School Prog 2008 2009

schools’ programme
IRELAND’S TRAVELLING CINEMA
Welcome
to the
2008/2009
Cinemobile
School
Booklet
Cinemobile - What is it?
Cinemobile is Ireland’s Travelling Cinema, bringing the magic of the movies to those towns
and villages throughout the country without access to cinema. The Cinemobile is an
ingenious machine – it looks exactly like an ordinary articulated truck but in less than an
hour converts into a 100 seater cinema.
The Cinemobile school booklet continues to be hugely popular and last year we
screened to over 10,000 pupils nationwide. This success is as a result of the continued
support from schools, principals and individual teachers around the country who seek
to bring the educational and creative aspects of films to their students.
The integration of film into the curriculum provides an opportunity for us to work more
closely with teachers and pupils and for the 2008/09 academic year we are again
offering schools the opportunity to invite Cinemobile into their own school yard.
To help with your selection, we have again divided this booklet into different sections
with films suitable for pupils at Senior Cycle, Junior Cycle and Primary School level.
For Senior Cycle we carry the Comparative Film Texts on the English Leaving
Certificate for both 2009 and 2010 as well as film adaptations of English texts on the
curriculum. Once again we are including film texts from Moving Image Arts, the new
A level subject offered to students in Northern Ireland schools, as well as carrying a
selection of foreign language films, documentaries and Irish Shorts.
Where did the idea come from?
The idea of a mobile cinema originated in France with a company called Toutenkamion literally meaning “all in a truck”. The second largest of the Millennium projects – the Spire
being the largest - it has been touring the island of Ireland for the past seven years,
showing films to school groups, film clubs, youth groups and the general public. We also
screen films at various festivals throughout the country.
Who Supports Cinemobile?
Cinemobile is a subsidiary of the Irish Film Institute and is a non-profit making organisation.
We are funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the
Irish Film Board, RTÉ, Northern Ireland Screen and Europa Cinemas. Galway County
Council and Kerry County Council also contribute to Cinemobile.
Can Cinemobile visit my school?
This year also we are introducing a selection of films that teachers may find suitable
for discussion and analysis with Transition Year pupils.
Yes, Cinemobile is Ireland’s Travelling Cinema and we cover 31 counties in the island of
Ireland. We can go into your school directly or park at a near-by area. However, we need
space of 20 x 20 metres to screen safely in a location. We carry full public liability indemnity
insurance and generate no refuse.
In addition to this selection Cinemobile staff is happy to source other films that may be
of particular interest to teachers.
We provide the cinema space, the projectionist, source the film and the copyrights… and
you provide the audience. We plan our tour some weeks in advance, so book early to
ensure we get to your area.
We hope you enjoy the selection.
Noreen Collins
Cinemobile Manager
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
CINEMOBILE, CLUAIN MHUIRE, MONIVEA ROAD, GALWAY.
TEL 091 751629, FAX 091 770948
All school groups need to be accompanied by teachers. Each student pays €4.50 per
screening. Teachers are free.
E-mail [email protected] or if you want to
look at pictures of our machine check out
www.cinemobile.ie
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SENIOR CYCLE
COMPARATIVE FILM TEXTS
Billy Elliot (15A)
Strictly Ballroom (PG)
2000 111 mins UK
1992 94 mins Australia
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Stephen Daldry
STARRING
Jamie Bell
Julie Walters
GENRE
Comedy/Drama
The life of a miner’s son
in Northern England is
forever changed when he
stumbles upon a ballet
class on his way to boxing
lessons. Joining the class,
but keeping it a secret
from his widowed father and overbearing brother, 11-year-old
Billy finds himself in love with dance, demonstrating the kind of
raw talent seldom seen by the exacting instructor, Mrs.
Wilkinson. She encourages him to try out for the Royal Ballet
School in London where he can refine his craft while escaping
his oppressive surroundings.
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009
DIRECTOR
Carol Reed
STARRING
Orson Wells
Joseph Cotton
Trevor Howard
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009
DIRECTOR
This touching and engaging film
provides us with a fascinating
and quirky view into the world
of competitive dance.
A wonderfully uplifting movie.
Baz Luhrmann
STARRING
Paul Mercurio
Tara Morice
GENRE
Comedy/Romance/Drama
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009
Italian with
English subtitles.
The Third Man (PG)
DIRECTOR
1949 104 mins UK
STARRING
Giuseppe Tornatore
Jacques Perrin
Marco Leonardi
Salvatore Casio
Graham Greene’s account of
mysterious Harry Lime (Wells) in postWW2 Vienna is a film noir classic.
