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Irish Film Institute
Education
Autumn/Winter Programme 2009
Waveriders
Looking for Eric
The Constant Gardener
Entre les murs
Fantastic Mr. Fox
IFI Education
Supporting film in school curricula and promoting
moving image culture for young audiences.
Welcome to our new Autumn/Winter Education
programme.
At the time of putting together our programme, no
one is quite sure what the impact of cutbacks and
substitution will be on getting out of school or taking on
extra-curricular activities. However, given the inevitable
challenges, we’re doing our best to bring our film
education programme to venues near you. The current
IFI refurbishment also gives us an opportunity to run
events in different areas in Dublin such as Smithfield,
Tallaght, Swords and Coolock. Among our touring titles
this term is French award-winner The Class, new
Leaving Certificate title The Constant Gardener, Ken
Loach’s Looking for Eric starring the football hero
himself, as well as Irish hit Waveriders.
It has been well documented that in recessionary
times cinema audiences increase, making film
education even more relevant today. A huge range of
film activities take place around Ireland in schools, at
festivals, in arts centres and youth organisations, and
with increasingly limited resources it’s even more
pressing that we combine our knowledge and expertise.
In conjunction with the Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán
na hÉireann, we are embarking on a research project,
Film Focus, to develop a national strategy for film
education and young people. Our first step is to find out
what activities are already in place. If you could take 10
minutes to complete the enclosed questionnaire (or
online) it would be greatly appreciated.
Please note:
• Book early to avoid disappointment
• No-shows of 5 students or more will be charged
to your school
• Cancellations must be made 3 days in advance
• Teachers must sit among students and supervise
them closely during screenings
• All our events adhere to IFI Child Protection
Policy Guidelines
(see www.lightsout.ie/child_protection.htm)
• Help update our database by contacting us with
your email address and mobile phone number.
For booking or more information on IFI Education
events, contact Dee or Baz
t 01 679 5744
e schools@irishfilm.ie
All IFI Education events commence at 10:30am with
€5 admission unless otherwise stated.
For more information on Film Focus Research Project:
contact amcgivern@irishfilm.ie
In the meantime, Baz Al-Rawi, Dee Quinlan and I wish you
a good term and hope to see you at some of our events.
Alicia McGivern
Head of Education
IFI Education Autumn/Winter Programme 2009
Senior Cycle
Transition Year
Junior Cycle
Primary Events
Special Events
Calendar
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IFI Principal Funder
Senior Cycle
English
Inside I’m Dancing
Dec 1, 10.30am
James McAvoy (Atonement, The Last King of
Scotland) gives a great performance as Rory, whose
rebellious ways motivate Michael to leave the
nursing home, in this stimulating Leaving Certificate
Comparative Study title.
Ireland/UK • 1999 • Drama • 104 mins • Director: Damien
O’Donnell
S H O W I N G 10.30 A M A T
Tallaght, UCI Cinema
Oct 8
Booking through IFI Education on 01 679 5744
This screening is followed by an hour-long workshop
focusing on key moments from the film.
Smithfield, Lighthouse Cinema
Oct 13
A new addition to the Leaving Certificate Comparative
Study for 2011, The Constant Gardener is a gripping
adaptation of John le Carré’s novel from the director
of City of God, Fernando Meirelles. It stars Ralph
Fiennes as Justin Quayle, a quiet and unassuming
British diplomat who’s posted to Nairobi, Kenya. While
he tends to his plants, his activist wife Tessa (Rachel
Weisz) and her driver get brutally murdered at a
crossroads in mysterious circumstances. Quayle is
determined to get to the bottom of his wife’s murder,
and in the process uncovers a web of corruption and
greed involving powerful figures and a major drug
corporation who are exploiting the locals.
