / 116 minutes

Director: Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi / 2011 / Iran Cast: Puneh Abdolkarim-Zadeh, Amir-Hossein Arman, Negar Javaherian

Director: Derek Cianfrance / 2012 / US Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes

With Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance established himself as a director of intense emotion and unblinking intimacy. In this, his highly anticipated follow-up, Cianfrance re-teams with his Blue Valentine star Ryan Gosling and delves even deeper into themes of male anxiety and suppressed violence. This haunting, multi-generational family drama draws a portrait of contemporary masculinity that is detailed, epic and true.

A CUBE OF SUGAR YE HABE GHAND

The Place Beyond the Pines works beautifully as a crime thriller, but Cianfrance goes further. As the story proceeds and turns surprising corners, it evolves into a study of vengeance, memory and fate. And as Cianfrance deepens the mastery of mood and tone he displayed in Blue Valentine, his film exerts an intoxicating pull.

Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival

The youngest daughter of a large Iranian family, Pasandide (Negar Javaherian), is getting married. The day before the wedding, her sisters, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and grandparents all gather at the family compound of Uncle Ezzatolah (Saeed Poursamimi). The women cook, sew, gossip, and tease; the nephews try to frighten each other with ghost stories; one uncle digs for buried treasure while another worries about bad news from his doctor. In honour of the happy couple, there are presents, music and a lavish feast. Yet before the ceremony can take place, a single sugar cube transforms the event into something quite different.

Director Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi (So Close, So Far) captures the proceedings with imagery that is a celebration in its own right; vibrant with light and colour, sometimes slipping into slow motion as if to linger in the beauty of these moments – some special, some quite ordinary – that make up the fabric of life itself.

Seattle International Film Festival

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Sunday 17th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY

SIDE EFFECTS

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 1.15pm / 106 minutes Director: Steven Soderbergh / 2012 / US Cast: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law

SPECTRUM

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Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 1 / 2.45pm / 136 minutes In 1989, Steven Soderbergh transformed the independent film business with the Sundance winner Sex, Lies and Videotape, since then he has followed a fascinating and intensely individual path.

Increasingly prolific in recent years, his filmography is filled with eclectic choices, alternating commercial productions (Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, the Ocean’s Eleven movies) with digital experiments (Full Frontal, Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience, etc.) and adventurous independent fare (Kafka, King of the Hill, Schizopolis, The Limey, Che, etc.). A guest of the film in 2010, we are delighted to include his new film.

Director: Sophie Fiennes / 2012 / UK / Ireland

REAL TO REEL

OUT OF THE PAST

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 3.30pm / 95 minutes An ex-con learns the value of friendship in Jerry Schatzberg’s picaresque road movie. Trying to hitch a ride on a desolate California road, fresh-out-of-prison Max (Gene Hackman) meets ex-sailor Lion (Al Pacino).

They are both headed east, as Max dreams of opening a deluxe car wash in Pittsburgh and Lion believes that the wife and child he left behind will still welcome him home. The two decide to journey together, forging an increasingly deep yet uncertain friendship, as Lion teaches Max how not to be so pugnacious and Max senses Lion’s fragility. When the pair hits Detroit, Lion finally gets in touch with his wife and discovers how she really feels. When Lion is shattered by the revelation, Max must decide if he should forge on alone or sacrifice his carefully guarded savings to help his friend.

Pacino’s first film after his triumph in The Godfather, and Hackman’s follow-up to The Poseidon Adventure and his Oscar for The French Connection, Scarecrow won the 1973 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but the two stars were not enough to make it a hit.

Even so, their nuanced performances enhance this moody study of contemporary dislocation.

Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

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Edgar Allan Zan, Stockholm International Film Festival

SUMMER IN FEBRUARY

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 2pm / 112 minutes Director: Jerry Schatzberg / 1973 / US Cast: Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Tristan

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology sees the return of confrontational psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, who continues his search for the hidden languages of films following the 2006 cult documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema. In this freestanding sequel Fiennes and Žižek elaborate on the idea of films as collective fantasies that shape our beliefs and practices, by examining how films are an integral part of our society.

A high-concept documentary on what psychoanalysis can tell us about ideology viewed in film, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is a must for the cineaste that seeks profound yet accessible analysis of the classics. Fiennes follows Žižek as he examines a wide range of films, from Robert Wise’s classic epic The Sound of Music to John Carpenter’s alien invasion B-movie They Live. Žižek analyzes several other well-known titles, including Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, giving us fresh new perspectives on films that have been loved by audiences for years.

Side Effects is a riveting, psychological thriller starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine ZetaJones and Channing Tatum. When Emily Taylor (Mara) is faced with her husband’s release from prison for insider trading, she finds herself plagued with a clinical depression. Psychiatrist Jonathan Banks (Law) struggles to treat her; but when a new prescription drug has some unexpected side effects, both Emily and Banks find themselves down dark paths they never could have foreseen.

SCARECROW

Sophie Fiennes will attend the screening

Director: Christopher Menaul / 2012 / UK Cast: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Veteran director Christopher Menaul (Fatherland, The Forsyte Saga) directs this compelling true story of love among bohemian artists on the eve of the First World War. Adapted from Jonathan Smith’s novel, Summer in February follows Florence Carter-Wood (Emily Browning), an aspiring artist who takes refuge from her father’s choice of suitor at Lamorna, a windswept artists’ colony in Cornwall. There she finds herself torn between Captain Gilbert Evans (Dan Stevens), a Boer War veteran and consummate gentleman, and AJ Munnings (Dominic Cooper), a hot-tempered and visionary artist. But when Florence acquiesces to a hasty marriage, she quickly begins to feel trapped.

Menaul captures the vertiginous cliffs and sparkling light of the Cornish coast but holds the melodrama at bay as the tension builds. Australian actress Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) is utterly convincing as Florence, while Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia, My Week with Marilyn) brings a convincing passion to Munnings and Dan Stevens is characteristically dignified as lovesick Captain Evans. An excellent supporting cast is enlivened by brief cameos from Camille O’Sullivan and English folk star Seth Lakeman.

Alistair Daniel, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

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Sunday 17th February

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28 HOTEL ROOMS

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 4.15pm / 82 minutes Director: Matt Ross / 2012 / US Cast: Chris Messina, Marin Ireland

SPECTRUM

‘[an] incisive and tender look into the complexity of a relationship’, The Hollywood Reporter The romantic and emotional complications involved in sustaining a years-long affair gets sensitive, intelligent examination in 28 Hotel Rooms, a deceptively simple but endlessly intriguing drama.

Propelled by the chemistry of leads Chris Messina and Marin Ireland (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), the feature debut of writer/director Matt Ross has a fetching hook, offering a look into the ups and downs of an adulterous couple entirely through their 28 encounters in different hotels. But what could easily have been a gimmick turns out to be a smart, incisive way to illustrate how every love affair eventually comes with strings attached.

Sunday 17th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

THE GATEKEEPERS SHOMEREI HA’SAF

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.10pm / 96 minutes Director: Dror Moreh / 2012 / Israel / France / Germany / Belgium

REAL TO REEL

‘one hot, provocative, revelatory and astonishing documentary’, The Hollywood Reporter Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature The brutal recent history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rivetingly recounted by some of its most prominent players in The Gatekeepers. Granted an extraordinary level of access to six former heads of Israel’s Shin Bet counter-terrorism agency, firsttime documaker Dror Moreh achieves a powerful and remarkably clear-eyed assessment of how state-sanctioned violence, whether pre-emptive or retaliatory, has exacted a crippling moral toll on the region and its pursuit of peace.

Moreh’s coup lies in not only lining up the six men who oversaw Israel’s internal intelligence-gathering operations at various intervals from 1980 to the present, but in getting them to speak with such unprecedented and seemingly unguarded candour about their activities. While no film from the narrow perspective of Israeli intelligence could purport to offer a thorough view of the conflict, what makes The Gatekeepers ultimately so compelling is its pervasive sense of moral ambiguity. Although the men were interviewed separately, their voices ultimately coalesce into a sustained chorus of despair, decrying the futility of violence as a political imperative and the cruelty and corruption of Israel since the late ’60s.

As its title indicates, the film consists of a series of sequences – each in a different hotel room – between an unnamed New York writer (Messina) and a Seattle accountant (Ireland) over the span of several years. When they have their first fling, she’s married, but as they continue to meet up for secret sexual trysts, he gets involved with a serious girlfriend as well. Moral watchdogs won’t be pleased with Ross’ non-judgmental treatment, but 28 Hotel Rooms is nonetheless incredibly moving in its depiction of the challenges of making love last – even if it’s a love that’s a betrayal of others.

Tim Grierson, Screen International

Justin Chang, Variety

REPORTED MISSING DIE VERMISSTEN

GET THE PICTURE

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 3 / 4.15pm / 86 minutes Director: Jan Speckenbach / 2012 / Germany Cast: André Hennicke, Luzie Ahrens, Sandra Borgmann

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 3 / 6.15pm / 70 minutes A grown-up man, Lothar (André Hennicke), discovers that his estranged teenage daughter has gone missing. Looking more closely, he realises that many children are disappearing – as if some wave or mysterious force has taken hold of children of all ages. Lothar befriends young Lou (Luzie Ahrens) and together they are drawn further and deeper into the inexplicable, dangerous movement that has taken hold of the country, travelling through dark forests and abandoned villages.

Evoking the tale of The Pied Piper, director Jan Speckenbach traces the gap that has opened between generations with imagination and childlike wonderment. But unlike the old fairy tale, this film’s Ratcatcher is a child himself – or perhaps, many children at once. And scratch the surface and you will also find an eerie relevance to recent events: the youth riots in the UK, the earlier Paris uprising, Cairo’s revolution...

Director: Cathy Pearson / 2012 / Ireland

IRISH FOCUS

Cathy Pearson will attend the screening Meet John G Morris, former Picture Editor for Life Magazine, The New York Times and executive editor of Magnum Photos. Morris’ unerring eye for the best shot has captured the imagination of the world and influenced our opinions.

Morris’ long life and professional career in photojournalism has spanned seventy years and covered many of the great world events of the 20th Century. At 95 years of age he has recently fallen in love again, proving love and romance are not bound by age. He is sharp, witty, an extremely well-informed citizen of the world and an ardent storyteller, a self-proclaimed pacifist and a political activist who currently lives in Paris, the world’s centre for photography.

Corona Cork Film Festival

Cambridge Film Festival Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland

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Sunday 17th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

JOHN DIES AT THE END

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm / 99 minutes Director: Don Coscarelli / 2012 / US Cast: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti

SPECTRUM

On the street, they call it ‘soy sauce.’ It’s a paranormal, psychoactive drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. Its users drift across time and dimensions, but some who come back are devoid of all humanity. While most of Earth’s inhabitants remain blissfully oblivious to its threat – make no mistake – an otherworldly invasion is under way, and mankind needs to be saved. Enter John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. How can these guys possibly be expected to rescue mankind from certain destruction?

Originally erupting from the devilishly ingenious mind of David Wong, alter ego of Cracked.com’s senior editor Jason Pargin, John Dies at the End began as a web serial that became an internet phenomenon. In the highly capable hands of legendary cult horror director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep), Pargin’s wildly trippy vision is forged into big-screen eye candy. The end result will take you to places in your subconscious that you shouldn’t be allowed to visit.

Adam Montgomery, Sundance Film Festival

WHITE TIGER BELYY TIGR

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm / 104 minutes

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov / 2012 / Russia Cast: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Vilmar Bieri

SPECTRUM

Karen Shakhnazarov will attend the screening Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov (Ward No. 6 – JDIFF 2010) never ceases to experiment, with both subject matter and style. WWII-set White Tiger is his first war film, a weird, wondrous tale of an eerie white fascist tank that appears, attacks and vanishes, leaving smouldering Russian tanks and cremated corpses in its wake.

Russian soldiers, happening upon a destroyed tank division, discover a blackened tank driver with burns on 90% of his body; he not only survives but miraculously heals in three weeks, unscarred. Born of war, remembering nothing of his former life, the renamed Ivan Naydenov (Aleksey Vertkov) claims to have gained the mystical ability to communicate with armoured vehicles and to have been assigned the mission of destroying the White Tiger.

As head of Mosfilm, Shakhnazarov commandeers the studio’s huge fleet of vintage, fully functional WWII tanks, and deploys them brilliantly. The battles are masterful, culminating in a spooky game of hideand-seek in a European ghost town that qualifies as an unmitigated tour de force. Vertkov completely convinces as the wacko communing with a higher being, while Vitaliy Kishchenko’s Mayor Fedotov perfectly mirrors the audience’s conflicted belief.

Ronnie Scheib, Variety

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SPIES SPIONE

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.20pm / 145 minutes Director: Fritz Lang / 1928 / Germany Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch

SPECIAL PRESENTATION In a special appearance at JDIFF, the film will be accompanied by pianist, violinist and composer Günther Buchwald

‘Spies is one of Lang’s best films. That means one of the best films ever made.’ Film Comment

After the embarrassing commercial failure of Metropolis (1927), director Fritz Lang was driven to make a film with greater popular appeal. He hoped to repeat the success of his earlier thriller Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), and so effectively reworked this film as Spione (1928), based on a novel by his then wife Thea von Harbou.

Spione is a masterfully composed thriller, skilfully employing expressionistic motifs to suggest a sense of dark menace, with some meticulously edited action sequences.

That Lang was influenced by the crime serials of French director Louis Feuillade is more than evident, although there is also a hint of the realism that the director would achieve with his next and most famous thriller, M (1931).

Like Lang’s first Mabuse film, Spione is very much the prototype for the modern adventure thriller. There’s a seriously evil criminal mastermind, a tough and charismatic hero, an attractive femme fatale, and a plot with more twists and turns than you can count.

Here, the said criminal mastermind is played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge, famous for his sinister portrayals of mad scientist Rotwang in Metropolis and the unscrupulous Dr Mabuse in Lang’s first two Mabuse films.

James Travers Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland

Sunday 17th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

EAT SLEEP DIE ÄTA SOVA DÖ

IN THE HOUSE DANS LA MAISON

Sun 17 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.25pm / 104 minutes

Director: Gabriela Pichler / 2012 / Sweden Cast: Nermina Lukač, Milan Dragišic, Peter Fält

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

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Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.35pm / 105 minutes Winner, Critics’ Week Award, Venice Film Festival A Swede of Balkan descent, twentysomething Raša (Nermina Lukač) isn’t the kind of person who would normally catch your eye. Slightly overweight and shabbily dressed, she resembles a descendant of Bresson’s Mouchette. But Raša isn’t nearly as forlorn as her cinematic predecessors: despite having little or no money, she forges numerous friendships, takes pride in her job (she’s the ‘fixer’ on the floor of the packing plant where she works), has a loving relationship with her father, and is part of a tight, supportive enclave of émigrés from Eastern Europe.

Director: François Ozon / 2012 / France Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Emmanuelle Seigner, Kristin Scott Thomas

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Possibly the most exciting first feature to emerge from Sweden since Fucking Åmål, Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die is a heart-wrenching account of the new Europe under globalization. Directed with sensitivity and profound emotional insight by Pichler, Eat Sleep Die boasts brilliant performances from the largely non-professional cast led by Lukač, who is simply unforgettable as the indomitable Raša.

Director: Conor Masterson / 2012 / Ireland

IRISH FOCUS

Conor Masterson will attend the screening Accomplished photographer Conor Masterson shot this exhilarating documentary on The Frames, one of the most enduring Irish music acts, over 18 months beginning in 2010 (their 20th anniversary).

Part insightful documentary, part concert film, this is less an examination of the band’s origins than an exploration of their musicianship and their need, as Glen Hansard says, to ‘learn how to dance with strangers’ while performing.

Masterson’s extensive knowledge of the band results in him eliciting direct, candid interviews, with discussions on the nature of music and collaboration (and tea) particularly fascinating. He also captures hair-raising concert footage, allowing us to experience their fierce energy from multiple angles.

While the renowned, intangible electricity produced at live performances by The Frames is impossible to fully capture on film, Masterson comes damn close.

The evolving dynamic between band members over the years is on display here, as it was at Glen’s recent extraordinary 4-hour ‘solo’ Dublin gig where the full band performed. The film is a deftly constructed and beautifully shot celebration of music and friendship.

For their legion of devoted fans, this is a welcome treasure. For those unacquainted, do yourself a favour – go and meet the band in the deep shade.

François Ozon’s seductive new film is perhaps his strongest work since Swimming Pool; a delicious, teasing reflection on mentoring, the creative process and the very nature of fiction, charged with the same flavourful air of dangerous sensuality and subversive humour that first put its French writer/director on the map.

Doing a complete switch from his more comic roles and his obnoxious character in Ozon’s Potiche (JDIFF 2011), Luchini plays a richly contradictory figure here.

Part poignant sad sack, part uptight prig and part exploitative predator, his participation in Claude’s story becoming almost maniacally voyeuristic.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

Steve Gravestock, Toronto International Film Festival

Sun 17 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8.35pm / 87 minutes

Winner, Golden Shell, San Sebastián International Film Festival

Literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is beyond despair over his students’ refusal to engage. So when, as a written assignment, Claude (Ernst Umhauer) turns in a meticulously detailed account of his weekend that’s as psychologically intriguing as it is ethically troubling, Germain is hooked. Claude’s serialised soap opera revolves around the ‘normal’ middle-class family of his fellow student Rapha (Bastien Ughetto), a source of envy and desire. But the real object he covets is Rapha’s exquisitely bored mother Esther (Emmanuelle Seigner). As we watch each new episode unfold, Germain shares the chapters with his frustrated wife Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas, in fine acerbic form).

However, Raša’s provisionally happy existence is about to be disrupted. The packing plant is looking for ‘efficiencies’. As Raša’s support network fragments and dissolves, she is confronted with a painful choice: leave her father and her friends for a new job in a different part of Sweden, or face permanent unemployment.

THE FRAMES: IN THE DEEP SHADE

‘an intriguingly subversive drama’, Screen International

With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland

Dublin Dance Festival 14—26 May 2013

Ultima Vez What the Body Does Not Remember

Abbey Theatre on the Abbey stage May 16–18 – 3 Nights only!

Tickets: €18-€35

Book now dublindancefestival.ie abbeytheatre.ie 01 8787 222

“Tough, brutal, playful, ironic and terrific” New York Times

Dance

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Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

Bedroom Farce

by Alan Ayckbourn Mondays: all seats €25 4 Tickets for €100 (Tues – Thurs)*

Students €15 (Mon – Thurs)* *Subject to availability

Box Office: (01) 874 4045

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Louis Lovett

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Directed by Alan Stanford Set Design by Eileen Diss Costume Design by Peter O’Brien Lighting Design by James McConnell Cast includes: Stephen Brennan, Deirdre Donnelly, Garrett Lombard, Louis Lovett, Rory Nolan, Kathy Rose O’Brien, Aoibheann O’Hara and Lorna Quinn

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THREE BEDROOMS, FOUR COUPLES AND ONE HECTIC NIGHT

Funny, gripping and acutely-observed, Alan Ayckbourn’s sophisticated comedy presents a hilarious view of middleclass marriage. Over the course of one night, one monstrously selfish couple hawk their problems around the bedrooms of three other couples and, in doing so, expose the cracks in all of their marriages including their own. With deft skill, Ayckbourn explores the pressures of marital relationships at their different stages to great comic effect, slicing deep into the soul of suburbia.

Monday 18th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

PIETÀ

Mon 18 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.10pm / 104 minutes

‘offers up the director’s vintage blend of cruelty, wit and moral complexity’, Variety

Director: Kim Ki-duk / 2012 / South Korea Cast: Min-soo Jo, Eunjin Kang, Jae-rok Kim, Jeong-jin Lee

Winner, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival

SPECTRUM

Korean festival favourite Kim Ki-duk is back in fighting form in Pietà, an intense and, for the first hour, sickeningly violent film that unexpectedly segues into a moving psychological study.

Blank-faced young Kang-do (Jeong-jin Lee) is the collector for a loan shark; his method is to make his victims sign an insurance policy that guarantees them money should they become disabled at work. When they don’t make their payments, Kang-do chops off their hands or crushes them in machines, or throws them off empty buildings to cripple them and collect the insurance money.

One day, out of the blue, a woman professing to be his mother turns up on his doorstep. Kang-do, who has never known tenderness in his life, falls under his mother’s spell and she becomes the most important thing in the world for him. When the big twist finally comes, this bleak downer of a film suddenly turns to poetry; a painful, melancholic ode to the human condition, clinched by a mournful final song.

Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

With the support of the Embassy of Korea and the Korea Foundation

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY Mon 18 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.15pm / 98 minutes

Director: Brad Bernstein / 2011 / US

E A R LY E V E N I N G

EVENING

PIETÀ

THE HARDY BUCKS MOVIE

Light House 1 / 6.10pm 104 mins

Light House 1 / 8.15pm 90 mins

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY

THE DEEP

Light House 2 / 6.15pm 98 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8.40pm 95 mins

REBELLION

STRINGS

Cineworld 9 / 6.20pm 135 mins

Light House 2 / 8.45pm 89 mins

BYPASS

THE KING OF PIGS

Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm 92 mins

Cineworld 9/ 9pm 97 mins

REAL TO REEL

Tomi Ungerer and Brad Bernstein will attend the screening ‘a detailed portrait of his strong-willed, outspoken (in three languages) and occasionally hilarious subject’, Variety Artist Tomi Ungerer rose to prominence in the late 1950s as the creator of acclaimed children’s books such as Crictor, Emile and The Three Robbers. ‘I dare say, no one was as original,’ says Maurice Sendak.

‘Tomi influenced everybody.’ In the 1960s he drew iconic protest posters for the anti-war and civil rights movements. Fuelled by his own desires, he created lavish books of erotica. But when his adult work came to the attention of the American Library Association in the early 1970s, his children’s books were effectively banned. He relocated from New York City to Nova Scotia, then Ireland, where he maintains a low profile today.

Director Brad Bernstein performs a laudable act of rediscovery by tracking down Ungerer, and what comes forth is an extraordinary artistic portrait.

Ungerer speaks with a twinkle in his eye and a gift with language that’s equal to his drawing talents. As for the explicit drawings that once got him in trouble: by today’s standards they could serve as illustrations for Fifty Shades of Grey. But that doesn’t mean society has caught up with Ungerer. He’s still more far out than most of us will ever get.

Thom Powers, Toronto International Film Festival

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Monday 18th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

REBELLION L’ORDRE ET LA MORALE

THE HARDY BUCKS MOVIE

Mon 18 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.20pm / 135 minutes Director: Mathieu Kassovitz / 2011 / France Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Monday 18th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

France’s maverick film-maker Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine) returns in full form as the star, director and co-writer for this major production about a botched uprising attempt by a handful of New Caledonian separatists who asked for their independence in April 1988, just as presidential elections were about to take place in France.