GENRE
Drama
GENRE
Film Noir Thriller
Inside I’m Dancing (15)
2004 104 Ireland/UK/French
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009 & 2010
DIRECTOR
Damien O’Donnell
STARRING
James McAvoy
Brenda Fricker
Gerard McSorley
GENRE
Drama
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Michael is a twenty-fouryear-old who has cerebral
palsy and is a long-term
resident of the Carrigmore
Residential Home for the
Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is
transformed when the maverick Rory O’Shea moves in.
Michael is stunned to discover that fast talking Rory, who
can move only his right hand, can understand his almost
unintelligible speech. Rory’s dynamic and rebellious nature
soon sparks a flame in Michael, introducing him to a whole
new world outside of Carrigmore.
DIRECTOR
The Truman
Show (PG)
Peter Weir
1998 102 mins USA
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009 & 2010
Cinema Paradiso (PG)
1988 122 mins Italy/France
This sentimental, charming Italian
film amassed a wealth of awards
worldwide on its release in 1989. It
tells the story of a successful movie
director who returns to his village to
attend the funeral of the projectionist
of the once thriving ‘Cinema
Paradiso’. Although unashamedly
nostalgic for the post-war era, when
cinemas provided a much needed
escape from the hardships of
everyday life, this film’s characters
are engaging and humourous.
STARRING
Jim Carrey
Laura Linney
Ed Harris
GENRE
Drama/
Science Fiction
Truman, an insurance
salesman, is the star of
an all-day TV soap
opera… without him
knowing. His wife, friends and neighbours are all in on the
act; only Truman himself is oblivious to what’s going on. An
engaging and thought-provoking film that questions the role
of the media and reality television in our lives.
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COMPARATIVE FILM TEXTS
Il Postino (U)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
1994 108 mins
France/Italy/Belgium
Italian with
English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
Michael Radford
STARRING
Philippe Noiret
Massimo Troisi
GENRE
Drama
This beautifully shot film
tells the story of the idle
village postman who
discovers the power of
poetry with the arrival of
exiled Communist Chilean poet Pablo Neruda to the island of Capri.
The postman embarks on a new journey in life and begins to woo
the beautiful Beatrice. The arrival on the island of the charismatic
brooding poet Neruda is contrasted against the simple life of the
islanders. The actor Massimo Troisi, who plays the Postman and
was the force behind the making of this film, tragically died the day
after the last scenes were shot.
Richard III (15)
1995 104 UK
A resetting of Shakespeare’s
drama of multiple murders
and political intrigue in 1930s
England, during a Fascist
coup. McKellen dominates the
screen as the devil incarnate,
with a persona for every
occasion. Visually compelling
and often shocking.
Casablanca (U)
DIRECTOR
Bogart’s greatest role as a
battered, laconic owner of a
nightclub who meets a girl
(Bergman) he left behind in Paris
and still loves. An intense wartime
drama, with some truly great
supporting performances, has
resulted in much of the dialogue
becoming everyday parlance.
Girl With A
Pearl Earring
(12A)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
2003 100 mins
UK/Luxembourg
STARRING
This film, adapted
from a work of fiction
by author Tracy
Chevalier, tells a
story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting
Girl With A Pearl Earring by 17th century Dutch master
Johannes Vermeer. Little is known about the girl in the painting
but it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the house
of the painter along with his family and other servants. This
masterful film attempts to recreate the mysterious girl’s life.
DIRECTOR
Peter Webber
Colin Firth
Scarlett Johansson
Cillian Murphy
GENRE
Drama
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009 & 2010
DIRECTOR
Richard Loncraine
STARRING
Ian McKellen
Annette Bening
Kristin Scott-Thomas
Jim Broadbent
Robert Downey Jr.
GENRE
Drama
Dancing at
Lughnasa (PG)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
1998 92 mins Ireland/UK/USA
Pat O’Connor
DIRECTOR
STARRING
Adapted for the screen by Frank
Meryl Streep
McGuinness, from the Brian Friel
GENRE
play, a young boy tells the story of
Drama
growing up in a fatherless home
with his unmarried mother and four
spinster aunts in 1930s Ireland.
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
1942 102mins USA
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FILM ADAPTATIONS
Michael Curtiz
STARRING
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Claude Rains
GENRE
Drama/Romance
Jane Eyre (PG)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009
1995 117 mins
UK/ USA/Italy/France
DIRECTOR
Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel
of Gothic romance gets the
Zeffirelli treatment in this
moving and faithful adaptation.
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows into
a strong-willed heroine after
enduring a miserable childhood.
