As Ireland’s largest film festival and this country’s official representative at the European Film Academy Short Film Award, Cork International Film Festival takes great pride in showcasing the best and latest films from Europe.
As part of our bite-sized CIFF European Film Weekend running at The Arc Cinema Cork, 26th – 28th January, we are delighted to partner with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland to present FREE films shortlisted for the LUX Audience Award 2024. The LUX Audience Award aims to strengthen ties between politics and the people by inviting European audiences to become active protagonists and rate their favourite films.
An integral part of these screenings is voting for your favourite film in the largest audience award in the world.
We invite you to rate the LUX Audience Award films you have watched: five stars ‘excellent’ to one star ‘poor’. Rate by 14th April 2024 and don’t miss the chance to win a range of exciting prizes, including a trip to the European Parliament to attend the LUX Award Ceremony on 16th April 2024 and meet the directors and film crews of the nominees.
The Teachers’ Lounge will not be screening as part of the CIFF European Film Weekend and will be showing in cinemas from March.
Don’t miss out on more fantastic films for FREE – CIFF will also screen EFA Short Films and Family Friendly Shorts Programmes as part of our European Film Weekend. See full schedule below.
BOOKED OUT.
LUX Audience Award Programme at Cork International Film Festival, 26th – 28th January 2024
Friday, 26th January
RESCHEDULED: On the Adamant
Directed by Nicolas Philibert (France, Japan | 109 min | 2023 | PG)
The Adamant is a unique daycare centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.
Winner of the Golden Berlin Bear Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2023.
6.30pm in The Arc Cinema Cork
Watch the trailer for On the Adamant here
BOOKED OUT.
Saturday, 27th January
20,000 Species of Bees
Directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain | 129 min | 2023 |)
Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.
Winner of the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Leading Performance by Sofía Otero and winner of the Guild Film Prize at Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2023.
6pm in The Arc Cinema Cork
Watch the trailer for 20,000 Species of Bees here
BOOKED OUT.
Sunday, 28th January
Fallen Leaves
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland | 81 min | 2023 | 12A)
The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of state welfare.
Premiered at CIFF2023, Winner of the Jury Prize and Nominee for the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2023, and 2024 Nominee Golden Globe: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy and