Film Club is back for Autumn 2024. Droichead Arts Centre in partnership with Access Cinema, are delighted to welcome back our Film Club members, with a season of engaging and beautiful films from around the world, once again curated by Sinead Brassil and Niall O’Brien of LMFM’s film review segment ‘Reel Reviews’.
We promise you the wild, and wonderful, the best and most breath-taking independent cinema of the world with 10 amazing films for only €60!
Tue 10 Sep | LA CHIMERA (2023) | Adventure/Comedy | Italy, dir Alice Rohrwacher
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but can never find. For Arthur, the Chimera is the woman he lost, Beniamina.
Tue 17 Sep | ROSALIE (2023) | Romance/Drama | France, dir Stéphanie Di Giusto
In 1870s Brittany, Rosalie is a young woman who hides a secret: she is a bearded lady. In an effort to not to be rejected, she forces herself to shave.
Tue 8 Oct | THE SPARROW (2022) | Drama | Ireland, dir Michael Kinirons
Wild teen Kevin Coyle grapples with guilt over a deadly secret. As his world unravels and consequences mount, Kevin is pushed to confront the truth in a heart-wrenching climax that will change him forever.
Tue 15 Oct | SHAYDA (2023) | Thriller/Drama, Australia dir Noora Niasari
A young Iranian mother takes refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter during the two weeks of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Her path to freedom is jeopardised when her estranged husband arrives.
Tue 22 Oct | MONSTER (2023) | Drama/Mystery, Japan, dir Hirokazu Koreeda
Single mother, Saori Mugino, is worried by her son, Minato’s strange behaviour, which leads to a revelation about Minato’s schoolteacher, Mr. Hori
Tue 29 Oct | SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING (2023) | Romance/Comedy, USA, dir Rachel Lambert
Ghosting through life, lonely office worker Fran finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time but unable to pop her bubble of isolation, when a friendly new co-worker, Robert, persistently tries to connect with her.
Tue 5 Nov | AMA GLORIA (2023) | Drama/Animation | France, dir Marie Amachoukeli
Six year old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must suddenly return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, Cléo makes her promise that they will see each other very soon. Gloria invites Cléo to her island and the two must make the most of their last summer together.
Tue 19 NOV | THE CRIME IS MINE (2023) | Crime/Comedy | France, dir François Ozon
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defence. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.
Tue 10 Dec | I LIKE MOVIES (2022) | Comedy/Drama | Canada, dir Chandler Levack
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Tue 17 Dec | KNEECAP (2023) | Comedy/Musical | Ireland, dir Rich Peppiatt
When fate brings a Belfast teacher into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other.