2007 San Francisco Irish Film Festival
Opening Reception 6.30 PM
Pork Store Cafe (16th St @ Mission)
8.00 PM: Opening Film
Nun More Deadly
13 mins
Dave O’Sullivan
Raymond Chandler on his Holidays in Wexford.
90 minutes
Paul Mercier
Brendan Gleeson stars in STUDS, an action comedy that follows the cup-run of an amateur football team and the magical effects of a new mysterious manager.
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7.00 PM: Magners N’Shorts
(short films and free Magners Irish Cider)
Ouch
8 mins
Ken Wardrop
Documentary about circumcision… Ouch…
Peace Cubed
15mins
Ronan Carr
A poet, a leprechaun, and a rubber doll try to use bondage to solve all the troubles of Northern Ireland.
What If
20 mins
Alan Walsh
This Comedy tells the story of two movie stuntmen looking for a way to better themselves and find a out of the business. Featuring Director John Borman and Peter Sherridan
Unaccompanied
18 min
Emer Martin
Drama about children who go missing from the Department of Social Service in Dublin. Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) plays a social worker who finds a traumatized young boy from Africa on the streets of Dublin.
Badly Drawn Roy
22 mins
Alan Shannon
Roy, Ireland’s only animated character, was born into an ordinary live action family. This fly-on-the-wall documentary allows exclusive access into Roy’s life where we learn of the prejudices he must overcome daily.
9.00 PM Irish Telly Night
Christy
16 mins
Alex Gill and Michael Donnelly
Documentary about a gay homeless man in Dublin
Paths to Freedom
25 Mins
‘Paths to Freedom’ comedy fly-on-the-wall moc-umentary that follows the experience of ‘Rats’ (unemployed musician) and Jeremy, A consultant gynecologist on their release from Mountjoy Prison.
Song For Rebecca
40 mins
Norah McGettigan
In the film which was first screened at Cannes this year, Laura returns home for the funeral of her best friend, Rebecca. Home is a remote island off Ireland.
3.00 PM Blast from the Past
Irish Destiny
(1926) Silent Movie
73 min
George Dewhurst
This feature-length docudrama details the history of the Irish rebellion against British rule, and the formation of the Irish Republican Army in 1926.
7.00 PM Irish TV Night Program 2
Pure Mule
Eugene O’Brien
Award-winning playwright, Eugene O’Brien creates six stories focusing on the weekend of one particular character from a Friday until a Monday morning.
Bachelors Walk
John Carney
Bachelors Walk, a comedy-drama based around three single men living in a house in Dublin’s Bachelors Walk. News Flash: John Carney’s film Once, starring Irish rock star Glen Hansard of the Frames, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The San Francisco Irish Film Festival will co-present Once at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April.
9.00 PM Feature Presentation
Nostradamus and Me
Eilsh Kirwin
Dublin. 1986. Nora has never kissed a boy. But who has time for that when the arms race is out of control and the world is falling apart? Now two Frenchmen, Antoine, the French exchange student, and Nostradamus, the Seer from Salon, are about to change her life. When Armaggedon is this Saturday, is there time to seize the day? Written by Anonymous
Man About Dog
89 mins
Directed by Paddy Breathnach
The No.1 Smash Hit in Ireland, tells the hilarious story of three luckless losers from Belfast who have a week to pay back 50,000 to the local bookmaker.
3.00 PM Irish Documentary Program 1: Two Filipino-Irish Documentaries
Megan and Claudia
2 minutes
Megan and Claudia are cross dressing Filipino’s navigating the social norms of Dublin.
Here To Stay
72 mins
A. O’Brien & A. Grossman
A gay Filipino nurse campaigns to update Irish labor and immigration laws. Here to Stay tells a timely story about the human side of labour migration into Ireland.
6.00 PM Irish Documentary Program 2
‘Na Deoraithe’ (‘The Exiles’)
25 mins
Liam Nolan
Irish with English subtitles
Na Deoraithe (The Exiles) considers the similarities between the experiences of the thousands of migrant workers living in Ireland at present with that of Irish workers living in Britain during the 1950s.
The Brothers
25 mins
Mikey O Flatharta
An unforgettable story of two brothers, Paddy and Nicholas Butler from Co. Waterford. The story narrates the lives (and deaths) of the two brothers who lived together on their farm in the Comeragh Mountains.
Ãbhar Machnaimh
52 min
James Kelly
Irish with English subtitles
Documentary about Colman Doyle has photographed Ireland for the past five decades, chronicling in his images the changing nature of the country’s social and political character.
9.00 PM Irish Gay Cinema Program
Christy
16 min
Alex Gill and Michael Donnelly
Documentary about a gay homeless man in Dublin
Goldfish Memory
85 min
Elizabeth Gill
Goldfish Memory is a story set against the beautiful backdrop of a Dublin steeped in bossa nova music. It features a cast of attractive characters who fall in and out of love with each other.