A Season of Classic Films - Celebrating EU Film Heritage
A Season of Classics Films is a series of free film screenings across Europe to highlight our shared cinematic heritage.
A Season of Classic Films is back again with free online and onsite screenings from June to December 2022 to highlight our shared cinematic heritage.
Over 20 participating film archives, all members of Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), have selected newly-restored films from their collections and will organise screenings, complemented by activities such a walk in the locations where the film was shot, engaging film students during the restoration process, and roundtable discussions.
The Irish Film Institute will participate once again in A Season of Classic Films. This year, they will screen Muriel Box's comedy THIS OTHER EDEN (1959), the first Irish feature film to be directed by a woman.
'This Other Eden provides a satirical insight into Irish society of the 1950s. It touches irreverently on illegitimacy, Anglo-Irish relations, the wealth of the Church, and the relevance of the fight for independence to contemporary Ireland. This Other Eden is a caustic comedy set in 1945 when the erection of a statue of a patriot martyr Jack Carberry creates problems in a small town. A secret from Carberry’s past threatens to destroy his heroic reputation and expose the hypocrisy of the townsfolk and the myths of modern Ireland.'From A Season of Classic Films 2022 Programme
The new restoration of THIS OTHER EDEN will be made available with thanks to the support of ACE and European Commission through its Creative Europe programme.
Discover the full A Season of Classic Films programme which has details of all the classic films that will be restored and screened this year.