Writer/director Paul Greengrass, 35mm

The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it tied for the World Cinema Audience Award. It also was named Best Picture at the Berlin Film Festival.

Screens at 8.30pm, Saturday, March 8th at SAM.

Due to family illness Don Mullan is unable to attend the screening.

Goldfish Memory

DIRECTOR: Liz Gill PRODUCER: Breda Walsh SCRIPT: Liz Gill PHOTOGRAPHY: Ken Byrne EDITING: Dermot Diskin CAST: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery, Jean Butler, Keith McErlean, Stuart Graham, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Fiona Glascott, Peter Gaynor, Lisa Hearns, Justine Mitchell, Demian McAdam, Aisling O'Neill LOCATION: Dublin FORMAT: DV, 35mm RUNNING TIME: 85 mins

Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look at the dangers and delights of dating in contemporary Dublin. When Clara sees her boyfriend Tom kissing Isolde, it sets off a chain reaction of romances and heartbreaks until the entire cycle has turned full circle, each character trying to solve the pressing question of what is the perfect relationship! Some favour marriage, others a week-at-a-time arrangement. The only thing they can all agree on is that love is the one thing we can't live without. Falling in love, out of love and making the same mistakes all over again - all of us say we learn from heartbreak, but how many of us really change? And do we want to? Exploring the comical nature of love, straight, gay and in-between, "Goldfish Memory" brings life to the saying what goes around, comes around...and around...and around...

Screens at 7.00pm on Thursday, March 6th at Harvard Exit.

LAST DAYS IN DUBLIN

Director: Lance Daly Executive producer: Hughie Kelly Director of Photography: Ivan Mccullough

Last Days in Dublin is a new Irish independent feature film following the adventures of monster, a young Dubliner who dreams of travelling abroad in search of opportunity and adventure. Finding his plans constantly thwarted by a host of oddball characters, he is joined by Freddie, a homeless explorer, as he rallies to find an alternate escape. LAST DAYS IN DUBLIN is the debut film from director Lance Daly and was shot on location in Dublin, Wicklow, New York, Paris and Cairo.

Screens at 4.00pm on Saturday, March 8th at SAM.

DOCUMENTARIES

Darkroom

Director: Ian Thuillier Documentary - 52 min DVD

In December 1997, the noted Irish photographer Harry Thuillier Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in Milan at the age of 33. His death ended a brief but incredibly full life, in which he had produced an array of highly regarded and sometimes controversial fine art photographs. Haunted by his brother's tragic death, Ian Thuillier decided to make a documentary film about his brother's life, his art and his death. Although a first-time filmmaker and extremely close to his material, Thuillier does not attempt to sanitize his difficult and sometimes elusive subject. Rather, he has produced a mesmerizing portrait of a young artist on a collision course with fate.

Screens at 9.15pm on Friday, March 7th at 911 Media Arts Center and at 3.00pm on Saturday, March 15th at Seattle Center

Director: Deidre Lynch Documentary - 86 min Beta SP

Screens at 6.00pm on Saturday, March 8th at SAM.

Deirdre Lynch will be present to introduce her film.

SHORT FILMS

Padraig Agus Nadia

Writter/Director: Kester Dyer Short 16mins Gaelic with English subtitles.

Padraig Agus Nadia is the story of star-crossed lovers set against the multicultural background of modern Ireland. Essentially a comedy, this innovative short film presents a more serious commentary on cultural differences and prejudices. The imaginative use of language and silence are central to this film.

The Making of a Prodigy

Writter/Director: Colm McCarthy Short 12mins

If a teacher can’t protect children, who can? This is the rationale used by art teacher, Ellen Chapman for her subsequent behavior when she finds her class blessed by an exceptional pupil in the form of twelve-year-old Daniel Mooney, a prodigiously talented painter. In her efforts to secure her discovery’s place in modern art history, Miss Chapman finds she is forced to resort to extreme measures to enable her protégé’s talent to blossom. Ultimately, her devotion is tested severely in this modern Faustian tale.

Meeting Che Cuevara
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, a young woman from a small Irish town develops a fascination with the H.G Wells book “War of the Worlds”. Slowly her imagination and reality merge between the potentially real war of the Eastern and Western worlds and Science Fiction, as she sets out to meet Che Guevara, in a bid to save the world from Martian invasion. Unbeknownst to her, Che Guevara has in fact stopped over in the West of Ireland to refuel on a flight from Cuba to Algeria. In fact, it’s only a matter of time before she catches up with him to deliver a letter that The Man from Maybury Hill has told her to deliver. The real and surreal become fantastically blurred as they slowly and surely draw their plans against us. A skillful blending of fiction with some factual archival material is used to to create this intriguing film.

