MEDIA Films News July 2022

MEDIA supported films screening this month across Ireland in cinemas and online. We also highlight films showing in independent cinemas and cinema clubs that are part of the Europa Cinemas network. The Irish members of Europa Cinemas include:

• IFI, Dublin
• Triskel, Cork
• Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
• Palás, Galway
• Access Cinema Network of regional cinema clubs
• Volta VOD online

Galway Film Fleadh | 5-10 July

MEDIA and EU supported films that will screen at the Galway Film Festival festival include:

• The Sparrow from Tiger Darling Productions
  
• Clara Sola was supported by the IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund which is supported by MEDIA.
• Piano Dreams which is co-produced by Irish company, Gambit Pictures, has its World Premier at 1.30pm, Saturday 9th July at Pálás Cinema, Galway followed by Q&A with director Gary Lennon.

UNTOLD UKRAINE | IRISH FILM INSTITUTE DUBLIN, 2 - 27th JULY

A Dublin-based Ukrainian creative collaborative is running a Ukrainian Film Festival at the IFI from July 2nd – 27th, offering Irish audiences the opportunity to enjoy the best of contemporary Ukrainian cinema. The film festival is part of Untold Ukraine, a series of art events organised in Dublin throughout the summer. Ukrainian cinema has forged a distinct identity, thanks to filmmakers such as Kateryna Gornostai and Valentyn Vasyanovych, and this short festival presents an opportunity to engage with Ukrainian culture, presenting new and recent documentary and drama.

Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Nova Ukraine, a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.

UNTOLD UKRAINE | MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT, IFI, 27th July

IL BUCO | Triskel Arts Centre, Cork until 13th July

During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building was built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 metres below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighbouring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group’s journey. IL BUCO chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.