Cinemobile will be holding a day of free screenings at the Subtitle European Film Festival in Kilkenny on Wednesday, November 26th.
The screenings will be held as part of their ‘North by North West – Films on the Fringe’ initiative, a distinctive project commissioned by Creative Europe and the Media Audience Development programme which involves Cinemobile partnering with cinemas working in rural parts of Iceland, Finland, Scotland and Norway. Collaboratively the five countries involved have curated a selection of films from all their participating territories which will bring European Independent cinema to some of the remotest regions in North Western Europe.
The project was launched last month in Galway by IFB CEO James Hickey and has so far travelled to the Clones Film Festival and the Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival in Kells, County Meath.
The aim of the ‘Films on the Fringe’ project is to build new audiences specifically for European independent cinema titles in these regions. The five countries that have come together to work on this project are, as the title suggests, on the edge of Europe and are sparsely populated.
Screening at the Subtitle European Film Festival in Kilkenny as part of the North by North West project will be:
- Finland: ‘The Punk Syndrome’ on Wednesday, November 26th at 4pm - follows a Finnish punk rock band whose members all have learning disabilities, living with autism and Down Syndrome
- Iceland: ‘Of Horses And Men’ on Wednesday, November 26th at 6pm – a country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human
- Norway – ‘Pioneer’ on Wednesday, November 26th at 7.45pm – a film concerning a tragic accident that befalls two brothers when they are laying the first petroleum pipe in the North Sean in the 1970’s and the aftermath
The third annual Subtitle European Film Festival will be held in Kilkenny running from Monday, November 24th until Sunday, November 30th. The festival provides a unique opportunity to catch some of the most popular European films, many of which don’t get releases theatrically in Ireland. 2014 sees a collection of thrillers, dramas and comedies from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Poland, Romania, Italy, Russia and Ukraine.
