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Embers Children's Film Festival: Away film finished

(Dir: Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia, 2019, 75mins, Cert G) Away is about a boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reﬂects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part reality, Away explores our common, universal need to ﬁnd a connection. Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back. The festival returns for a fourth year with a programme of films from all over the world with something for children of all ...

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Embers Children's Film Festival: The Fox and the Child film finished

(Dir: Luc Jacquet, 2008, 92 mins, Cert G) The Fox and the Child is a French-made children's feature from the producers of March of the Penguins. Narrated by Kate Winslet, the film revolves around a little girl who encounters a fox on her way to school... The chance meeting marks the beginning of an incredible friendship as the barriers that separate humans and animals are broken down. The fox introduces her to a wild and secret world which will change her life forever. Embers, Ballina Arts Centre’s Children’s Film Festival, is back.... The festival returns for a fourth year with a ...

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Ballina Film Club: The County film finished

(Dir: Grímur Hákonarson, Iceland, 2019, 120 mins) Eminent Iceland filmmaker Grímur Hákonarson follows up his acclaimed, award-winning crowd-pleaser Rams with The County, another deadpan comedy of agricultural strife and community uprising. Set in a small Icelandic community, the film tells the story of Inga (Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir), a middle-aged dairy farmer who, after a tragic loss, takes it upon herself to rebel against the corrupt, all powerful local Cooperative exploiting her and the local community. Though deeply in debt and facing great resistance, Inga must use her resourcefulness and cunning to break free of the Co-op’s grasp and finally live ...

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Film Coming soon film finished

Keep an eye out here and on our social media pages for info on Film returning to Ballina Arts Centre

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Calm with Horses film finished

Calm with Horses (Dir: Nick Rowland / Ireland / 2019) When a former boxer is offered a gig as an enforcer with the local drug mafia, life seems on the uptick — but the demands weigh heavily as he makes inroads with his young son, in Nick Rowland's brooding yet tender crime film. We all need a sense of purpose — but where does a young man find that purpose when, ostensibly, his sole asset is a capacity for violence? A brooding crime film with a big, bruised heart, Calm With Horses follows its flawed protagonist on a perilous journey toward something ...

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire film finished

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Dir: Céline Sciamma / France / 2019) Grieving for the death of her sister, Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) has returned from a convent to her home in Brittany; her mother (Valerie Golino), a widowed Italian noblewoman, has engaged Marianne (Noémie Merlant), an artist, to surreptitiously paint Héloïse’s portrait while acting on the pretence that she is to be a companion to the bereaved young woman. Previous painters have failed in the commission as Héloïse has refused to pose, aware the picture will be sent to the Milanese man to whom she has been betrothed by ...

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True History of the Kelly Gang film finished

True History of the Kelly Gang (Dir: Justin Kurzel, UK/Australia, 2019) A fictionalized re-telling of the life and crimes of infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Starring Russell Crowe and Nicholas Hoult. Outlaw Ned Kelly lived only 25 years, but it was enough to write his story into Australian legend. The subject of countless books, songs, and other lore, he has become a near-mythical figure in the mould of Jesse James or even Robin Hood. Adapting the Booker Prize–winning novel by Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang stars George MacKay, Russell Crowe, ...

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Ballina Film Club - Vivarium film finished

Ballina Film Club returns with Vivarium. A young couple is thinking about buying their starter home. And to this end, they visit a real estate agency where they are received by a strange sales agent, who accompanies them to a new, mysterious, peculiar housing development to show them a single-family home. There they get trapped in a surreal, maze-like nightmare. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots. Tickets only €5 available by clicking here on BOOK NOW or calling 09673593

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Parasite film finished

Winner of "Best Picture" at this years Oscars, Parasite is the first film of our new Film Club season here at Ballina Arts Centre! The Kim family are close. All four live in a tiny basement flat and all four are unemployed. But when the son, Ki-woo, is recommended by his friend to take a well-paid tutoring job, hopes of a regular income blossom on the horizon. There’s only one small issue — he’s not a qualified teacher and has to fake it. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads to the extravagant Park family home for ...

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Irene’s Ghost film finished

In partnership with First Fortnight and IFI National, Irene’s Ghost follows a son’s search to find out about the mother he never knew. Iain was 3 when his mother Irene died. His Dad never spoke about it, and the family silence around Irene meant that she was alive only in Iain’s imagination. Later in life, the birth of his own child inspires a journey to discover the truth about Irene, piecing together fragments of the past to uncover a long held family secret. Using animation mixed with filmed footage, Irene’s Ghost explores memory and mental health to movingly rebuild a ...