Events

Family-friendly animation about a 12-year-old boy who faces bullying because of his weight. He decides to take charge of his life by adopting a healthier lifestyle and wining the heart of the girl he admires. Through his journey, he learns [ ... ]

A former martial artist hired to train three wealthy Jordanian sisters finds her dream job become something else, something unsettling: the isolated young women are under constant surveillance and show no interest in the sport. Why was she really hired? [ ... ]

Comedy-drama about a unique concert – Astrid (Valérie Donzelli) attempts to realise a family dream by bringing together four violin virtuosos. Rehearsals quickly turn into a disaster because of the conflict of egos, so Astrid calls on a retired composer [ ... ]

Writer-director Rotunno blends past and present in this understated melodrama. Antonio is an Italian who emigrated ti Luxembourg to find work. Now widowed, he is preparing to move out of his comfortable apartment to a care home. A chance encounter [ ... ]

Bojeka is an eccentric man with a strong sense of his own dignity, who lives in solitude on the banks of the Danube in harmony with nature and a collection of animals. Then the local bigwigs want to create a [ ... ]

Mory, a sometime cattle herder, and his grilfriend Anta, a university student, yearn to leave their boring, circumscribed world and find prosperity and stability in France. The late Djibril Diop Mambéty was a true Senegalese auteur, an actor, orator, composer [ ... ]

A French couple have adopted two children from Lithuania; they enlist the help of Gabriele, a young Lithuanian student, to serve as an interpreter and nanny. When the children arrive, the idyllic façade of the new family arrangement buckles under [ ... ]

Arriving back in Kerry after her father has had a heart attack, Aoife (Kelly Gough) initially has some trouble shaking off her urban pretensions and reconnecting with old pals. But she finds herself recruited into the local sea-rowing team; they [ ... ]

Animated adventure drama about Native American protesters confronting the crew of an oil pipeline project that is located near their ancestral lands. The grandfather shares an ancient tale of their Creation myth, a story filled with adventures featuring animals, magic, [ ... ]

Stranger Things meets X-Files – young Swedish teen rebel Denise is placed in foster care after her dad goes missing. She believes her father was kidnapped by UFOs, and she gets in touch with the quirky local skywatchers association, UFO [ ... ]

Andrea Bagney’s debut feature, largely shot in black and white in a stylistic nod to the French New Wave of the 1960s, is a romantic comedy with a difference. After living abroad for several years, Ramona and her boyfriend Nico [ ... ]

Restless teen Horia takes off on his father’s old motorbike on a cross-country journey to reunite with his girlfriend. On the road, he is joined by Stela, a sassy 13-year-old, and an unlikely friendship blooms. The film’s atmosphere is colourful, [ ... ]

Two friends from a small village rework their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey – travelling through dreams of the past and visions of the future, looking for freedom and love. On the road through Slovenia and Croatia, [ ... ]

Sudan, late 1980s. People cross the desert on foot or cover long distances by car and truck. In Al Mahatta, Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at one of the large crossroads between Khartoum in the centre of the country and Bur [ ... ]

Jameel’s Summer Cinema, organised in collaboration with The Culturist Film Club and curated by Hind Mezaina, ia a season of free-to-attend films about cities, archives, and the ways we live and remember together – plus this special evening celebrating the [ ... ]