Thursday 27th OCTOBER
TIME 9-10.30pm admission €6.50 Kerry Omniplex
: Tralee
FILM SHORTS : COMPETITION
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Guard Dog Bill Plympton
USA / 2004 / 5min / 35mm / Colour
Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels?
What are they afraid of? This film answers the eternal question.
Director Bill Plympton Producer Bill Plympton Writer Bill Plympton
The Listener Michael Chang
Ireland / 2004 / 10.49min / 35mm / Colour
A young woman comes across a lone street musician, and has to
return something that belongs to him. A seemingly innocent encounter
escalates into a game of cat and mouse.
Director Michael Chang Producer
Michael Chang / Valerie Parker Writer Michael
Chang
The Perpetual Twilight of Gregor Black
UK-Scotland / 2004 / 11min / 35mm / Black and White
A Man. A Woman. A pair of shoes.
Director/Producer/Writer Nigel Atkinson / Huw
Davies
Tahara Sara Rashad
USA / 2004 / 17.30min / 35mm / Colour
Tahara a short dramatic narrative film , revolves around Amina
who must decide if
she will submit to family pressure to circumcise her daughter
or abandon this old age
tradition.
Director Sara Rashad Producer Sara Rashad o Writer Sara Rashad
The Wonderful Story of Kelvin Kind Ian Power
Ireland / 15min / 35mm / Colour
Meet Kelvin Kind a wonderful loser with a heart of gold.
Director Ian Power Producer Macdara
Kelleher Writer Ian Power
The Fan and the Flower Bill Plympton
USA / 2005 / 7.10min / 35mm / Colour
An ill fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower
magically
creates a fairy tale ending.
Director Bill Plympton Producer
Dan O’Shannon Writer Dan O’Shannon
Thursday 27th OCTOBER TIME 10am-12pm admission
€2.00 Kerry Omniplex : Tralee
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME IN ASSOCIATION
WITH IFI
Supported by Kerry County Council
Mean Creek Jacob Aaron Estes
US / 2004 / 90min / Colour
Given the frequency of discussion on bullying in schools,
the workplace, on films and tv, it is quite an achievement
for a filmmaker to take an original look at the subject. However,
Jacob Aaron Estes achieves just this in his highly watchable
debut feature.George is a high school bully who beats up Sam
(Rory Culkin). Sam in turn tells his older brother, Rocky,
and he hatches a plan with his friends to take George out
in a boat and exact revenge. The film not only deals with
bullying, but also makes the viewer question his/her own responses
to the increasingly violent situation in which the young people
find themselves. Viewers might recall the loss of innocence
in Stand by Me and the novel Lord of the Flies, or the river
journey in Deliverance. At first all seems idyllic and tranquil,
but this simply belies the cruelty that is waiting to happen.
Les Choristes/The Chorus Christophe Barratier
France-Switzerland-Germany / 2004 / 96min / Colour
IFI Education is delighted to announce a new film project
for second level students of French, which is being developed
with the support of the French Embassy. For 2005, the first
year of the project, we have chosen Les Choristes/The Chorus
(2004), which was a box office smash hit in France on its
release.The film will be screened at the IFI and at several
venues around the country during the forthcoming school year.
An accompanying study guide will be available to teachers
at the screenings, and will provide opportunities for further
classroom study.
Directed by Christophe Barratier and set in 1949, Les Choristes/The
Chorus tells the story of Clément Mathieu (Gérard
Jugnot), an unemployed music teacher who is hired as a supervisor
in a boarding school for difficult boys.The school is run
by authoritarian director Rachin, whose methods are repressive
and brutal. At first Mathieu is unable to keep the boys under
control. But life at the school improves dramatically when
he introduces the boys to the magic of singing ...
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