Mon 18 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.15pm / 90 minutes

Mike Cockayne and cast will attend the screening

Director: Mike Cockayne / 2012 / Ireland Cast: Martin Maloney, Chris Tordoff, Owen Colgan

Made for a paltry but impressive €300,000, The Hardy Bucks Movie has been a long time coming.

Featuring characters that have appeared in previous guises both online and on national broadcaster RTÉ, the best thing about the show’s expansion from a weekly prime-time TV instalment to a featurelength movie is that its directors are instilled with a newfound freedom to push new boundaries. The Hardy Bucks Movie is a gleefully unhinged crowdpleaser with an inherently Irish sense of humour.

That sense of humour takes them to strange places, both comedically and geographically – it is a road trip movie, after all – and really allows the gifted cast to go all out. Their strand of comedy feels improvised but also serves to engage the audience in new ways, with the main cast – but particularly lead man ‘The Viper’ himself (Chris Tordoff) – turning in very strong performances.

IRISH FOCUS

As socialist President François Mitterand faced right-wing Prime Minister Jacques Chirac in the race for the presidency, the New Caledonia crisis turned into just one more weapon for them to wave against each other. The media threw oil on the fire and mixed messages were sent to the forces dispatched to restore order, all of which lead to a brutal military response and many unnecessary victims among the native Kanaks.

Based on the memoirs of Captain Philippe Legorjus (played by Kassovitz himself), who led the police unit in the field, Rebellion looks for all purposes like a tightly made action drama, with effective top notch camera work, nervous editing to pump energy in every scene, and a cast driven to perform at full steam.

Mike Sheridan, Joe.ie

Dan Fainaru, Screen International

BYPASS

Mon 18 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm / 92 minutes

Director: Patxo Tellería, Aitor Mazo / 2011 / Spain Cast: Gorka Otxoa, Sara Cózar, Bárbara Goenaga

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Patxo Tellería and Aitor Mazo will attend the screening A surprisingly sprightly low-budget Basque romantic comedy, Bypass looks like a TV sitcom and occasionally feels like a TV sitcom, but codirectors Patxo Tellería and Aitor Mazo surely know how to plot a caper feature. Tellería and Mazo (a playwright and TV star who also stars in Bypass) pretty much plot themselves onto a precipice, yet somehow manage to pull it all off.

Man-about-Barcelona Xabi (Gorka Otxoa) used to room in Bilbao with his university best friends Maria (Sara Cózar), Jone and Ugalde. Currently dating Nerea (Bárbara Goenaga), who could be the woman to finally tame this bachelor boy, Xabi receives a long-awaited phone call from Bilbao to inform him that the terminally-ill Maria is about to die from her congenital heart condition. Aghast to discover that Maria has always been in love with him, Xabi decides to tell her that the feeling is mutual in order to sweeten her ‘last hours’ on earth.

But, fortified by his love, Maria makes a dramatic recovery. Before he knows it, Xabi has talked himself into moving in with her in Bilbao even as his Barcelona girlfriend announces she is pregnant…

THE DEEP DJÚPID

Mon 18 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.40pm / 95 minutes Director: Baltasar Kormákur / 2012 / Iceland / Norway Cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Björn Thors

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘[a] masterful blend of sound and fury’, Screen International In 1984, when a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Iceland, Gulli, the lone survivor, spends several hours in the near-freezing North Atlantic waters. His inexplicable – some would say miraculous – survival makes him a media magnet and a scientific curiosity; he is poked and prodded by incredulous experts in an attempt to understand how he could have survived such an ordeal. But it is the immense sadness of his experience that stays with Gulli; he fundamentally rejects the notion that he is somehow remarkable: ‘All I did was save my own life,’ he says; ‘wouldn’t anyone have tried that?’

Based on real events, director Baltasar Kormákur’s account of the tragedy captures in Gulli an Everyman in an extraordinary situation. Through recounting the fisherman’s simple actions, The Deep becomes a moving chronicle of the human spirit.

Doha Tribeca Film Festival

Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International Please note: there will be a second screening of Bypass on Tuesday 19 Feb in UCD, with the support of UCD Filmbase.

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Monday 18th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

STRINGS

Mon 18 Feb / Light House 2 / 8.45pm / 89 minutes Director: Rob Savage / 2012 / UK Cast: Philine Lembeck, Oliver Malam, Hannah Wilder

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Rob Savage will attend the screening ‘An astonishing achievement’, Cinevue Winner, Raindance Award, British Independent Film Award Just making a feature is an achievement; doing it for £3,000 is particularly impressive. Doing it as a writer/director/photographer and turning 18 on the first day of the shoot is surely the sign of a fantastic film-maker announcing his presence.

Rob Savage’s Strings is a refreshingly honest and painfully raw account of teenage romance. The story follows four young people and their romantic endeavours in that blissful summer before they leave home to go to university. Grace (Philine Lembeck) is a visiting German student, soon to return home. She falls for the quiet, distant Jon (played by an excellent Oliver Malam), whilst her best friend Scout (Hannah Wilder) becomes entangled in an increasingly violent relationship with her long-term boyfriend Chris (Akbar Ali).

The four lead actors rise to the challenge of portraying the confusion of teenage romance. Credit to Mr Savage for reining in their performances to create a muted, nuanced piece. Everything from the sparse use of sound, the interspersed smatterings of German, and the lighting create an almost haunting effect, drawing you in and immersing you in the story. Surely a talent for the future.

Krystyna Kosciuszko, Raindance Film Festival

THE KING OF PIGS DWAE-JI-UI WANG

Mon 18 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 9pm / 97 minutes Director: Yeon Sang-ho / 2011 / South Korea Cast: Ik-joon Yang, Jeong-se Oh, Hye-na Kim

SPECTRUM

‘this satire on class inequality burns like acid’, The Hollywood Reporter Winner, NETPAC Award, Busan International Film Festival A daring, disturbing and violent animated film about bullying, social status and class difference, The King of Pigs marks a brave new direction for Korean animation.

Kyung-min, a virtually bankrupt businessman, and journalist Jong-suk were once classmates in middle school. They reunite 15 years later and talk about their school days, in which the rich and powerful students were called ‘dogs’ and the poor ones ‘pigs’. This social distinction created an atmosphere that allowed the privileged to abuse the less fortunate. The hierarchies and systematic humiliations are questioned by no one, and condoned by the school’s teachers - at least until the arrival of Chul, who takes on the dogs with a clarity of purpose and brutality not seen before in the school. He becomes Kyung-min and Jong-suk’s hero, fighting their battles and toughening them up. But the relationship between the hero and his followers is a complex one, and the film gradually reveals the lingering effects of a childhood marred by inhumanity.

The darkness of the story is matched by stark and brutal imagery, making The King of Pigs a truly visionary and uncompromising work of art.

Sydney Film Festival With the support of the Embassy of Korea and the Korea Foundation

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PIAZZA FONTANA: THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

DARIO MARIANELLI - FILM COMPOSER

Cineworld 8 / 6.05pm 109 mins

National Concert Hall / 8pm

Cineworld 8 / 3.30pm 125 mins

PABLO Light House 2 / 6.05pm 93 mins

BROKEN SONG IFI 1 / 6.10pm 66 mins

EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN Cineworld 11 / 6.10pm 118 mins

SOMETHING IN THE AIR Light House 1 / 6.10pm 122 mins

VANISHING WAVES Light House 2 / 8.25pm 120 mins

ARBITRAGE Cineworld 11 / 8.40pm 107 mins

COLIN DUNNE - SCULPTING SPACE Cineworld 8 / 8.40pm 72 mins

JUMP Light House 1 / 9pm 82 mins

Tuesday 19th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

PIAZZA FONTANA: THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY ROMANZO DI UNA STRAGE

Tues 19 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3.30pm / 125 minutes

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana / 2012 / Italy Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘the film superbly re-creates the atmosphere of tension that characterized the period’, The Hollywood Reporter December 1969: A bank in Milan is blown up, killing 17 people. An anarchist leader with impeccable credentials dies while being interrogated. Prosecutors, judges and the government struggle to get at the truth, never knowing who within their ranks may be listening in.

Tuesday 19th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

Tues 19 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.05pm / 109 minutes Director: Abbas Kiarostami / 2012 / France / Japan Cast: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase

SPECTRUM

Marco Tullio Giordana (The Best of Youth) investigates a devastating true story of political violence with remarkable clarity, precision and elegance. He depicts a Machiavellian labyrinth of deceit, featuring political extremists, police conspiracy, informants and spies.

‘Like Someone in Love plays out like a haiku – there seems to be no beginning or end, and each scene offers a multitude of possibilities’, The Japan Times The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s wondrous new film is set in Tokyo, where Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a young prostitute working her way through university studies, is pressured by her firmly paternal pimp to see a john that night despite her prior appointment with her grandmother. The next morning, Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), the client, an elderly retired professor and independent scholar, drives her to school, where, thrown together with her fiancé (Ryo Kase), the old man rapidly assumes a surprisingly active and beneficent role in her life.

The story’s sentimental and fable-like contours, emphasized by Kiarostami’s distinctive blend of analytical stylization and documentary avidity, throw character traits into sharply foregrounded relief.

From the very first shot in a bar, where the action is sparked by an off-camera voice, he revitalizes the ordinary by means of his extraordinary powers of perception and juxtaposition. The many trips through Tokyo, filmed incisively from moving vehicles, infuse the rich texture of the city with a startling emotional intensity and a sense of teeming ambient drama; the story’s loose ends lead deep into the fabric of intertwined lives.

Comedy star Valerio Mastandrea plays the anguished police commissioner, Pierfrancesco Favino is the martyred activist, and Fabrizio Gifuni the nation’s future prime minister and eventual victim of Red Brigades terrorism. All are superb, as Giordana sets the stage for 30 years of Italian violence and resistance.

Larry Gross, Telluride Film Festival Presented in association with the Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin

Richard Brody, The New Yorker Please note: there will be a second screening on Sun 24 February in Light House 1 at 5.15pm

PABLO

Tues 19 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.05pm / 93 minutes

Director: Richard Goldgewicht / 2012 / US

REAL TO REEL

Richard Goldgewicht will attend the screening A wonderful delve into the life and talent of the renowned film title designer, artist, trailer maker and full-on bohemian Pablo Ferro, this enthralling documentary is a must for any lover of cinema.

An astute and entertaining blend of interviews, extracts and animation, Richard Goldgewicht’s film is – appropriately – delightfully designed and quite brilliantly narrated by Jeff Bridges, who brings a suitable Dude’s sensibility to the story of a man who embraced hippydom and all that entails.

With contributions from the likes of George Segal, Beau Bridges, Jon Voight, Andy Garcia and Anjelica Huston, the film is a wonderful celebration of Pablo Ferro’s work on films such as Dr Strangelove, Stop Making Sense, Midnight Cowboy and Bullitt.

He discusses with modesty how he created the multiple screen effects at the start of The Thomas Crown Affair and how Stanley Kubrick turned to him to create the staccato trailer for A Clockwork Orange. There are also contributions from his wife, children and former girlfriends who help deal with the darker aspects of life in the 1960s and his unconventional approach to fatherhood.

Mark Adams, Screen International

SOMETHING IN THE AIR APRÈS MAI

Tues 19 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.10pm / 122 minutes

Director: Olivier Assayas / 2012 / France Cast: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Olivier Assayas will attend the screening and will participate in a discussion of European Cinema on Wed 20 Feb. See p.119 for details.

Made with the bittersweet clarity of hindsight and the assurance of a director in peak form, Something in the Air is Olivier Assayas’ wise and wistful memory piece on the revolutionary fervour that suffused his young adulthood. Conjuring the mood and attitudes of 1970s counter-culture with pinpoint detail and nary a shred of naive romanticism, this tender but dispassionate semi-autobiographical drama offers a gentle rebuke to the celebratory spirit of many post-68 movies.

A moody, dark-haired teen with a talent for drawing and painting, Gilles (Clément Métayer) has been profoundly shaped by the tumult of May 1968. Gilles and his friends mobilize themselves, covering their school with graffiti slogans by night. But when a guard is injured during a Molotov-cocktail assault gone awry, several of them seek to avoid suspicion by heading abroad for the summer. Gilles takes up with Christine (Lola Créton, last seen in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Goodbye, First Love), who shares his film-making aspirations but has very different ideas about how to fulfil them.

Something in the Air quietly demystifies its subject.

The tone of the piece is wryly affectionate but never indulgent; the experiences depicted feel emotionally true and lived-in without ever catching the viewer up in a rush of intoxication or excitement.

Justin Chang, Variety

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Tuesday 19th February

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EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN TODOS TENEMOS UN PLAN

Tues 19 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 6.10pm / 118 minutes Director: Ana Piterbarg / 2012 / Argentina Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Sofía Gala Castiglione, Javier Godino

SPECTRUM

Viggo Mortensen’s trademark quiet strength and enigmatic stillness work to impressive effect in Ana Piterbarg’s moody and evocative drama Everybody Has a Plan, set against the backdrop of Argentina’s tough and isolated Tigre Delta.

In Buenos Aires, Agustín (Mortensen) leads a comfortable life as a doctor. But he is depressed and restless, and when his wife (Soledad Villamil) wants to adopt a child he – very gently – snaps. His wife goes away on business, but the next day his identical twin brother Pedro (also Mortensen) arrives on an unexpected visit. Pedro announces that he has a terminal illness and, in a sudden decision, Agustín takes Pedro’s identity and travels to the Tigre Delta, where the two brothers spent their youth. Agustín finds himself embroiled in Pedro’s criminal past, and inheriting the vendettas of old, murderous acquaintances.

Beautifully shot by Lucio Bonelli, the film is nicely constructed by debut writer/director Ana Piterbarg who layers in gentle twists and turns and keeps the story suspenseful. Though at heart Everybody Has a Plan is an old-fashioned crime film, it is packed with intriguing personalities facing tough decisions in an attempt to find the right life for them.

Mark Adams, Screen International

DARIO MARIANELLI: FILM COMPOSER Tues 19 Feb / National Concert Hall / 8pm

BROKEN SONG

Tues 19 Feb / IFI 1 / 6.10pm / 66 minutes Director: Claire Dix / 2012 / Ireland

IRISH FOCUS

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Conductor: Christopher Austin

Claire Dix will attend the screening Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.

‘People look at us and they see the stereotype, “they’re this, they’re that…they’re scumbags”.

You’ve got to show them how good you are, you’ve got to whip out a tune that they couldn’t write in their dreams.’ Git This documentary asks whether art and artistic expression can allow us to look beyond the facts of someone’s past and see into their soul. Git, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists and songwriters from north Dublin. For these young men self-expression in the form of poetry, rap and song has become a spiritual experience. Their aim is simply to articulate the chaos that surrounds them and to fight it with their words and voices alone. Along the way it has become their identity, their religion and, as they claim themselves, they are its high priests.

In the end, the place where they live and their words are one and the same, constantly in flux, full of darkness and light. It is proof that these suburbs – that have bred darkness, murder and hate – have also inspired poetry and these unlikely artists are using words alone to fight back.

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and the National Concert Hall are delighted to present Dario Marianelli: Film Composer, as part of Ireland’s EU presidency celebrations.

Italian composer Dario Marianelli won an Oscar, Golden Globe and Ivor Novello in the Best Original Score category for the award-winning film Atonement, for which he was also BAFTA nominated. He was also Oscar nominated for his score for Pride and Prejudice. Dario has composed the music for a range of acclaimed films such as Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Brothers Grimm, V for Vendetta, the Irish feature films Ailsa and I Went Down and, most recently, Anna Karenina (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Score).

Introduced by Dario Marianelli, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra presents a programme specially selected for the National Concert Hall by the composer, including music from Ailsa and I Went Down as well as debut Irish performances of his The Brothers Grimm, Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina and Atonement suites.

Presented by the National Concert Hall and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in association with Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

Tickets for this special event are only available from The National Concert Hall Box Office at www.nch.ie or call 01 417 0000.

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra prides itself on its accessibility to all, its dynamic programming and its non-confinement to any one genre.

For more information on the RTÉ Concert Orchestra see rte.ie/co

The Arts Council participation in the Cultural Programme to mark Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union is supported by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht / Tá rannpháirtíocht na Comhairle Ealaíon sa Chlár Cultúrtha chun comóradh a dhéanamh ar Uachtaránacht na hÉireann ar Chomhairle an Aontais Eorpaigh á tacú ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta.

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Tuesday 19th February

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VANISHING WAVES

Tues 19 Feb / Light House 2 / 8.25pm /120 minutes

Kristina Buožyte will attend the screening

Director: Kristina Buožyte / 2012 / Lithuania / France / Belgium Cast: Marius Jampolskis, Jurga Jutaitė, Rudolfas Jansonas

Special Jury Mention, Karlovy Vary Film Festival

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

A bold, visionary work of science fiction cinema that that is equally occupied by the erotic as well as the fantastic, Vanishing Waves recalls the genre in its cerebral 1960s and 70s golden age, just as it simultaneously forges new territory with its unique fusion of emotional melodrama and hallucinatory widescreen spectacle. A major young talent, director Kristina Buožyte has created one of the most accomplished and distinctive European films in recent memory.

Tuesday 19th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

COLIN DUNNE - SCULPTING SPACE

Tues 19 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.40pm / 72 minutes Director: Catherine Owens / 2012 / Ireland

REAL TO REEL

Catherine Owens and Colin Dunne will attend the screening In Colin Dunne - Sculpting Space, New Yorkbased Irish artist Catherine Owens gives us an exquisite 3D glimpse into traditional Irish dancer Colin Dunne’s journey from his childhood world championship days to ensemble work with Riverdance, through Dancing on Dangerous Ground, to his groundbreaking solo show Out Of Time.

Owens traces Colin’s achievements as a leading figure in traditional Irish dance, and his transition into the more revealing world of contemporary dance and theatre – thus illuminating the thought process of an unflinching artist who constantly seeks to push his own boundaries. 3D excerpts from Colin Dunne’s extraordinary Out Of Time are contextualised by interviews with artists who have influenced and supported him over three decades. Owens gives us a ringside seat as Dunne explores his art form, interrogating the solo tradition while connecting with, and paying homage to, unsung and unpretentious masters of the form.

Lukas (Marius Jampolskis) is assisting a scientific research team by functioning as a patient in a series of heavily monitored (and medicated) sensory deprivation experiments wherein he is attempting to make some form of contact with Aurora (Jurga Jutaite), a young woman locked in a comatose state. The experiment takes an unexpected twist when Lukas and Aurora develop a strong psychic link… and their link quickly evolves into a romantic, sexually charged relationship.

Well known for her work with U2, director Catherine Owens is also a pioneer of 3D film. The New York Times hailed her directorial debut U23D as ‘the first IMAX movie to be called a work of art’.

Owens’ film is a refreshing and thoughtful look into the creative process of the solo artist.

Exploring the tantalizing possibilities of forming a true, all-encompassing bond with one’s lover, Vanishing Waves is hypnotic, erotic, wholly engrossing and wildly thought-provoking cinema that transcends any perceived limitations of the science fiction genre, becoming one of the year’s most provocative films in the process.

Deirdre Mulrooney

Seattle International Film Festival

ARBITRAGE

Tues 19 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 8.40pm / 107 minutes Director: Nicholas Jarecki / 2012 / US Cast: Richard Gere, Brit Marling, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth

SPECTRUM

‘What a killer actor Richard Gere can be when a movie rises to his level. His rapt, watchful performance is a thing of toxic beauty.’ Rolling Stone Richard Gere was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor Nicholas Jarecki makes an auspicious directorial debut with this taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. Arbitrage – buying low and selling high – depends on a person’s ability to determine the true value of any given market.

It’s a talent that has made billionaire hedge fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) the very portrait of success in American business. But on the eve of his sixtieth birthday, Miller finds himself desperately trying to sell his trading empire to a major bank before the extent of his fraud is discovered. When an unexpected, bloody error challenges his perception of what things are worth, Miller finds that his business is not the only thing hanging in the balance.

Building on the chemistry and charisma of an outstanding cast, including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, and Nate Parker, Jarecki leads us through the slick and duplicitous limits of impunity and composes an anatomy of the way asset bubbles can burst.

Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival

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JUMP

Tues 19 Feb / Light House 1 / 9pm / 82 minutes Director: Kieron J Walsh / 2012 / UK / Ireland Cast: Nichola Burley, Martin McCann, Ciaran McMenamin

IRISH FOCUS

Kieron J Walsh will attend the screening A delightfully dark comic crime thriller that twists and turns through its interweaving storyline, this stylishly made film relishes its intricate plotting and smooth shooting style.

Set against the backdrop of New Year’s Eve in Derry, it tracks three interlocking storylines as a series of troubled and sad souls make their way through the night. At the core of the film is a charming and charismatic performance from Nichola Burley – who has never been better – as depressed Greta, the daughter of local mobster Frank Feeney (Lalor Roddy).

Set to commit suicide by jumping from Derry Peace Bridge, she is stopped from leaping by Pearse Kelly (Martin McCann), who doesn’t know who she is, but has his own reasons for hating her father. The pair set off into the night and find themselves caught up in a strange series of events.

In amidst the elegantly shot drama there are some delicious moments of black humour as the story (based on Lisa McGee’s stage play) weaves its way through the city. Jump is a smart and charming little gem of a movie.

Mark Adams, Screen International

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THE IRISH TIMES

Picture House & Film Tour

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

1 – 6 February

JDIFF’s outreach programme has long been an integral part of the festival, bringing the magic of cinema to people who would otherwise be unable to take part.

Over the years we’ve organised screenings in everything from hospitals to prisons, and last year we took the festival to ten care centres throughout Dublin. We called the initiative ‘Picture House’.

We are delighted to bring ‘Picture House’ back into the programme for 2013, after it garnered much success in 2012. For 2013, we will introduce two short Buster Keaton silent films: One Week and Cops, which will be screened in six care centres around Dublin.

Two of the care centres will see an added twist this year as the short films will be screened with live musical accompaniment from Morgan Cooke. Each screening comes with a side order of ice cream, courtesy of HB.

VENUES & DATES

Morgan Cooke is composer-in-residence and performer with Branar Drámaíochta, who perform puppet theatre for children.

Morgan has been performing improvised live soundtracks to silent movies since 2009, beginning with Metropolis. Morgan is also a voiceover artist, and worked on TG4’s version of Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock.

