Kerry Film Festival Announces Spring 09 Film Club Line Up

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD, 8.00 pm, Wed, Jan 14th

Director: Sidney Lumet

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax. Starring: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Maresa Tomei

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JIGS ON REELS, 8.00 pm, Fri, Feb 6th

A wonderful night of traditional musical entertainment with a screening of a short film followed by 90 minutes of the very best in West Kerry Trad with Máire Begley and friends.

THE POPE'S TOILET, 8.00 pm, Wed, Feb 11th

Director: Cesar Charlone

A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit, directed by Cesar Charlone, who was the cinematographer on CITY OF GOD, the biggest South American hit of all time.

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PERSEPOLIS, 8.00 pm, Wed, Mar 11th

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

An Oscar nominated, poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution told using beautiful animation.

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HAPPY GO LUCKY, 8.00 pm, Wed, Apr 8th

Director: Mike Leigh

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her. An unusually upbeat and hilarious from the multi-Oscar nominated Leigh.

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