James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (Garfield) takes a job at a roadhouse run by slovenly but likeable Nick Smith (Kellaway). Nick's sexy young wife Cora (Turner) takes an immediate liking to Frank, but he senses that she's trouble and he keeps his distance -- for a while, anyway. Inevitably succumbing to Cora's tawdry charms, Frank enters into her scheme to murder Nick and claim the old boy's insurance. Tickets are available from Siamsa Tire.

A British classic of such famous status that it barely needs an introduction. Directed by auteur David Lean and adapted by Noel Coward from his own stage play, this is a poignant and beautifully crafted love story. Laura Jesson accidentally meets Dr Alex Harvey at a railway station. As their acquaintance grows, so does their attraction to each other, despite both being married. On the brink of an affair and desperately in love, the two must make a choice that may part them forever. Tickets are available from Siamsa Tire.

In perhaps the greatest dance musical, Gene Kelly stars as a young artist who finds love on Paris ’Left Bank. As well as the Gershwin songs and score, including the blissful ‘’S Wonderful’, ‘An American in Paris’ is memorable for its famous climactic ballet sequence inspired by the work of Renoir, Dufy, Utrillo, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and winner of six Academy Awards including Best Film. Tickets available from Siamsa Tire.

An up and coming Irish film-maker Gerard Hurley combines traditional storytelling techniques and experiences gained while traveling to weave a wonderfully heart-felt story in The Pier, a film that is picking up rave plaudits at home and abroad.

The Pier which was filmed in New York and in various locations in West Cork including Goleen, Ballydehob, Dunmanus, Schull, Skibbereen, Castletownsend, Castlehaven, Tragumna and Bantry stars Karl Johnson, Gerard Hurley and Lili Taylor. After twenty years of no contact with his son, Larry McCarthy (Karl Johnson) pretends to be dying in order to trick his son, Jack (Gerard Hurley) into returning home to West Cork. When Jack arrives he is furious to find that his father is alive and kicking and, if anything even more furious, when he's tricked into staying.

The Pier is a delicately paced story that pits father and son against one another in a battle that is as old as humanity. While the viewer longs for reconciliation, director Gerard Hurley is a masterful storyteller and it's never quite apparent whether the two protagonists will figuratively bury the hatchet or literally bury a hatchet in one another.

The dates of screening are

Sunday, January 29th, IFI Dublin

Tuesday, February 2nd, Classic Listowel, Kerry

Friday, February 3rd, 4th, 5th, Skibbereen Town Hall, Co Cork

Friday, February 3rd - Feb 9th, Eye Cinema, Galway

Saturday, February 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th Park Cinema, Clonakilty, Co Cork

Sunday, February 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, Cinemax Bantry, Co Cork

Sunday, February 5th,6th,7th,8th Qand A on 5th, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

Monday, February 6th, 7th, Macroom Briary Gap, Cork

Tuesday, February 7th, Phoenix Cinema, Dingle, Kerry

Thursday, February 9th, Carrick On Shannon Multiplex

Wednesday, February 15th, 18th, The Model Sligo

Tickets for The Pier are available by contacting the venues directly. For more information see www.thepierfilm.com

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

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    

An altar boy forced to make a choice, a coconut with a man’s face, moon food and an alternative version of Sleeping Beauty that tells the real story! Just some of the treats in store at Kerry Film Festival’s Children’s Shorts programme. Click here for full 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?