Kilcullen Lions highlight Brigid values in cinema season
A SPECIAL Brigid-themed film season has been chosen for Kilcullen Bridge Cinema through February.
The cinema is operated by Kilcullen Lions, who normally screen one or two films a month through which audiences can experience lives, cultures and perspectives different from their own.
Supported by Kildare County Council, the February initiative will host a selection of films that embody St Brigid's values and celebrate her legacy. It starts on Sunday afternoon, 1 February, with a much-loved family film, . This will be followed on Tuesday evening, 3 February, by a special screening of , a heartwarming Irish film set in Dublin that explores themes of ageing, caregiving, and loneliness.
On Tuesday 10 February, the presentation is , a French comedy about a disgruntled sous-chef who leaves her job at a high-end restaurant and ends up running the cafeteria at a local migrant shelter. It cleverly blends upbeat entertainment with social issues, examining the plight of young immigrants and the challenges they face.
is an award-winning film showing on Tuesday 17 February. Souleymane is an Asylum seeker living day-by-day in Paris, constantly chasing beds in homeless centres and earning a tiny income by renting someone else’s food delivery account. It is a raw, compassionate and quietly devastating portrayal of one man forced to live precariously on the fringes of society.
Senior citizens are invited to a free cinema evening on Saturday 21 February, with the delightful 2024 film . Duped by a phone scammer, Thelma is inspired by action hero Tom Cruise to reclaim her money on her own Mission Impossible. It's a feel-good film about resilience.
The season concludes on Tuesday 24 February with . A docudrama built around the 2024 audio recording of a call between Hind Rajab — a young girl seemingly alone in a damaged car in Gaza after a firefight — and the dispatchers at a Red Crescent emergency response centre, it's a powerful account of a heartbreaking story from the Gaza War.
On 9 February, students from Cross and Passion College Kilcullen will attend a special screening of , and on Thursday 12 February students from the 6th classes in Scoil Bhride will watch , a film with David Attenborough which exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching.
Kilcullen Bridge Cinema was established in 2023 by Kilcullen Lions, in association with Access Cinema, to revive a tradition in the Town Hall after 47 years of cinematic 'darkness'. Prior to that, films had been shown in the hall since the 1930s, and Kilcullen Town Hall Cinema was the best known of its kind in Leinster through the 1950s and 1960s.
All film tickets are on sale in Woodbine Books, Kilcullen, and on Eventbrite.
