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SLEEP [South Korea], Thursday 21 November, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for RADICAL.

What if the place you thought was safest suddenly became a battleground for your sanity?

Young couple Hyun-su and Soo-jin are about to become new parents when, one night, heavily pregnant Soo-jin wakes up from a deep slumber to her husband’s first act of parasomnia.

From then on, in the weeks and months that follow, Hyun-su’s behaviour gets increasingly more disturbing, transforming into someone unrecognisable once he falls asleep, with no recollection of what he gets up to. The couple try multiple approaches to combat his condition, from homemade solutions to medical intervention, but nothing seems to work.

Eventually, even after their child is born, Hyun-su’s actions grow more and more grotesque and bizarre, and Soo-jin begins to fear the worst. Desperate and sleep-deprived, she turns her hope towards a shaman, someone connected to the supernatural world, for help.

Debut director Jason Yu, who was the assistant director for Academy Award-winning Bong Joon Ho [Parasite], brings audiences a clever, well-crafted and genre-bending thriller that rachets up a creeping horror towards its fantastically bonkers finale. It features one of the final performances from Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun, who tragically died in 2023.

We end with a hectic denouement that satisfies all desire for catharsis as it makes an art of creative doubt spreading. A fine chamber piece. – The Irish Times

The sleep of reason is what’s supposed to produce monsters … but not as many as sleep deprivation. That is the awful paradox driving this elegant, intimate, gleefully brash Korean chiller from feature first-timer Jason Yu. – The Guardian

It’s an impressive first feature from Jason Yu, who is as adept at wielding the sly observational comedy of the film’s first half as he is at ratcheting up the claustrophobic tension later on. – The Observer

Despite sleepiness being part of its premise, the pacing of Yu’s film is propulsive, and the deft detours into dark comedy – especially a reveal involving PowerPoint slides – are a highlight. – Little White Lies

94% Rotten Tomatoes

  • SLEEP
  • South Korea, 2023 | Language: Korean | 1 hr 35 mins | Cert: 15-A
  • Director: Jason Yu
  • Cast: Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • A short Irish film will be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 24, 2024
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RADICAL [Mexico], Thursday 14 November, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for RADICAL.

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94% Rotten Tomatoes

  • RADICAL
  • Mexico, 2023 | Language: Spanish | 2 hr 05 mins | Cert: PG-13
  • Director: Christopher Zalla
  • Cast:
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 24, 2024
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Rose

ROSE [Denmark], Thursday 7 November, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for ROSE.

Set in the late 1990s, Rose is the story of two Danish sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. Inger is schizophrenic, and lives in a care home coddled by her overprotective mother. Ellen sees their holiday as an opportunity to reconnect, and to find out if Inger might be able to live more independently. When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some and discrimination from others.

On arrival in Paris, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.

Based on the director’s own family history, Rose is a film about love and care for each other, in spite of our differences, adroitly balancing humour and drama. Sofie Gråbøl inhabits Inger, bringing her to life and presenting all her complications, impulses and anxiety with grace.

Carried by a brilliant lead performance from Sofie Gråbøl, it’s a fine depiction of mental health and a heartening espousal of our shared humanity. – The Independent [UK]

A good road movie is expected to do more than just cross distance; by film tradition, it also involves personal growth and revelations. Few films have fulfilled those expectations better than this Danish comedy-drama. – Far Out Magazine

Balancing out the bleaknes is [the director’s] compassion and his depiction of the tenderness, rather than the prejudice, that Inger’s condition elicits from others. – The Times [UK]

The writer-director based the film in part on his own experiences, and the movie keenly illustrates how stigma surrounding mental illness hurts neurodivergent people and their families. – The New York Times

92% Rotten Tomatoes

  • ROSE
  • Denmark, 2022 | Language: Danish | 1 hr 46 mins | Cert: CLUB
  • Director: Niels Arden Oplev
  • Cast: Sofie Gråbøl, Lene Maria Christensen, Anders W Berthelsen, Soren Malling
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 23, 2024
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Ama Gloria

AMA GLORIA [France/Cape Verde], Thursday 24 October, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for ÁMA GLORIA.

Six-year-old Cléo lives in Paris with her widowed father and her beloved nanny, Gloria – her main source of comfort and stability. When Gloria has to leave – returning to Cape Verde permanently to care for her own children, following her mother’s death – she invites Cléo to visit for the summer.

There, Cléo discovers not only a different culture but that Gloria has her own family and that the world – especially Gloria’s world – does not revolve around Cléo. It’s a harsh lesson and one that both of them have to face as the consequences of their changed dynamic plays out.

Enriched by charming animated sequences and a deeply moving performance by six-year-old Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Ama Gloria is a tender, vibrant drama.

