AUTUMN 2023 SEASON
December 2023
“So This Is Christmas”
It’s late November in a quiet little Irish town, and the expectations of the impending festive season are growing. Christmas trees are being bought, festive music turned up and presents scrambled for. It’s all getting very bright and loud, excessive and expensive.
“So this is Christmas” takes us on a heartening and emotional journey with five ordinary characters as they navigate personal dilemmas triggered by this overwhelming time of year. Amid their everyday lives and struggles, we discover stories of extraordinary resilience and humble bravery.
The story is brought to life in a creative documentary form, where characters’ lives interweave with a colourful tapestry of Christmas scenes. Beyond the façade of tinsel and celebration, the film explores the deeper complexities that emerge when expectations collide with reality. What transpires is an important social commentary, filled with humour yet tinged with tragedy that will leave audiences questioning the true meaning of Christmas.
” So This Is Christmas”
Date and time: MondayLocation St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland, The Square, Donabate. Co. Dublin. K36 Y521
November 2023
Fingal Inclusion Week 2023
Small, Slow But Steady Keiko, me wo sumasete
Director: Shô Miyake
Cast: Yukino Kishii, Tomokazu Miura, Masaki Miura, Shinichiro Matsuura, Himi Sato, Hiroko Nakajima, Nobuko Sendo
FILM INFO:
99 minutes, Japan / France, 2022, CLUB
The film follows Keiko (Yukino Kishii), a Deaf amateur boxer, as she trains for her upcoming fights in Tokyo in December 2020. But as the impact of the pandemic and the ill health of its owner and Keiko’s mentor threaten the closure of her boxing club, her daily challenges begin to mount up, rocking her sense of stability and self.
Small Slow but Steady
Date and time: ThursdayLocation St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland, The Square, Donabate. Co. Dublin. K36 Y521
October 2023
The Night of the 12th – La nuit du 12.
Director: Dominik Moll
Cast: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg, Mouna Soualem, Pauline Serieys
FILM INFO:
115 minutes, France, Belgium 2022, CLUB
Inspired by Pauline Guéna’s book of her time with the Criminal Investigation Department in Versailles in 2016: a young woman is murdered in her quiet mountain village. But what starts as an investigation into a shocking crime soon turns into a haunting obsession for newly promoted Detective Yohan Vivès as the killer continues to evade him and his team…
From acclaimed French director Dominik Moll this is a raw, powerful police drama, layered with social topics addressing some fundamental issues around human behaviour, endemic misogyny and male violence towards women, which is elevated by some stellar performances from the entire cast. A solid, affecting experience that will stay with the viewer long after it’s over.
Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival 2022
THE NIGHT OF THE TWELFTH
Date and time: ThursdayLocation St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland, The Square, Donabate. Co. Dublin. K36 Y521
September 2023
War Pony
Director: Gina Gammell, Riley Keough
Cast: Iona Red Bear, LaDainian Crazy Thunder, Jojo Bapteise Whiting
FILM INFO:
114 minutes, USA, 2022, 15A (IFCO), 15 (BBFC)
Intertwining the stories of two Lakota boys on the Pine Ridge Reservation, War Pony is a tender portrait of the difficulties faced by twenty-three-year-old Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting), who hustles for a better life through odd jobs and get-rich-quick schemes, and twelve-year-old Matho (LaDainian Crazy Thunder), who, in his over eagerness to gain his father’s approval, desperately loses his way.