UK/Germany • 2005 • Drama • 129 mins • Director:
Fernando Meirelles
ALSO SHOWING AT
Kerry Film Festival (Oct 31-Nov 7)
Nov 2, 3
Booking through Samhlaíocht on 066 712 9934
Cork Film Festival (Nov 1-8)
Nov 5
Booking through Cork Film Festival on 021 427 1711
Macroom, Briery Gap
Jan 21
Booking through Ann Dunne on 026 42421
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Senior Cycle
English
Gaeilge
Casablanca
Padraic Ó Conaire - An Fear
Jan 13, 10.30am
Dec 2, 10.30am
Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, this
iconic film is an excellent addition to the Leaving
Certificate Comparative Study. Rick Blaine (Bogart) is a
cynical American nightclub owner escaping the war in
Europe and living in the French-controlled Moroccan
city of Casablanca. He becomes the bearer of
important travel permits and when his ex-lover Ilsa
Lund (Bergman) arrives from Paris with her fugitive
husband Victor Laszlo, Rick’s sheltered world collapses
and he is faced with tough decisions. A film about
love, conflict and virtue, with one of the most famous
and referenced endings in movie history.
Drama-documentary chronicling the often tragic life
and times of one of Ireland’s most prominent Irish
writers and pioneer of the Irish Literary Revival.
Inspired by Diarmuid de Faoite’s one-man play, it
combines drama, archive and interview to not only
reveal the truth about one of Ireland’s best-loved writers
but to chronicle the birth and teething pains of the
new Irish Free State with which he was intimately
involved. Probably best known for his novel
Deoraíocht (Diaspora), this film will be of great interest
to those studying Leaving Certificate Irish.
USA • 1943 • Drama/Romance • 102 mins • Director:
Michael Curtiz
This screening is followed by an hour-long workshop
focusing on key moments from the film.
Places at the workshop are limited.
Film and Workshop: €8 per student.
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Ireland • 2007 • Documentary • 52 mins • English
subtitles • Director: Johnny White
Director Johnny White and writer/performer Diarmuid
de Faoite will attend this screening.
Senior Cycle
French
Entre les murs/The Class
Dec 10, 10.30am
The first French film to win the Palme d’Or at
Cannes in 21 years, Entre les murs is based on a 2006
novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. A
semi-autobiographical account of his experiences as a
literature teacher in an inner city middle school in
Paris, the film also stars François in the role of the
teacher, as he prepares for a new year at a high
school in a tough neighbourhood. Laurent Cantet’s
excellent film is a story of life in a contemporary
French classroom, where cultures and attitudes
clash, and the teacher’s methods are put to the test
by his challenging students.
France • 2008 • Drama • 128 mins • English subtitles
Director: Laurent Cantet
Downloadable study guide available from October at
www.ifi.ie/education.
Nov 3, 4, 6
Coolock, UCI Cinema
Nov 5
Macroom, Briery Gap
Nov 6
Galway, 15th Junior Film Fleadh (Nov 11-14)
Nov 11
Booking through Fleadh on 091 751 655
Swords, Movies@
Nov 12
Sligo, Gaiety Cinema
Nov 24
Booking through The Model on 071 914 1405
Letterkenny, Century Cinema
Nov 27
Tipperary, Excel Arts Centre
Dec 1
Booking through Excel on 062 80520
Enniscorthy, SGC
Jan 13
Waterford, Garter Lane
Jan 18
Booking through Garter Lane on 051 855 038
Cinemobile – various venues nationwide
Contact Cinemobile for more information on
091 751 629 or www.cinemobile.net
French Film Festival
Nov 19-29
Contact us for more information on 01 679 5744
ALSO SHOWING AT
Oct 7
Oct 20
Clones Film Festival (Oct 21-25)
Oct 23
Booking through Geraldine Zechner on 047 20898
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Senior Cycle
German: 20 Jahre Mauerfall
November 2009 marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. To commemorate this momentous event,
we are bringing back two of our most popular German films. Study guides available from www.ifi.ie
Das Versprechen/The Promise
Goodbye Lenin!
Jan 27, 10.30am
Nov 25, 10.30am
Margarethe von Trotta’s emotional drama about two
teenagers, Sophie and Konrad, who become separated
when the Berlin Wall is built. Kept apart for 28 years
they see each other only four times, one of which
results in the birth of their son. When the Wall finally
comes down in 1989 they get the chance to meet up
again. This romantic epic gives an excellent insight
into recent German history as well being a powerful
story of lost love and missed opportunities.