Franco Zeffirelli
STARRING
William Hurt
Charlotte Gainsbourg
GENRE
Drama/Romance
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FILM ADAPTATIONS
Lamb (15A)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2008 & 2009
DIRECTOR
Philadelphia, Here I Come
(PG)
Colin Gregg
1975 91 mins Ireland
John Quested
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
1985 110mins UK
A kind hearted and idealistic Brother (Liam
Neeson) who teaches at a Roman Catholic
school for problem boys focuses his charity
upon a deeply troubled ten-year-old boy who
is maltreated by the authoritarian headmaster.
Ultimately, the little good they shared between
them is eventually threatened by a sordid and uncaring
city. Taken from the novel by Bernard McLaverty, the film
very movingly achieves a portrait of goodness, religion at
work and a multi-faceted view of human character
King Lear (15)
1983 158mins UK
An aging King invites disaster when
he abdicates his throne to his corrupt,
toadying daughters and rejects his
only loving, but honest one. Olivier in
another masterful performance of a
Shakespeare character.
STARRING
STARRING
A brilliant take on Brian Friel’s masterpiece,
adapted for the screen with great flair. Gar
O’Donnell debates with his alter ego
whether or not he should leave the dreary
environment of his home town to emigrate
and stay with his aunt in Philadelphia.
Donal McCann delivers a truly great
performance as Public Gar, the repressed
antagonist, who is manifested openly on
screen by his extrovert (but unseen to
others) alter-ego, Private Gar.
Liam Neeson
Hugh O’Conor
GENRE
Drama
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Michael Elliott
STARRING
Laurence Olivier
John Hurt
GENRE
Drama
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Joe Wright
STARRING
Keira Knightley
Matthew MacFadyen
Donald Sutherland
GENRE
Drama/Romantic Comedy
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009
DIRECTOR
Roman Polanski
STARRING
Jon Finch
Francesca Annis
GENRE
Drama
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Macbeth (15A)
1971 140 mins UK
Roman Polanski’s imagery
evokes a cruel and dark
world in his version of
Shakespeare’s Scottish
play in which a ruthlessly
ambitious Lord murders the
King and takes the throne
with the help of his devious
wife and a trio of witches.
DIRECTOR
Donal McCann
Siobhan McKenna
Des Cave
Eamonn Kelly
GENRE
Drama
Pride and
Prejudice (G)
2005 127 mins UK/France
An adaptation of Jane Austin’s
splendid romantic comedy, this
film tells the story of Elizabeth
Bennett, an opinionated young
lady who battles it out with the
handsome but snobbish Mr.
Darcy. This film brings class
conscious England at the close
of the 18th century to life.
Playboy of the
Western World (15A)
2006 120 mins Ireland
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Garry Hynes
STARRING
Directed by Garry Hynes this Druid
production of Synge’s comic
masterpiece tells the story of Christy
Mahon, who stumbles into a public
house in County Mayo claiming he
has killed his father and so captures
the romantic attention of the
barmaid, Pegeen Mike.
Aaron Monaghan
Marie Mullen
Eamonn Morrissey
GENRE
Drama
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS
FILM ADAPTATIONS
Circle of Friends
(12A)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2009
1995 96 mins
Ireland/UK/USA
Pat O’Conner
DIRECTOR
STARRING
Chris O’Donnell
Minnie Driver
Adapted from Maeve
Binchy’s novel set in 1950s
GENRE
Ireland. A great performance Drama/Romance
from Minnie Driver as Benny,
a spirited and individualistic
young woman, who leaves
her Irish village to attend university in Dublin. The film traces
her journey into adulthood and the lessons in life she learns
along the way.
Red Like the Sky (G)
2007 96 mins Italy
Inspired by the true life story of
Mirco Mencacci, a blind child
during the turbulent 1970s, who
went on to become one of the
most gifted sound engineers in
the history of Italian cinema Red
Like The Sky is a beautiful and
richly rewarding film, both as an evocation of childhood in Italy and as a
poetic reflection on the power of cinema itself.
French language
with English subtitles.
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DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
Wuthering
Heights (G)
William Wyler
1939 103 mins USA
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2008
Jacques Audiard
STARRING
Romain Duris
Aure Atika
GENRE
STARRING
Lawrence Olivier
Merle Oberon
David Niven
GENRE
Drama/Romance
The Crucible (12)
1996 123 mins USA
Arthur Miller’s timeless tale of
truth on trial. Salem in the 1690s, a
young woman claims the wife of
the married man she loves is a
witch. Powerful historical drama
on the power of superstition.