It’s tempting to read a colonial narrative in Cléo’s reluctant surrender of the only maternal figure she has ever known. But Louise Mauroy-Panzani’s uncanny performance ensures we’re solely fixated on the child’s psychodrama. – Irish Times ★★★★

Ama Gloria is a small-scale film, barely over 80 minutes, but it leaves an almighty impression. Everything is so unforced and effortlessly convincing. – The Guardian

The considerable power of Ama Gloria lies not in its take on colonial conscience, nor even in its insights into the complex economical and emotional dynamics of the child-nanny bond. It is in its unmatched portrait of one brave little heart. – Variety

It is a small film, but one whose subtle touch and generous spirit proves captivating. – Screen International

100% Rotten Tomatoes

  • AMA GLORIA
  • France/Cape Verde, 2023 | Language: French/Kabuverdianu | 83 mins | Cert: CLUB
  • Director: Marie Amachoukeli
  • Cast: Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Ilça Moreno Zego, Abnara Gomes Varela, Fredy Gomes Tavares, Arnaud Rebotini, Domingos Borges Almeida
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • A short Irish film will be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 23, 2024
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Shayda

SHAYDA [Iran/Australia], Thursday 17 October, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for SHAYDA.

An Iranian woman living in Australia, Shayda finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her frightened six-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz (Persian New Year), she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he re-enters their lives, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.

Drawn from personal experiences, Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari’s powerful debut feature is a beautifully crafted, poetic vérité portrayal of courage and compassion, anchored by a heart-rending performance by Zar Amir Ebrahimi (2022 Cannes’ best actress award winner for Holy Spider). Ebrahimi captures the vulnerability and confliction, but also the radiant soul of an Iranian woman who boldly reclaims her human rights: to divorce her husband, keep her child, and dress as she chooses.

Tension is skilfully sustained throughout and the drama has a pressurising effect, the air intensifying in a long, slow rise towards crescendo, Niasari never quite releasing the pressure valve and never taking the easy route. – The Guardian

In her first narrative feature, Niasari, who based the story in part on her own experiences, demonstrates an astounding control of pacing and mood. – New York Times

Made with a striking sensitivity to mood and moment, Shayda marks a strong debut for Iranian-Australian writer-director Noora Niasari, who mines her own experience and that of her mother for a gripping yet tender suspense drama. – Washington Post

A tug-of-war between hope and fear that gives Ebrahimi the platform to carve out a completely three-dimensional character. – RogerEbert.com

One of the most masterful debuts of a filmmaker that I’ve seen in a long time. – Film Week

The greatest asset of Shayda is its unmistakably feminine spirit of perseverance, one that runs wild and free in this promising debut. – Variety

97% Rotten Tomatoes

  • SHAYDA
  • Iran/Australia, 2023 | Language: Persian/English | 1 h 57 min | Cert: CLUB
  • Director: Noora Niasari
  • Cast: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Osamah Sami, Leah Purcell, Jillian Nguyen, Mojean Aria, Selina Zahednia, Rina Mousavi
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 22, 2024
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Slow

SLOW [Lithuania], Thursday 10 October, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for SLOW.

When dancer Elena meets sign language interpreter Dovydas their instant connection bodes well for a romantic relationship. But when Doyvdas reveals he’s asexual, their dynamic changes as both try to find a way to be together while fulfilling their respective needs.

This Sundance award-winner is a modern love story about two people exploring how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Winner, Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award 2023

Slow is terrific – an honest and affecting portrait of an atypical romance. – The Guardian ★★★★

A supremely confident piece of filmmaking that negotiates the tricky terrain of non-typical sexualities with sensitivity, humour and a refreshing lightness of touch. – Screen International

The immediate, intimate chemistry between Grinevičiūtė and Cicėnas, and Kavtaradze’s careful use of close-ups, reminds us what it looks like when two perfectly matched stars ignite cinematic magic. – RogerEbert.com

Intimate and touching… a tender portrait of love and companionship, of what our bodies yearn and want in others, and how we could do well to upend the stories we tell each other about living and loving another. – Variety

92% Rotten Tomatoes

  • SLOW
  • Lithuania, 2023 | Language: Lithuanian | 1 h 48 min | Cert: CLUB
  • Director: Marija Kavtaradze
  • Cast: Greta Grineviciute, Kestutis Cicenas, Pijus Ganusauskas
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 22, 2024
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Monster

MONSTER [Japan], Thursday 3 October, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for MONSTER.

Mysterious and deeply moving, Monster is a breath-taking piece of cinema from master
director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters).

When her young son starts to behave strangely, single mother Saori knows that something is wrong. Discovering that one of his teachers might be responsible, she storms into the school demanding answers. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, shocking truths begin to emerge.

A timely tale of family, false impressions, and, ultimately, hope, Kore-eda’s typically sensitive
work features powerful performances and a sublime score from the Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Clarity gradually arrives and the film, like all Kore-eda’s best work, submerges itself in heartfelt humanism and quiet understanding. – The Times [UK]

The performances drawn from child actors are perfect, while their section of the film takes place in colours so bold and vivid it feels as if only children see the world that way. Thanks to Kore-eda, so can we. – The Financial Times

Monster is Hirokazu Kore-eda channelling Christopher Nolan: twisty storytelling in the service of wise empathy. – Empire

Winner, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Best Screenplay

96% Rotten Tomatoes

  • MONSTER
  • Japan, 2023 | Language: Japanese | 2 h 05 min | Cert: 12A
  • Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Cast: Sakura Andō, Eita Nagayama, Sōya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 22, 2024
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The Teacher's Lounge

THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE [Germany], Thursday 26 September, 8pm

By Homepage, Season 26, Autumn 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy tickets for THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE.