This original and comic film of Ostalgie weaves historic
themes into a tender family story that begins in
November 1989. Brother and sister (Alex and Ariane)
are determined to protect their mother from shock
when she awakens from a coma after the Berlin Wall
has fallen. Hilarious scenes ensue as they endeavour
to keep reality out until it all becomes impossible to
maintain.
Germany/France/Switzerland • 1995 • Drama • English
subtitles • 110 mins • Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Germany • 2003 • Drama • English subtitles • 121 mins
Director: Wolfgang Becker
ALSO SHOWING AT
ALSO SHOWING AT
Oct 15
Nov 9
Sligo, Gaiety Cinema
Nov 12
Booking through The Model on 071 914 1405
Enniscorthy, SGC
Nov 23
Letterkenny, Century Cinema
Dec 3
Macroom, Briery Gap
Jan 12
Tipperary, Excel Theatre
Jan 21
Booking through Excel on 062 80520
Clones Film Festival (Oct 21-25)
Oct 23
Booking through Geraldine Zechner on 047 20898
Nov 2
Athlone, IMC
Nov 10
Cinemobile – various venues nationwide
Contact Cinemobile for more information on
091 751629 or www.cinemobile.net
German Film Week
Dec tbc
Contact us for more information on 01 679 5744
Transition Year
Citizenship
Looking for Eric
Sin Nombre and Meet IFCO
Nov 26, 10.30am
Nov 24, 10.30am
From Ken Loach, the director of The Wind that Shakes
the Barley, comes a hope-filled comedy about a
Manchester postman on the verge of a breakdown.
Struggling with his two delinquent stepsons, unpaid
bills and a longing for the love of his ex-wife, Man
United fanatic Eric Bishop can see no way out. One
night his all-time hero and Man United legend Eric
Cantona (played by himself) appears to him in a
vision. The ever-philosophical Frenchman becomes
Eric’s life coach, appearing regularly to encourage
him towards a more positive outlook on life. When
one of his stepson’s becomes embroiled with some
shady local characters, Eric, with the guidance of
Cantona, is forced to call on the support of his friends
and colleagues to overcome his woes and see life as a
team sport once again.
The Irish Film Classification Office (www.ifco.ie) is
responsible for examining and certifying all cinema
films and videos/DVDs distributed in Ireland. In this
special event, IFCO will meet TY students and talk
about their 15A classification of the tough and often
violent film, Sin Nombre, and the different contexts in
which violence is portrayed in film.
UK/France/Italy/Belgium • 2009 • Drama • 116 mins
Director: Ken Loach
This screening and discussion will give an excellent
insight into the way films are classified.
Special guests will attend this screening.
Mexico/USA • 2009 • Drama • 96 mins • English
subtitles • Director: Cary Fukunaga
ALSO SHOWING AT
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Oct 5
Nov 4
Set amid the world of gangsters and Central American
immigrants seeking new life in the U.S., Sin Nombre is
part road movie and part love story. Focusing on
Honduran teenager Sayra, travelling with countless
others across the border on a freight train and Casper,
a member of the vicious Mara gang who decides to
escape gang life, the two join up and make a desperate
run for their lives.
Transition Year
Citizenship
New Irish Film
Frozen River
Waveriders
Dec 9, 15, 10.30am
Jan 14, 10.30am
Ray Eddy is a store clerk who is battling financial
difficulty to feed her two sons and move out of their
dilapidated home. While searching for her gambler
husband she comes across Lila Littlewolf, a Mohawk
bingo parlour worker who lives on a reservation
which straddles the U.S./Canadian border. With both
suffering economic hardship, they form an unlikely
alliance and begin trafficking illegal immigrants in the
trunk of Ray’s car across the frozen St. Lawrence
River to the U.S. This critically acclaimed film
bridges the uneasy relationship between the Mohawk
reservation and the surrounding communities, and
highlights the plight of immigrants desperate to enter
the U.S.
