White Noise 🚂 Ghosts of Baggotonia 👻 The Silent Twins 👭 & more

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View in browser WHAT'S ON IFI@HOME MEMBERSHIP Hello and welcome to the latest edition of our IFI Weekly Newsletter. Opening this week is Noah Baumbach's latest pitch-black comedy White Noise, evocative film-poem Ghosts of Baggotonia and Gibbons sisters biopic The Silent Twins. Special events at the IFI this week include a Q&A screening of Ghosts of Baggotonia tonight at 18:20 and an IFI & Maynooth: Women in Focus special event celebrating the work of Irish amateur filmmaker Sr. Maureen MacMahon . IFI & Kinopolis Polish Film Festival continues this weekend, celebrating the best in new Polish cinema. Multi-film passes are available: 5 films for €50. Enquire at IFI Box Office in person or over the phone on (01) 679 5744. OPENING TODAY AT THE IFI WHITE NOISE dir. Noah Baumbach A chemical spill from a freak train accident forces an eccentric family to flee the suburbs. MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS GHOSTS OF BAGGOTONIA dir. Alan Gilsenan An exploration of the eccentric ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street. MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS THE SILENT TWINS dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska June and Jennifer Gibbons refuse to speak to practically anyone but each other. MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS ALSO SCREENING AT THE IFI 👔 Gentle and poignant Kurosawa inspired Living 🎻Dublin musical odyssey North Circular 🌞Paul Mescal-starring heartbreaker Aftersun SPECIAL SCREENINGS AND EVENTS GHOSTS OF BAGGOTONIA + Q&A Friday December 9th, 18.20 An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity. This screening will be followed by Q&A with poet Seán Hewitt and director Alan Gilsenan. MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS IFI & MAYNOOTH: WOMEN IN FOCUS Tuesday December 13th, 18.30 Women in Focus is a project which identifies and celebrates the work of amateur women filmmakers in archives around the world. This programme showcases the work of Sister Maureen MacMahon OP (b. 1918 in Dublin), an artist, writer, educator, filmmaker and Dominican nun. MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS IFI & KINOPOLIS POLISH FILM FESTIVAL This year’s celebration of new Polish cinema finds the industry in a state of rude health. Featuring films from newcomer Kamil Krawczycki, the idiosyncratic Agnieszka Smoczyńska and elder statesmen Wojtek Smarzowski and Jerzy Skolimowski, both still making fierce work reflective of its time. MORE INFO / BOOK TICKETS RENT ON IFI@HOME There are over 170 titles to rent on IFI@Home, available to browse here. Today's F-rated* pick is recent addition How to Tell a Secret, a powerful hybrid documentary that communicates a moving message of what it is like to live with HIV in Ireland today. *Any film directed and/or written by a woman receives an F-rating, highlighting the substantial contribution of women to the film industry. RENT NOW RENT NOW RENT NOW 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, D02 PD85, Ireland Copyright © 2022 Irish Film Institute, All rights reserved. Manage Profile Unsubscribe