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	<title>San Francisco Irish Film Festival</title>
	<link>http://sfirishfilm.com</link>
	<description>Celebrating the best of Irish film</description>
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		<title>Closing Night: SF Premier of The Swell Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun. Sep. 25, 9:00pm After starring in the indie hit Once in 2007 and winning the Academy Award® for best original song (&#8220;Falling Slowly&#8221;), folk rock musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won over audiences and skyrocketed to fame. For them life seemed to imitate art—the onscreen relationship was closely intertwined in both fact and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Irish Film Festival 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 8th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival celebrates The Top Ten Irish Indies! September 22nd – 25th, 2011 Roxie Film Center The 2011 San Francisco Irish Film Festival is a special celebration of Ireland’s ten best Independent films and shorts, a mixture of classics and soon to be classics. Step out in your finest pair [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/festival-2011</link>
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		<title>Opening Night: The Runway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opening Night Film Thur. Sep. 22, 8:00pm The Runway: After a South American pilot crashes his plane in Cork, Ireland, Paco, a young boy without a father, rallies the locals and against all odds tries to build a runway and get the pilot home. Writer/Director Ian Power will attend the Q&#038;A. (Opening Night Film) Thur. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/the-runway</link>
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		<title>Parked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fri. Sep. 23, 7:00pm Parked: Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Went Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fri. Sep. 23, 9:00pm I Went Down: Hold onto your fingers as we follow the misadventures of Git and Anto, who undertake a mission for the mob in Paddy Breathnach’s 1997 crime comedy. The film spurred a number of gangster caper film knockoffs in Ireland, but this flick was the original. Having never been released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/i-went-down</link>
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		<title>The Secret of Kells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sat. Sep. 24, 3:00pm The Secret of Kells: To help complete an ancient magical book, a young boy named Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest filled with mythical creatures. Magic, fantasy, and Celtic mythology come together in this 2010 Academy Award-nominated animated film. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/the-secret-of-kells</link>
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		<title>Pyjama Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sat. Sep. 24, 5:00pm Pyjama Girls: Irish teenagers Lauren and Tara navigate the trials of life, dressed all the while in their uniform of rebellion: pyjamas. Balancing tenderness with hilarity, Pyjama Girls tracks the explosive micro-dramas of teenage life against the bleak backdrop of Dublin’s inner city flats. Sat. Sep. 24, 5:00pm Click here to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/pyjama-girls</link>
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		<title>Magners &#8216;n&#8217; Shorts Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sat. Sep. 24, 7:00pm Kick up your heels, have a free Magners hard cider, and enjoy the very best in contemporary Irish short films. Click here to purchase tickets Short Films: The Crush An 8 year-old school boy is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel…to the death. 2011 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/magners-n-shorts-program</link>
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		<title>Once</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sat. Sep. 24, 9:00pm Once: The film tells the story of a street musician (Glen Hansard of the Irish band &#8220;The Frames&#8221;) and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record songs that reveal their unique love story in this modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Sat. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/once</link>
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		<title>In The Name Of The Father</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun. Sep. 25, 3:00pm In the Name of the Father: Based on the true life story of the Guildford Four, Gerry Conlon&#8217;s (Daniel Day Lewis) coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn&#8217;t do imprisons his father as well. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Sun. Sep. 25, 3:00pm Click here to purchase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sfirishfilm.com/in-the-name-of-the-father</link>
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