Wed 6 Feb, 3.15pm Orwell House, Rathgar

Fri 1 Feb, 3pm Ashford House, Dun Laoghaire Sun 3 Feb, 2.30pm St Mary’s, Phoenix Park (with Morgan Cooke) Mon 4 Feb, 12.45pm Cairdeas Day Care Centre, Cork St, Dublin 8 Mon 4 Feb, 3.30pm Dalkey Community Unit, Dalkey

Wed 6 Feb, 6.30pm The Marlay, Rathfarnham (with Morgan Cooke)

Academy Award®–winning actress Brenda Fricker is the patron of ‘Picture House’ for a second year running.

Thanks to all the participating venues and to Age & Opportunity.

Morgan Cooke

JDIFF and access>CINEMA are delighted to expand this year’s programme to include a number of regional presentations.

5 – 28 February

This exciting development will see two Buster Keaton shorts – One Week and Cops – and the Harold Lloyd classic Safety Last! play in venues around Ireland with original live musical accompaniment provided by composer Morgan Cooke (see schedule opposite).

We would like to acknowledge the key support for this programme of the Arts Council and access>CINEMA.

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SAFETY LAST!

COPS & ONE WEEK

Directors: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor 1923 / US / 77 minutes Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis

Directors: Edward F Cline, Buster Keaton 1920 & 1922 / US / 22 minutes & 25 minutes Cast: Buster Keaton

Safety Last! is perhaps Harold Lloyd’s most famous feature. A riotous adventure of laughs, stunts and action, it includes the iconic film moment where Lloyd dangles off the face of a clock high above a busy street.

These two classic short films date from Keaton’s heyday in the twenties. In One Week a man trying to build a house struggles for his life as a tornado tears through his property, while in Cops, a man spurned by his lover finds himself pursued by half the police force of the United States. The stunts – many of them real and performed

by Keaton himself – are breathtaking, and the comedy, thanks to Keaton’s deadpan delivery, is still wonderfully fresh.

Sun 17 Feb, 3pm Friars’ Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick (www.friarsgate.ie) Sat 23 Feb, 3pm The Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre, Naul, Fingal, Co. Dublin (www. seamusenniscentre.com) Thurs 28 Feb, 8pm Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo (www.arasinisgluaire.ie)

Tue 5 Feb, 8pm Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford City, Co. Waterford (www.garterlane.ie) Sun 24 Feb, 1pm JDIFF screening Dublin (see p.105 for details)

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POST TENEBRAS LUX

CAPITAL

SHELL

Cineworld 9 / 3.45pm 117 mins

Cineworld 8 / 6pm 114 mins

Light House 2 / 8.30pm 90 mins

AFTER LUCIA

IFB SHORTS

A HIJACKING

Cineworld 8 / 4pm 102 mins

Light House 1 / 6.10pm 125 mins

Cineworld 9 / 8.35pm 99 mins

EARTHBOUND

80 MILLION

Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm 93 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm 105 mins

THE ROAD: A STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH

BLACK ICE

Light House 2 / 6.20pm 75 mins

Light House 1 / 8.50pm 100 mins

Wednesday 20th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

POST TENEBRAS LUX

Wed 20 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 3.45pm / 117 minutes Director: Carlos Reygadas / 2012 / Mexico / France / Germany / Netherlands Cast: Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres

SPECTRUM

Winner, Best Director, Cannes Film Festival From his auspicious debut feature Japón onward, Mexican iconoclast Carlos Reygadas has proven himself one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema. With Post Tenebras Lux (‘After Darkness, Light’), his most personal and demanding film to date, Reygadas eschews narrative chronology in favour of a kaleidoscopic vision of a family sliding between tenderness and violence, guilt and repentance.

Wednesday 20th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

CAPITAL LE CAPITAL

Wed 20 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6pm / 114 minutes

Director: Costa-Gavras / 2012 / France Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Regnier

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

A little girl wanders alone on an open, muddy pasture at dusk, surrounded by animals, increasingly frightened by the storm brewing above her head. The girl is one of two toddlers (played by Reygadas’ own children) belonging to an affluent young couple, Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) and Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo), who reside in a lush, country villa. Following the family’s daily routine with quiet attentiveness, Reygadas soon reveals demons – literal demons – lurking within this seemingly idyllic domesticity. This already fraught summer comes careening to a halt when a sudden act of violence leaves Juan injured and desperate, setting in motion a final rush of fevered events.

Costa-Gavras and Gabriel Byrne will attend the screenings ‘Byrne is plausible and truly frightening’, The Hollywood Reporter A cracking good melodrama set in a contemporary world of high finance and low cunning, CostaGavras’ Capital nimbly plays on our worst memories of the 2008 economic meltdown with a persuasively detailed tale of boardroom politics, international banking, remorseless backstabbing and billion-dollar wheeling-and-dealing.

Capital follows the sudden rise of Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh), a hard-driven up-and-comer who becomes CEO of France’s (fictional) Phenix Bank. Board members figure the appointment is just a temporary measure, but the new CEO has every intention of holding on to his job. Tourneuil’s most helpful ally in his bid to maintain his position turns out to be Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne), the glad-handing but hot-tempered head of a US hedge fund. Rigule views Tourneuil as a useful pawn in his long-range plan to take complete control of the venerable French bank.

Tourneuil, of course, has a different role in mind.

Working from a cleverly twisty script, CostaGavras refuses to make things easy for the viewer, avoiding the cliché of a flawed protagonist in search of redemption.

Shifting from his own reminiscences to projections of the future, from a child’s perspective to some very adult growing pains, Reygadas has created one of the most challenging and indelible films of the year.

Joe Leydon, Variety

Diana Sanchez, Toronto International Film Festival Please note: there will be a second screening on Sunday 24 February in Light House 1 at 2.50pm

AFTER LUCIA DESPUÉS DE LUCÍA

EARTHBOUND

Wed 20 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 4pm / 102 minutes

Director: Michel Franco / 2012 / Mexico Cast: Tessa Ia, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzálo Vega Jr

SPECTRUM

With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland

Wed 20 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm / 93 minutes Winner, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival Michel Franco (Daniel & Ana – JDIFF 2010), who after only two features has emerged as one of the finest and most imaginative young directors on the scene, has no use for conventional romantic couples in leading roles. He prefers family members caught up in unpleasant situations. In After Lucia, a depressed father and his teen daughter set out for Mexico City to begin new chapters in their lives after the death of his beloved wife, Lucia. Roberto (Hernán Mendoza) wants to eradicate the past; Alejandra (Tessa Ia), wants mainly to help her father and keep him from falling into complete despair.

When Alejandra lets the handsome young Jose seduce her in the restroom, the cocky boy films it, then sends it out on the internet. This marks the beginning of the bullying, but it is some time before Roberto becomes aware of what has transpired and sees the footage. Finally, this listless man becomes energized.

Not satisfied with a shoddy police investigation after Alejandra disappears at a class beach trip, he decides to take the law into his own hands.

Howard Feinstein, Screen International

Director: Alan Brennan / 2012 / Ireland Cast: Rafe Spall, Jenn Murray, David Morrissey

IRISH FOCUS

Earthbound is the story of a young man convinced he’s a space alien. Fifteen years after his father’s death, Joe (Rafe Spall) is still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Just before dad (David Morrissey) died, he told Joe they were both aliens, members of a race that inhabited the faraway planet Zalaxon. Until the rebellion there is successful, Joe must hide out, work in a comic book store and somehow perpetuate their race.

Spall is terrifically deadpan, his Joe a true believer and budding paranoid, but not immune to love; when he discovers the lovely Maria (Jenn Murray), he confides everything to her, at which point she thinks he’s nuts.

She brings in her old psychology teacher to counsel Joe, and his entire worldview begins to collapse.

Brennan’s tour de force is the way he dismantles Joe’s elaborate Zalaxon scenario. Earthbound acquires a pathos that places it outside the realm of comedy or sci-fi, turning it into a psychological drama that probes self-delusion and even psychosis. Murray and Spall play this all with wonderfully straight faces, allowing the comedy to arise from circumstances that might well evolve around any stranger in a strange land, or even one who just thinks he is.

John Anderson, Variety

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IFB SHORTS

IRISH FOLK FURNITURE

Wed 20 Feb / Light House 1 6.10pm / 125 minutes

Director: Tony Donoghue / 8 mins

IFB SHORTS

Directors: Various / 2012 / Ireland The Irish Film Board presents a selection of short films which showcase the wealth of cinematic talent currently at work in Ireland. This year’s selection is a tour-de-force of strong, original storytelling, visual flair and consistently high production values.

Wednesday 20th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

THE ROAD: A STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH

Wed 20 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.20pm / 75 minutes Director: Marc Isaacs / 2012 / UK / Ireland

REAL TO REEL

An animated documentary about repair and recycling in an Irish village.

When the summer is over, the urban seagull has to learn to catch the fish.

Pensioner Tommy Fogarty wants to impress his new lady friend by baking a cake, but finds a gang of feral teenage girls have other ideas.

FEAR OF FLYING

TWO WHEELS, GOOD AFTER YOU

UN PEU PLUS

Director: Conor Finnegan / 9 mins

Director: Barry Gene Murphy / 9 mins

Director: Damien O’Connor / 7 mins

Director: Conor Ferguson / 7 mins

IFB SHORTS

IFB SHORTS

An inventor takes an unorthodox approach to childrearing.

IFB SHORTS

Director: Laura McGann / 13 mins

IFB SHORTS

Luke McManus / 5 mins

IFB SHORTS

Director: Teemu Auersalo / 4 mins

IFB SHORTS

Director: Andrew Legge / 15 mins

IFB SHORTS

THE END OF THE COUNTER

IFB SHORTS

THE GIRL WITH THE MECHANICAL MAIDEN LEARNING TO FISH HOMEMADE

Marc Isaacs will attend the screening An ancient Roman Road, the A5, running from Hollyhead in Wales to London dissects the suburbs of Cricklewood, Kilburn, Maida Vale and Marylebone before ending at Marble Arch in central London.

These suburbs are the canvas for Marc Isaacs’ moving documentary film where a myriad of multicultural characters share personal stories of life, love, loss and death along the Edgware Road.

Keelta, a young Irish woman leaves home to make her way in the world. Peggy, a 95-year-old feisty Jewish refugee living alone opens up her heart. Brigitte, a former air hostess from Germany shares her home with her estranged husband. Billy, a retired Irish labourer, tells how he lost his way in life. Along the road a young man from Burma cooks for Buddhist monks. Iqbal a hotel concierge awaits the arrival of his wife from Kashmir. Shia Muslims beat their breasts in a nearby mosque whilst Bingo players pass time in a giant hall.

At times cinematic, Isaacs’ handheld camerawork is full of visual metaphor, moving us from one character to another in a seamless way. An honest film with a probing and inquisitive film-maker at its heart.

Barrie Dowdall, documentary film-maker

The End of the Counter captures the moment in 1965 when grocery shopping changed forever with the birth of the supermarket.

SHELL

Wed 20 Feb / Light House 2 / 8.30pm / 90 minutes Director: Scott Graham / 2012 / UK Cast: Chloe Pirrie, Michael Smiley, Joseph Mawle

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES Combining live action and animation, four inspiring veterans of the open road celebrate life in the saddle.

Eli O’Dowd has been a doorman at Dublin city’s grandest hotel since 1920.

One day, much to his horror, Eli sees the city’s latest arrival… the revolving door!

Proud Madame Rousseau embarks on an epic journey to eat cakes with sweet abandon.

But life has some bittersweet lessons to teach her.

HOME

DOGHOUSE

BIRD FOOD

DEBRIS

Director: Aoife Kelleher / 15 mins

Director: Morgan Bushe / 17 mins

Director: Richard Keane / 5 mins

Director: Mark O’Rowe / 16 mins

IFB SHORTS

IFB SHORTS

IFB SHORTS

IFB SHORTS

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading south for the winter.

A film that explores the impact of growing up in a specific place and reveals the bonds that bind us to our first home.

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Terminally broke, and facing eviction, Doug is charged with looking after his son Billy for the day, while having to get shot of the family dog – Billy’s best and only friend.

A man plans to eat his lunch in the park, but the local pigeons have other ideas!

Several years after his girlfriend’s suicide, David is in a new relationship. But a chance encounter with the dead woman’s sister raises questions about just how complicit he was in her death.

Scott Graham will attend the screening Winner, Best Film, Turin Film Festival ‘Shell like the petrol station?’ asks a man of the eponymous heroine of Scott Graham’s debut feature. ‘Shell like the beautiful thing you get in the sea,’ the affection-starved 17-year-old replies.

Manning a practically disused service station in the remotest highlands of Scotland, Shell lives with only her broken-down mechanic father Pete (Joseph Mawle) for company. All is clearly not right in Shell’s world, but she’s intrinsically a bright soul who has an effect on everyone she encounters.

Pete, meanwhile, is taciturn, damaged, an epileptic who is terrified of physical warmth, perhaps for good reason. This leaves Shell alone to deal with the attentions of local loners (Graham again draws strong performances from Michael Smiley and young Iain de Caestecker) when all she really wants is her dad.

Graham’s shorts – Shell, and in particular Native Son – have provided a strong sense of where this young director’s preoccupations lie. As a feature debut, Shell fulfils these expectations while holding out the promise of more to come. Right from the opening moments, where he plays with proportions and perspective from the window of a truck, Graham has his say in Shell and he should find viewers who are eager to listen.

Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International 67

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A HIJACKING KAPRINGEN

Wed 20 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8.35pm / 99 minutes Director: Tobias Lindholm / 2012 / Denmark Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Abdihakin Asgar

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Tobias Lindholm and co-producer Rene Ezra will attend the screening. Tobias Lindholm will run a screenwriting masterclass on Thurs 21 Feb. See p.119 for details.

Winner, Golden Alexander for Best Film, Thessaloniki International Film Festival & Crystal Arrow, Les Arcs European Film Festival

Wednesday 20th February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

BLACK ICE

Wed 20 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.50pm / 100 minutes Director: Johnny Gogan / 2012 / Ireland Cast: Jane McGrath, Killian Scott, Dermot Murphy

IRISH FOCUS

A tense and intricately shot drama, writer/director Tobias Lindholm’s solo debut is a powerful and intensely watchable film as it tackles the highpressure negotiations over a hijacked ship. Lindholm wrote for the award-winning Danish TV series Borgen, as well as scripting Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, while with Michael Noer he co-directed the tough prison drama R.

Johnny Gogan will attend the screening Teenagers Alice and her brother Tom are obsessed with racing cars. Growing up in the borderlands of Leitrim there is little else for them to do, but when Jimmy Devlin, a local racer and petty criminal, starts taking an interest in Alice, she finds the world of semi-professional rallying is not what she thought it would be. In the aftermath of a tragic accident that claims the life of her brother and his girlfriend, Alice is forced to confront her own guilt.

Set at the time of the financial bail-out of 2008, Johnny Gogan’s first feature since Mapmaker describes a shady black market world where everyone, it seems, is on the take. Jane McGrath gives a mesmerising performance as Alice, a young girl traumatised by the death of her brother, and Love/ Hate’s Killian Scott has the requisite charisma for Jimmy, the loner who lures her in. The white-knuckle night races are convincingly staged while the pulsing soundtrack captures the adrenaline rush of the chase on these haunting, blacked-out back roads.

The film opens with simple sequences of the ship’s cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) going about his work, but never actually shows the hijacking of the Rozen, a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, instead skipping two days forward to see CEO Peter (Søren Malling) first discover his company’s vessel has been hijacked. Over the coming weeks Peter has to haggle with translator Omar (Abdihakin Asgar), while on board the Rozen Mikkel and his fellow shipmates start to lose hope that they will ever escape alive.

Alistair Daniel, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

Pilou Asbæk (who starred in R) is moving and memorable as the genial chef whose sanity starts to crack, while equally fine is Søren Malling as the shrewd, calm and professional businessman who is not fully prepared for haggling over men’s lives.

Mark Adams, Screen International With the support of the Embassy of Denmark

80 MILLION 80 MILIONÓW

Wed 20 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm / 105 minutes Director: Waldemar Krzystek / 2011 / Poland Cast: Filip Bobek, Marcin Bosak, Piotr Głowacki

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

and Screenwriter Krzysztof Kopka will attend the screening Winner, Golden Lion, Gdynia Film Festival 58-year-old director Waldemar Krzystek grew up under Communism, but 80 Million is less a political drama than a lively hybrid of action movie, heist thriller and dark comedy. Shot in a fairly conventional but fast-paced style, it features double agents, treacherous lovers, divided families, car chases and wily Catholic priests working for the anti-government underground.

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Harold Lloyd in

SAFETY LAST!

The action takes place in the southern Polish city of Wroclaw over 10 days in December 1981, just before the imposition of martial law, a Moscow-approved crackdown designed to crush the growing power of Lech Walesa’s independent trade union Solidarity.

Solidarity activists Wladyslaw (Filip Bobek), Maks (Marcin Bosak) and Staszek (Wojciech Solarz) learn about the impending state of emergency from a mysterious Deep Throat character, who may just be a double agent. As martial law will allow the government to freeze the union’s financial assets, they plan a daring mission to withdraw 80 million Polish zlotys from Solidarity’s own bank account.

Like Charlie Wilson’s War or Argo, 80 Million condenses a series of complex historical events into an enjoyably upbeat thrill ride and a universal celebration of victory over tyranny.

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Thursday 21st February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN

Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 4pm / 88 minutes Director: Danny DeVito / 1987 / US Cast: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey

OUT OF THE PAST

Danny DeVito receives a Volta at JDIFF 2013 - see p.80 for details Proudly presented by MGM HD (UPC 325 & Sky 313) and MGM Channel (UPC 326) The ‘exchange murders’ plot gambit, played with utter solemnity in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, is used as the launching pad for raucous laughter in Throw Momma From the Train. Director/star Danny DeVito plays Owen Lift, a middle-aged bachelor totally dominated by his gorgon mother, played with hilarious ferocity by Anne Ramsey. Billy Crystal co-stars as Larry Donner, a creative writing professor saddled with a vituperative, thoroughly despicable ex-wife, Margaret (Kate Mulgrew).

Signing up for Larry’s writing course, Owen has trouble at first with character development and construction in his stories. Larry recommends that Owen watch a screening of Strangers on a Train, which he considers a model of tight, concise storytelling.

Owen is so entranced by the film that he decides to emulate Strangers star Robert Walker. That is, Owen wants Larry to bump off his mother, in exchange for Owen’s murder of Margaret. Without being asked, Owen does away with Margaret (or so it seems), then hounds Larry to the point of killing ‘Momma.’

This being a comedy, the actual consequences of the swap-murder plot aren’t nearly as calamitous as in the Hitchcock film.

Hal Erickson, Rovi

RHINO SEASON FASLE KARGADAN

Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 4pm / 104 minutes

Director: Bahman Ghobadi / 2012 / Iraqi Kurdistan / Turkey Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan AFTERNOON

THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN Cineworld 9 / 4pm 88 mins

RHINO SEASON Cineworld 8 / 4pm 104 mins

E A R LY E V E N I N G

EVENING

UNA NOCHE

LA CONFIDENTIAL

Light House 1 / 6pm 89 mins

Jameson Cult Film Club Screening 178 mins

HELTER SKELTER

CALL GIRL

Light House 2 / 6:10pm 127 mins

Light House 1 / 8:20pm 140 mins

HELPLESS

POPULAIRE

Cineworld 9 / 6:10pm 117 mins

Cineworld 9 / 8:30pm 111 mins

THE LOOK OF LOVE

AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY

Cineworld 8 / 6:15pm 105 mins

Light House 2 / 8:40pm 93 mins

BERNIE Cineworld 8 / 8:50pm 104 mins

SPECTRUM

A tragic love story, a fierce indictment of the Islamist regime in Tehran, but most of all, a lyrical elegy replete with symbolic visions, Rhino Season – the new film from Camera d’Or-winning director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) – gains much of its force from its effective images.

Inspired by the fate of a family friend, Kurdish poet Sadegh Karmangar, the film tells the story of Saleh (Behrouz Vossoughi), a poet released from jail after 30 years who goes looking for his wife, Mina (Monica Bellucci), now living with her two children in Istanbul. A celebrity during the Shah’s reign, Saleh, a Kurd, was falsely accused of writing anti-Islamic poems and thrown into jail.

The film takes place mostly in the present. Saleh is given the address of his wife, who left Iran after having been told that he had died in prison. He looks at her lodgings from a distance, wondering whether and how to approach her. Monica Bellucci, better known as a glamour icon, commendably downplays this aspect of her personality, offering an introvert, minimalist, performance, while the striking faces of the two men opposite her convey everything that has to be said better than any dialogue could.

Dan Fainaru, Screen International

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UNA NOCHE

Thurs 21 Feb / Light House 1 / 6pm / 89 minutes Director: Lucy Mulloy / 2012 / US / Cuba / UK Cast: Dariel Arrechaga, Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre, Javier Núñez Florian

SPECTRUM

Lucy Mulloy will attend the screening ‘[a] sexy, pulsing debut feature … a bracing snapshot of desperate youths putting their immigrant dreams into action’, Variety Winner, Best Actor, Best Cinematographer, and Best New Narrative Director, Tribeca Film Festival Fed up with living in poverty while catering to a privileged tourist class, Cuban teens Raul (Dariel Arrechaga) and Elio (Javier Núñez Florian) are tantalised by the idea of fleeing the confines of their broken-down country for a new life in Miami. When Raul is accused of assaulting a foreigner, he has no choice but to escape, but Elio must decide whether his desire for freedom and helping Raul are worth abandoning his beloved twin sister, Lila (Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre). Brimming with the nervous energy of Havana’s restless youth and the evocative cinematography of the sun-bleached capital, Una Noche follows one sweltering day, full of hope and fraught with tension, that burns to a shocking climax.

Thursday 21st February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

HELPLESS HOA-CHA

Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.10pm / 117 minutes

Director: Byun Young-joo / 2012 / South Korea Cast: Lee Sun-gyun, Kim Min-hee, Cho Seong-ha

SPECTRUM

Adapted by Byun Young-joo from a Japanese novel, this tale of a man whose fiancée goes missing taps directly into present-day economic anxiety as well as the terror of emotional commitment.

Veterinarian Mun-ho (Lee Sun-gyun) is driving his fiancée, Seon-yeong (Kim Min-hee), to meet his parents for the first time. Stopping to get some snacks en route, Mun-ho returns to the car to find Seon-yeong missing. On returning to Seoul, Mun-ho finds their apartment stripped of any trace of Seonyeong. As he digs into her past, he finds everything he thought he knew about her was a complete fabrication. Mun-ho looks up his down-and-out uncle Jong-geon (Cho Seong-ha, The Yellow Sea – JDIFF 2012), an ex-cop who was thrown off the force for accepting bribes. Desperate to restore his career, Jonggeon begins to investigate on his nephew’s behalf.

