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Cork Cultural Companions is an Age & Opportunity Arts initiative, delivered by Muintir Cork and supported by the HSE and Cork City and County Councils. Cork Cultural Companions has local networks of members who attend events together regularly in Cork City, Mallow, Bantry and East Cork.

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Cork on Camera: IFI Local Films for Local People 17th November

Come along with Cultural Companions to this special screening of a a series of recently re-discovered short, Cork-themed films which provide a window onto the city & county in days gone by.. with Q&A.

KINGS OF SPADES

Ireland | 1940 | 20 mins | Documentary | Silent

Chronicles the lives of the men who owned and worked in the Monard Ironworks in Co Cork from 1790 to the early 1960s.

LÁ AOIFE

Ireland | 1979 | 20 mins | Fiction

A harrowing tale of 13-year-old Aoife who lives with her alcoholic father and takes care of him since her mother has left home.

THE PROMISED LAND

Ireland | 1986 | 25 mins | Fiction

When Nora and her family move to a 150 acre farm to help her husband’s sickly Uncle Tom, she sets her sights on inheriting the land.

THE OTHER SIDE

Ireland | 1981 | 15 mins | Fiction

A teenage babysitter encounters a rowdy motorcycle gang, and she and her infant charge are subjected to their cruel antics.

DATE: Sunday 17th November at 2pm

Venue: Triskel Cinema, Tobin Street, Cork

Tickets: €12.50 from corkfilmfest.org/

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