10/10/2003

The Irish Film Institute (IFI) is taking part in the pan-European initiative Cinedays 2003, with the screening of classic French and German films by Jacques Tati (The Big Day, Mon Oncle and Playtime), Jean-Pierre Melville (Léon Morin Prêtre) and Rainer-Werner Fassbinder, as well as Metropolis and Menschen am Sontag (“People on Sunday”). Irish schools will be able to attend special screenings of The Big Day, Good bye, Lenin! [+see also:
trailer
interview: Wolfgang Becker
film profile] and Dirty Pretty Things accompanied by short talks about European cinema.

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On October 11th the Irish Film Archive, part of the IFI, will also be hosting a conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Gael Linn, an organisation set up to promote Irish language and culture through film. The IFI is responsible for preserving, presenting and promoting film culture in Ireland. As part of its remit, it is also organising between October 7th and November 18th a German Cinema Evening course covering the history, politics and aesthetics of German cinema, as seen through films by F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog and Tom Tykwer.