Director Lucy Mulloy spent years living in Havana to research Una Noche. Untrained actors play the leads, and their aching vulnerability and honest performances leave a lasting impression. A universal coming-of-age story in an unlikely place, Una Noche marks the directing debut of an important, passionate new voice.

The complicated scenario in the early reels is child’s play compared with the intricate and knotty intrigues that follow, but even when it confuses, the film never ceases to compel. As the layers of deceit are peeled back, Byun seems in complete command of her material.

Russell Edwards, Variety

Genna Terranova, Tribeca Film Festival

With the support of the Embassy of Korea and the Korea Foundation Please note: there will be a second screening on Sunday 24 February in Cineworld 11 at 1pm

HELTER SKELTER HERUTÂ SUKERUTÂ

THE LOOK OF LOVE

Thurs 21 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.10pm / 127 minutes Director: Mika Ninagawa / 2012 / Japan Cast: Erika Sawajiri, Nao Omori, Kaori Momoi

SPECTRUM

Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm / 105 minutes The second feature by Mika Ninagawa (daughter of the celebrated theatre director Yukio Ninagawa) lives up to its name. It’s a big, splashy thrill-ride, reminiscent of vintage Ken Russell, which tears into the supermodel/teen-idol industries that make the world of Japanese pop culture go round.

Lilico (rather bravely played by Erika Sawajiri, Japan’s Kate Moss) is The Face, but her outer beauty masks the tantrums of a self-hating queen bitch – and the work of a ‘beautician’ whose clinic is under police investigation for its criminal techniques. The plot (from a manga by Kyoko Okazaki) turns on hysterical jealousy and rivalries, but it comes second to the unflagging energy and visual flash. Absolutely fabulous support from Nao Omori as the prosecutor and the magnificent Kaori Momoi as Lilico’s ruthless manager.

Tony Rayns, BFI London Film Festival

Director: Michael Winterbottom / 2012 / UK Cast: Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Stephen Fry

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

The porn and property tycoon Paul Raymond started his career as a mind reader, but soon recognised the commercial value of sex and built an empire encompassing gentleman’s clubs, porn magazines and property. Raymond lived a life of celebrated excess, relishing his notoriety as the self-styled ‘King of Soho’, but the one thing he couldn’t control was his daughter Deborah, a troubled soul who became the editor of his porn magazine empire, before succumbing to drug addiction.

Beautifully shot, and moving between glorious black and white and colour, Winterbottom’s latest film careers around the Soho of the 1970s. Aided by a screenplay from Matt Greenhalgh (Control), Winterbottom fashions a dazzling portrait of a mercurial, charismatic businessman whose Icarus-like rise has complications he can’t foresee. Steve Coogan is stunning as Raymond, Anna Friel as wife Jean and Imogen Poots as his daughter Deborah are both excellent, and the film offers a wealth of unexpected treats with cameos from familiar faces including David Walliams, Stephen Fry and Dara Ó Briain.

Winterbottom is a modern day Howard Hawks; a film-maker always challenging what cinema can do and whose films roam across genres and subjects with equal passion, and The Look of Love is a fascinating addition to his oeuvre.

Gráinne Humphreys, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

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CALL GIRL

Thurs 21 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.20pm / 140 minutes

Director: Mikael Marcimain / 2012 / Sweden / Ireland / Norway / Finland Cast: Ruth Vega Hernandez, Pernilla August, David Dencik

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

11 Nominations, Swedish Guldbagge Awards Mikael Marcimain’s debut feature is a fascinating policier inspired by the prostitution scandal that threatened to bring down Sweden’s Social Democratic government in the 1970s.

The story begins a few days before the end of a closely fought and tumultuous election, when it looked like the Social Democrats would be unseated after decades in power. Even worse for the powers that be, dogged detective John Sandberg (Simon J. Berger) is getting closer to linking several government ministers to a prostitution ring run by Dagmar Glans, the Heidi Fleiss of Stockholm (played with gusto by one of Sweden’s greatest acting talents, Pernilla August).

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Marcimain and his collaborators recreate their seventies-era setting with both hilarious accuracy (earth tones are everywhere) and incisive sociopolitical insight. Call Girl paints a scathing portrait of a nation drunk on conspicuous consumption, and of a political class so convinced of its right to power that it can no longer even recognize the difference between governance and self-interest. Depicting Stockholm’s lurid underworld milieu with a chilling lack of sensationalism and creating relentlessly mounting suspense, Marcimain establishes himself as a talent to watch.

Steve Gravestock. Toronto International Film Festival

LA CONFIDENTIAL

POPULAIRE

Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8.30pm / 111 minutes

Thurs 21 Feb / 178 minutes

Director: Curtis Hanson / 1997 / US Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Danny DeVito, Kim Basinger

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

JAMESON CULT FILM CLUB Danny DeVito will be interviewed by 2FM’s Rick O’Shea after the screening Winner of two Academy Awards® (Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay) This year, Jameson Irish Whiskey presents the Jameson Cult Film Club. A year-long programme of special screenings will take place throughout the country, cult films will be presented in key non-cinema locations, with key guests invited to talk about the film with the invited audiences.

For JDIFF, Jameson presents one of the best (and best-loved) films of the 1990s: Curtis Hanson’s LA Confidential, a gripping tale of sex, sleaze and corruption in 1950s Los Angeles starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito. We are delighted to welcome Danny DeVito, who will discuss the film after the screening. Following the discussion, the party will continue in true Jameson style.

Curtis Hanson’s adaptation of James Ellroy’s most complex novel is a towering achievement, probably the finest mystery thriller since Chinatown. Set in the 1950s, this punchy cocktail of gangland violence, police brutality, racism and sex-scandal cover-ups feels torn from today’s headlines.

Director: Régis Roinsard / 2012 / France Cast: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo

‘an irresistible treat with enough narrative twists and memorable characters for a half-dozen films … satisfies on virtually every level’, Variety It operates on the principles of an exposé. As Danny DeVito’s muck-raking Hush Hush magazine hack guides us on a gleeful trawl through the seedier, sleazier aspects of this, the last of the frontier towns, we meet three very different lawmen: Spacey’s cynical showboat Jack Vincennes; Ed Exley (Pearce), a straight-arrow cop headed for the top; and Crowe’s Bud White, the strong arm of the law, brawn to Exley’s brains. Contrasting not only their approaches to procedure, justice and respect, but also their vividly etched, distinctly volatile psychopathologies, Hanson inexorably draws these three cases to one conclusion: when the trio do take a stand, it’s inspired less by idealism than self-disgust. As the emotional nexus, a Veronica Lake lookalike trapped in a web of male desires, Basinger is arguably the pick of a perfect cast.

Subtle, shocking, compelling and immensely assured.

‘ boosted by terrific lead turns from Romain Duris and Déborah François, as well as some stunning oldschool cinematography’, The Hollywood Reporter Surely the first period rom-com to centre on the speed-typing competitions that were all the rage in the 1950s, Régis Roinsard’s first feature delivers a sparkling Gallic take on what feels like a vintage Hollywood love story. Though the romance between the ambitious trainer-boss Louis, played by Romain Duris, and Déborah François’ gifted typist follows a well-trodden narrative path, the chemistry between the two leads is positively nuclear, and the film’s effervescent, spot-on evocation of the period is a joy to absorb.

Déborah François (The Page Turner) is a revelation as Rose Pamphyle, the girl from the sticks who rises to become a French speed-typing champion thanks in part to the tutelage of boss Louis Echard (Duris).

Louis is a cocky insurance agent battling with a fear of commitment that has already lost him the hand of his childhood sweetheart Marie (The Artist’s Bérénice Bejo).

Packed with period colour this is a film that, like Mad Men, delights us with the detail of an era that still had an uncomplicated appetite for modernity. And the neo-retro soundtrack, with its bursts of Duane Eddystyle guitar or Platters-like vocal harmonies, seals a package that thrives on rhythm and dexterity.

Tom Charity, Time Out Film Guide

Lee Marshall, Screen International

Please note: this screening is only available to JCFC members. For details go to www.jamesoncultfilmclub.ie.

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AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY

Thurs 21 Feb / Light House 2 / 8.40pm / 93 minutes Director: Terence Nance / 2011 / US Cast: Alisha Becher, Jc Cain, Dexter Jones, Namik Minter, Terence Nance

SPECTRUM

Terence Nance will attend the screening ‘Both formally experimental and emotionally accessible… a debut exhibiting wide-ranging talent and a fresh personality’, The Hollywood Reporter Winner, Best Film Not Playing at a Theatre Near You, Gotham Awards You’ve just arrived home after a bad day. You’re broke and lonely, even though you live in the biggest and busiest city in America. You do, however, have one cause for mild optimism: you seem to have captured the attention of an intriguing young lady. You’ve rushed home to clean your apartment before she comes over. In your haste, you see that you’ve missed a call. There’s a voice mail; she tells you that she won’t be seeing you tonight.

With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humour, Terence Nance’s explosively creative debut feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, documents the relationship between Nance and a lovely young woman as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.

Nance creates an exquisite tapestry of live action and various styles of animation to delve deeply into his own young male psyche as he sweats and stretches toward maturity. The result is an exciting and original film that announces the arrival of a bright new cinematic talent.

Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival

BERNIE

Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.50pm / 104 minutes Director: Richard Linklater / 2011 / US Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey

SPECTRUM

‘Bernie is an eccentric delight’, NPR Nominee, Jack Black, Best Actor (Comedy/ Musical), Golden Globe Awards Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Me and Orson Welles) has made a career of defying expectations.

Bernie might be his most unexpected film yet. Based on a true story, Bernie is a dark joke with a straight face – and the surprising deadpan in this movie belongs to Jack Black.

He plays Bernhardt Tiede, assistant funeral director in the small Texas town of Carthage. As described by the real residents of Carthage, Bernie was someone who everyone thought the world of. He sings in church, visits the sick and has a cheerful word for everyone in town. Yet his social life is something of a mystery until he befriends the town’s richest widow, Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). Suddenly, Bernie and Mrs Nugent are inseparable. But she doesn’t have the reputation as the meanest woman in town for nothing – and even the town’s nicest guy, Bernie Tiede, has his limits.

What gives Bernie its fizz, its kick, its sheer enjoyable weirdness is the oddly engaging give-and-take between Black (a master of contained energy) and MacLaine. Bernie never quite goes where you expect it to. Go in with a fresh eye and you’ll appreciate this completely fresh little movie.

Marshall Fine, Huffington Post

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EVENING

SLEEPLESS NIGHT + VANISHING POINT

JDIFF SHORTS

KELLY + VICTOR

Cineworld 8 / 3:30pm 65 + 40 mins

Light House 1 / 6pm 82 mins

Light House 1 / 8pm 90 mins

AFTERMATH

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

BEYOND THE HILLS

Cineworld 11 / 3:50pm 107 mins

Cineworld 8 / 6pm 83 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8pm 150 mins

WEST OF MEMPHIS

¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!

Cineworld 11 / 6pm 150 mins

Light House 3 / 8:40pm 108 mins

THE WAR OF THE ROSES

STOKER

Savoy 1 / 6:10pm 118 mins

Cineworld 11 / 9pm 99 mins

SHORT STORIES

THE BAY

Light House 3 / 6:15pm 105 mins

Light House 1 / 10:30pm 84 mins

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Fri 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3.30pm / 105 minutes

Sleepless Night - Director: Jang Kun-jae /2012 / South Korea / Cast: Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Joo-ryeong Vanishing Point - Director: Abhijit Mazumdar / 2012 / India / Cast: Aseem Hattangadi, Anand Tiwari

SPECTRUM

Sleepless Night Winner, Grand Prize and Audience Award, Jeonju International Film Festival After his debut, Eighteen, which evoked youthful impulses with electrifying authenticity, Jang Kun-jae’s follow-up, Sleepless Night, initially seems as staid and uneventful as the marriage of the thirtysomethings he depicts. Yet Night’s unassuming brilliance lies in the lyricism of love itself, which it tenderly infuses into every precisely framed and edited shot.

PATSY DICK

HANNAH COHEN’S HOLY COMMUNION

SCRATCH

Director: Clodagh Downing / 12 mins

Director: Shimmy Marcus / 13 mins

Director: Philip Kelly / 13 mins

JDIFF SHORTS

Patsy Dick is the story of a West Cork boatman who meets and helps an American couple, Tom and Sarah. Together, they find that something totally unexpected is exactly what they need.

Hannah Cohen, a spirited 7-year-old growing up in 70s Dublin can’t wait to make her Holy Communion. The only problem is – she’s the wrong religion! A heart-warming tale about the universal desire to belong.

Eoin (Conor Drum) works the night shift in a quiet petrol station. His main source of distraction night after night is regular customer Ger (Stephen Jones) who believes he has a system for picking winning scratch cards.

Things take an unexpected turn with the arrival of a masked armed robber.

DO YOU WANT A FLAKE WITH THAT?

THE QUESTION

PITCH BLACK HEIST

Director: Julia Wakeham / 5 mins

Director: Finn van Gelderen / 5 mins

Director: John Maclean / 14 mins

JDIFF SHORTS

JDIFF SHORTS

JDIFF SHORTS

Fri 22 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 3.50pm / 107 minutes

Most people’s idea of having an ice cream is on a warm summer’s day by the seaside. Do You Want a Flake with That? shows the other side of this ideal. Every evening, hail, rain, or shine, Mr Cheeko works his run around Dublin’s inner city flat complexes. This is his story.

An agitated Zen student asks his master a question with unexpected results. Dealing with questions of ‘the void’ and being mindful of himself, the student discovers not everything is as simple as he wants it to be.

Two thieves plan a daring raid on a bank vault in total darkness in this sharp and deadpan black comedy starring Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham.

Winner, Journalists’ Prize, Gdynia Film Festival Władysław Pasikowski has finally succeeded in completing his long-awaited feature inspired by the 1942 Jedwabne pogrom, erroneously attributed to the Nazis. Pokłosie (Aftermath) deals with the attempt made by two brothers Jozek (Maciej Stuhr) and Franciszek (Ireneusz Czop) to break the conspiracy of silence among the residents of a fictional village where a Jedwabne-style massacre had taken place. ‘We already have a huge number of films on the horrors committed by the Soviets and the Germans, and it’s time to say what terrible things we did ourselves,’ said Pasikowski.

Directors: Various / 2012 / Ireland

JDIFF SHORTS

With the support of the Embassy of Korea and the Korea Foundation

Fri 22 Feb / Light House 1 6pm / 73 minutes

JDIFF SHORTS

Maggie Lee, Variety

AFTERMATH POKŁOSIE

JDIFF SHORTS From documentaries to animation, JDIFF presents another hand-picked selection of the best new Irish shorts.

Just Saying is about loving Dublin even when you don’t always like it.

Two friends, Aurko and Sachin, are looking for locations for a short film that they are planning to make. Most importantly, a specific kind of village bus stop.

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Director: Dave Tynan / 5 mins

The picture imperceptibly penetrates the cozy neighbourhood of factory employee Hyun-soo (Kim Soo-hyun) and his yoga-instructor wife Joon-hee (Kim Joo-ryeong), building pleasurable momentum from their ups and downs (a birthday party, work hassles, speculation about having babies).

Daydreams and nightmares suggest subconscious anxieties, revealing a rippling emotional current beneath the characters’ daily pleasantries. The actors wear their roles like a second skin. Excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations imbue intimate moments with a serene, contemplative air.

Vanishing Point

Director: Władysław Pasikowski / 2012 / Poland Cast: Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

JUST SAYING JDIFF SHORTS

SLEEPLESS NIGHT / VANISHING POINT

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On another level, the tormented relationship and lack of mutual understanding between Jozek and Franciszek in their search for the truth can be read as metaphor for the PolishPolish war. Enhanced by the warm smoothness of Paweł Edelman’s cinematography, Pokłosie smacks of the best Hollywood thrillers.

Krakow Post With the support of the Embassy of Poland

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JDIFF 2013 IS DELIGHTED TO WELCOME DANNY DEVITO TO DUBLIN FOR A CELEBRATION OF HIS CAREER TO DATE, INCLUDING A SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE WAR OF THE ROSES, ALONG WITH HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN AND THE NINE TIES CL ASSIC, L A CONFIDENTIAL

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

Named after the first dedicated cinema in Ireland, opened in 1909 by James Joyce, the Volta Awards are presented throughout the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to specially-selected individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the world of cinema.

Previous recipients of the award include: Al Pacino, Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Day Lewis, Gabriel Byrne, Brendan Gleeson, Thierry Frémaux, Patricia Clarkson, Paolo Sorrentino, Ciaran Hinds, George Morrison, Martin Scorcese, François Ozon and Kevin Brownlow.

Danny DeVito is one of the entertainment industry’s most versatile players, excelling as actor, producer and director. He wrote, directed and produced several short films in his early Hollywood years before emerging as a feature-length film-maker.

DeVito appeared in only one school play, as St Francis of Assisi. After graduation, he pursued several odd jobs, always with the idea of acting in the back of his mind. He finally entered the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

‘They had fencing and a speech class,’ he said mockingly, ‘so you don’t talk funny.’

Unable to get work, Danny headed to Hollywood. After years of unemployment, he returned to New York. He called an old friend and former American Academy professor who, coincidentally, had been seeking him out for a starring role in one of three one-act plays presented together under the title of The Man with the Flower in His Mouth. Soon Danny was into big money ($60 a week), and other stage performances followed. In 1975, Danny and his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, wrote and produced Minestrone, which has been shown twice at the Cannes Film Festival and translated into five languages.

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Two films co-starring DeVito won the Academy Award® for best picture (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Terms of Endearment), but it was the part of Louie De Palma on the television show Taxi that propelled him to national prominence. He won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role.

DeVito currently stars as Frank Reynolds in FX’s acclaimed cult comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He runs TheBloodFactory. com, an online collaboration with screenwriter John Albo of horror shorts he affectionately refers to ‘splatter cuts.’ He is also the principal of Jersey Film’s 2nd Avenue. Jersey Films has produced over 20 motion pictures including Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Hoffa, Matilda and Erin Brockovich (which was nominated for an Academy Award®).

Apart from his work with Jersey Films, DeVito has starred in such films as Junior, Batman Returns, Twins, Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Ruthless People, Tin Men, Anything Else, Big Fish, Renaissance Man, The Big Kahuna and Heist. Never forgetting that there were more difficult times, he maintains a healthy sense of perspective. As Louie De Palma would say, ‘If you don’t do good today, you’ll be eatin’ dirt tomorrow.’

DANNY DEVITO AT JDIFF 2013 Throw Momma from the Train Thurs 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 4pm LA Confidential Thurs 21 Feb (Jameson Cult Film Club Screening) The War of the Roses Fri 22 Feb / Savoy 1 / 6.10pm

THE WAR OF THE ROSES Fri 22 Feb / Savoy 1 / 6.10pm / 118 minutes Director: Danny DeVito / 1989 / US Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

VOLTA PRESENTATION Danny DeVito will attend the screening

‘DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence’, Rolling Stone

Hollywood has traded off the battle of the sexes since the 30s, but few, if any, movies have quite smashed the traditional boundaries of the convention in such an audacious way as The War of the Roses.

The verbal sparring of Tracy and Hepburn pales into polite insignificance next to the mesmerising anger and bitterness of Barbara and Oliver Rose.

Working from a noticeably watertight and wellwritten screenplay by Michael Neeson, DeVito delivers the blackest of black farces, charting the gradual disintegration of a relationship. Wildly funny and deeply disturbing, The War of the Roses never hesitates to go for the jugular and succeeds more often than not in its valiant attempts to draw blood.

Danny DeVito’s second directorial venture has an attorney (DeVito) telling the Roses’ story to a new client who is considering divorce. The Roses were the perfect couple: while Barbara (Kathleen Turner) cleaned, cooked, sewed and acquired the dream house, Oliver (Michael Douglas) steadily climbed the ladder of professional success. Now Barbara wants a divorce. He doesn’t, and their wonderful home, which each stubbornly refuses to relinquish, becomes the battleground where the ensuing war is waged.

Robyn Karney, Empire

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WEST OF MEMPHIS

Fri 22 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 6pm / 150 minutes Director: Amy Berg / 2012 / US

REAL TO REEL

‘earns every minute of its screen time’, The Hollywood Reporter ‘riveting’, The Observer The 1994 conviction of three disaffected teenagers in West Memphis, Arkansas, for killing a trio of eight-year-old boys raised strong public emotions at the trial, and a lengthy campaign afterwards claimed that hysteria over ‘satanic rituals’, rather than genuine evidence, put the accused behind bars. Documentary-makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky devoted their acclaimed Paradise Lost trilogy to exposing what many believed a major miscarriage of justice, inspiring an internet campaign supported by numerous celebrities including director Peter Jackson. But Amy Berg’s film makes a compelling case for itself as a patient, methodical summation of the complex issues involved.

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SHORT STORIES RASSKAZY

Fri 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 6.15pm / 105 minutes

Director: Mikhail Segal / 2012 / Russia Cast: Andrei Merzlikin, Igor Ugolnikov, Tamara Mironova

SPECTRUM

Mikhail Segal will attend the screening Winner, Audience Choice Award, Vladivostok International Film Festival At the beginning of Mikhail Segal’s film, an author approaches a publishing house with a selection of stories and is told there is no market for them.

However, as various people open the book, they each find themselves drawn into an imaginary reality.

The first story tells of a wedding organiser who can fix anything, including the future, while the second traces a course from petty bribery to political duplicity. In the third, the librarian of the Pushkin Library assists the police with her psychic powers ‘ just like on television’, while in the fourth, a middleaged man’s encounters with a sexually voracious young woman are interspersed with a discussion on the history of the Soviet Union. She loves Animal Planet but knows very little about Trotsky.

The extensive interview testimony and archive footage build up a troubling fresco of police incompetence, enterprising advocacy for the prisoners and a blinkered judicial system puzzlingly slow to confront escalating doubts. Berg’s unfettered access creates a riveting sense of new evidence being uncovered before our eyes. There’s justifiable outrage here, but it’s lucid and focused, and if the celeb cameos and emphasis on crowd-funding seem overinsistent at times, it’s a viable point to make – public contributions really did keep the fight for justice alive.

Segal’s elliptical satire is achieved with precision and style – a nice counterbalance to the dark masterpieces of his contemporaries.

