IRISH FILM FESTA

Special St.Patrick’s Day Event

Sunday, 17^th March 2013

Casa del Cinema – Villa Borghese

15:30 Focus on Animation

Animated Ireland - Shorts (1909 – 2012)

Youghal Clock Tower (1’ – James Horgan , 1909) / Midnight Dance (6’- John McCluskey, 1996) / After You (6’ – Damien O’Connor, 2012) / From Darkness (8′ – Nora Twomey, 2001) / Nann’s Strawberry Preserve (3,5’ – Aoife Doyle, 2010) / The Despository (6’ – Andrew Kavanagh, 2002) / The Red Ball (3’ – Alan Holly, 2009) / Carte de Visite (5’ – Paul O’Flanagan, 2006) / Trolley Boy (5’ – Teemu Auresalo, 2005) / Donkey (3,5’- Louise Bagnell, 2009) / Escape (7’ – John Rice, 2002) / The Last Elk (8’ – Alan Shannon, 1998) / Pilgrim (3,5’ – Matt Darragh, 2006) / An Bonnán Buí (8’ – Edith Piperhoff, 1995) / Fifty Per Cent Grey (3’ – Ruairi Robinson, 2001) / Fluffy McCloud (3’ – Connor Finnegan, 2010).

Before the screening a lecture by Steve Woods “History of Irish Animation”

Address by the Irish Ambassador  to Italy, H.E. Patrick Hennessy

18: 30 Focus on Animation

The Boy in the Bubble (Kealan O’Rourke, 2011 – 8’)
Screening in 3D
Best Short at the 2012 Irish Film Festa
The director will attend

followed by:

The Secret of Kells (Tom Moore, Nora Twomey, 2009 – 75′)
After the screening, lectio brevis by director Nora Twomey

21 :30 Tribute to Lenny Abrahamson

What Richard Did (Lenny Abrahamson, 2012 – 88’)
Winner of five 2013  IFTA’s

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All films will be shown in original version with italian subtitles
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To prevent the public waits in vain, in case of big queues 45 minutes before every screening Casa del Cinema will distribute a ticket for every spectator while seats last.
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