Capital Irish Film Festival

December 2-11, 2010

All screenings will take place at the Goethe Institut (812 7th St NW), except for the Festival Opener which will take place at E-Street Cinema

For more information on the line-up, as well as video clips and images, please visit www.irishfilmdc.org

Schedule
My Brothers (Dir: Paul Fraser)
Thursday, December 2 @ 8.00 p.m.
An off-beat and moving journey of three young brothers traveling the Irish countryside to replace their dying father’s lost watch which - after encounters and adventures that will fortify them for the challenge of their father's impending death - can only lead them home.

Zonad (Dirs: John Carney, Kieran Carney)
Friday, December 3 @ 7.30 p.m.
From the writer of Once (Academy Award winner for best achievement in music written for motion pictures, 2008) comes a zany sci-fi escapist comedy about the appearance of what seems to be an alien in the small Irish village of Ballymoran. Is he a real space cadet or a chancer escaped from a rehab clinic?

The Secret of Kells (Dir: Tomm Moore)
Saturday, December 4 @ 2.00 p.m.
A captivating and visually beautiful blend of fantasy and legend, the story centres on the life of Brendan, a young Irish orphan twelve hundred years ago, and his role in creating the Book of Kells, one of the masterpieces of European art. Nominated in 2010 for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Perrier’s Bounty (Dir: Ian Fitzgibbon)
Saturday, December 4 @ 4.30 p.m.
A fast-paced comedy-thriller featuring three unlikely fugitives on the run from Dublin gangster supreme, Perrier. With only 24 hours to escape certain death, the trio must beat the clock, stay awake, and above all, pay Perrier's bounty.

Savage (Dir: Brendan Muldowney, U.S. Premiere)
Saturday, December 4 @ 7.30 p.m.
A meditation on violence and masculinity, the story of a young press photographer who lives, lonely and alienated, in Dublin and must struggle to rebuild his life following a brutal, random attack.


Between The Canals (Dir: Mark O’ Connor; U.S. Premiere)
Saturday, December 4 @ 9.30 p.m.
Liam is one of three small time criminals aspiring to be somebody in a fast changing society: he is torn between life in the flats and his responsibility to be a good father to his son. He has to just get through this one day and maybe things will look brighter on the other side. But it’s St Patrick’s Day and, in Dublin city, this means trouble everywhere.

Shorts Programme 1
Sunday, December 5 @ 2.00 p.m.
Miscellaneous shorts (for full line-up, please go to irishfilmdc.org).

The Alarms (Dirs: Mark Cantan, Damian Farrell; U.S. Premiere))
Sunday, December 5 @ 4.00 p.m.
A mock rock doc about an Irish rock band from the nineties who only existed for 2 months, played 1 gig and never released a single single but thanks to a devious manager and their own gullibility became one of the most famous bands in the world for all the wrong reason.

32A (Dir: Marian Quinn)
Followed by Q & A with the Director
Tuesday, December 7 @ 7.00 p.m.
A sweet coming-of-age story about a young girl growing up in the Dublin of the 1970s. Maeve’s world revolves around her three best friends who despair of her ever getting a boyfriend. But what no one expected, least of all Maeve, was that she would snare the local 16 year old heart-throb.

Horses (Dir: Liz Mermin)
Wednesday, December 8 @ 7.00 p.m.
A beautifully shot documentary which tells the story of The Toberona stable in County Wexford over the period of a year and focuses on 3 race horses the stable hopes will make it big during that time: Ardalan, the small and curious one; Cuan na Grai, the nervous and unpredictable one; and Joncol, the great hope of the stable.

His & Hers (Dir: Ken Wardrop)Thursday, December 9 @ 8.00 p.m.
Charming and engaging award-winning documentary about women and their relationships to the men in their lives, be that father, brother, son, boyfriend or husband. Told through vignettes from 70 women from the Irish midlands, in order of age (from 4 to 90), interviewees speak with affection, humour and occasional bemusement about the men in their lives.

Darklight Festival
Friday, December 10 @ 7.00 & 9.00 p.m.
Ireland's top film festival for diy, independent and artist films comes to Washington for two sessions designed to quickly immerse you in the Darklight experience. Darklight Festival's Artistic Director, Nicky Gogan, will hand pick a collection of films that she thinks reflects Ireland's current social climate as well as the state of independent Irish film-making today.

Shorts Programme 2
Saturday, December 11 @ 2.00 p.m.
Miscellaneous shorts (for full line-up, please go to irishfilmdc.org)

Pyjama Girls (Dir: Maya Derrington; U.S. Premiere)
Followed by Q & A with the Director
Saturday, December 11 @ 4.00 p.m.
A documentary about girls who wear pyjamas as daywear, all day everyday, which traces the intense and explosive micro-dramas of teenage life against the bleak backdrop of Dublin's inner city flats.

Snap (Written/Directed: Carmel Winters)
Saturday, December 11 @ 8.00 p.m.
A psychological drama which depicts three generations of a family, all in denial about events in which they were undeniably implicated. Their journeys towards confrontation with the truth and with their own motives reveal the humanity behind seemingly inhuman actions.