Carla [Leonie Benesch] is a dedicated, idealistic young teacher in her first job at a German secondary school. Her relaxed rapport with her first year students is put under stress when a series of thefts occur at the school, and a staff investigation leads to accusations and mistrust among outraged parents, opinionated colleagues, and angry students. Caught in the middle of these complex dynamics, Carla tries to mediate—but the more she tries to do everything right, the more desperate her position becomes.

Director İlker Çatak creates a riveting work about school as a microcosm of society. Playing out like a thriller, it is a study in power dynamics, with themes of truth, justice, racism, respect, and children’s rights that demonstrate how individuals are worn down between entrenched positions.

2024 Oscar nominee, Best International Feature Film.

A masterclass in playground politics…Benesch is superb, her face a glazed mask of panic as the shockwaves resulting from her actions shake the very foundations of the school. – The Observer

Gripping…a tense social parable. – Variety

Writer-director Ílker Çatak pulls it off, aided by excellent performances all around and two truly superb ones: Leonie Benesch as an idealistic new teacher and a heart-breaking Leo Stettnisch as her troubled student. – Associated Press

An exemplary film that strikes an emotional and thoughtful chord. – Screen Rant

96% Rotten Tomatoes

  • THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE [DAS LEHRERZIMMER]
  • Germany, 2023 | Language: German | 1 h 38 min | Cert: 12a
  • Director: İlker Çatak
  • Cast: Leonie Benesch, Michael Klammer, Rafael Stachowiak, Eva Löbau
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • A short Irish film will be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/CHANGE THIS
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

July 22, 2024
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The Teacher's Loung

DRIVING MADELEINE [France], Thursday 25 January, 8pm

By archive, Season 25, Winter 2024

Online tickets for DRIVING MADELEINE are sold out. A limited number will be available to purchase on the door.

“Would you mind if we took a quick detour?” – “It’s not on the way, not even close”- “I know, but it’ll take what? Ten minutes? What’s ten minutes out of our lives? It’s nothing.”

A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.

Madeleine, 92 years old, calls a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Charles, a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine’s life. Through the streets of Paris, her extraordinary past is revealed. They don’t know it yet, but they will forge a friendship during this drive that will change their lives forever.

It’s this uncommon grit from the director and co-writer Christian Carion that differentiates the movie from the comforts of the “wise ole coot” genre (from The Straight Story to Pixar’s Up). – The Times [UK]

Both of the leads keep it low-key, with 95-year-old Renaud’s unfussy reminiscences dotted with defiant irony, and the initially unforthcoming Boon opening up under her cajoling as naturally as a flower. – The Guardian

Christian Carion offers up a voyage through one person’s memories and depicts a bond developing between a taxi driver and his passenger in a simple and especially human film. – Cineuropa

96% Rotten Tomatoes

  • DRIVING MADELEINE (UNE BELLE COURSE)
  • France, 2022 | Language: French | 1 h 30 min | Cert: CLUB
  • Director: Christian Carion
  • Cast: Line Renaud, Dany Boon, Alice Isaaz
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • WIRELESS, a short film by Cork filmmaker Brian Dwyer, will be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/DRIVINGMADELEINE-25thJan
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

December 8, 2023
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R.M.N.

R.M.N. [Romania], Thursday 1 February, 8pm

By archive, Season 25, Winter 2024

Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy your ticket for R.M.N.

From acclaimed auteur Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), comes a stunning new piece of cinema. Set in a remote Transylvanian town where customs and tradition bind the community together, historic resentments start to bubble to the surface with the arrival of some new immigrant workers who have been hired by the local factory. 

Underlying frustrations and fears soon grip the populace, erupting through the veneer of understanding and calm. With divisions forming and tensions running high, it falls to a few residents to try and prevent the community from breaking apart completely.

Featuring an outstanding cast, R.M.N. is a gripping, breathtaking and powerful new work from one of the masters of European cinema.

R.M.N. is the Romanian acronym for “nuclear magnetic resonance” and, sure enough, modern master Cristian Mungiu’s urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama doubles as a laser-enhanced dissection of European hypocrisies and contradictions. – Irish Times

While ‘R.M.N.’ largely takes place in Romania, as Mungiu makes forcefully clear, this is also a story that transcends borders…his touch is so deft and his filmmaking so enlivening, and the villagers so laughable (if also scary!), that you never feel dragged down or punished by the ugliness. – New York Times

R.M.N. is as gripping and scrupulously humane as Mungiu’s admirers have come to expect from an artist of supreme discipline and dramatic skill. – Washington Post

96% Rotten Tomatoes

  • R.M.N.
  • Romania, 2022 | Language: Romanian | 2 h 7 min | Cert: 15A
  • Director: Cristian Mungiu
  • Cast: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu
  • Foreign language films are subtitled. 
  • Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/RMN-1stFeb
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Online booking closes at 5pm on the night of the film.
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

December 8, 2023
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