The programme will include two exclusive first UK screenings, 'Kisses' and 'A Film with Me in it'. We are also delighted to deliver a retrospective on the director Bob Quinn, including 'Emigrant Dance', documenting the Galtymore Dance Hall in Cricklewood, and 'Vox Humana', his latest offering.
Other local venues will host Latin American films, Ethiopian films, and a Kilburn youth film-making contest, climaxing back at the Tricycle on 12th July with the 'Sunday Movie Brunch' - free croissants and short films by top local film-makers.
Contact:
info@filmsatkilburnfestival.co.uk www.filmsatkilburnfestival.co.uk www.irishcentre.org
Info: 020 7328 1000. Booking:
020 7328 1000
PROGRAMME
:: Friday 3rd July
7pm Gala opening of festival: Kisses (Lance Daly, 75 mins, 2008)
Kelly O'Neil, Shane Curry, Stephen Rea, Paul Roe.
Winner Best Irish Film at Galway Film Fleadh 2008
Two 10-year-olds run away from home, and spend a scary but magical night on
the streets of Dublin. (+
Director's Q&A). £8/£7.
:: Saturday 4th July
Bob
Quinn Restrospective
A rare chance for UK
audiences to see the work of this unique Irish director and founder of
Cinegael, an original source of Irish language films that showed the authentic
life of the West of Ireland. Bob will be present for a Q&A session.
4pm. Double bill: The Emigrant Dance (Bob Quinn, 2004,
50 mins, subtitled) and Poitin (Bob Quinn, 1978, 65 mins,
subtitled)
'The Emigrant Dance' is a documentary about the Galtymore Dance Hall, Cricklewood in the 1950s.
This film shows how the dance hall gave the new immigrants from the West of
Ireland a warm community they badly needed.
Bob
Quinn's classic 'Poitín', starring Niall Tóibín and Cyril Cusack, is both
funny and tragic. The film is set in Connemara
in the West of Ireland and shows the conditions which forced many people to
leave the land. £6/£5.
:: Sunday 5th July
2pm Cinegael Paradiso (Robert Quinn, 2004, 50 mins,
subtitled).
Bob's son Robert Quinn's amusing documentary telling the story of growing up in the middle of his father's film
film-making industry in Connemara. Also on the bill is a selection of short
films from the Best of Galway Film Fleadh 2008. £6/£5.
4pm Vox Humana (Bob Quinn, 2008,
84 mins, subtitled).
Galway Baroque Singers, Luke Cauldwell, Triona
Lillis, Dominic O 'Cuinn.
Winner Galway Film
Fleadh Audience Award 2008 (+ Director Q&A)
A homeless man becomes obsessed with a girl he sees in the street who reminds
him of his own small daughter and an accident for which he was partly
responsible. Also on the bill is a selection of short films from the Best of
Galway Film Fleadh 2008. £6/£5.
:: Saturday 11th July
4pm Dambe - The Mali Project (Dearbhla
Glynn, 2008)
This
documentary records a musical journey through modern day Africa and a portrait
of travelling Irish musicians Liam O'Maonlai and Paddy Keenan, who teamed up in
2006 to travel to a number of music events in Mali that culminated in a unique
performance at the world's most remote music festival "Festival au
Desert."
6.30 pm A Film with Me in it (Ian Fitzgibbon, 83
mins, 2008)
Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Keith Allen. (+Director Q& A)
Original and outrageously funny. Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor who ends up with a large
number of dead bodies on his hands. Together with his friend Pierce (played by
Moran), they attempt to escape their predicament by re-writing the day's events
as if it were a film. As the body count mounts, they pitch ideas back and forth
desperately searching for a way out. £8/£7.
Contact: info@filmsatkilburnfestival.co.uk www.filmsatkilburnfestival.co.uk www.irishcentre.org
Info: 020 7328 1000. Booking:
020 7328 1000