Cinegael Buffalo 2008

Friday, June 13- Sunday, June 15.

Screenings and discussion of new award-winning independent Irish film

5:30 pm: Outstanding Irish animated and live action short films of 2007-2008. From Reel Ireland, a program of the Irish Film Institute.

6:45 pm: Small Engine Repair (100 minutes, Niall Heery, 2007). With afterwords by Professor Laurence Shine. Nominated for 5 Irish Film and Television Awards, including best film and best music in film. A tale of musical redemption. “A great screenplay that refuses cliché or sentimentality…an understated , elegiac, moving film” BBC Film

9:00 pm: The Front Line

(95 minutes, David Gleeson, 2007). Four IFTA nominations, including Best Film and Best Director. “A geopolitical crime thriller that carves its own niche” Sunday Times

6:45 pm: The Front Line: with afterwords

9:00 pm: Small Engine Repair

6:45 pm Reel Ireland’s Outstanding Irish animated and live action short films of 2007-2008

8:00 pm Following James Joyce, Dublin to Buffalo

(60 minutes, Patrick Martin and Stacey Herbert, 2004).

Get ready for Bloomsday on June 16^th at the Irish Classical Theatre.

On location documentary following James Joyce’s life in Dublin, Paris, Trieste, Zurich and following Joyce’s writings to Buffalo, NY