Director: Anthony Byrne
TRT: 17mins

All God’s Children
The year is 1857, a bleak landscape in a barren time. Six Men gather with a convict on the moors. Under threat of execution, he is forced to search for his final victim’s burial place. As storm clouds gather they journey deeper into the mire, digging to no avail and suffering the full force of the tempest. Near dark, the governor resolves to end the quest with one final dig. None realize the horror that awaits them. A broodingly evocative film that recalls the best of Hammer Studios Horror.

Written and Directed by Tom Cosgrove
TRT: 10:48

Up the Country
This is a romantic comedy about two lost souls who are brought together by a mixture of fate, the supernatural and by a mutual love of confectionary. Joe Cooney whose only passion is buns and brulee, is persuaded to help his old pal, Biscuit Brady – on leave from prison for his Granny’s funeral – to help him on a small job, ‘up the country’. The tarty local barmaid, Anne, has her heart set on an old signpost as a decorative fixture for the pub’s interior and Biscuit reckons this is his chance to impress. And thus begins a feel-good fairy tale!

Produced and Directed by Asylum Productions
TRT: 12:55

When Bridie Called Gerry
Based on a true story, in this comic short an elderly lady caller phones a well-know Irish radio chat show (Gerry Ryan Show) to retell the unusual events surrounding her bizarre honeymoon on the Isle of Man. Using the original radio recording, and blending archive footage with live action, this film has a delightful twist in the tail. Produced by Kavaleer Prodctions.
TRT: 3mins

The Angelus
Take the time to pause and reflect as the Angelus bells ring…a witty if not sarcastic look at an Irish Television institution, namely The Angelus, a call to evening meditation, broadcast at 6pm every evening.

Produced by Janey Pictures
TRT: 3mins

What Miro Saw
This brief film diary is a dialogue between Robert Janz, an artist trapped in his lower Manhattan loft by the disaster of Septer 11th, who faxes drawings of what he sees through his window to a friend in Dublin

Produced by Metropolitan Films
TRT: 3mins

The Phantom Cnut
A classroom with the legend The Phantom Cnut written in chalk on the blackboard. An indignatnt techer demands to know ehich of his pupils are responsible for the enigmatic inscription. The comic denoucement shows how clever his students really are, as their teacher literally misreads the situation.

Produced by DeFacto Films
TRT: 3mins

Sunday Munch
A visual and almost edible feast. A comic character study, this stylized film dissects the delectable eating habits of the hungry Baker family one Sunday dinner time. A choreographed mime set to Verdi’s dramatic Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore. Food for thought.

Produced by Parallel Films
TRT: 3mins

ANIMATION

A collection of short animation pieces from the FrameWorks 2002 series, funded by the Irish Film Board, RTE, The Arts Council and the Northern Irish Film Commission Pullin’ The Devil by the Tail
This apocryphal claymation tale is narrated by Pucker Ryder, one of the original members of an Irish folk-punk band, aptly named Stocious. One dark night a black goat talks to the hapless trio as they’re walking home and they freak out and kill it. The Devil turns up and claims it was his goat. The pressure is on, but can the lads rise to the challenge, knowing their lives may depend on it?

Winner of the 2002 Best Director/Animation UIP Awards.

Directed and animated by Stephen McCollum.
TRT: 6mins

From Darkness
Based in an old Intuit folktale, From Darkness tells the story of a lonely fisherman who drifts into a haunted waters in search of food. There he encounters a woman who originally was cast into the sea, only to return in a guise that is frightening and yet provides an opportunity for regeneration and union with the fisherman.

Produced by Nora Twomey and Paul Young
TRT: 8:22

Butterfly
Butterfly is a journey from life to death and back. It is a kaleidoscope of color, sound, and movement that lives somewhere between art and entertainment, speaking eloquently and subtly of the cycle of life and the transience of the moment. Nothing lasts forever but there is always hope in beauty, form and harmony.

Directed and animated by Glenn Marshall
TRT: 10mins

The Trial of Solomon
On a cold winter night in Berlin in 1921 a young Armenian, Solomon Teiliran, wok from his sleep. Above him to his horror was a ghostly image of his dead mother. She told him that the murderer of his family lived nearby and that he should, if he was a good son, seek this man out and avenge their deaths.

Following her instructions ultimately brings Soloman to trial. His victim was Memhet Taalet, the former Interior Minister for Turkey during World War One. At his trial, society itself was indicated as the massacre of over one million Armenians by the Turkish was disclosed.

Written and directed by Steve Woods
TRT: 6:30

Rehy Fox
An ancient tale from the Loop Head Peninsula of a fox who outwits all those around him, told in drawings made of sand from the landscape itself. The narrator of the story of the canny fox is a local character who injects his own personality into the folktale with amusing results.

Animated and Produced by Naomi Wilson
TRT: 6:16

NOSE
Adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s fantastic tale, The Nose. See a man trapped in a box telling tales of men and noses. See a great man stripped of his nose and brought to his knees. See a nose don armour and ride a horse. At last, the final nail in Nikolai Gogol’s coffin.

Directed by Stephen O’Connell
TRT: 6:30