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Drama
A haunting, beautiful
film version of Emily
Brontë’s tragic novel a story of vengeful
and thwarted love.
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
2008 & 2009
DIRECTOR
Nicholas Hytner
STARRING
Daniel Day Lewis
Winona Ryder
GENRE
Drama
Italian language
with English
subtitles.
DIRECTOR
Cristiano Bortone
STARRING
Francesco
Campobasso
GENRE
Autobiographical
Drama
The Beat That My
Heart Skipped (15A)
(Presented in association with IFI Education)
2005 107 mins France
An excellent adaptation of James Toback’s 1978 American film,
Fingers. It tells the story of Tom, played energetically by Romain
Duris, a restless young real estate agent whose life teeters on the
brink of criminality. Surrounded by decaying relationships, he
strives to follow in the footsteps of his mother and become a
concert pianist in order to escape his status quo. Featuring a
dynamic mix of high tempo dance music and haunting classical
pieces, Audiard’s thought-provoking film deals with the dilemmas of
filial responsibility and the lure of pursuing a new direction in life.
Die Welle/
The Wave (16)
German language
with English
subtitles.
(Presented in association
with IFI Education)
DIRECTOR
2008 101 mins Germany
STARRING
Dennis Gansel
Jürgen Vogel
A challenging new title for German
GENRE
students, based on an experiment
Drama
carried out in the US in 1967.
A Californian history teacher looking for a new way to teach autocracy turned
his class into a dictatorship, only to find that students were ready to embrace
the system. Transferring the action to Germany, teacher Rainer Wenger’s
‘Wave’ system seems to have a positive effect for a while on team spirit and
bullying, until it too descends into totalitarianism. This tough film with excellent
performances tackles issues of democracy, free will and the effect of power.
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JUNIOR CYCLE
Northern Ireland Schools
MOVING IMAGES ARTS: A LEVEL
Amelie (15A)
2001 121 mins France/Germany
Nominated for five Oscars this is a clever,
charming comedy about a sheltered young
woman who, in her first foray into ‘real life’,
decides to manipulate the people around her to
make their lives happier. But when she encounters a man who is
attracted to her, she can’t quite figure out how to deal with the
situation. Told with visual flair and originality.
Howl’s Moving Castle (G)
2004 119 mins Japan
DIRECTOR
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Audrey Tautou
GENRE
Drama/Romance
DIRECTOR
Hayao Miyazaki
Animation/
Adventure
Horn OK Please
2006 9 mins Northern Ireland
Joel Simon
SCRIPT
Scott Boldt
Joel Simon
Horn OK Please follows a
momentous day in the life of a
hapless Bombay taxi driver who
strives to earn enough rupees
to buy the air-conditioned car
of his dreams.
Loocy and the Moon
2005 7 mins Northern Ireland
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A young girl, realising that the full
moon has been trapped in a frozen
pond, comes up with a plan to help
free it.
DIRECTOR
Mark Herman
STARRING
Asa Butterfield
GENRE
Based on the multi-award winning novel Drama
by John Boyne The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas is a fictional story that offers a
unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred
and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during
wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded
from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship
that forms between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and
Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp.
DIRECTOR
Garth Jennings
STARRING
Son Of Rambow (12A)
2007 96 mins UK/France/Germany
Bill Milner
Will Poulter
A nostalgic comedy about two little
boys with a big video camera and
GENRE
even bigger ambitions. A long
Comedy /Drama
English Summer in the early 1980s,
and two boys are about to form an
unlikely friendship.
SHORT FILMS
DIRECTOR
2008 95 mins UK/USA
STARRING
GENRE
A girl falls under the spell of a witch
and is transformed into a wrinkled old
woman… but in her new form she
acquires a sense of daring and
wisdom she never had before,
especially when she discovers a
magical moving castle.
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas (12A)
DIRECTOR/SCRIPT
John McCloskey
To Kill a
Mockingbird (12A)
DIRECTOR
1962 129 mins USA
Gregory Peck
Mary Badham
Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize
winning book of 1960, this is the story
of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in a racially
divided Alabama town in the 1930s.
GENRE
Robert Mulligan
STARRING
Drama
William Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet (12)
DIRECTOR
1996 113 mins USA/Australia/Canada
Leonardo Di Caprio
Claire Danes
Baz Luhrmann
STARRING
Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip
GENRE
modern suburb of Verona while still retaining its original Romance/Drama
dialogue. An exuberant and energetic adaptation of this
classic tale, it tells the story of two young lovers who
suffer from family opposition to their affair.
