Tickets: €5 - Available on the door. Olga (Anastasia Budiashkina) is a talented 15-year-old gymnast with a bright future that might take her all the way to the Olympics. Given the chance to train in Switzerland, she leaves Kiev just as the Ukraine experiences unprecedented political turmoil. Ruthlessly focused on her training, Olga is left...
Tickets: €5 - Available on the door Presented with the support of the French Embassy and the Institut Français. Elise (Marion Barbeau), a ballet prima donna, believed she had a perfect life until her partner's infidelity and a devastating stage injury shattered her world. Now facing a two-year recovery, she risks never dancing professionally again....
Tickets: €5 - Available on the door Aquarium worker Abel is furious when he learns his mother Sylvie is marrying a recently paroled inmate named Michel. Abel is determined to protect his mother and is deeply suspicious about his new stepfather. He ropes in his friend Clemence to help spy on the newly-released Michel. They...
Tickets: €5 – Available on the door After her abusive father is arrested, 12-year-old Dalva is taken into care. As she acts more like an adult than a child, Dalva's social workers and new roommates find it difficult to connect with her. Gradually with their help, she accepts that her relationship with her father was...
Tickets: €5 - Available on the door Aoife, a workaholic based in Dublin, reluctantly returns home to Kerry to care for her father after his heart attack. Having left years previously after the death of her mother, the relationship between father and daughter is strained. During her stay, Aoife begins to reconnect with her home...
Tickets: €5 - Available on the Door Paris taxi-driver Charles accepts an early morning fare. His client turns out to be 92-year-old Madeleine, who is making the final journey to the care home where her doctors and family have decided she must live. Along the way Madeleine asks Charles to visit places in Paris that...
Tickets: €5 - Available on the Door Based on the novel Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu, this Gothic thriller set in the 19th Century sees teenage Maud grieving the death of her father who has left her everything in his vast estate. As a minor, Maud must live under the guardianship of her Uncle...
Ticket: €5 - Available on the Door Writer Leon and photographer Felix travel to a holiday home on the Baltic coast for the summer – Leon needs to finish his second book, while Felix works on his portfolio, Their plans are upended when they arrive to find Nadja, an unexpected houseguest, already settled in. Initially...
Tickets: €5 - Available on the Door A deeply endearing film, Nobody Has to Know concerns Phil, a middle-aged Belgian farmhand working on the Scottish Isle of Lewis, who suffers amnesia following a stroke. A lonely local woman, Millie, helps him acclimate back to his life and claims they were lovers previously, a fragile lie...
*FREE EVENT* As part of Africa Day celebrations in Moate, we will be showing AISHA, a profoundly moving piece of cinema that authentically depicts the quiet desperation and loneliness that those living in direct provision in Ireland can experience. Aisha (Letitia Wright) lives at a Direct Provision Centre in a state of uncertainty; having fled...
★ FREE EVENT ★ The May Film Tour organised by access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute to coincide with the Bealtaine Festival, will come to Tuar Ard on Tuesday May 28th. This year the theme of the Bealtaine is Lust for Life, based on Iggy Pop’s iconic punk-era song celebrating life’s dreams and ambitions The...
Ireland, the 1970s. Joe and Kate Ruttledge return from London to live in a small rural community. They quickly become close friends with many of the older men and women living in the area. Over the course of a year, Joe and Kate grapple with major life decisions, while also witnessing their neighbours’ moments of...