Peter Hames, BFI London Film Festival

Trevor Johnston, Time Out London

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

KELLY + VICTOR

Fri 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6pm / 83 minutes Director: Brian Dannelly / 2012 / US Cast: Chris Colfer, Allison Janney, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Hendricks

SPECTRUM

Fri 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 8pm / 90 minutes The ‘high school misfit against the world’ concept has been mined in the movie world many times before, but that doesn’t stop Glee star Chris Colfer’s scripting debut from offering up plenty of smart and quirky moments.

The film begins with the death (the ‘struck by lightning’ of the title) of 17-year-old Carson Phillips (Colfer), who then narrates a look-back at his troubled high school life. He is editor of the school newspaper, but is despised and largely ignored by his schoolmates and only has one best friend, Malerie Baggs (played with a good deal of quirky charm by Australian actress Rebel Wilson, who featured in Bridesmaids). Home life is little better for Carson. He lives with his single mother (Allison Janney), whose life is based around booze and prescription drugs since his father Neal (Dermot Mulroney) left them. Her life is thrown up in the air when dad arrives back in town, along with his pregnant girlfriend April (Christina Hendricks). Janney is wonderful as his sarcastic, boozy, seemingly unemotional mother, and the scenes she has with the equally fine Christina Hendricks as her former husband’s new partner are high points in the film.

Mark Adams, Screen International

Director: Kieran Evans / 2012 / UK / Ireland Cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Julian Morris, Stephen Walters

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Kieran Evans will attend the screening ‘a candid and compelling story… infused with a real sense of honesty and affection’, Screen International The beautifully intense Kelly + Victor is a dark, passionate and inverted love story that mixes tenderness with the toughness. Kelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) meets Victor (Julian Morris) on the dance floor in a Liverpool nightclub, and they find themselves at her flat, making love with a passion and urgency neither has experienced before. The more time Kelly and Victor spend together, the more they realise how much they care about each other. At the same time their time in bed begins to get more and more intense, until it all goes a little too far (for Victor at least) and he decides to break things off. But love is not a simple thing and there remains a chance, despite the complex nature of their relationship, that they should be together.

Debut feature writer/director Kieran Evans (who made the documentary Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before), has astutely adapted Niall Griffiths’ acclaimed novel. It is a candid and compelling story that, while it heads into dark and vaguely disturbing territory, is infused with a real sense of honesty and affection.

The support performances are all terrific, but this is a film that belongs to the open, powerful and tender lead performances by Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Julian Morris.

Mark Adams, Screen International

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BEYOND THE HILLS DUPA DEALURI

STOKER

Fri 22 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 9pm / 99 minutes

Fri 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8pm / 150 minutes Director: Cristian Mungiu / 2012 / Romania / France / Belgium Cast: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta

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Winner, Best Screenplay and Best Actress, Cannes Film Festival A cerebral melodrama of the most steely, bare and brutal kind, Beyond the Hills is the third feature from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and his first since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days.

Alina (Cristina Flutur) and Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) are old friends who reunite over a weekend. Alina has come back to Romania from Germany and wants Voichita to return with her. But Voichita is reluctant to leave the monastery where she lives with a dozen other women and a lone priest (Valeriu Andriuta), believing she’s found a cure for crippling loneliness: God. Mungiu embeds us in the world of her frugal, barren monastery over a few days, with Alina’s presence forcing her to confront her beliefs.

Meanwhile, her colleagues react with increasing hostility to the threat Alina poses to their way of life.

Mungiu’s style of storytelling in Beyond the Hills is more elongated and less frenetic than in 4 Months. Together, the two films make fascinating companion pieces as studies of freedom or a lack of it and, on a wider level, suggest a lingering sickness and sorrow at the heart of Romanian society.

Director: Park Chan-wook / 2012 / US Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Nicole Kidman

SPECTRUM

After India’s father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother, Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). Soon after his arrival, India (Mia Wasikowska) begins to suspect this mysterious, charming man has disturbing ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, the friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Visionary film-maker Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) returns with another macabre story, one that marks his first venture into English-language cinema.

Armed with an inspired script, a world-class cast, and a wickedly playful nature, he subverts audience expectations by employing delightful visual trickery and placing a magnet over the moral compass of the film, giving complex and sympathetic motivations for the characters’ violent actions. Featuring a gasp-inducing performance from Nicole Kidman, Stoker is a haunting, Hitchcockian tale as unsettling as it is stunning.

Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival With the support of the Embassy of Korea and the Korea Foundation

Dave Calhoun, Time Out London

¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!

Fri 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.40pm / 108 minutes Director: Victor Kossakovsky / 2011 / Germany / Netherlands / Argentina

REAL TO REEL

‘Constructed around an elegantly simple idea but executed with grace and ingenuity’, Variety Victor Kossakovsky’s captivating documentary takes a common musing – if you dug a hole straight through the planet, what would you see on the other side?

– and pursues it to the ends of the earth. Travelling to four pairs of ‘antipodes’, places located exactly opposite each other on the surface of the globe, the film finds contrasts and commonalities, pointed juxtapositions and serendipitous visual rhymes.

In Entre Rios, Argentina, two brothers drowsily contemplate life’s mysteries beside a remote river, where they can only imagine the river of humanity that floods the streets of Shanghai. A woman and her daughter in rural Russia find their opposite number in a Patagonian shepherd with a herd of cats. The lava beds of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano echo the folds of a Botswana elephant’s skin, and the bulk of a beached whale in New Zealand recalls a rock formation in Spain – or vice versa.

As the soundtrack spills from one location to the next, the camera performs barrel rolls and backflips that turn the world upside down. Digital images are deftly spliced to bring opposing sides of the earth together, skylines mirrored across a common horizon.

In Kossakovsky’s dizzy global vision, opposites attract.

Juliet Clark, San Francisco Film Festival

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THE BAY

Fri 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 10.30pm / 84 minutes

Director: Barry Levinson / 2012 / US Cast: Christopher Denham, Kristen Connolly, Will Rogers

SPECTRUM

THEBAY

‘this is horror for grown-ups’, The Guardian Effectively doing for backyard swimming pools and tap water what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for oceans, The Bay is a genuinely terrifying eco-horror tale in which you aren’t what you eat, but rather what eats you. From the combined creative forces of producer Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity) and Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog), The Bay uses an ingenious assemblage of news reports, surveillance video, home movies and other purportedly user-generated video to expose the never-before-told story of what really happened in the idyllic small town of Claridge, Maryland over the July 4 weekend, 2009, when an infestation of parasitic ‘isopods’ made its way into the groundwater supply.

Mixing elements of old-fashioned giant insect movies with the new wave of documentary-style horror fare, The Bay will make you squirm, jump and cower in your seat as it takes humankind down a few pegs on the food chain.

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WHITE ELEPHANT Savoy 1 / 11am 110 mins

EVENING

FIONNUALA + AN CAT

ROBOT & FRANK

MUSEUM HOURS

OUR CHILDREN

Cineworld 8 / 1pm 40 mins

Cineworld 8 / 3pm 89 mins

IFI 1 / 5pm 106 mins

Light House 1 / 8:15pm 111 mins

KIERAN HICKEY I

JEM COHEN I

CAESAR MUST DIE

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX

IFI 2 / 1pm 107 mins

IFI 2 / 3:20pm 73 mins

Light House 1 / 6pm 76 mins

Cineworld 8 / 8:15pm 110 mins

SUNSET BLVD.

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

THE MOTH DIARIES

A LATE QUARTET

Cineworld 11 / 1:15pm 110 mins

Light House 1 / 3:30pm 112 mins

Cineworld 8 / 6pm 82 mins

Cineworld 11 / 8:45pm 105 mins

HOME FOR THE WEEKEND

THE KILLING

MILO

BEWARE OF MR BAKER

Light House 1 / 1:30pm 85 mins

Cineworld 11 / 3:45pm 90 mins

Cineworld 11 / 6:20pm 92 mins

PRIME TIME SOAP

AFTER LUCIA

Light House 3/ 2pm 107 mins

Light House 3 / 4:20pm 102 mins

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Savoy 1 / 6:30pm 107 mins

KUMA Light House 3 / 6:35pm 93 mins

Light House 3 / 8:50pm 88 mins

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Saturday 23rd February

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013

FIONNUALA: SMALL PUPPET ON A BIG JOURNEY / AN CAT

Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 1pm / 40 minutes Fionnuala: Director: James Kelly / 2012 / Ireland An Cat: Director: Helen Flanagan / 2012 / Ireland

IRISH FOCUS

James Kelly will attend the screening Fionnuala: Small Puppet on a Big Journey This touching documentary follows Fionnuala, a small wooden puppet, and her makers (the Galway-based puppet theatre company Branar) on a journey from Barna, Co. Galway to Cologne for a performance of their acclaimed Irish language version of Clann Lir (The Children of Lir).

The film goes behind the scenes at Branar to trace the process of building the show, from hand-carving the wooden figures to composing the score, but will the set arrive in Germany in one piece, and what to do about the missing gloves? Fionnuala is a touching exploration of the art of puppetry and the skill and craftsmanship that goes into a show.

Alistair Daniel, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival An Cat In the aftermath of his wife’s funeral Mairtín frustrated and unable to grieve her loss pushes his family away and isolates himself at home.

His only wish, to be left in peace, is respected by everyone except his wife’s beloved pet cat.

WHITEELEPHANT ELEPHANT-FULLPAGE WHITE ELEFANTE BLANCO Sat 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 110 minutes

Director: Billy Wilder / 1950 / US Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

Director: Pablo Trapero / 2012 / Argentina / France / Spain Cast: Ricardo Darín, Martina Gusmán, Jérémie Renier

OUT OF THE PAST

SPECTRUM ‘a muscular, heartfelt movie’, The Guardian Argentine director Pablo Trapero fashions a gripping, fast-paced story centred around two priests who minister to a sprawling slum outside Buenos Aires, and who fall victim to the violence they are trying to combat with love.

The opening scene of a nocturnal massacre of villagers in Amazonia by paramilitary troops is an electrifying piece of film-making. One of the few survivors is the Belgian priest Father Nicolas (Jérémie Renier), whom Father Julian (Ricardo Darín) tracks down in a village hospital, wounded and emotionally devastated. He takes him back to his mission in the heart of a vast shanty town, one of the most dangerous in the country, where a war is in progress between two drug lords. Overshadowed by the hulking skeleton of an unfinished hospital, the padres work side by side with spunky social worker Luciana (Trapero regular Martina Gusmán), who catches the eye of young Father Nicolas.

SUNSET BLVD.

Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 1.15pm / 110 minutes

A handful of sharply drawn characters punctuate the story. Local gang wars and shoot-outs are followed by police incursions and street battles, keeping the temperature high and pacing tight. Michael Nyman’s sweepingly majestic score lends an epic dimension, which feels right alongside the straightforward passion depicted by an evenly balanced, top-drawer cast.

Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

‘the best drama ever made about the movies’, Roger Ebert If the finest things in life are written on an empty stomach, as an agent claims here, Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett must have been ravenous when they penned Sunset Blvd. Not so much biting the hand that fed them as devouring both arms, their gothic melodrama remains the bitterest attack ever launched on Hollywood.

Wilder finished the 50s by writing the funniest final line ever (in Some Like it Hot). And he started it here with one of the most audacious set-ups: a flashback movie narrated by a corpse. The corpse in question is struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden).

Needing to lie low for a while, he chances upon a rundown mansion on Sunset Blvd. The creepy residence is home to faded movie star Norma Desmond (the hypnotic Gloria Swanson), and devoted manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). Desmond is planning an unlikely movie comeback and, eyeing an easy buck, Joe offers his services to the deluded one-time great.

She covets more than just his editing skills, however...

Sunset Blvd. is both a savage indictment of the star system (and the monsters it produces), and an all-too-knowing depiction of a writer’s impotence in Hollywood.

Adrian Hennigan, BBC This screening uses the restored print first shown at the Venice Film Festival.

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THE KILLING

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 1 / 1.30pm / 85 minutes Director: Stanley Kubrick / 1956 / US Cast: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Coleen Gray

OUT OF THE PAST

‘Brilliantly crafted heist movie that anticipated Reservoir Dogs by nearly 40 years’, The Guardian Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work, due both to a lack of bombastic pretensions and to the style fitting the subject matter. Sterling Hayden is his usual admirable self as the ex-con who gathers together a gallery of small-timers to rob a race track; for once it’s not the robbery itself that goes wrong, but the aftermath.

What is remarkable about the movie, besides the excellent performances of an archetypal noir cast and Lucien Ballard’s steely photography, is the time structure, employing a complex series of flashbacks both to introduce and explain characters and to create a synchronous view of simultaneous events. Kubrick’s essentially heartless, beady-eyed observation of human foibles lacks the dimension of the genre’s classics, but the likes of Marie Windsor, Timothy Carey and Elisha Cook more than compensate.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide

PRIME TIME SOAP A NOVELA DAS 8

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 3 / 2pm / 107 minutes Director: Odilon Rocha / 2011 / Brazil Cast: Vanessa Giácomo, Claudia Ohana, Guilherme Duarte

SPECTRUM

Winner, Best Screenplay, Rio International Film Festival With a lively pace and stylish nods to 1970s Brazilian telenovelas, writer/director Odilon Rocha’s feature debut offers a surprisingly charming look at a dark period in that nation’s history.

In 1978, Brazil’s military dictatorship still has a stranglehold on the government, but the nation’s citizens are enthralled by the hot new telenovela Dancing Days. Amanda (Vanessa Giácomo), a highclass call girl, struggles to schedule her appointments around the soap opera, occasionally enlisting the help of her maid, Dora (Claudia Ohana), to ensure she catches each episode. But when a politically connected client unexpectedly dies in their apartment, the two are forced to go on the lam and hide out in Rio de Janeiro. Amanda’s thrilled by the chance to go to the real Dancing Days discotheque, but returning to Rio will force Dora to come to terms with the secret life that she had left behind.

With a spirited cast led by Claudia Ohana’s moving portrayal of Dora, Rocha manages to balance kitsch comedy, police corruption, and a sweet coming-of-age story to create a charming tale about how our lives must go on, even during the most troubling times.

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Kieran Hickey (1936–93) was one of Ireland’s most sophisticated and versatile film-makers, as accomplished in his production of elegant literary documentaries as he was in his direction of a series of exceptional short fiction films, literary adaptations and dramas which, for the first time in Irish cinema, explored sexuality, infidelity, and middle-class angst and challenged notions of nationalism, sectarianism and the glorification of the past. These fine works were produced with his collaborators Pat Duffner and Sean Corcoran at BAC films, alongside an extensive catalogue of commissioned films – travelogues, health & safety and corporate films – which today provide colourful snapshots of Irish society in the 1970s and 80s.

“I had the good fortune to co-write with Kieran Hickey.

Kieran was intent on bringing to the screen a true picture of Irish society. There is nothing cozy about his films.

There is, instead, an honesty and an exactitude, a desire to sweep aside a divisive self-consciousness in favour of a mature exploration of ourselves. His ambition for the work was never thwarted by budget restrictions.

Kieran was a private man with strong friendships, ever prepared to get in the fight. His deep love of literature and extensive knowledge of cinema was brought to bear in the face of any challenge. All who knew him will recall the steady flow of newspaper cuttings gathered on his desk. These he would present with incredulity, sharp wit and a healthy anger. A glance at our national newspapers today tells us there is a great need of his kind.”

Philip Davison

A TRIBUTE TO KIERAN HICKEY

PROGRAMME 1

Sat 23 Feb / IFI 2 / 1pm / Various / 107 mins

PROGRAMME 2

Sun 24 Feb / IFI 1/ 3.40pm / 114 mins

SPECIAL PRESENTATION SATURDAY 23RD FEB: PAGE 3 ROBOT & FRANK ROBOT & FRANK Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3pm / 90 minutes

Director: Jake Schreier / 2011 / US Cast: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Liv Tyler

CINEWORLD SPECIAL PRESENTATION

IRISH FOCUS Exposure

Attracta

In this, his first drama co-written with Philip Davison, Hickey exposed the fear and loathing underlying relations between men and women in Irish society.

Here, an encounter between three male surveyors (Niall O Brien, Bosco Hogan and T P McKenna) and an intriguing, independent French photographer (Catherine Schell) at a remote hotel in the idyllic west of Ireland turns sour and matters quickly turn uncivilised.

Adapted from William Trevor’s short story, this complex, sparely beautiful film about redemption and forgiveness follows the descent into madness of Attracta (Wendy Hiller), a retired protestant school teacher whose parents were killed when she was a child by the old IRA and who now, in old age, identifies with a the young wife of a murdered British soldier.

Criminal Conversation Criminal Conversation, co-authored by Hickey and Davison, presents two comfortable, middle-class Dublin couples as they get together for a Christmas Eve party which degenerates into a kind of Irish Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Alcohol causes smug exteriors to slip and reveals unpleasant truths and the terrible emotional emptiness of their lives.

The Rockingham Shoot Scripted as an original work for screen by John McGahern, this drama is set a small village in the 1950s where schoolteacher Reilly (Bosco Hogan) is a fierce nationalist with a deep loathing for British society, a loathing that erupts into violence when he learns that some of his pupils have absented themselves from school to work at a pheasant shoot at the local big house where the British Ambassador is a guest.

Frank Langella will attend the screening Winner, Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, Sundance Film Festival Like the best movies, the ones that work their way into your head and heart, Robot & Frank has a deceptive simplicity. It also helps to have Frank Langella, a stellar actor at his magnificent best, in the starring role. Langella’s Frank is a retired burglar, a second-story man ready to hang it up at 70. His children, Hunter (James Marsden) and Madison (Liv Tyler), don’t know what to do with him.

His parental neglect extended to two prison stints.

Enter Robot (voiced with droll wit by Peter Sarsgaard), a talking machine that will keep the old-timer in line. Or so Frank’s kids think. After a few days of Robot’s lectures on diet and exercise, Frank gets his own idea to enlist Robot in a new robbery scheme. There’s bracing humour here, and a dash of heartbreak – don’t expect to be wrapped up in a warm and fuzzy cinematic blanket. Robot & Frank, crisply directed by newcomer Jake Schreier, is made of tougher stuff. Just like Frank’s flirtation with a librarian (Susan Sarandon), the movie keeps springing surprises.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED DEN SKALDEDE FRISØR

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 1 / 3.30pm / 112 minutes Director: Susanne Bier / 2012 / Denmark Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Paprika Steen, Trine Dyrholm

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

We are very pleased to welcome New York-based filmmaker Jem Cohen as a guest of the festival. In a career spanning three decades Cohen has made dozens of films in various formats, building a strikingly original body of work that reflects the spirit of independent film-making in its original sense. These sometimes dreamily impressionistic, sometimes arrestingly gritty films defy conventional categorization, and shift easily between narrative and documentary modes.

He may be best known for his collaborations on music videos, concert films and feature-length documentaries with a range of musicians including Fugazi, Patti Smith, the Ex, Jonathan Richman and REM. Equally powerful are his experimental films of urban landscapes, shot in various locations around the world, but predominantly New York. Many of these films have the feel of scrapbooks or diaries, drawn from a personal archive of the hidden images and sounds of modern city life.

MUSEUM HOURS JEM COHEN 2 Sat 23 Feb / IFI 1 / 5pm / 106 mins

Sun 24 Feb / IFI 2 / 1pm / 76 mins

Director: Jem Cohen

Director: Jem Cohen / 2012 / Austria / US

Director: Jem Cohen

Sat 23 Feb / IFI 2 / 3.20pm / 73 mins

Cast: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits

MUSEUM HOURS IS A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES PRESENTATION ‘A delicate, quiet, sometimes gravely moving symphony of Vienna’, The New York Times

MUSEUM HOURS

Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s great museums, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, Jem Cohen has crafted a delicately overwhelming narrative about observation, loneliness, the city, the transience of all things and how art shapes and reflects daily experience. And a whole lot more.

In an unremittingly gray Vienna cityscape, two people unite – museum guard Johann (Bobby Sommer) and Anne (Canadian music legend Mary Margaret O’Hara), a first-time visitor from Montreal. They get to know each other through personal contact and conversation, both inside the museum itself and in ersatz representations around the city.

Anders Thomas Jensen’s script, which is just about equal parts English and Danish, is packed with humour that springs from recognisable human foibles, and Brosnan and Dyrholm have fizzingly good chemistry together. Love is All You Need has been made for an audience rarely catered for by the film industry: intelligent adults who enjoy perceptive and good-hearted drama.

Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph

His latest film, Museum Hours, a feature-length narrative tale largely shot in Vienna’s magnificent Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, marks another career highpoint, and will also be screened as part of the festival.

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The key scene in Museum Hours takes place in the majestic Brueghel room, where a guest lecturer argues that Brueghel gave landscape its due for the first time. This interpretive speech clarifies all the fragments of Vienna cityscape that came before, and changes the way one sees things after. When you come to understand that everything is of equal value in this huge film, and you’re left to make your own connections between them, it’s truly liberating. And the paintings are breathtaking.

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Pierce Brosnan stars in the innocuously-titled but gloriously enjoyable Love is All You Need, the latest film from the Danish director Susanne Bier, whose In A Better World won the foreign language Oscar in 2011.

Brosnan plays Philip, a widower and big noise on the Copenhagen fruit and vegetable wholesale scene who is hosting his son’s wedding at his villa in Sorrento.

Also in attendance is the mother of the bride, Ida (Trine Dyrholm – A Royal Affair), a cancer survivor who has just completed a course of chemotherapy but is still awaiting the final all-clear. Ida’s tubby husband has absconded with the girl from accounts, so she, like Philip, is without a date. As they make the final preparations for their offspring’s nuptials, the flames of love start to catch.

In a retrospective of his work, we are delighted to present some examples of the New York films, Lost Book Found, Little Flags, Long for the City (featuring Patti Smith) and a selection of ‘newsreels’ dealing with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Our second programme features another set of locations; Amber City, a portrait of an unnamed Italian city which plays around with the documentary form, flitting between various visual and narrational styles; Opus Luminis et Hominis, a low key film of the Spanish city of Pamplona; and Le Bled, a collaboration with the writer Luc Sante, shot in a strange peripheral zone of uncompleted building projects on the outskirts of Tangier in Morocco.

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‘a natural-born winner, a romantic comedy that pulls out all the stops’, Screen International

With the support of the Embassy of Denmark

MILO

Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 3.45pm / 90 minutes Directors: Berend Boorsma, Roel Boorsma / 2012 / Netherlands / Ireland Cast: Lorcan Bonner, Stuart Graham, Laura Vasiliu

IRISH FOCUS

Berend and Roel Boorsma will attend the screening Winner, Premio CGS Award for originality and creativity in storytelling, Giffoni Film Festival Ten-year-old Milo has everything going for him. A quiet, intelligent boy with a passion for photography, he lives in conspicuous comfort in the Dublin suburbs with his Irish father and Romanian mother. But Milo has a rare and mysterious skin condition that requires constant care and his overbearing father, determined to keep his condition a secret, keeps him cloistered to the point of imprisonment. Desperate to escape the confines of his life, Milo runs away, falling in with a pair of small-time crooks squatting in a disused quarry. But as his parents begin their frantic search, and the thieves try to work out what to do with him, Milo slowly learns the real truth about his condition.