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DOCUMENTARIES
JUNIOR CYCLE
Merchant of Venice (12)
DIRECTOR
2004 126 mins
USA/Italy/Luxembourg/UK
STARRING
Michael Radford
Still a popular play with students, this
screen version of The Merchant Of Venice
is dramatically brought to the silver
screen in all its splendour.
Kes (PG)
DIRECTOR
Gillian Armstrong
STARRING
Winona Ryder
Susan Sarandon
Gabriel Byrne
GENRE
Drama
STARRING
James Stewart
GENRE
Drama
STARRING
David Bradley
Brian Glover
Colin Willand
DIRECTORS
2003 52 mins Ireland
PRODUCER
John Murray &
Donncha O’Briain
John Murray
This award-winning documentary tells CROSSING THE LINE
the extraordinary story of Irishman Tom FILMS PRODUCTION
Crean, from Annascaul, Co. Kerry, who FOR RTÉ
became one of the most indestructible
heroes in the history of Antarctic exploration,
taking part in three of the four greatest Antarctic expeditions –
sharing adventures with both Scott and Shackleton, the great
rivals of the time, and outliving them both. Using a wealth of
photographic and film archive, and interviews with leading polar
historians, this documentary tells the story of Crean’s astonishing
life of adventure, heroism and survival against the odds.
GENRE
Drama
Earth (G)
DIRECTOR
Alastair Fothergill
& Mark Linfield
Little Women (PG)
2007 95 mins UK
1994 118 mins USA
Five years in the making, 4,500 days in the
field at 200 locations and 250 days of aerial
photography Earth covers the seasons, and
the planet, in a full year’s cycle that begins
in the high Arctic in January. Earth is a
landmark achievement utilising the latest
technical advances as it follows the cute
and cuddly across multiple hemispheres
and seasons.
Exquisite rendering of Louisa May Alcott’s Civil
War-era classic novel about four devoted sisters
who eventually have to leave their New England
nest. It also has a near perfect cast.
It’s A Wonderful Life (U)
1946 129 mins USA
One of the most inspirational American
movies of all time Frank Capra’s classic film
is a must see for all students.
The Red Balloon (G)
1956 34 mins France
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Drama
Ken Loach
Based on the Barry Hines’ book, this
beautiful film by Ken Loach tells the story
of Barnsley boy Billy Casper who finds
release and a sense of personal identity
through training a kestrel named Kes.
Frank Capra
GENRE
DIRECTOR
1969 110 mins UK
DIRECTOR
Al Pacino
Jeremy Irons
Joseph Fiennes
Lynn Collins
Antarctica’s
Forgotten Hero (G)
A boy makes friends with a seemingly
sentient balloon, and it begins to follow
him. Winner of a Best Original
Screenplay Oscar, there is almost no
dialogue spoken in this short film.
DIRECTOR
Albert Lamorisse
STARRING
Pascal Lamorisse
Patrick Kavanagh No Man’s Fool (G)
DIRECTOR
2005 68 mins Ireland
Martina Durac
A celebration of the life and
works of Irleand’s much loved
poet Patrick Kavanagh.
Sé Merry-Doyle
PRODUCER
LOOPLINE FILM FOR THE
IRISH FILM BOARD AND RTÉ
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TRANSITION YEAR
DOCUMENTARIES
Mad Hot Ballroom (G)
2005 110 mins USA
DIRECTOR
STIÚRTHÓIR
Marilyn Agrelo
Tom Collins
LÉIRITHEOIR
Mad Hot Ballroom offers an uplifting and inspiring look
inside the lives of eleven-year-old New York City school
kids who journey into the world of ballroom dancing.
Told from their charming, candid, sometimes hilarious
perspectives, they are transformed from typical urban
kids to “ladies and gentlemen”, as they strive toward
the final citywide competition. Both irresistibly comical
and genuinely touching, this entrancing real-life dance
extravaganza is a film not to be missed. Listening to the kids talk is a treat in itself, but
watching them strut their stuff in the final competition is enough to make you stand up
and cheer. A funny, charming and unforgettable picture.
In the Shadow
of the Moon (PG)
DIRECTOR
David Sington
2007 100 mins UK/USA
This feature documentary offers us a rare account of
one of mankind’s most successful achievements.
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft
voyaged to the moon, and twelve men walked upon its
surface. They remain the only human beings to have
stood on another world. This documentary brings
together for the fist time surviving crew members from
every single Apollo mission which flew to the moon, and allows them to tell their
story in their own words. BBC vetern David Sington’s documentary combines the
astronauts’ unique personal reflections with newly available images from the NASA
archives, and on board shots from the Apollo missions.
