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Thursday 25th November at the IRISHFILMFESTA : presentation of John Mc Court’s book “James Joyce and the Cinema”

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John Mc Court’s “James Joyce and the Cinema. Roll Away the Reel World” deals with the twofold bond between Joyce’s writings and modern cinema. Mc Court lectures in English Literature at the University of Rome (Roma Tre); he is also the director of the Joyce School in Trieste.

His book will be presented on Thursday 25th November at 6 pm. The author will be talking about his new publication to Barry McCrea, the writer, Joycean scholar and lecturer in Comparative Literature at Yale University.

Entrance free.

IRISHFILMFESTA award for best short

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For the first time this year, IrishFilmFesta will include a competitive section dedicated to short films.
Among the shorts selected, different in length and genre, there will be The Door, Academy Award nominee for the year 2010.
The short films will be judged by a jury chaired by Gianluca Arcopinto, producer, alongside the photographer Franco Biciocchi, film critic Stefano Coccia, Second Secretary of the Irish Embassy in Italy Amal Kaoua and short films director Alessandro Maresca.
The winner will be awarded during the final evening of the Festival, on Sunday the 28th of November.

Neil Jordan’s Ondine will have its Italian premiere at the IrishFilmFesta

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Neil Jordan’s last film was presented for the worldwide premiere last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In Italy it has been released only on dvd, therefore the screening at the Irish Film Festa will be the first time and a unique occasion to see this movie on the big screen.
The story evolves around Syracuse, a fisherman living in the south-west of Ireland. He is a solitary man, separated from his wife and his young daughter Annie, who is confined to a wheelchair. However his life will change radically after meeting Ondine, a beautiful girl with mysterious origins, who has been caught in his fish net.
Starring Colin Farrell alongside the Polish singer (with Mexican descent) Alicja Bachleda – who embodies Ondine – and Stephen Rea.

The film’s official website:
http://www.ondinefilm.com/

Click here to see the Trailer

IrishFilmFesta comes back in Tuscia

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From Friday 16th to Sunday 18th April, in Montefiascone (Viterbo) IrishFilmFesta presents four Irish films (original language with Italian subtitles).

Programme:

Fri 16th Apr – 8.45 PM: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (K. Loach, 2006)
Sat 17th Apr – 4.30 PM: Mickybo and Me (T. Loane, 2005); 8.45 PM: Garage (L.Abrahamson, 2007)
Sun 18th Apr – 8.45 PM: Isolation (B. O’Brien, 2005)

Introduction by Kay McCarthy and Susanna Pellis. Venue: Rianta – Argilla Theatre (via del Barone 13 / a – Montefiascone). Free entrance.

(Info: 340 5522152)