Director:Lenny Abrahamson; writer: Mark O’Halloran; cinematography: Peter Robertson; editing: Isobel Stephenson; production design: Padraig O’Neill; costumes: Sonya Lennon; music:Stephen Rennicks; casting: Amy Rowan; producers:Ed Guiney; production company: Element Pictures, Film4. Irish Location:Co. Offaly, Galway e Tipperary
Cast:Pat Shortt, Conor Ryan, Anne Marie Duff, Don Wycherley, Andrew Bennett, Denis Conway, Tom Hickey, George Costigan, John Keogh.
Running time:85’
SYNOPSIS
Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie’s hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever.
DIRECTOR
Born in Dublin in 1966, Lenny Abrahamson graduated with first-class honours in philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 1991. He directed his first short film, 3 Joes (1991) and numerous commercials for television before taking the helm on his first feature film, Adam & Paul, released in 2004. His second feature film, Garage (2007), won the CICAE Art and Essai Cinema Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Film prize at the Torino Film Festival. Films that followed were What Richard Did (2012), Frank (2014), Room (2015, Oscar for Lead Actress) and The Little Stranger (2018). For television, Lenny directed Prosperity (2007) and more recently Normal People (2020) and Conversation with Friends (2022).
Performer and co-creator:Andrew Scott;adaptor e co-creator: Simon Stephens; director and co-creator: Sam Yates; designer and co-creator: Rosanna Vize; lighting designer: James Farncombe; sound designer: Dan Balfour; video designer:Jack Phelan; movement director:Michela Meazza; music:Kelly Moran; costume designer: Natalie Pryce;
Running time:100′
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival 2024 – Critics’ Circle Theatre Award 2024 – WhatsOnStage Awards 2024
SYNOPSIS
Inspired by Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”, the play follows a group of characters living on a rural estate in the Russian countryside, entangled in a web of unrequited love and longing. At the centre is Uncle Vanya, who feels like he wasted his life serving his late mother’s former husband. The Irish actor Andrew Scott brings to life these multiple characters, exploring the kaleidoscope of human emotions, harnessing the power of the intimate bond between actor and audience to delve deeper into the human psyche.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1976, in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Scott is an internationally acclaimed actor in theatre, film and television. Winner of a Critics’ Choice Television Award, a BAFTA, a WhatsOnStage and an Olivier Award. Among his major theatrical successes, prior to Vanya: Three Kings, Present Laughter, Design for Living, Hamlet. For television he worked in Ripley, The Pursuit of Love, Fleabag, Sherlock (BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor). His recent films include: All of Us Strangers, Catherine Called Birdy, Sam Mendes‘ Oslo, 1917, Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall, Matthew Warchus’ Pride (BIFA for Best Supporting Actor), Locke and The Stag (Irish Film Festa 2014) and Handsome Devil (Irish Film Festa 2018)
Director/writerLuke McManus; cinematography: Paddy Jordan, Richard Kendrick, Evan Barry, Jamie Goldrick, Luke McManus; editing: John Murphy; producers:Luke McManus, Elaine Gallagher; production company:Madhouse Films. Irish location:Dublin
With John Francis Flynn, Séan Ó Túama, Eoghan O’Ceannabháin, Ian Lynch, Gemma Dunleavy
Running time:85’
SYNOPSIS
North Circular is a documentary musical that travels the length of Dublin’s North Circular Road, exploring the history, music and streetscapes of a street that links some of the country’s most beloved and infamous places. The film evokes many narratives from the history of the city and nation, from colonialism, to mental health, to the struggle for women’s liberation while also engaging with urgent issues of today. The film also includes musical performances from artists local to the North Circular.
DIRECTOR
Luke McManus is a filmmaker based in Grangegorman, just off the North Circular Road. Luke has produced and directed award-winning documentary projects for NBC, Netflix, RTÉ, Virgin Media Television, TG4, NDR/ARD, Al Jazeera and Channel 4, winning four IFTAs, one Celtic Media Award and the Radharc Award in the process. His debut feature as producer was The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid (Irish Film Festa 2019), which won the George Morrison Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Irish Film & Television Awards and the Best Irish Film Award at the Dublin International Film Festival. North Circular is his debut feature documentary as a director.
Director:Michael Head; writer: Colin Broderick; original story by: Mark McCausland; cinematography: Sebastian Cort; editing: Aideen Johnson; production design: Paul Savulescu; costumes: Anne-Louise Bresnahan; music:Mark McCausland; casting:Rachel Head; producers:Jake Jacovides, Ismail Ismail; production company:Foxsake Films. Irish Location:Omagh
Cast: Brenock O’Connor, Olwen Colgan, Tara Lynne O’Neil, Leah O’Rourke, Amy McElhatton, Joe Savino, Ian Toner, Kimberly Wyatt, Maura Higgins
Running time:92’
SYNOPSIS
Based on the semi-autobiographical experiences of local Omagh musician Mark
McCausland, The Spin follows two unlikely friends who are down on their luck in all
aspects of their lives and are about to be evicted from their small record store, Boneyard Records. They get wind of a sale of some records that, unbeknown to the seller, are worth a small fortune and take an epic road trip down south to obtain the holy grail of vinyl records and secure a bargain that might save their music store and change their fortunes.
DIRECTOR
Michael Head is a critically acclaimed and award-winning actor, director, and playwright/screenwriter. His first feature The Last Heist (based on the stage play ‘Time’), won best feature at the British Independent Film Awards in 2022. In 2024, he directed Bermondsey Tales and The Spin.
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