Workingman’s Death (15A)
2005 122 mins Austria/Germany
Is heavy manual labour disappearing or
just becoming invisible? Acclaimed
Austrian documentary maker Michael
Glawogger sets out to map it in all its magnificence and brutality.
Glawogger’s wide ranging and well crafted film is part paean to, and
lament for, the men who earn their livings from hard physical work.
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DIRECTOR
Michael Glawogger
Suitable for senior
students only
Jackie Collins
STARRING
Colm Meaney
Irish with
English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
Errol Morris
GENRE
GENRE
Drama
Kings (15A)
2007 85 mins Ireland/UK
Jimmy Murphy’s stage play,
Kings of the Kilburn Highroad, is
brilliantly adapted in this honest
and moving portrait of the Irish
Emigrant experience.
The Fog of War (12A)
2003 95 mins USA
War
Unique memorable documentary about
Documentary
the life of Robert S. McNamara, the
controversial former secretary of defense
who played a pivotal role during the
Vietnam War. Morris’ Oscar winning documentary
explores myriad political, social and moral issues
that resonate even more tellingly today.
How We Hated Each Other (G)
2007 117 mins France
Nous Nous Sommes Tant Hais is a historical drama
chronicling the period between 9th May 1950, the day
of Robert Schuman’s declaration, to 10th August 1952
when Jean Monnet was appointed president of the
European Coal and Steel Community’s governing body,
the forerunner of today’s EU.
French with
English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
Franck Apprederis
STARRING
Sarah Biasini
Pawel Delag
GENRE
Historical Drama
John McGahern:
A Private World (PG)
DIRECTOR
2004 54 mins Ireland
Philip King
Pat Collins
PRODUCER
GENRE
Documentary
On March 30th 2006 John
McGahern, one of Ireland’s most
A HUMMINGBIRD/
HARVEST FILMS
distinguished writers, sadly
PRODUCTION FOR RTÉ
passed away after a long illness.
COMPLETED WITH THE
This documentary was filmed in 2004 just prior to the publication of
ASSISTANCE OF THE
his memoirs and it is these memoirs that form the backbone to John IRISH FILM BOARD
McGahern: A Private World. Through intimate interviews and extracts
from his books, a strong and compelling sense of the man emerges,
all the while offering a rare insight into the creative process of one of
15
Ireland’s greatest writers.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Oliver! (G)
The Water Horse:
Legend of the Deep (PG)
DIRECTOR
Carol Reed
1968 153 mins UK
STARRING
Award winning musical adaptation of Charles
Dicken’s classic tale of an orphan who runs away
only to be swept into a gang of youthful thieves, led
by the scurrilous Fagan. The rousing score includes much loved
favourites such as Consider Yourself and If I were a Rich Man. The
colourful atmosphere of this film is hugely enriched on the big screen.
Ron Moody
Shani Wallis
Oliver Reed
Harry Secombe
GENRE
Family Musical
Luc Jacquet
STARRING
Bertille NoëlBruneau
Bruce Allpress
Geraldine Brophy
The Ugly Duckling and Me (G)
2006 90 mins Ireland/Germany/Denmark/UK/France
Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale about an ugly duckling
who turns into a beautiful swan is reinvented in this innovative 3D
animated comedy. Ratso, a success-starved rodent impressario is
forced to stay in a dockyard and persuades its hostile inhabitants
that he is the father of a stray ugly duckling. The two set off on a
perilous journey towards their big breakthrough, but dangerous
foes, teenage problems and unexpected feelings lie ahead.
DIRECTORS
Michael Hegner
Karsten Kilerich
GENRE
Animation/Comedy
Hoodwinked (G)
Alvin and the
Chipmunks (G)
DIRECTOR
2007 92 mins USA
Comedy Fantasy
2006 81 mins USA
Tim Hill
GENRE
A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville
finds success when he comes across a trio of
singing chipmunks.
STARRING
GENRE
This delightful feature tells the story of a
Family Adventure
lonely young boy named Angus who
discovers a large mysterious egg along the shores of Loch Ness. No one is prepared
for what lies within. He soon discovers that the strange, mischievous hatchling inside
is none other than the Water Horse, the Loch’s most mysterious and fabled creature.
But with the Water Horse growing ten times its size every day, Angus finds it
increasingly difficult to keep his new friend a secret.
2007 92 mins France
DIRECTOR
Jay Russell
2007 112 mins USA/UK
The Fox and the Child (G)
The creators of March of the Penguins invite you to
embark on a new journey into the natural world with an
unforgettable story of an unusual friendship.