Waveriders is the previously untold story of the
unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing
phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave
surfing. The story unfolds via the inspirational and
ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary
waterman, George Freeth. Son of an Irishman, Freeth
was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of
Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its
distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British
and Irish/American surfers, Waveriders journeys
from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores
following Freeth’s wave of influence. This journey
reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers
conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in
Ireland, catching monster waves of over fifty feet.
USA • 2008 • Crime/Drama • 97 mins • Director:
Courtney Hunt
Ireland/UK • 2009 • Documentary • 80 mins
Director: Joel Conroy
Special guests will attend this screening.
If you like the sound of this, why don’t you check out
Encounters at the End of the World?
Transition Year
Geography
House of Flying Daggers
& Film Studies Workshop
Encounters at the End of the World
Jan 26, 10.30am
Jan 19, 10.00am
Set during the Tang Dynasty in China, House of Flying
Daggers tells the story of Mei (played by Zhang Ziyi), a
beautiful young assassin from a highly secretive antigovernment organisation. Posing as a blind dancer, she
lures the police to the Flying Daggers’ secret location
with the help of police officer Jin, also a mole for the
Daggers. Directed by one of China’s most talented and
internationally renowned directors Zhang Yimou, House
of Flying Daggers contains stunningly choreographed
martial arts sequences, Oscar-nominated cinematography
and intriguing plot twists. A visual treat that demands
to be seen on the big screen.
The McMurdo research station in inhospitable
Antarctica seems a magnet for the dreamers and
eccentrics who are Werner Herzog’s kind of people, as
he does double-duty as director and quizzical
on-screen guide in this witty, wise documentary.
He finds divers who venture daringly beneath the
ice-cap without a tether attached and
environmentalists testing the quality of emissions
by taking samples in the mouth of an active volcano.
Herzog’s film highlights the important work that is
being carried out in one of our most spectacular,
treacherous and fragile environments.
USA • 2007 • Drama • 99 mins • Director: Werner Herzog
China/Hong Kong • 2005 • Action/Adventure
119 mins • English subtitles • Director: Zhang Yimou
Workshop
One hour workshop focusing on stylistic elements
used in the film and Zhang Yimou’s approach to the
martial arts genre. Drawing from the Wider Visions
study guide, students will get an opportunity to view
and discuss moments from the film with a particular
emphasis on how camerawork, special effects,
costume and colour combine to create mood and
affect the narrative. Of particular interest to TY
students and those studying Leaving Certificate Art.
Wider Visions study guide at www.ifi.ie/education.
Film and Workshop: €8 per student.
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Special guests will attend to talk about Ireland’s
environment.
Junior Cycle
CSPE
Skin
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Jan 12, 20, 10.30am
Dec 3, 10.30am
This newly released title concerns the compelling
and moving tale of Sandra Laing, born in 1955 to
white Afrikaner parents in South Africa. As a result of
a chance combination of her parents’ genes,
Sandra was dark-skinned, had thick curly hair and
black-African features. None of this would have
mattered very much in a different time or place, but
in 1950’s South Africa Sandra’s appearance was
hugely controversial. Skin follows Sandra’s thirty-year
journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to
reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in
a changing world. Aimed at CSPE students, Skin
focuses on key topics such as human rights and
social responsibilities, the concept of community and
the importance of democracy.
Sounds Like Teen Spirit is an affectionate
documentary about the junior version of the annual
Eurovision song contest. Following the journey of four
aspiring pre-teens, from very different backgrounds
and parts of the continent (Cyprus, Bulgaria, Georgia
and Belgium) to Europe’s biggest child song-writing
contest. It celebrates a cast of real children with real
stories, aged ten to fifteen, coming together to battle
out their songs and performances to become the
winner of this fifth annual junior contest.
UK • 2009 • Biography/Drama/Mystery • 107 mins
Director: Anthony Fabian
UK • 2009 • Documentary/Music • 100 mins
Director: Jamie Jay Johnson
Comic and moving in turns, this documentary
captures the innocence of childhood and the
awkwardness of adolescence while touching on
issues such as bullying, family life and human dignity.
