ENJOY Ireland's finest film and animation productions without crossing the Irish sea at this year’s St. Patrick's Irish Film Festival in London this weekend.
Choose from a varied list of critically acclaimed short films, comedy, drama, family friendly animations and a children’s animation workshop accross iconic central London venues.
Saturday, March 18: TRADERS 7pm
Starring Killian Scott (Love/Hate) and John Bradley (Game of Thrones), Traders is an Irish feature thriller by directors Rachael Moriarty and Peter Murphy.
The film is set in post recession Dublin where down-on-their-luck traders devise a deadly game to re-finance broke high-flyers.
What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
The film follows newly redundant Harry Fox who is approached by a former colleague with a new business proposition. Two people convert all their assets to cash, arrange to meet, dig one grave and fight to the death.
Winner buries the loser and instantly doubles his value. Can he persuade Harry to become a “Trader”?
Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, off Leicester Sq | London WC2H 7BY.
Tickets available from Prince Charles Cinema.
Cert 15.
Sunday, March 19: SONG OF THE SEA & SHADOW ANIMATION WORKSHOP at 1pm
Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the faeries and save the spirit world in this Oscar-nominated animation directed by Tomm Moore.
The screening will be followed by a children's shadow animation workshop with Kabutar Arts for 8-11 year olds.
Places for the workshop are limited, so please book asap.
Contact [email protected] to book. Screening and workshops are free to attend.
Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent St, Marylebone, London W1B 2UW
Song of the Sea (90 mins) Cert U.
Sunday, March 19: THE YOUNG OFFENDERS, 6.30pm
Award-winning Irish comedy The Young Offenders brings its Cork-born caper to London this March.
The film stars Ros Hubbard Award winning duo Alex Murphy and Chris Walley and is directed by Peter Foott.
The film follows two teenage boys who cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth €7million.
The film is loosely-based on the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of €440m.
The comedy has won numerous awards since its release last year, including Best Feature Film, Best Feature Screenplay and Best Direction at the Los Angelas Comedy Festival; it also won awards at the Irish Film Festival London, Fantastic Fest and Galway Film Fleadh.
Prince Charles Cinema 7 Leicester Place, off Leicester Sq, London WC2H 7BY
Tickets available from Prince Charles Cinema.
Cert 15.
This programme has been curated by Irish Film London, with the kind support of the Emigrant Support Programme, The Irish Youth Foundation and Culture Ireland.
For more info visit www.irishfilmlondon.com
See this year's St Patrick's Day film festival highlights here...
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