The Fox and the Child recounts the story of a magical, life-changing
encounter between a wild fox and a young girl. The story of their
impossible friendship is played out against a breathtaking
mountainside wilderness.
DIRECTOR
Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood…
or so they think! All that’s about to change because
no one has ever seen their favourite fairy tale quite
like this - turned upside down and inside out and
reinvented as a computer-animated caper comedy.
DIRECTORS
Cory Edwards
Todd Edwards
Tony Leech
GENRE
Animation/
Family/
Adventure
Go n-Éirí an Bóthar Leat – Road Safety Guide for Schools (G)
DIRECTOR
Hiroyuki Morita
GENRE
Animation
adventure
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The Cat Returns (G)
2002 75 mins Japan
From the makers of Spirited Away, this animated
feature tells the story of a dreamy young girl
who rescues a mysterious cat from traffic and
soon finds herself the unwelcome recipient of
gifts and favours from the King of the Cats.
30 mins Funded by Galway County Council
DIRECTOR
A fun way to teach children the basics of road safety. Go n-Éirí an
Bóthar Leat is a road safety awareness film made by children for children Eamon
and delivers a lot of sound advice in twenty-five minutes of captivating,
Little
animated storytelling and sober discussion. It features the real-life stories
and experiences of children from Ballygar National School and Scoil
Náisiúnta An Túairín in County Galway. An English and Irish version are
available for students. An initiative of Galway County Council.
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IRISH SHORTS
LIVE ACTION AND ANIMATION
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
3 mins DIRECTOR Vanessa Gildea
The White Dress is the story of a girl on her communion day but, unlike
most other little girls, she is making her communion all on her own.
Frankie
Whatever Turns You On
12 mins DIRECTOR Darren Thornton
Frankie is 15 and preparing for fatherhood. He’s determined he’s going to be
the best dad ever but as his day goes on he starts to realise how impossible
this will be for him.
3 mins DIRECTOR Declan Cassidy
The well-ordered running of an electronics store is disrupted when a
homeless man arrives to make a purchase. A humorous but poignant
story of the need to belong.
Yu Ming is Ainm Dom
Badly Drawn Roy
13 nóiméad STIÚRTHÓIR/SCRÍBHNEOIR Daniel O’Hara
Yu Ming tells the tale of a Chinese man who learns to speak Irish but is
dismayed when he cannot be understood when he arrives here.
8 mins
The Memory Box
6 mins DIRECTOR Siobhán Twomey
Documentary and animation combine in this innovative documation about
migration and family life in Ireland. This is explored when Abbi, a young
Nigerian schoolgirl in Dublin, asks her father to visit here for her graduation
ceremony from primary school.
Colour Contamination
3 mins DIRECTOR Louise Bagnall
A clean-cut businessman, averse to all things colourful, enters a waiting room
filled with colourful plastic chairs and is forced to confront his worst fears.
Spaceman Three
12 mins DIRECTOR Hugh O’Connor
Astro-geologist Dr. Glen Hosey is in space for the first time. His unusual
method of passing the time isn’t exactly compatible with the peaceful voyage
the other two astronauts anticipated…
Clare sa Spéir
15 nóiméad
18
The White Dress
STIÚRTHÓIR/SCRÍBHNEOIR
Audrey O’Reilly
DIRECTOR Alan
Shannon
Set in the present day in a working class suburb of Dublin, Roy, Ireland’s
only living animated character, was born into an ordinary ‘live action’
family. Unfortunately for him though, he is badly drawn.
Fluent Dysphasia
16 nóiméad STIÚRTHÓIR Daniel O’Hara
When Murph wakes one day, mysteriously speaking perfect Irish - which
he never could before - and having forgotten how to speak English, he
looks for help wherever he can get it. Dúisíonn Murph lá amháin ag
labhairt i nGaeilge, líofacht nach raibh aige riamh cheana - ní cuimhin
leis go raibh labhairt an Bhéarla aige. Tá cúnamh de dhíth air!
An Díog Is Faide/The Longest Ditch
14 nóiméad STIÚRTHÓIR Hugh Farley
The true story of a farm labourer, Sonnie Murphy, who gets the chance
to compete in the steeplechase in the Los Angeles 1932 Olympics. But for
every dream there is a price to be paid. Fíorscéal Sonnie Murphy, mac
oibrí feirme a ghlac páirt i léimrás Chluichí Oilimpeacha 1932 i Los Angeles.
Ach ní gan luach a fhíoraítear aon aisling
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
5 mins DIRECTOR Nicky Phelan
Granny O’Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her
version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter.
