An all too rare screening of the classic 1923 silent movie Salomé complete with a live score by Charlie Barber. Opulent, extravagant, decadent - Salomé is a visual feast furnished by lavish nouveau designs inspired by artist Aubrey Beardsley and an unforgettable performance by the tempestuous actress Alla Nazimova in the title role. Inspired by traditional Arabic ensembles, Charlie Barber’s new score is equally dramatic. Performed by musicians playing from two towers flanking each side of the giant silver screen, this is a riveting blend of music and spectacle unlike anything else. “[Barber] uses a vast range of instruments … to create an evocative soundscape that mirrors the exotic costumes and Salomé's erotic allure.” (The Guardian) “An amazing experience. Before coming I was rather uncertain that I would get anything out of it, but I was bowled over.” (Patron, Chris Nicholls, Milton Keynes)

When Grandduke Charles, the prince-regent of Carpatha, a fictitious Balkan country which could start a European war by switching alliances, visits London for the coronation of the new British king in 1911, and spends his one evening off at the Coconut Girl club, the reputed stickler for protocol is so charmed by a clumsy American understudy that he orders his British attaché to invite her to the embassy for a private supper. Starring Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe

A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information. Starring Robert Donat, Madeline Carroll and Peggy Ashcroft

A society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Lord is to marry George Kitteredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter Dexter Haven, has never stopped loving her and even now has hopes of winning her back. Two journalists, Mike Connor and Liz Imbrie, have arrived to cover the story for 'Spy' Magazine.

Hermann is lonely and not getting any younger. Although he has not given up hope of finding a partner, Hermann tries to distract himself from his solitude through friendship to his budgie Gloria. But an accumulation of events lead to a tragic end as Hermann starts to believe that Gloria is to blame for his situation. Rushes Soho Shorts Festival Click here to book for entire Best of Fests programme  

When busybody Nancy Tuckatuck decides to heckle gamer-chick Bridget Check for smoking, Bridget communicates her side of the argument the way she knows best. By winning it. RUSHES SOHO SHORTS 2011 - THE NEWCOMER CATEGORY Click here to book for entire Best of Fests programme

A scientist, frustrated by his loneliness, sets about discovering an equation to locate the girl of his dreams. Despite setbacks he's determined to find her so he goes back to the drawing board. She has to be out there somewhere RUSHES SOHO SHORTS 2011 - THE NEWCOMER CATEGORY Click here to book for entire Best of Fests programme

Young Leia spends the day building an imaginary home out of cardboard oblivious to the fact that inside her real house, her home is falling apart. A disturbing visit from her mother’s angry employer sets in motion the events that will reveal just how fragile a home and family can be. Click here to book for entire Best of Fests programme NICKEL FILM FESTIVAL

It’s a scrambled story of love and heartbreak, as a woman starts to fantasize about a second chance with her boyfriend after a forgotten refrigerated gift leaves her picturing them as a couple of eggs. NICKEL FILM FESTIVAL Click here to book for entire Best of Fests programme

Holding hands or kissing in public isn't for everyone. When it comes to same sex relationships, showing your love outside of the home is sometimes a complicated personal choice. This short documentary moves between the public and private spaces in which lesbian and gay couples live, and explores small gestures of human connectedness. Click here to book tickets for entire Irish documentary shorts programme    

Campbell's Corner is based on the traditional craft of shoe cobbling and how it survives and flourishes on the periphery of the New Dundrum Town Centre in Dublin.   Click here to book tickets for full programme of shorts

Kwik Fix the fast food 'restaurant'. It's about people we all know but hardly ever acknowledge, and a man with a dream no one else shares. Click here to book tickets for entire international narrative shorts - programme 1

When Mam won't get out of bed, twelve year-old Danny must fend for his brothers and sisters - whilst trying to protect a secret that threatens to break up the family forever.