Writer/directors Roel and Berend Boorsma’s first feature is a thoughtful, sensitive study of a young boy’s search for identity that eschews cheap climaxes in favour of digging deep into a compelling set of characters. Newcomer Lorcan Bonner excels as Milo, a young boy on the cusp of self-awareness, while Stuart Graham (Shadow Dancer, Hunger) gives a powerful performance as his father, a softlyspoken bully caught between love and revulsion.

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CAESAR MUST DIE CESARE DEVE MORIRE

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 1 / 6pm / 76 minutes Directors: Paolo Taviani, Viottorio Taviani / 2012 / Italy Cast: Salvatore Striano, Cosimo Rega, Giovanni Arcuri

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘ humane, intelligent and affecting’, Time Out London Winner, Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison, where the prisoners are preparing to stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. After a competitive casting process, the roles are eventually allocated, and the prisoners begin exploring the text, finding in its tale of fraternity, power and betrayal parallels to their own lives and stories. Hardened criminals, many with links to organised crime, these actors find great motivation in performing the play. As we witness the rehearsals, beautifully photographed in various nooks and crannies within the prison, we see the inmates also work through their own conflicts, both internal and between each other.

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BEWARE OF MR BAKER

Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 6.20pm / 92 minutes Director: Jay Bulger / 2012 / US / South Africa

REAL TO REEL

‘[a] fascinating portrait of the aging rock god as an angry old coot’, Variety Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, SXSW Legendary drummer Ginger Baker was as well known for his monstrous rock ’n’ roll behaviour as he was for his skin-pounding in the supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. But the ‘world’s greatest drummer’ didn’t really hit his stride as a musician until 1972, when he discovered Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat. Setting up shop in Lagos, Baker built a recording studio, sat in on records recorded by Kuti and became one of the first proponents of World Music. After leaving Nigeria, Baker returned to his pattern of drug-induced selfdestruction before settling in South Africa a little over a decade ago. The 73-year-old now lives in seclusion with his young bride and 39 polo ponies…

The Tavianis (Padre Padrone) break the boundary between reality and fiction in startling ways – amongst the inmates, they insert an actor who was once a prisoner himself; some of the conversations are ad-libbed, others carefully scripted – and the result is thoughtful, engaging and a triumphant celebration of art’s ability to impact lives.

Jay Bulger spent three months living with the rock legend, recording numerous hours of interview footage. The result is a rollicking and frequently hilarious encounter with one crazy drummer, enhanced by interviews with Stewart Copeland, Charlie Watts, Johnny Rotten, Neil Peart, Mickey Hart, Lars Ulrich and others. Beware of Mr Baker indeed – in the first scene of the film, Baker cracks a cane across the bridge of Bulger’s nose, showing that Baker’s ferocity has not dimmed one bit.

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THE MOTH DIARIES

Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6pm / 82 minutes Director: Mary Harron / 2011 / Canada / Ireland Cast: Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon

IRISH FOCUS

Mary Harron and Sarah Bolger will attend the screening ‘a Gothic stew of satisfying kinkiness’, Jeanette Catsoulis, The New York Times With a unique visual style, a fantastic grasp of dialogue and a remarkable record of getting great performances, Mary Harron has been a fascinating director since debuting in 1996 with I Shot Andy Warhol. Having already directed features focussing on the minutiae of male identity, infamy and sexual liberation, her new feature is a dissection of female adolescence. Adapted from Rebecca Klein’s 2002 novel, The Moth Diaries is a striking, daring exploration of burgeoning female sexuality.

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Set in an exclusive all-girls boarding school, The Moth Diaries follows Rebecca (Sarah Bolger, In America) as she struggles to cope with her best friend Lucy (Sarah Gadon, Cosmopolis)’s almost slavish devotion to the ethereal, aloof Ernessa (a terrifying Lily Cole). As Lucy gets more and more frail, Rebecca has to try to save her friend while figuring out exactly what Ernessa is.

An allegorical horror story in the Carrie vein, there are signifiers for the everyday amongst all the supernatural trauma; angst, anorexia and sex all mix in with the obsessions and bloodied corpses. With Harron’s incredible eye for lush visuals, a location to rival The Overlook Hotel and two incredible lead performances, The Moth Diaries is a beguiling treat.

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KUMA

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 3 / 6.35pm / 93 minutes

Director: Umut Dag / 2011 / Austria Cast: Nihal Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, Vedat Erincin

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘Kuma’ means ‘second wife’ in Turkish, and Umut Dag’s debut feature is indeed a claustrophobic domestic drama about a second wife. Kuma starts out wide, with a wedding in a Turkish village; amidst the clamour and the colour, several facts reveal themselves. Fatma (Nihal Koldas) is very ill; her son Hasan (Murathan Muslu) has just married a local girl called Ayse (Begüm Akkaya), and they are all travelling back to Vienna where they will live together.

On their return, however, it becomes clear that all this is an elaborate ruse, and the young Ayse has been brought to Austria to become second wife to the ageing family patriarch, Mustafa (Vedat Erincin), with the full blessing – if not connivance – of his ailing first wife Fatma. In this sealed-off Turkish community, appearances are everything and everybody guards their secrets, but the timid and well-meaning Ayse may yet effect a change.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION -MUCH MUCHADO ADO MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Sat 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 6.30pm / 107 minutes

Joss Whedon will attend the screening

The concept is not so incongruous: Whedon is one of the few blockbuster film-makers who also has a semirep acting company. Small-name regulars from Buffy, Angel and Firefly reel off blank verse in the director’s own LA mansion. He shoots the play like an episode of Desperate Housewives – an especially farcical one.

OUR CHILDREN À PERDRE LA RAISON

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 1/ 8.15pm / 111 minutes

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Joss Whedon’s impact on youth culture is already hard to overestimate. Now he’s made the first great contemporary Shakespeare since Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet.

Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

Director: Joachim Lafosse / 2012 / Belgium / Luxembourg / France / Switzerland Cast: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Emilie Dequenne

Director: Joss Whedon / 2011 / US Cast: Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion

‘A warm, funny and breezy contemporary version’, Screen International

Director Umut Dag displays a marked sensitivity for the plight of his characters, assisted by intriguing camerawork from Carsten Thiele and a screenplay of unexpected depth by Petra Ladinigg.

Whedon’s key coup is in simply directing a very good version of the play. He’s got a keen ear for comedy, a no-nonsense approach to ditching the gags that don’t work, a deft hand for slapstick and an eagerness to use it. The vainglory and the self-delusion of his leads is beautifully done by both Alexis Denisof (Benedick) and Amy Acker (Beatrice); Whedon adds a one-night stand flashback that lends strange credence to their bruised egos and prickly banter.

Much Ado may be a bit of a B+ staple on the Shakespeare circuit, but Whedon makes it feel second to none.

Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

An arresting portrait of one woman’s gradual slide, Our Children (À Perdre la Raison) represents another tightly wound study of domestic malaise from Belgian auteur Joachim Lafosse (Private Property). Featuring a riveting lead turn from Emilie Dequenne as a young mother caught between two men (A Prophet stars Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup) in a claustrophobic nightmare, it’s a gloomy and penetrating psychological drama.

The story of Belgian schoolteacher, Murielle (Dequenne), and Moroccan immigrant, Mounir (Rahim), starts off on a rather upbeat note with them falling madly in love and deciding to live together in the home of Mounir’s surrogate father, Doctor Pinget (Arestrup). But as Murielle quickly learns, the physician casts a paralyzing shadow over his young ward. When Murielle gives birth to a third child, the burden it places on the two parents is exacerbated by the doctor’s increasingly guru-like sway over Mounir. And as Murielle gets further sucked into the oppressive homestead, her escape routes slowly dry up.

Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

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THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX

Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.15pm / 110 minutes Director: Claude Miller / 2012 / France Cast: Audrey Tatou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Claude Miller’s elegant last film, completed shortly before he passed away, is a thoughtprovoking drama based on a real-life incident.

Thérèse Desqueyroux takes place at the end of the 1920s not far from Bordeaux. Two of the richest families in the area are united when Thérèse Larroque (Audrey Tautou) marries Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche), the brother of her best friend, Anne (Anaïs Demoustier, Living on Love Alone - JDIFF 2011). Thérèse, bright and intelligent but a restless introvert, looks forward to the marriage as a way of achieving the peace of mind she badly needs. But soon enough she becomes pregnant to a husband she likes less and less with every passing day, and once Bernard starts taking arsenic drops for an imaginary ailment, she can’t resist the temptation to increase the doses of his medication beyond the doctor’s prescriptions.

A latter-day Madame Bovary, rebelling against the rules of her class and its strict Catholic morality, Thérèse keeps the mystery behind her motivations intact. If there is a villain in this piece, it is the bourgeois family institution, with its set of values putting property and pretence above everything else, allowing no one to escape its iron clasp.

Dan Fainaru, Screen International With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland

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Sat 23 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 8.45pm / 105 minutes Director: Yaron Zilberman / 2012 / US Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken

SPECTRUM

A tight-knit string ensemble begins to go slowly out of tune in A Late Quartet. Centred around four outstanding performances, Yaron Zilberman’s fiction feature debut feels like the work of a film-maker who knows and appreciates the art form under scrutiny, laying a credible foundation for a story that lays bare the often melodramatic passions of the artistic soul.

After 25 years of faithful collaboration and celebrated musicianship, the Fugue, a New York-based chamber quartet, finds itself in danger of dissolving. On the eve of the ensemble’s 26th season, cellist Peter (Christopher Walken) quietly informs his three younger colleagues that he’s in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. The impending shake-up spurs second violinist Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to suggest that he be allowed to play first chair on occasion, to the irritation of Daniel (Mark Ivanir), the quartet’s tightly wound first violinist. Caught in the middle is violist Juliette (Catherine Keener), who also happens to be Robert’s wife. Given how tightly the personal and the professional are interwoven here, it’s no surprise that lines get crossed as a quarter-century’s worth of perceived slights and unspoken resentments rise to the surface.

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HOME FOR THE WEEKEND WAS BLEIBT

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.50pm / 88 minutes Director: Hans-Christian Schmid / 2012 / Germany Cast: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

‘An elegant, economical and superbly acted mapping of psychological undercurrents and (not always explicit) family relations’, Screen International An absorbingly detailed snapshot of a troubled family, Home for the Weekend is distinguished by the smart psychological observation of Bernd Lange’s screenplay and the precision and restraint of Hans-Christian Schmid’s direction.

At the centre of the portrait is an intelligently contained performance from Lars Eidinger as Marko, an author in his mid-thirties. The main action takes place over a weekend when Marko’s parents are announcing big changes. His father Günther (Ernst Stötzner) has sold his publishing house. The real news, however, is that Marko’s mother, Gitte (Corinna Harfouch – Perfume, Downfall), has stopped taking her medication after 30 years of treatment for manic depression. That may look like the groundwork for a predictable scenario, but Lange’s sober, reflective script avoids going down obvious roads.

Lange and Schmid are careful to sidestep the clichés of depression drama, eschewing the expected meltdown in favour of devastating steps taken off-camera. Economic use of music by indie band The Notwist adds to the rewardingly subdued nature of the film, and limber, mostly handheld, camerawork encapsulates the keen balance of this satisfying drama between immersive scrutiny and thoughtful detachment.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland

The National Film School at iadt congratulates its graduates, students and staff on their record 26 IFTA Nominations in 2013 Applications are invited to the following postgraduate programmes:

MA in Broadcast Production for Radio and Television MA in Screenwriting for Film and Television For more information on these programmes or on the other activities of The National Film School, please contact us.

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BLOOD RISING

Savoy 1 / 11am 124min

Cineworld 11 / 1pm 117min

Cineworld 11 / 3:20pm 97min

Savoy 1 / 5pm ?min

Savoy 1 / 7:30pm 83min

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PIAZZA FONTANA

IFI 2 / 1pm 76min

IFI 2 / 3:40pm 114 mins

Light House 1 / 5.15pm 125min

BUSTER KEATON: COPS + ONE WEEK Light House 1 / 1.30pm 47min

THE SUMMIT Savoy 1 / 2:30pm 95min

POST TENEBRAS LUX Light House 1 / 2:50pm 117min

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INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Cineworld 11 / 5:20pm 112min

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BUSTER KEATON DOUBLE BILL COPS & ONE WEEK

Sun 24 Feb / Light House 1 / 1.30pm / 47 minutes

Directors: Edward F Cline, Buster Keaton Cops: 1922 / US / One Week: 1920 / US Cast: Buster Keaton

OUT OF THE PAST

With musical accompaniment by Morgan Cooke Buster Keaton, argues Roger Ebert, was ‘the greatest of the silent clowns, not only because of what he did, but because of how he did it.

Harold Lloyd made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster. In films that combined comedy with extraordinary physical risks, Buster Keaton played a brave spirit who took the universe on its own terms, and gave no quarter.’

JDIFF presents two classic short films from Keaton’s heyday in the 1920s. In One Week a man trying to build a house struggles for his life as a tornado tears through his property, while in Cops, a man spurned by his lover finds himself pursued by half the police force of the United States. The stunts – many of them real and performed by Keaton himself – are breathtaking, and the comedy, thanks to Keaton’s deadpan delivery, is still wonderfully fresh.

Alistair Daniel, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Morgan Cooke is composer in residence and performer with Branar Drámaíochta, who do puppet theatre for children. Morgan has been performing live, improvised soundtracks to silent movies since 2009, starting with Metropolis.

Morgan is also a voiceover artist, and worked on TG4’s version of Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock.

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Part 1: Sun 24 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 124 mins Part 2: Sun 24 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 3.20pm / 97 mins Director: Daniel Espinosa / 2010 / Sweden Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic

Director: Babak Najafi / 2012 / Sweden Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ‘ builds to a whopping finale’, The New York Times Safe House director Daniel Espinosa first grabbed attention with this violent, vice-like thriller based on the bestselling novel by criminal defence attorney Jens Lapidus.

Praised for its dynamic storytelling and tangy evocation of a multicultural Sweden, it finds its focus in handsome economics student JW (Joel Kinnaman), a man who has dipped his toes in the drug trade and discovered that he is now swimming with sharks. Escaped con Jorge (Matias Varela) is lining up a massive cocaine deal that will smash the Serbian mafia’s control of the local drug trade. Mafia enforcer Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic) is not about to let that happen and somewhere in the middle there is slick, resourceful JW who works for Jorge’s partners in crime.

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Set three years after Easy Money, the sequel is no less thrilling as Joel Kinnaman’s dashing mixture of social climber and wily criminal JW has served a portion of his sentence and is about to qualify for day release from prison.

He could keep his head down and seek atonement but that’s really not his style. Instead, he sets about freeing former enemy Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic) and joining forces to take revenge on the man who put them behind bars.

Director Babak Najafi offers a tighter, tenser sequel with another impressive performance from rising star Joel Kinnaman who is soon to be seen taking the central role in the Hollywood reboot of Robocop.

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THE SUMMIT

Sun 24 Feb / Savoy 1 / 2.30pm / 95 minutes Director: Nick Ryan / 2012 / Ireland / UK

IRISH FOCUS

Nick Ryan will attend the screening Nominated, Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, Sundance Film Festival On 1 August 2008, climbers from seven international expeditions set out to conquer the summit of K2, considered by many to be the greatest challenge in the climbing world. Though the weather conditions were perfect, what followed was the worst disaster in the history of attempts on K2. Of the twentyfour climbers who set out, only thirteen survived.

Among the climbers was Ger McDonnell from Kilcornan, Co. Limerick, a larger than life figure who became the first Irishman to reach the summit.

But the descent from K2 is even more treacherous than the climb, and as darkness fell and ice-falls cut the ropes on which the climbers depended, the mountain’s deadly nature revealed itself. In the days that followed, conflicting accounts of the tragedy began to emerge, and central to the mystery was the question of what happened to Ger. Through interviews with the survivors, footage taken during the climb, and breathtaking reconstructions, Nick Ryan’s film tells the story of the disaster: a story of obsession, heroism, carelessness and sheer bad luck. The Summit is the most gripping climbing documentary since Touching the Void and a moving tribute to the climbers who lost their lives.

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INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION INDAGINE SU UN CITTADINO AL DI SOPRA DI OGNI SOSPETTO Sun 24 Feb / Cineworld 11 / 5.20pm / 112 minutes

Director: Elio Petri / 1970 / Italy Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan

OUT OF THE PAST

‘Gian Maria Volonté gives an impressively detailed, illuminating performance’, Chicago Reader Winner, Best Foreign Language Film, 1970 Academy Awards® The plain title of Elio Petri’s film tells the bulk of the story. A policeman kills his mistress; the trail of clues leads back in his direction, yet such is his status, not to mention the force of his character, that his colleagues remain wary, or even incapable, of finding him guilty. Was he daring them to accuse him? Was he merely flaunting his power, or did he dream of finally being unmasked?

The movie, dating from 1970, is fuelled by sardonic rage at a system of authority that seems answerable to no one; its political argument feels lumpen and dated, whereas its portrait of a loner and his lusts comes up frighteningly fresh, and the whole conceit would collapse without the muscular, rousing presence of Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars) in the central role. He, as much as Petri, hauls the movie into the realms of Kafka. With the beauteous Florinda Bolkan, plus a comic-sinister score, full of twanging springs, by Ennio Morricone.

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

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My lips are sealed as to what film I am hoping to confirm for this cherished slot, but I can tell you this: don’t listen to anyone who tells you that they know what the Surprise Movie is. It is the festival’s most closely guarded secret and no one will know until the lights dim… Enjoy.

There’s a special pleasure in booking a ticket for a film about which nothing is known, and the Surprise Film has always been one of my favourite slots in the festival. For the uninitiated, the ritual starts with the growing sense of excitement as the Savoy auditorium fills, the last minute suggestions are placed in the festival competition boxes, followed by the gasps which accompany the trailers that kick off the proceedings. Then the lights dim and the opening credits are revealed…

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CLOSING GALA - BLOOD RISING BLOOD RISING Sun 24 Feb / Savoy 1 / 7.30pm / 83 minutes

Director: Mark McLoughlin / 2012 / Ireland Brian Maguire and Mark McLoughlin will attend the screening

CLOSING GALA Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.

By turn, incredibly moving and passionately angry, Mark McLoughlin’s film Blood Rising brings us right into the heart of a truly terrifying world.

Juárez is nicknamed ‘the capital of murdered women.’ The Mexican border city of 1.5 million inhabitants draws tens of thousands of young women from small, poor towns with $55-a-week jobs in the factories owned by corporations such as General Electric and DuPont. The murder rates are truly shocking: 3,000 in 2010 alone, blamed on drug cartels and serial killers. Only 2% of these murder cases have been investigated and many of the mothers have themselves received death threats simply for demanding justice.

Irish artist Brian Maguire has spent three years working with these women to bring their stories to the international community. Well known for his social and political commitment, Maguire creates portraits of the missing women which he then shares with their families; he also produces a larger work to be included in an international touring exhibition. Director McLoughlin and his team have made an incredibly powerful film, brutal and unflinching in its depiction of this lawless society, yet emotional in the silent moments between the mothers and the wonderfully empathetic Maguire.

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JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BORD SCANNÁN NA HÉIREANN / THE IRISH FILM BOARD (IFB) ARE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT UNTITLED: A UNIQUE SCREENWRITING COMPE TITION WHERE WRITERS CAN WIN €12,000 (OR €16,000 FOR A WRITING PARTNERSHIP) TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR FILM.

The competition is now in its third year, and last year saw submissions on the theme of ‘1916’, with writing team Jamie Hannigan and Michael Kinirons taking home a €16,000 prize for their noir thriller, Come Monday We Kill Them All. This year’s competition invited writers to submit an idea for a feature film with the theme of ‘family films’.

Nearly 200 entries were received, and a final shortlist of five writers/writing partnerships were invited to write the first few scenes of their script.

They will take part in a public interview at the Light House Cinema, presenting their screenplay to an independent panel of industry professionals. The panel will select the winning project, which will be announced at the Closing Gala of the festival on Sunday 24 February.

The winning project will receive a First Draft Development Loan of €12,000 (€16,000 for a writing partnership) from the IFB. The four runners-up will win a season pass to Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014.

Sun 24 Feb / IFI / 3.30pm

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ESTABLISHED IN 2006, THE DUBLIN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE OFFERS THE CIT Y’S FULLTIME PROFESSIONAL MOVIE REVIEWERS AN OPPORTUNIT Y TO POOL OPINIONS ON RECENT RELEASES, CONSIDER MOVIE HERITAGE AND WHINGE ABOUT EACH OTHER’S SHORTCOMINGS.

Join the Dublin Film Critics Circle as they ponder JDIFF 2013 and name their final selections for Best Film, Best Director, Best Irish Film, Best Documentary and Best Performances from the festival programme.

DFCC@JDIFF 2012: THE WINNERS

This year, a jury that includes Daniel Anderson (Click), Paul Byrne (movies.ie), Brogen Hayes (Spin FM), John Maguire (Sunday Business Post), Nicola Timmins (Average Film Reviews), Dave O’Mahony (Access Cinema), Donald Clarke (Irish Times) and DFCC president Tara Brady (Irish Times) will, additionally, announce the recipient of the fourth Michael Dwyer Discovery Award, named for our late friend and colleague.

Best Female Performance: Greta Gerwig (Damsels in Distress)

DFCC member and Cinerama presenter Gavin Burke (Phantom FM) will be on hand to introduce the final deliberations of the 2013 jury at the IFI.

Special Jury Award - Ruben Östlund (Play)

Best Irish Film: Nuala: A Life and Death Best Male Performance: Michael Fuith (Michael)

Best Screenplay: Joseph Cedar (Footnote) Best Documentary: Samsara Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) Special Jury Award - Ivan Kavanagh (Tin Can Man) Special Jury Award: Aisling Loftus (Death of a Superhero) Special Jury Award: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (Chicken with Plums) The Michael Dwyer Discovery Award: Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride (Silence)

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AF TER A TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL FIRST YEAR, STORY CAMPUS RE TURNS TO JDIFF THIS YEAR WITH A FRESH PROGRAMME OF TRAINING AND DISCUSSIONS EXPLORING THE NATURE (AND FUTURE ) OF STORY TELLING FOR THE SCREEN.