Taken for granted and stuck in a rut, Clare, a housewife, decides to take to
the skies. But where does that leave the family she leaves below. Tuigtear do
Clare, bean tí, gur beag aitheantas atá á fháil aici as a ndénann sí agus go
bhfuil sí sáinnithe i ngáthamh an tsaoil, cinneann sí áfach tabhairt faoi na
spéartha. Ach cá bhfágann sin an chlann a fhágann sí ina diaidh ar talamh.
Janey Mary
Lipservice
Who?
12 mins DIRECTOR/SCRIPT Paul Mercier
Satirical comedy about Northside Dublin kids improvising to impress the
visiting Oral Irish Language Examiner.
8 mins DIRECTOR Paulina Plezia PRODUCER Mike Dolan
Rose finds her morning routine increasingly troublesome in the
face of her fading memory.
20 mins DIRECTOR Paul Brady
The story of a five-year-old girl who goes begging for food through the
destitute urban landscape of post-World War II Dublin.
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IRISH SHORTS
LIVE ACTION AND ANIMATION
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Sandpiper
5 mins
Cúilín Dualach
DIRECTOR Jimmy
Murakami
Poignant story of a young boy who saves a sandpiper with a broken wing
from vicious seagulls. He tends to the injured bird and releases it back
into the wild.
Teeth
2 mins
DIRECTORS Ruairí
O’Brian/John Kennedy
12 nóiméad
Nora Twomey
STIÚRTHÓIR
Born with his head on backwards, Cúilín Dualach has been shunned
and mocked by all but his loving Mother. Then one day, he discovers
he can do something better than anyone else. Rugadh Cúilín Dualach
agus a chloigeann iompaithe siar air. Ábhar magaidh é do chách ach
amháin a mháthair. Lá amháin, faigheann sé amach go bhfuil bua níos
fearr aige ná éinne eile.
Teeth is a short last-laugh tale of two old friends, their teeth and a series of
events that leaves them lost for words.
Evil K’Beagle
Give Up Yer Aul Sins
One stunt dog, 200 cats and a 900-foot ramp.
What could possibly go wrong?
5 mins DIRECTOR Cathal Gaffney
Based on the 1960s recordings of young children telling bible stories in a
classroom to their schoolteacher, Give up yer Aul Sins tells the
unconventional version of the story of John the Baptist.
Aroma
4 mins
DIRECTOR Damon
Sylvester
3 mins
DIRECTOR Trevor
Murphy
The Færy Wind
10 mins
DIRECTOR Edith
Pieperhoff
When the widowed father of Daithí, Donal and Siún decides to fell
trees in the færy fort, the crows warn him of the consequences.
Despite their good counsel, he ignores them.
Two ladies out on the night of their lives until… thunder strikes.
Sparky the Space Dog
Tomato Soup
3 mins
3 mins 12 secs
DIRECTOR Paul
O’Brien
When a messy eating grandfather gets shunned from the dinner table for
spilling soup, he relies on his young grandson to welcome him back.
12 mins
DIRECTOR/SCRIPT Paul
Mercier
An Bonnán Buí is a beautifully made animation which took its inspiration from
an Irish-language song of the same name.
Agricultural Report
5 x 5 mins
DIRECTOR Ciaran
O’Connor
A fun and child-friendly guide to the basics of science.
DIRECTOR/SCRIPT Melina
Sydney Padua
A short film about the bliss of ignorance.
The Silver Bow
8 mins
Schrodinger’s Cat
Murakami
Sparky attempts to make friends with a little earth dog, but the little
dog has other ideas and calls Big Dog to attack Sparky.
3 mins
An Bonnán Buí
DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/PRODUCER Jimmy
DIRECTOR Robert
Manson
A street performer meets his son in town for an hour before
he goes to work.
The Morse Collectors
15 mins
DIRECTOR David
Cooke
1942. A world at war. Two children are alone, waiting.
Hoping for a message.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cinemobile would like to thank the following for their assistance with the Schools’ Booklet: Alicia, Sunniva
and Alice at the Irish Film Institute, Annette Maye at the Junior Film Fleadh and Tracy Geraghty. A big thank
you to all the distributors, especially Deirdre Johnston at GFD. We would also like to thank the short film
makers and the documentary film makers who gave Cinemobile permission to screen their work. It is greatly
appreciated. Lastly, a special word of thanks to all our funders: The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Bord
Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, RTÉ, Northern Ireland Screen, Europa Cinemas and Galway and
Kerry County Councils. Cinemobile is a subsidiary of Irish Film Institute.
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