Primary Events
Special Events
Free Preview
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fresh Film Festival 2009 Showcase
Date TBC
Fantastic Mr. Fox is visionary director Wes Anderson’s
first animated film, utilising classic handmade stop
motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling
childrens’ book by Roald Dahl. Mr and Mrs Fox live an
idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young
nephew Kristopherson. But after 12 years, the bucolic
existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal
instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a
sneaky chicken thief endangering not only his family,
but the whole animal community. Trapped underground
and with not enough food to go around, the animals
band together to fight against the evil farmers – Boggis,
Bunce and Bean – who are determined to capture the
audacious, fantastic Mr Fox at any cost.
Fresh Film Festival is a showcasing body for the work
of young filmmakers between the ages of 7 and 18
years. This showcase of a selection of 2009 entries
will demonstrate what it’s all about.
Admission is FREE but booking is essential through
Fresh Film Festival on 061 319 555.
School groups are welcome.
National Film School
Information Day
Dec 2, 11am
Prizes for the best dressed fox! Places limited to 70
per school. Booking essential on 01 679 5744
For second-level students exploring college courses
in film and media this is an opportunity to meet
teachers, students and graduates from the National
Film School at DLIADT, to hear what’s on offer and see
some of the work produced.
In conjunction with 20th Century Fox Ltd.
Fantastic Mr. Fox opens cinemas nationwide on Oct 23.
Students can attend independently but booking is
essential with IFI Education on 01 679 5744.
US/France • 2008 • Animation • Mins tbc • Director:
Wes Anderson
S H O W I N G 10.00 A M A T
Oct 16
Dublin, Savoy Cinema
Oct 21
Don’t panic, we have more for primary!
See pg.10 for Home Alone.
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Special Events
TM, ® & Copyright © 2009 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Tribute to John Hughes (1950-2009)
American writer, director and producer John Hughes sadly passed away on August 6th. Probably best known for
giving us a host of classic teen-orientated films in the 1980’s such as The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, these films defined the high school experience for a generation and were notable for
their fresh, funny and unpatronising take on teenage life. Join us at the IFI for a unique opportunity to see two of
John Hughes’ most famous and enjoyable films on the big screen and celebrate the work of this visionary
American filmmaker.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Home Alone
Dec 16, 10.30am
Dec 17, 10.30am
Matthew Broderick gives a career-defining
performance as the charming Ferris Bueller, a
scheming and resourceful high school student who
invents an illness to skip school on a sunny spring
day. Joined by his girlfriend Sloane and his reluctant
best friend Cameron they head off for a day of
free-spirited fun in downtown Chicago in Cameron’s
father’s borrowed Ferrari. News of Ferris’ exaggerated
illness sparks an outpouring of sympathy from his
fellow students. However his sister Jeanie and Dean of
Students Mr. Rooney are not convinced, and both set
out to track him down. John Hughes’ classic comedy
remains one of American cinema’s most entertaining,
inspirational and hilarious high school movies.
Come and join us for our special screening of John
Hughes’ classic Christmas tale, Home Alone. Made in
1990, yet remaining to be one of the most celebrated
live-action comedies of all time, this film is the perfect
choice to help kick start your Christmas holidays.
Written and produced by John Hughes, the film stars
Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight yearold-boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family
flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation. While enjoying
the initial freedom of living alone, his circumstances
change once faced with the challenge of preventing
two burglars from robbing his house. Kevin is quick to
react by single-handedly inventing a series of hilarious
booby-traps which create chaos for the intruders.
USA • 1986 • Comedy • 103 Mins • Director: John Hughes
USA • 1990 • Comedy/Crime/Family • 103 mins
Director: Chris Columbus
ALSO SHOWING
The short film, Team Spirit, from FOMACS will screen
before the film. Film and teaching pack available
from www.fomacs.org
Resources
IFI Education Locations Oct-Jan
LETTERKENNY
SLIGO
CLONES
COOLOCK
IFI
SMITHFIELD
SWORDS
TALLAGHT
ATHLONE
GALWAY
New study guides for this term
available to download from our
website (www.ifi.ie/education).