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Led by film-maker David Pope, and director and screenwriter David Keating, this year’s Story Campus is a two-day event for emerging and established screenwriters – as well as producers and directors – looking for industry awareness or to develop their next film project. Through a series of workshops, interviews and panel sessions with industry insiders, Story Campus will help you develop key storywriting techniques, and provide invaluable advice on writing everything from project pitches to story outlines and screenplays. This year’s event will include a keynote conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown, The Last Detail, Mission Impossible), and online discussions with screenwriter David Magee (Life of Pi, Finding Neverland) and writer/director Agnieska Holland (In Darkness, Europa Europa, The Wire).

David Pope is a film-maker, consultant and training provider at international level.

Credits include the award-winning feature film Miles From Nowhere and training clients have included Rotterdam Lab CineMart, Cannes Cinefondation, the BBC and the BFI. David Keating is a film and theatre director and screenwriter. His first feature, The Last of the High Kings, earned him a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Evening Standard Awards. His latest film, Wake Wood, is a critically acclaimed award-winning horror film. David is also involved in running screenwriting labs, and acting and directing workshops.

DAY ONE An open conference day of engaging and provocative events giving film-makers an opportunity to share, talk, listen and network. Includes panel discussions on ‘what I learned making my last film’ and ‘Ireland’s place in the film world: how do we get our work out there?’, an interactive session on presenting your project, Q&As with special guests and a keynote interview with legendary screenwriter Robert Towne.

DAY TWO Day two is a training day for a select group of 20 applicants with narrative feature film projects, including peer-to-peer sessions on introducing your project, acting on feedback and advice, and identifying key challenges.

In the afternoon industry advisors will chair a series of round table discussions, offering film-makers a chance to present their project and get feedback from advisors and peers.

HOW TO BOOK To reserve your place on Day One, please call the JDIFF box office on 01 687 7974 or go to jdiff.com.

Attendees for Day Two will be selected in advance. Please see application details at www.storycampus.com. The application deadline for Day Two is 4 February.

JDIFF presents Story Campus in association with The National Film School. Screen Training Ireland is delighted to support Story Campus at JDIFF 2013.

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LIVE ACTION / ANIMATION CROSSOVERS Sat 16 Feb / Light House 2 / 11am-1pm Admission Free. To book your place go to jdiff.com

LIVE ACTION/ANIMATION CROSSOVER FEATURES ARE NOT A NEW THING. EVEN A CURSORY LOOK AT THE BEST KNOWN HYBRIDS – LIKE THE 2D ANIMATION/LIVE ACTION CROSSOVERS MARY POPPINS, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT AND STOP MOTION/LIVE ACTION CROSSOVERS LIKE KING KONG AND R AY HARRYHAUSEN’S FILMS – SUGGEST THAT ANIMATION AND LIVE ACTION HAVE SHARED THE SCREEN SUCCESSFULLY FOR A LONG TIME.

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More recently, with the advent of CGI and the widespread use of digital special effects, live action/animation crossovers (LOTR, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Life of Pi) have become more prevalent and more profitable.

At the same time, the lines between live action and animation have become more blurred. Live action directors like Steven Spielberg, Gore Verbinski and Guillermo del Toro have moved successfully into animation and animators like Brad Bird, Tim Burton and Andrew Stanton have moved the other way.

And more and more, the craft and knowledge from live action is being fed into animation features. WALL·E and How to Train Your Dragon benefited enormously from the input of live action cinematographer Roger Deakins. And with Rango, Gore Verbinski aspired to make an animated feature using live action knowledge and ended up with a unique photorealistic look (as if shot on location), which helped win the film an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

With this blurring of the lines between live action and animation, what does the future hold? In terms of awards – are these films animation, are they live action or do they fall between the cracks? What opportunities do future animation projects hold for traditional live action roles like cinematography and production design? And can animation skills and live action skills be translated, transferred and combined to make better movies?

PANEL GUESTS Stuart Sumida Stuart Sumida, a Professor of Biology at California State University, is the world’s foremost consultant on animal movement for animated films. He has worked on over 50 animated and CG/effects films including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Tarzan, Reign of Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia, Ratatouille, Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon and Life of Pi. Fergal Reilly Fergal Reilly is a director for Sony Pictures Digital Productions and Sony Pictures Animation. He began his career as a story/ concept artist for Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros, and Sony/Columbia Pictures.

His credits include The Iron Giant, Spiderman 2, Stuart Little, Open Season, The Smurfs, Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. As a Director at Sony, he is currently developing a number of projects including an adaptation of the comic book property Chickenhare. He is also consulting on a number of other hybrid shows in various stages of production such as Smurfs 2 and the upcoming Oz the Great and Powerful.

Simon Kay Simon Kay has worked in the animation/games/vfx industry for over 10 years. He’s currently a Motion Capture Supervisor with renowned vfx company Double Negative in the UK. His film credits include Superman: Man of Steel, Total Recall, John Carter of Mars, Paul, Iron Man 2 and Angels and Demons.

PANEL CHAIR Ciaran Crowley Ciaran Crowley has worked as a visual effects artist for almost 15 years. His film credits include some of the most visually impressive blockbusters of recent times including Stardust, The Bourne Ultimatum, Inception, Iron Man 2, 2012, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

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ORGANISERS This JDIFF event has been organised in conjunction with Gareth Lee, Irish School of Animation at Ballyfermot College of Further Education and with the support of the Irish Film Board.

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Screen Test panels have included PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION Previous classes on cinematography, editing, casting, costume design, directing, WITH THE BROADCASTING screenwriting, animation and game design, as well as panel on film criticism, documentary AUTHORIT Y OF IREL AND, discussions making and the Irish film industry.

SCREEN TEST IS THE TR AINING Based out of our festival hub in Filmbase, Screen Test starts on Friday 15 February with WING OF JAMESON DUBLIN a workshop on sound for film and there will further workshops on stunts, art design, INTERNATIONAL FILM be cinematography, animation and discussion on criticism, documentary, short FESTIVAL. DURING THE panels film-making and web broadcasting. Screen ends on Friday 22 February after an open FESTIVAL THERE WILL BE Test evening for Irish broadcasting courses, where who offer courses relevant to Screen SPECIALIST WORKSHOPS colleges Test will have information available for those to train in the industry.

FROM ESTABLISHED looking There are Screen Test workshops on every of the festival, and four specialist PROFESSIONALS, AS WELL weekday panels. Each event is individually ticketed, but Screen Test ticket is available from AS INDUSTRY DISCUSSION athespecial box office and our website jdiff.com.

Test at JDIFF 2013 will run as follows PANELS FROM EXPERTS. Screen (unless otherwise stated, each event takes FAR FROM EXCLUSIVE TO place in Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar: FILM-MAKING, SCREEN TEST SOUND FOR FILM 15 Feb / 12.30pm IS AIMED AT ANYONE WHO Friday A workshop on any and all sound needed making a film, from location recording WANTS TO BEGIN WORKING when to sound mixing to ADR and foley.

IN THE BROADCAST INDUSTRY, EXHIBITING YOUR SHORT (PANEL) WHE THER IT BE IN R ADIO, Saturday 16 Feb / 12.30pm / Filmbase Badal (Tribeca Film Festival) and TELEVISION OR INDEED FILM. Sharon Kathleen McInnis (Palm Springs International Film Festival) discuss the best way to get a short film shown at a festival.

DOCUMENTING YOUR CAREER (PANEL) Sunday 17 Feb / 12.30pm / Filmbase 3 Documentary makers and exhibitors discuss the best ways to kick start a film career through documentary.

DRESSING IT UP Monday 18 Feb / 12.30pm A workshop on working in a film’s art department, be it model making, prop work or production design.

A CAREER IN RADIO Monday 18 Feb / 3pm Whether it’s producing, presenting or reporting, this workshop covers your future radio career and how to start it.

ANIMATION Tuesday 19 Feb / 12.30pm More Sick Animation than Pixar, this workshop shows how to make animated work quickly and cheaply.

THE FESTIVAL CLUB @ THE CHURCH: LOVE/HATE Tuesday 19 Feb / 9pm / Love/Hate director David Caffrey takes us through the continual rise of his phenomenally popular RTÉ crime drama.

STUNTS WORKSHOP Wednesday 20 Feb / 12.30pm Do you long to be set on fire and survive?

Fight for 50 consecutive takes? Come on down and let stunts professionals show you how.

CINEMATOGRAPHY Wednesday 20 Feb / 3pm Learn from ISC professionals the best way to begin a career directly behind the camera.

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PRODUCING Thursday 21 Feb / 12.30pm A workshop on the nitty gritty of producing, be it feature, short or documentary.

THE ECONOMICS OF YOUTUBE Thursday 21 Feb / 3pm The Rubberbandits enlighten us on how to monetise going viral, turning web fame into real success and the economic impact of keeping your horse outside.

MAKING YOUR FIRST FEATURE (PANEL)

Domhnall Gleeson, opening guest at Screen Test 2012.

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Friday 22 Feb / 3pm / Light House 3 All Screen Test ticket holders are invited to this final panel discussion, where students of Filmbase’s MA in film-making will screen and discuss the feature made as part of their studies, as well as their continuing movement onto bigger and more prominent features.

This closing event will also be attended by a number of film courses from around the country, who will be present with relevant material for any prospective students.

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Ireland’s pool of professional actors

CASTING WITH MARGERY SIMKIN

SCREENWRITING WITH TOBIAS LINDHOLM Thursday 21 Feb / JDIFF Festival Club (The Church) / 12pm

Margery Simkin

Margery Simkin has cast such films as Beverley Hills Cop, Top Gun, Brazil, Field of Dreams, Twelve Monkeys, Erin Brockovich, Marley & Me, Avatar and the upcoming Pacific Rim (directed by Guillermo Del Toro) and Beautiful Creatures.

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In the course of her career she has given early opportunities/starts to such actors as Tom Cruise, Laura Dern, Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey Jr, Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Queen Latifah, Natalie Portman and Sam Worthington.

Based in Los Angeles, Ms Simkin has had the privilege of working with many great directors including Terry Gilliam, Frank Oz, Danny DeVito, David Frankel, James Cameron and Richard LaGravenese. To book go to jdiff.com.

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Tues 19 Feb / Odeon Cinema / 2pm Presented in association with Fishpond.ie Hosted by Maureen Hughes

Tobias Lindholm

A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE: CONVERSATIONS WITH LEADING EUROPEAN DIRECTORS

Hosted by Mark O’Halloran.

A graduate of The National Film School of Denmark, Tobias Lindholm has worked in both television and film, directing two features, the latest being JDIFF 2013’s A Hijacking. A cinema-verité look at a shipping liner held to ransom by Somali pirates, its assured style is incredible from a writer/ director taking sole charge of a film for the first time. However, even at his young age, Lindholm has a wealth of experience. He began work on the television drama Sommer while still in college and, since being offered a chance to adapt Submarino with Thomas Vinterberg two days after graduating, he just hasn’t stopped. From small-screen success on Borgen to writing the Palme d’Or-nominated The Hunt last year, he only seems to be going one way. To book go to jdiff.com.

A Hijacking is screening on Wedneday 20 February at 8.35pm in Cineworld 9 and will be followed by a Q&A with Tobias Lindholm. See p.68 for details.

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Wed 20 Feb / Light House 1 / 2pm For further information go to jdiff.com.

To celebrate the EU presidency – JDIFF and Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board invite Dublin audiences and directors to join a conversation with some of the great talents working in contemporary European cinema. This rare opportunity brings together established film-makers – both Irish and international – to discuss their craft, their inspiration and what drives them to produce the work that counts them amongst Europe’s leading directors.

Panellists will include: Olivier Assayas (Something in the Air, Summer Hours, Clean) Costa-Gavras (Capital, Missing, Z) Conor McPherson (The Eclipse, The Actors)

Fishpond has had a makeover. Come and check out our new site www.fishpond.ie

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FILM REVIEWING: THE DARK ARTS

Thur 14 Feb / Light House 3 / 2pm

Sat 23 Feb / Light House 3 / 11am In association with Dublin Film Critics Circle

Hosted by Donald Taylor-Black

Alex Gibney

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Alex Gibney is the winner of the 2008 Academy Award® for Best Documentary for Taxi to the Dark Side. In 2006 Gibney wrote, produced and directed the Oscar-nominated film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which received the Independent Spirit Award and the WGA Award. He has directed Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer; Magic Trip and The Last Gladiators. His most recently released films are Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a story of sex abuse in the Catholic church and Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, which examines the stratification of wealth in America. He just completed We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks for Focus Features. To book go to jdiff.com.

Screen Training Ireland is delighted to support the Alex Gibney masterclass at JDIFF 2013.

Mea Maxima Culpa is screening at 6pm on Friday 15 February in Light House 1 and will be followed by a Q&A. See p.15 for details.

Mark Adams is Chief Film Critic for respected film trade paper Screen International. As such, he attends most of the key international film festivals around the world. A film journalist and reviewer for more than 25 years, he has written for Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Moving Pictures International, as well as many national newspapers in the UK. Is also currently film critic for The Sunday Mirror in the UK. He has also worked extensively in the film industry. He was Head of Programme Planning at the National Film Theatre in London for six years, and also worked as Director of Cinema – overseeing programming, exhibition and running the in-house film and DVD distribution company – at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. He has helped programme film festivals in Australia and Europe, and has acted as a consultant for the British Film Institute and the British Tourist Authority. He has also written three books about cinema.

BR AINBELT ILLUSTR ATION COLLECTIVE HAVE TEAMED UP WITH THIS YEAR’S JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO BRING YOU A DIVERSE RANGE OF EXCITING ILLUSTR ATIONS OF MOVIE POSTERS, ICONIC LINES AND MOVIE ICONS.

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All the work is inspired by a hand-picked selection of films from this year’s festival line-up. Keep your eyes peeled, as they will be dotted around a variety of participating cinema lobbies, box offices and bars.

All pieces are limited edition prints from contributing illustrators Emma Rowe, Stephen McNally, Alan Dunne, Ultan Courtney, Michelle Cunningham, Gareth Teggin, Jamie Murphy, John Corrigaand Peter Dawson.

To book go to jdiff.com.

GUILLAUME DE FONDAUMIÉRE IN CONVERSATION WITH APHRA KERR Mark Adams

Fri 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 1pm Guillaume de Fondaumiére is the Chief Operations Officer for Quantic Dream.

Before joining Quantic Dream in 2003 he was the president of Arxel Tribe, a 3D graphics studio he had founded ten years previously. A former president of the French video games trade body APOM and chairman of the European Games Developer Federation, he is also a knight of France’s National Order of Merit, for contributions made to the country’s digital economy.

Quantic Dream are a French video game developer that also provide motion capture services to the film industry. The first to allow for multiple plot-lines – as opposed to more traditional, one-dimensional stories – they are the pioneers of interactive cinema.

Dr Aphra Kerr is a lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, who has published several works on the games industry and its growing relevance both artistically and economically. To book go to jdiff.com.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Paddy Breathnach Sue Bruce-Smith Clare Duignan Jonathan Kelly Hugh Linehan Arthur Lappin Chairman David McLoughlin James Morris Gaby Smyth

STAFF

Administrator and Marketing Assistant Kevin O’Farrell Accounts Manager Miriam McLoughlin Accounts Officer Bairbre Quinn Advertising Consultant Sarah Smyth Catalogue Editor Alistair Daniel

General Manager Jackie Ryan

Festival Intern Nicola McCabe

Festival Director Gráinne Humphreys

Festival Publicist Jenny Sharif Hospitality Manager Aideen Darcy

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Hospitality Assistant Kathy Scott

Ticket Office Supervisor Karl Watson

Industry Co-ordinator Rory Bonass

Ticket Office Supervisor Alison Reilly

Marketing and Sales Manager Kamil Chechlacz

Ticketing Manager Joey Kavanagh

Marketing, Research & Audience Development Niamh O’Byrne Press Liaison Laura O’Herlihy Print Transport & Exhibition Co-ordinator Andy Beecroft

Volunteers Manager Paul Halpin Venue Manager Cineworld Philip Kelly Venue Manager IFI & Savoy John McHale

Production Manager Liam Ryan

Venue Manager Light House Orla Basquille

Production Assistant Jamie Paisley

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Welcome to the 11th edition of JDIFF. Our eleventh birthday gives us a great opportunity to look back at the last 10 years, and plan some new beginnings.

As my first JDIFF it seems to me that the festival is and has always been about people. Somebody has an idea (often cited as occurring at the kitchen table for some reason), and then makes a film. Sounds easy – we know it’s not. Then they submit it everywhere.

Somebody says YES. At some stage in an office in Dublin, people are labelling thousands of films, and one hungry programmer watches them all, takes note, and plots and plans. Then four of us, who quickly become 25, are joined by 150 volunteers. Again, sounds easy, it’s not. Then, the magic.

Our partners, who bring all sorts of resources, provide cinemas, hotels, cars, cables, screens, signs, food and beverages, and then the real magic: you arrive. You arrive in thousands, and for 11 days you roar, you laugh, you cry, and you validate the ideas that happened at a kitchen table, some time back, somewhere around the world.

For that we thank you. Thank you all.

Access Cinema – Maeve Cooke, David O’Mahony

A sincere thanks to our title sponsor Jameson.

Artifical Eye – Ben Luxford, Jon Rushton, Jake Garriock

Jackie Ryan General Manager Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

Aertv – Karen Howley, Phillipe Brodeur

Byrne Moreau Connell – Joe Moreau, Meldan Deery

Aida LiPera – Visit Films

Catherine Owens

Alan Fitzpatrick

Chanelle Aponte Pearson – Media MVMT

Allison Gardner Glasgow Film Festival Andrew Freedman – Venom Angeline Nicolai – Elle Driver Ania Trzebiatowska - Off Plus Camera Anke Hartwig – Junifilm Aoife O’Sullivan – Subotica Age & Opportunity – Ann Leahy, Marianna Cullen Alliance Française – Claire Bourgeois, Christine Weld Arnaud Aubelle – Le Pacte

Arts Audiences – Una Carmody The Arts Council – Fionnuala Sweeney, Catherine Boothman, Orlaith Mc Bride BAI – Brian Furey, Patricia Kelly

DesignTactics – Brendan Donlon Deirdre Mulrooney DLIADT – Barry Dignam, Donald Taylor Black, Michael Connerty Donald Clarke

Franka Schwabe – BAC Films Gareth Lee – Ballyfermot College of Further Education

Irish Film Institute – Ross Keane, Deirdre O’Reilly, Liam Roycroft, Bert Donlon, Nisan Greenidge, Andy Burke, Sunniva O’Flynn The Irish Times – Julie Brady, Katie Malony, Anthea Mctiernan, Shane Hegarty, Hugh Linehan, Janet Stafford

Dublin City Council – Mary Weir

Chloé Jourdan – Wide Management

Dublin City Council Events – Grainne Kelly, Veronica Beausang

Gerardine O’Flynn GFD – Conor Anderson, Deirdre Johnston

James Kelly

Dublin City Council Arts Office – Ray Yeates, Sinead Connolly

Gladys Reyes – Six Sales Entertainment Group

Jason Foran – Cine Electric

Glenn Hogarty GMS Security – Jon Gleeson, Daragh Hyland

The Church – Una Connolly, Darren Moore Çiğdem Özdemir – Kaz Film Cineworld – Jon Perry, John Travers, Clare McCollum, Jane O’Callaghan, Ed Coleman, Simon Edwards Claire Leadbitter Clare Dundrow – Kaleidoscope Entertainment Clodagh Downing Colette Reid & Niamh Corbet – HB Colin Burch – Verve Pictures Colin Goodall – Session Hire Communicraft – Peter McDonagh, Colm O’Riordan Conor Horgan Cosima Finkbeiner – Beta Cinema

Barry O’Donoghue

Culture Ireland – Christine Sisk Damien O Donnell

Dublin Film Critics Circle Eclipse Pictures – Siobhán Farrell, Claire Dunlop Element Pictures – Andrew Lowe, Audrey Shiels, Nell Roddy, Robert Finn, Deirdre Durkan Elina Hakkarainen Embassy of the Republic of Poland – Monika Chmielarz, Aleksandra Radziwon

Entertainment. ie – Julian Douglas, Catherine Egan, David Bryan, Sarah Murphy Eoin Murphy Eoin Wrixon – Carlton Screen Advertising Esther McCarthy

Danish Embassy – Neils Pultz, Louise Holmsgaard

Figa Films – Sandro Fiorin, Alex Garcia

Dave Farrell – Tile Films

Filmbase – Alan Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Killelea, Clare Creely

David Caffrey

Burrell PR – Rebecca

David Shear – Revolver

Hollywood Classics – Geraldine Higgins, Luke Brawley Hugh O’Conor IBEC – Rosemary Garth, Catherine Darcy

IMC Group – Leo Ward, Paul Ward, Linda Dagge, Sandra Rowe

Bianca Lucas – MIJ Film

Brian Finnegan – GCN

Gunnar Almer – Swedish Film Institute

Emily Elphinstone

Fáilte Ireland – Rory McCarthy, Gillian Binchy, Antoinette Reilly

Dave King

Goethe Institut – Mechtild Manus, Heidrun Rottke

Ignacio Lopez – IMAGINA International Sales

Daniel Graham – Axiom Films

Brad Bernstein

Georgina Rennie

Emilie Saby – Mantarayya

Bettina Seitz – Kenny Gallery Blinder Films – Ailish Bracken, Katie Holly

French Embassy – Hadrien Laroche, Elisabetta Sabbatini

Charlotte Hill – MGM Films

Barrie Dowdall – Telwell Productions Ben Luxford – Artificial Eye

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Ina Rossow – Deckert Distribution GmbH Instituto Italiano di Cultura – Angela Tangianu, Naoise MacFheorais Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard – Richard Brickley, Fiona Carroll, Anna Malmhake, Stuart Moffett, Gavin O’Doherty, Sarah O’Hanlon Irish Film Board – James Hickey, Louise Ryan, Teresa McGrane, Suzanne Murray

Marcus Rettig – Lightning Entertainment Mark O’Halloran Maryam Naghibi The Merrion Hotel – Sarah Glavey, Katie Farrell Metrodome Group – Jezz Vernon, Chris Lawrance

Renault Ireland – Julien Lelorrain, Duncan Minto, Eimear Walshe Richard Goldegewicht Rob O’Toole – Robot Display Robert Beeson – New Wave Roddy Flynn

Steve Hills – Eureka Video Studio Canal – John Trafford Owen, Suzanne Noble, Adam Hotchkiss, Lesley Grieve Tara Brady Ticketsolve – Paul Fadden, Seán Hanly, David Dunstan, David McAllister

Mike Sheridan

Roisin Duffy

Mobile Radio Links – Johnny O’Meara

Roopa Saini – Mara Pictures

Tom Davia

Ross Whitaker and all at Film Ireland

Tom Lawlor – Volta

Joe Clarke

Momentum Pictures – Andy Waller, Anne Gartside, Mark Jones

Joel Conroy

Morgan Cooke

Joey Leung – Terracotta Distribution

Moss Breathnach – Phantom FM

John Kelleher

Myles Dungan

John Leahy – Production Depot

Nathan Gilligan – Soda Pictures

John Maguire

National Concert Hall – Catherine Kirby, Caroline Feehily, Gary Sheehan

Jane Williams – SIA

Julia Wakeham Julie Knight – Lyric FM Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment – Clare Dundrow, Adam Sergeant Kayo Yoshida – Asmik Ace Inc. Ken Wardrop Kevin O’Brien Kim Ki-duk Light House Cinema – Amy Lynch, Mariusz Dmochowski Lionsgate – Matt Smith, Rachel Koczan Lisa Richards Agency – Richard Cook, Jonathan Shankey

Newgrange Pictures – Jackie Larkin, Lesley McKimm

RTÉ – Laura Beatty, Clare Duignan, Joe Hoban, Sheena Madden, Angela Rohan, Sandra Byrne, Lorelei Harris RTÉ Concert Orchestra – Anthony Long, Seamus Crimmins, David Brophy, Angela Rohan RTÉ Stills Library – Brid Dooley, Lucy Campbell, Sarah Woods, Emma Keogh RuMedia

Nicky Gogan

Sam Abraham (RIP)

Olivia Leahy

Samson Films – David Collins, Mary Claire White, Martina Nyland

Olga Karavaeva – Mosfilm Paddy Breathnach Park Circus – Nick Varley, Mark Truesdale Pascale Ramonda – Festivals Strategies Pat Redmond – Patrick Redmond Photography Paul Whitington Prasanna Vithanage

Magdalena Puzmujzniak

RAI – Catia Rossi, Claire Bugni

Małgorzata Jurczak – Skorpion Arte

Ray Senior – VIP Ireland.com

Marcin Nowak – IQ Art Film

Rebecca Halfron – Fortissimo Films Rebecca O’Flanagan – Treasure Entertainment

Savoy Cinema – Jill Vincent, Paul Yeates, Eamon Craddon, John Donnelly, Sandra O’Donoghue Seamus McGann – AVC Hire Screen Training Ireland – Helen McMahon, Criona Sexton, Sorcha Loughnane Shimmy Marcus

Tom Hall Tom Stewart – Arrow Films Twentieth Century Fox – Sharon McGarry, Janice Kearney, Jennifer Finnegan Universal Pictures – David Burke, Maryse Fitzpatrick, Fiona Breslin Wahida Begum – Vertigo Films Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Ireland – Trish Long, Richard Carolan, Martin O’Grady, Maureen Ryan Warner Bros – Dave Reid, Pat Boylan, Nick Costello Wells Cargo – Tom Thornton, Owen Rowley Windmill Lane – Tim Morris, Peter Brady, David O’Brien, Owen Derby, Emma Ellis, Diego Solarzano, Carly Butler Wonsun Shin – CJ Entertainment Zbysek Zalinski All staff in our festival venues and care centres.

