A Host of Irish Films To Screen at the Moscow Irish Film Festival
The Moscow Irish Film Festival will celebrate its fifth anniversary this month with a programme of Irish features, documentaries and short films which includes THE PIER, KISSES, DEATH OF A SUPERHERO and ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS. The festival is a key event in Moscow's ‘Irish Week', a series of cultural events that kicks off on March 14th.
Following its Irish cinematic release in January THE PIER will open the festival on March 14th. Filmed in New York and in various locations in West Cork, THE PIER directed by Gerard Hurley stars Karl Johnson and Lili Taylor along with Hurley. After twenty years of no contact with his son, Larry McCarthy (Johnson) pretends to be dying in order to trick his son, Jack (Hurley) into returning home to West Cork. When Jack arrives he is furious to find that his father is alive and kicking and, if anything even more furious, when he's tricked into staying.
Hot from its selection for Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival this week, Ian Fitzgibbon's compelling DEATH OF A SUPERHERO will also screen at the Moscow festival on the 17th and 23rd March. The film tells the story of a dying 15-year-old boy who draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his own mortality. Director Fitzgibbon will attend the St Patrick's Day screening on the 17th.
Lance Daly's award-winning feature KISSES will also screen on St. Patrick's Day. The film follows two young kids, Kylie and Dylan, who decide to run away from their dysfunctional homes and spend a night on the streets of Dublin's inner city. But as the night wears on, and Dublin takes on a darker character, they have to rely on the kindness of strangers and their trust in each other to survive the night.
The critically acclaimed apocalyptic ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS directed by Conor Horgan will screen on the 19th and 22nd with the films producer Katie Holly attending the screening on the 19th.
Other highlights of the festival include John McIlduff's black comedy BEHOLD THE LAMB, the documentary BERNADETTE: NOTES ON A POLITICAL JOURNEY, screenings of THE SAVAGE EYE as well as a short film programme.
The Moscow Irish Film Festival takes place March 14th - 25th
Screening Schedule
14th The Pier
15th The Savage Eye
16th Short Film Programme / Behold The Lamb
17th Kisses / Death of a Superhero / The Pier
18th Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey / The Savage Eye
19th One Hundred Mornings
20th Kisses
21st Short Film Programme
22nd One Hundred Mornings
23rd Death of a Superhero
24th The Savage Eye / Behold the Lamb
25th Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey / Short Film Programme