Australia
Study guide covering themes of
Australia Today, Indigenous
Australians, Love, War and Film
Studies. Suitable for Junior Cycle,
SPHE and Transition Year.
Wider Visions
September 2009
Study guide covering arthouse
cinema including
Maria Full of Grace, House of
Flying Daggers and Touching the
Void. Suitable for TY Moving Image
and Senior Cycle.
Entre les murs/The Class
October 2009.
Study guide covering themes of
school life and identity, and
includes interviews with the cast.
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TIPPERARY
TRALEE
MACROOM
ENNISCORTHY
WATERFORD
CORK
Calendar of Events
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Free Preview
October
5
Looking for Eric
Tallaght
TY
7
Entre les murs
Tallaght
TY/Senior French
8
Inside I’m Dancing + Revision Workshop
Tallaght
Senior English
13
Inside I’m Dancing
Smithfield
Senior English
15
Das Versprechen
Tallaght
TY/Senior German
16
Fantastic Mr Fox
Tallaght
Primary
20
Entre les murs
Smithfield
TY/Senior French
21
Fantastic Mr Fox
Dublin
Primary
23
Entre les murs
Clones
TY/Senior French
23
Goodbye Lenin!
Clones
TY/Senior German
TY/Senior English
November
2, 3
Kerry
2
Goodbye Lenin!
Kerry
TY/Senior German
Kerry
TY/Senior French
3, 4, 6 Entre les murs
4
Looking for Eric
Smithfield
TY
5
Entre les murs
Coolock
TY/Senior French
5
Cork
Senior English
6
Entre les murs
Macroom
TY/Senior French
9
Das Versprechen
Smithfield
TY/Senior German
10
Goodbye Lenin!
Athlone
TY/Senior German
11
Entre les murs
Galway
TY/Senior French
12
Entre les murs
Swords
TY/Senior French
12
Das Versprechen
Sligo
TY/Senior German
13
Fresh Film Festival Showcase
IFI
Junior/TY/Senior Cycle
23
Das Versprechen
Enniscorthy
TY/Senior German
24
Sin Nombre + IFCO
IFI
TY/Citizenship
24
Entre les murs
Sligo
TY/Senior French
25
Goodbye Lenin!
IFI
TY/Senior German
26
Looking for Eric
IFI
TY
27
Entre les murs
Letterkenny
TY/Senior French
s
s
Admission to all IFI Education events €5
unless otherwise stated.
December
1
IFI
TY/Senior English
1
Entre les murs
Tipperary
TY/Senior French
2
Padraic Ó Conaire – An Fear
Dublin
TY/Senior Gaeilge
2
National Film School Information Day
IFI
TY/Senior
3
Das Versprechen
Letterkenny
TY/Senior German
3
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
IFI
Junior
9, 15
Frozen River
IFI
TY/Citizenship
10
Entre les murs
IFI
TY/Senior French
16
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
IFI
TY
17
Home Alone
IFI
Primary/Secondary
January
12
Macroom
TY/Senior German
12, 20 Skin
Das Versprechen
IFI
CSPE
13
Entre les murs
Enniscorthy
TY/Senior French
13
Casablanca + Revision Workshop
IFI
Senior English
14
Waveriders
IFI
TY
18
Entre les murs
Waterford
TY/Senior French
19
House of Flying Daggers + Workshop
IFI
TY
21
Das Versprechen
Tipperary
TY/Senior German
21
Macroom
TY/Senior English
26
Encounters at the End of the World
IFI
TY/Senior Geography
27
Das Versprechen
IFI
TY/Senior German
For booking or more information on
IFI Education events,
contact Dee Quinlan or Baz Al-Rawi:
t 01 679 5744
e schools@irishfilm.ie
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IFI Book Shop
Discounts available to schools on all films and books
For more information please see www.ifi.ie or call 01 679 5744
6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
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