Film Fest: Sunday 30 Matinee 2.00pm – 4.30pm Adm: €6

IRISH SHORT FILM

Teeth
Dir John Kennedy and Ruairi O’Brien, Ireland, 2 mins, 2007

Produced by Noreen Donohoe, Killeshandra, Co. Cavan, this is a short “last laugh” tale of two old friends, their teeth and a series of events that leaves them lost for words. There is no dialogue in this short comedy which has screened at host of major international festivals including the prestigious ‘Message to Man Film Festival’, St. Petersburg, Russia.

FEATURE FILM

My Left Foot
Dir Jim Sheridan, UK, 103 mins, 1989
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Christy Brown, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack, Fiona Shaw, Ray McAnally

Introductory talk by author, Shane Connaughton

This classic film is the story of Christy Brown, painter, poet and author, who was born with crippling cerebral palsy. Christy was brought up a poor, Irish working class family and for the first ten years of his life everybody believed him mentally retarded. However, his mother discovers Christy’s ability when he begins to communicate with the family, and eventually the world using his only functional limb; his left foot.