East Cork Cinema Club first began in 2009, and continues to bring international films to the region. Films are screened on Monday nights at the Great Island Community Centre, on the top floor (Room 14). The season runs from August through to May. The Club also presents special event screenings as well as fundraising nights.
Bringing world cinema to Cobh
Community based, non-profit organisation
RISE
Monday 8th January
Fra - 2022 - Dir. C. Klapisch - 117 min
26 year-old Elise is a very talented and promising ballet dancer. She suffers an injury during a performance and finds that she can no longer dance. She tries to make a new start with contemporary dance. Supported by the French Embassy & the Institut Francais.
THE BEASTS
Monday 29th January
Spn - 2022 - Dir. R. Sorogoyen - 137 min
French couple Antoine and Olga live a bucolic existence, farming and marketing their produce in Galicia. Tensions with neighbours escalate and the strength of the couple is tested when a financial offer from a wind
turbine company is refused.
Winner of 7 Goya awards 2023.
STOLEN
Monday 19th February
Ire - 2023 - Dir. - M. Harkin - 103 min
A critically acclaimed documentary about how women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ were treated and incarcerated in church-run mother and baby homes by the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1998. Stolen gives a voice to those silenced for far too long.
DRIVING MADELEINE
Monday 15th April
FALLEN LEAVES
Monday 27th May
Fin - 2023 - Dir -A. Kaurismaki - 81min
Ansa lives in Helsinki and works in a supermarket sorting recyclable plastic. One night she accidentally meets the equally lonely worker Holappa, an alcoholic. Against all odds and misunderstandings, they try to build a relationship. Jury prize winner Cannes FF 2023.