Sony Pictures – Barbara Murphy, Janice Chu Stephanie McBride Steve Bestwick – The Works

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A VITAL ELEMENT TO ENSURING THE SMOOTH RUNNING AND CONTINUED SUCCESS OF JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IS OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME.

Each year, film enthusiasts of all ages, occupations, backgrounds and nationalities generously commit to staffing various departments and venues for the festival period. Their dedication (and ever-increasing levels of enthusiasm) are key to maintaining JDIFF’s status as Ireland’s premier film event. Many of our volunteers return each year to participate in the festival. Here are some of their favourite memories: ‘My favourite memory was the audience reaction to The Raid, screened in Savoy 1... such a great experience.’

Linda Crowe (first volunteered 2012) ‘Running up and down the Savoy with a microphone for audience questions can be tiring. While you tend not to concentrate on people as well as you might when hundreds are in attendance, nothing could have distracted me more while running up those steps than these words: “There goes a man in great shape”. I could have died a happy man, as Mr Corleone himself – Al Pacino – told the audience of his appreciation for the work we volunteers do.’

Eddie Bolton (first volunteered 2010)

‘I will never forget the surprise movie in 2007 (300) and helping organise the queue; the atmosphere inside and out of the Savoy was one of excitement, nervousness and inquisition - a brilliant buzz.’

Sean Doyle (first volunteered 2005) ‘Strange things happen as a volunteer at the film festival. Without realising, the president may ask you about your views on a film; you’ll be holding an umbrella for Aidan Gillen; you’ll turn around at the bar to find Timothy Spall standing next to you. That these moments don’t threaten to be the most memorable of your experience says everything about how enjoyable the whole ten days of JDIFF can be.’

Sean Noone (first volunteered 2010) ‘Some of my best memories are winning the film quiz in 2011, roaring out “Since You Been Gone” with my brothers at the 2010 closing party, and meeting my girlfriend in 2009. This will be my fifth JDIFF, and I can’t wait to add to the list!’

Eoghan Bonass (first volunteered 2009) ‘Peter Sheridan telling stories of auld Dublin in the festival club with the Hill Street skateboarding gang in the audience.’

Sarah Ahern (first volunteered 2012)

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28 Hotel Rooms 40 80 Million 68 A Cube of Sugar 37 After Lucia 64 Aftermath 78 A Hijacking 68 A Late Quartet 100 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 76 Arbitrage 58 A Terrible Beauty 33 Babygirl 17 Bernie 76 Beware of Mr Baker 97 Beyond the Hills 84 Black Ice 69 Blancanieves 26 Blind Chance 27 Blood Rising 109 Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic 16 Broken 13 Broken Song 56 Buster Keaton Double Bill: Cops & One Week 105 Bypass 50 Caesar Must Die 96 Call Girl 75 Capital 65 Clip 30 Cloud Atlas 32 Colin Dunne - Sculpting Space 59 Dario Marianelli: Film Composer 57 Earthbound 65 Easy Money 1 & 2 104 Eat Sleep Die 44 Everybody Has a Plan 56 Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story 49 Fionnuala: Small Puppet on a Big Journey / An Cat 89 Gangs of Wasseypur 1 & 2 25 Get the Picture 41 Helpless 73 Helter Skelter 72 Home for the Weekend 102 IFB Shorts 66 In a Bedroom 28 In the House 45 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 107 JDIFF Shorts 79 Jem Cohen Season 1 94 Jem Cohen Season 2 94 John Dies at the End 42 Jump 59 Kelly + Victor 83 Kieran Hickey Programme 1 92 Kieran Hickey Programme 2 92 Kuma 99 LA Confidential 74 Like Someone in Love 55 Looking for Hortense 17 Lore 34 Love is All You Need 95 Love, Marilyn 27 Manhunt 18 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God 15 Mercy 28 Milo 95 Motorway 29 Much Ado About Nothing 98 Museum Hours 94 NATAN 15

Neighbouring Sounds 32 Night of Silence 18 Our Children 99 Pablo 54 Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy 54 Pietà 49 Populaire 75 Post Tenebras Lux 64 Prime Time Soap 90 Rebellion 50 Reported Missing 40 Rhino Season 71 Robot & Frank 93 Scarecrow 38 Shampoo 37 Shell 67 Short Stories 83 Side Effects 38 Sleepless Night / Vanishing Point 78 Something in the Air 55 Spies 43 Stoker 85 Strings 52 Struck by Lightning 82 Summer in February 39 Sunset Blvd.

89 Surprise Film 106 Teddy Bear 31 The Bay 86 The Body 33 The Deep 51 The Frames: In the Deep Shade 44 The Gatekeepers 41 The Good Man 29 The Hardy Bucks Movie 51 The Killing 90 The King of Pigs 52 The Look of Love 73 The Moth Diaries 96 The Paperboy 30 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology 39 The Place Beyond the Pines 36 Thérèse Desqueyroux 100 The Rise 16 The Road: A Story of Life and Death 67 The Summit 105 The War of the Roses 81 Throw Momma from the Train 71 Una Noche 72 Vanishing Waves 58 ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

84 West of Memphis 82 Where I Am 31 White Elephant 88 White Tiger 42 With You, Without You 19

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JDIFF IS ALL ABOUT ITS AUDIENCE. AND WE TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE IS NOT OVER AF TER YOU LEAVE THE CINEMA IN THE EVENING!

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The Church, junction of Jervis Street/Mary Street, Dublin 1 JDIFF is all about the audience. We truly believe that your festival experience is only just beginning when you leave the cinema in the evening!

That’s why Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is delighted to announce its partnership with The Church Restaurant, Bar & Venue for the 2013 season. When not making the most of the jam-packed schedule of film and industry events, we encourage you to come soak up the festival atmosphere in the stylish surrounds of The Church.

Located within a few minutes’ walk from all our cinemas, this unique venue will play host to top entertainment each evening from 9.30pm, as well as offering an opportunity to mingle with film-makers, festival-goers and the JDIFF team.

So consider yourself invited to join us and discuss your festival highlights over a glass of Jameson or two. Please check the Your Festival section on jdiff.com for updates on the Club entertainment. We look forward to seeing you there!

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DJ Laura Lee Conboy | Opening Night Party

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Mad Men Style Party with Early House Band

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Live Music + DJ

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DJ Tom Lowe (The Audio Sunshine Show on RTE Radio)

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Supertonic Orchestra - Balkan, Polish & Klezmer vibes

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Film Quiz

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Baque Soul – Funk, Soul, Samba & Hip-Hop

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WE’VE ALWAYS WANTED ONE: A PL ACE WHERE ALL THE FESTIVAL STAFF AND AUDIENCES CAN HANG OUT DURING THE DAY. AND HERE IT IS!

Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 We’ve always wanted a place where the festival staff, guests, film-makers and audiences can hang out during the day. And here it is! We’re delighted to announce our partnership with Filmbase: the official Festival HUB. Here you can buy all the tickets you need, pick up festival information, get great recommendations, attend daily industry events, grab a coffee with staff, volunteers, film-makers or have a thorough read of the programme, all while immersed in that unique JDIFF atmosphere.

The Festival Hub promises to be a hive of activity. We are telling everyone in town that 11am is an ideal time to get the day started in the Roasted Browne Café on the first floor in Filmbase. A place with probably the best coffee in town and definitely the best festival atmosphere! Why not sign up for one of the training events in our Screen Test Programme? There is something on every weekday. In the afternoons things will be hotting up on the JDIFF interview couch and you never know who might turn up.

Or stop by whenever you like and take a chance on Festival Director’s Roulette!

We are also interested in what you have to say so while you’re hanging out at the Festival Hub feel free to express your JDIFF experience by recording a shout out for JDIFF TV or you can just have a chat and let us know what you think.

So if you’re in the city during the day and want to feel the real festival vibe, get in touch with other cinema lovers, our staff or volunteers, just call in to Filmbase, Curved St, Temple Bar – you’ll find everyone there.

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THURS 14TH FEB

SAT 16TH FEB

SUN 17TH FEB

MON 18TH FEB

TUES 19TH FEB

EVENING

MORNING

MORNING

E A R LY E V E N I N G

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

BROKEN

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR PT 1

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR PT 2

PIETÀ

Savoy 1 / 7.30pm

Cineworld 8 / 10.30am

Cineworld 8 / 10.30am

Light House 1 / 6.10pm

PIAZZA FONTANA: THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY

BLANCANIEVES

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

Savoy 1 / 11am

Savoy 1 / 10.30am

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY

FRI 15TH FEB E A R LY E V E N I N G

MEA MAXIMA CULPA Light House 1 / 6pm

NATAN IFI 1 / 6.10pm

THE RISE Cineworld 11 / 6.15pm

BOB WILSON’S LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC Light House 3 / 6.20pm

Light House 2 / 6.15pm E A R LY A F T E R N O O N

E A R LY A F T E R N O O N

BLIND CHANCE

SHAMPOO

Light House 1 / 1.15pm

Light House 1 / 12pm

LOVE, MARILYN

A CUBE OF SUGAR

Cineworld 11 / 1.20pm

Light House 3 / 1.15pm

IN A BEDROOM

SIDE EFFECTS

Cineworld 8 / 2pm L AT E A F T E R N O O N

Cineworld 8 / 2pm

MERCY

BABYGIRL

Light House 1 / 3.45pm

Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm

MOTORWAY

EVENING

LOOKING FOR HORTENSE Cineworld 8 / 8.20pm

NIGHT OF SILENCE Light House 3 / 8.30pm

Cineworld 11 / 4pm E A R LY E V E N I N G

E A R LY A F T E R N O O N

THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN

Cineworld 8 / 3:30pm

Cineworld 9 / 4pm

Cineworld 11 / 3:50pm

Cineworld 8 / 4pm E A R LY E V E N I N G

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

AFTERMATH

E A R LY E V E N I N G

IFI 2 / 1pm

SUNSET BLVD.

BUSTER KEATON: COPS + ONE WEEK

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Light House 2 / 6.05pm

EARTHBOUND

Light House 1 / 6pm

Light House 1 / 6pm

BROKEN SONG

Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm

HELPLESS

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

Cineworld 11 / 1:15pm

Cineworld 9 / 6:10pm

Cineworld 8 / 6pm

THE KILLING

THE DEEP

THE LOOK OF LOVE

THE WAR OF THE ROSES

Light House 2 / 6.20pm

Cineworld 8 / 6:15pm

Savoy 1 / 6:10pm

EVENING

EVENING

SHELL

LA CONFIDENTIAL

Light House 3 / 6:15pm

Light House 2 / 8.30pm

JCFC Screening

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY

Cineworld 8 / 8.40pm

Light House 1 / 6.10pm

Light House 1 / 2.45pm

STRINGS Light House 2 / 8.45pm

EVENING

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

THE KING OF PIGS

VANISHING WAVES Light House 2 / 8.25pm

ARBITRAGE

Cineworld 9 / 3.30pm

Cineworld 11 / 8.40pm

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COLIN DUNNE SCULPTING SPACE Cineworld 8 / 8.40pm

JUMP Light House 1 / 9pm

GET THE PICTURE

JEM COHEN II

IFI 2 / 1pm

E A R LY E V E N I N G

UNA NOCHE

THE ROAD: A STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH

E A R LY E V E N I N G

KIERAN HICKEY I

E A R LY E V E N I N G

Cineworld 11 / 6.10pm

Light House 3 / 4.15pm

Cineworld 11 / 1pm

CAPITAL

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

Cineworld 9/ 9pm

HELPLESS

Cineworld 8 / 1pm

Cineworld 8 / 6pm

Light House 1 / 8.15pm

SUMMER IN FEBRUARY

FIONNUALA + AN CAT

Cineworld 8 / 6.05pm

SCARECROW

Light House 1 / 6.10pm

SHORT STORIES EVENING

Light House 1 / 1.30pm

Light House 1 / 1:30pm

THE SUMMIT

PRIME TIME SOAP

Savoy 1 / 2:30pm

Light House 3/ 2pm

POST TENEBRAS LUX Light House 1 / 2:50pm

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

ROBOT & FRANK

AFTERNOON

Cineworld 8 / 3pm

EASY MONEY II

JEM COHEN I

Cineworld 11 / 3:20pm

A HIJACKING

CALL GIRL

KELLY + VICTOR

IFI 2 / 3:20pm

KIERAN HICKEY II

Cineworld 9 / 8.35pm

Light House 1 / 8:20pm

Light House 1 / 8pm

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

IFI 2 / 3:40pm

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BEYOND THE HILLS

Light House 1 / 3:30pm

Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm

Cineworld 9 / 8:30pm

Cineworld 8 / 8pm

BLACK ICE

AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY

¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!

MILO Cineworld 11 / 3:45pm

Light House 3 / 8:40pm

AFTER LUCIA

Light House 1 / 8.50pm

Light House 2 / 8:40pm

STOKER

BERNIE

Cineworld 11 / 9pm

Cineworld 8 / 8:50pm

THE BAY Light House 1 / 10:30pm

Light House 3 / 4:20pm

E A R LY E V E N I N G

SURPRISE FILM Savoy 1 / 5pm

PIAZZA FONTANA: THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY Light House 1 / 5.15pm

E A R LY E V E N I N G

MUSEUM HOURS IFI 1 / 5pm

INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Cineworld 11 / 5:20pm

Light House 3 / 6.15pm

CAESAR MUST DIE

JOHN DIES AT THE END

Light House 1 / 6pm

EVENING

Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm

THE MOTH DIARIES

BLOOD RISING

WHITE TIGER

Cineworld 8 / 6pm

Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm

Savoy 1 / 7:30pm

BEWARE OF MR BAKER Cineworld 11 / 6:20pm

Light House 3 / 8.20pm EVENING

Cineworld 11 / 8.40pm

SPIES

THE BODY

Light House 1 / 8.20pm

Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm

EAT SLEEP DIE

LORE

Light House 3 / 8.25pm

Light House 1 / 8.45pm

E A R LY A F T E R N O O N

AFTER LUCIA

WEST OF MEMPHIS

WHERE I AM

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Savoy 1 / 11am

Cineworld 11 / 6pm

THE GATEKEEPERS

NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS

EASY MONEY I

Savoy 1 / 11am

HELTER SKELTER

Cineworld 8 / 6.05pm

CLOUD ATLAS

WHITE ELEPHANT

RHINO SEASON Cineworld 8 / 4pm

Light House 2 / 6:10pm

THE PAPERBOY

Savoy 2 / 7.30pm

SLEEPLESS NIGHT + VANISHING POINT

POST TENEBRAS LUX Cineworld 9 / 3.45pm

Light House 1 / 6.10pm

Cineworld 11 / 8.45pm

EVENING

MORNING

EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN

REPORTED MISSING

Light House 1 / 6.45pm

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MORNING

THE HARDY BUCKS MOVIE

Light House 3 / 6pm

TEDDY BEAR

SAT 23RD FEB

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

Cineworld 9 / 1.15pm

MANHUNT

Cineworld 11 / 6pm

Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm

FRI 22ND FEB

AFTERNOON

IFB SHORTS

Cineworld 8 / 4.15pm

Light House 1 / 8.45pm

BYPASS

THURS 21ST FEB

L AT E A F T E R N O O N

IFI 1 / 6.10pm

CLIP

WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU

Cineworld 9 / 6.20pm

WED 20TH FEB

EVENING

Cineworld 8 / 4pm

THE GOOD MAN

REBELLION

Cineworld 8 / 3.30pm

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IN THE HOUSE

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Savoy 1 / 6:30pm

KUMA Light House 3 / 6:35pm EVENING

Cineworld 8 / 8.35pm

OUR CHILDREN

THE FRAMES: IN THE DEEP SHADE

Light House 1 / 8:15pm

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX

Cineworld 9 / 8.35pm

Cineworld 8 / 8:15pm

A LATE QUARTET Cineworld 11 / 8:45pm

HOME FOR THE WEEKEND Light House 3 / 8:50pm

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a challenge? Why not drop into • Fancy the Ticket Office and ask for the Festival Director’s Roulette – it’s a great way to discover something totally unexpected!

want to check the programme • Ifonyou the go, just type jdiff.com into a browser on your phone or tablet.

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out for our really popular • Look Daily Deals! Every day during the

festival, between 1pm and 3pm, we’ll be posting special discounts and offers on our website. So make sure you don’t miss out!

hang out at the Festival • Come Club in The Church, where we will

have entertainment EVERY NIGHT, starting at 9pm. If you are reading this, YOU ARE INVITED. So why not join us for a chat and a bit of fun?

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and you want to get in touch with other cinema lovers, our staff or volunteers?

No problem: you’ll find everyone at the Festival Hub in Filmbase, Temple Bar. Call in for a coffee, chill out, listen to live interviews, watch exhibitions, record a shout out for JDIFF and much more. Or just sign up for one of the training events in our Screen Test Programme. There is something on every weekday at midday!

DID YOU KNOW THAT MOST OF THE FILMS SCREENED AT THE FESTIVAL WILL NEVER BE SHOWN IN IRELAND AGAIN? DON’T MISS THIS UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THE BEST OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA!

1. GO TO JDIFF.COM 2. CALL US ON 01 687 7974 3. SWING BY IN PERSON: A. FILMBASE B. CINEWORLD C. LIGHT HOUSE

Our website is now mobile friendly! There’s no need to download an app, just open your browser, type in jdiff.com, use/create your account, save your details and book film tickets on the go.

TICKET PRICES

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TICKET OFFICE DETAILS Filmbase Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Opening hours 24 Jan to 24 Feb: Mon to Sat: 10am – 7pm Sun: 12pm – 6pm Cineworld Parnell Street, Dublin 1 Opening hours 4 to 13 Feb: 2pm – 8.30pm daily Opening hours 14 to 24 Feb: 12pm – 8.30pm daily Light House Blackhall Walk, Smithfield Market, Dublin 7 Opening hours 4 to 13 Feb: 2pm – 8.30pm daily Opening hours 14 to 24 Feb: 12pm – 8.30pm daily For full details of our ticketing terms and conditions and for further information, check our website jdiff. com. A fee of €1 per booking applies to phone and online bookings. Please note: the festival is for over 18s only. Please note: the festival is for over 18s only.

Afternoon Screenings.......................€7* Evening Screenings..........................€11 Special Presentations......................€15** Galas ..................................................€18 Dario Marianelli - Film Composer prices from........................................€15 Please note: tickets for this event are only available from the National Concert Hall – visit www.nch.ie or call 01 417 0000 * For screenings before 6pm weekdays ** Please note that the Jameson Cult Film Club screening of LA Confidential is invitation only

SPECIAL PASSES AND DISCOUNTS Season Ticket................................. €245 Does not include industry events or National Concert Hall Screen Test Pass ...................€50/€90 Multi-Purchase Tickets*: 10 films ....................................... €90 5 films ......................................... €50 * Individual evening screenings only. Excludes galas and special presentations.

123 Happy Hour Every day between 1pm and 3pm we will be publishing a limited number of special offers on tickets for JDIFF screenings. Check our website or join our social media networks.

10% discount for Students, OAPs and Unwaged (offer cannot be combined with any other).

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WATCH AS MANY MOVIES AS YOU CAN FOR JUST €19.99 A MONTH Ask a member of staff or join at cineworld.com/unlimited

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Minimum 12 month subscription. 3D, IMAX, and Alternative Content uplifts payable. 3D glasses and VIP/Delux seating excluded.

Minimum age 18. For full terms and conditions visit cineworld.com/unlimited/terms Until further notice, 10% retail discount available on production of a valid card.