The ‘O’Kalems’ is the name given to a small group of motion picture pioneers, led by actor/director Sidney Olcott and actor/writer Gene Gauntier of New York’s Kalem Company, who between 1910 and 1915 produced almost thirty (mostly short) films dealing with Ireland and Irish subjects. The majority of these films were shot in and around Killarney, Co. Kerry, making extensive use of its famous landscape and using locals as extras. Produced over four successive summers, the ‘O’Kalem’ films were not only the earliest fiction films produced in Ireland, but also the first American fiction films shot in Europe. They offered American audiences unprecedented representations of Ireland, its history and people, and provided a powerful corrective to stereotypes that had, up until then, dominated the American stage and screen. Blazing the Trail: The O’Kalems in Ireland provides an unprecedented account of the making of the films and their place in American and Irish popular culture. Click here to book tickets

The inspiring story of two boyhood best friends - Joe (Ciarán Hinds) and Paddy (Conleth Hill) -  driven apart by the Troubles,  their lives take  very different paths until, 25 years later, Joe returns for the first time to Belfast with his 24-year-old daughter, Patricia.     Click here for full programme of Irish Shorts – Programme 1 

Our everyday journeys in time, through time, over time. Our everyday journeys through space, over space, in space. Synchronicity, incidence, coincidence, harmony, you, me, disorder, here, now, there, together, apart, later, before, here, now, here.   Click here for full programme of Irish Shorts – Programme 1 

The End of The Reel depicts the emotional lengths a lonely old man will go to in order to reconnect with his dead wife.   Click here for full programme of Irish Shorts – Programme 1 

Lial, Hassan and Maradona Akkouch are talented street dancers and musicians who live in Berlin’s Neukölln district. Becoming increasingly well known, they also live in fear of deportation to Lebanon as their residency status is still unresolved, although they have lived in Germany for 18 years. Lial and Hassan decide to use their talents to support the family but Maradona gets increasingly in trouble, putting himself even more at risk. This is a wonderful and hard-hitting documentary about a family’s struggle for the right to stay in their adoptive country. Must Pre-Book on 066 712 9934

Jasmine is an extraordinary girl with the most amazing curly hair.  But having so many curls isn’t always easy. This is a charming tale of a young girl’s efforts to feel good about her exceptional crowning glory.

The film Miss Remarkable & her Career is based on the very successful graphic novel with the same title. The darkly comic story tells us about Miss Remarkable’s struggle with her own demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown. Click here to book tickets for entire animation shorts programme

Award winning short featuring the story of three immigrants who meet on a cash-in-hand construction job in today's London with charming and hilarious results. Click here to book tickets for entire international narrative shorts - programme 2

A contented Monk relaxes under a shady Banyan tree on a peaceful summer’s day. What could possibly go wrong?

Three eager bank robbers go over the big plan before robbing a bank. It’s a complicated business! Click here for full programme of Irish Shorts – Programme 2

Our French Film Project this year takes a very different turn with this surreal and wacky animation. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series of the same name, it follows three plastic toys, Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who all share a house in a rural town where nothing is ever quite normal. On Horse’s birthday, Cowboy and Indian’s plan to give him a barbeque backfires spectacularly when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. This starts off a hilarious chain of events: first the house gets destroyed under the weight of the bricks and then the new walls they build mysteriously disappear. In search of the thieves, the trio travel to the centre of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe. A French film like none you will have seen before! €5 – Must Pre-Book on 066 712 9934

They are the men you think of with affection and with gratitude. They are close to the soil, familiar with birth and death, nurture and development. They have encompassed vast change within a sophisticated philosophy. Some are legends in their time, unassuming and calm, their feet kept on the ground, they say, by their neighbours. They have lived lives full of work, joy, and suffering. They have endured. And they are very very funny. They are Everyman. Come and see them.     Seo iad na fearaibh go raibh cion agus buíochas agat orthu. Tógadh le talamh iad, breith agus bás, cothú agus cúram mar bhonn lena saol. Ní chuireann siad aon nath in athraithe móra a linne, tá tuiscint rófhorbartha chuige sin acu. Cuid acu, siad laochra a linne iad, ach coimeádann a gcomharsain ciall iontu. Tá an obair, an t-áthas agus an brón, iad go léir, ina saol. Agus táid ana, anaghreannmhar. Seo iad Everyman. Ná teipeadh ort iad a fheiscint.     Click here to book tickets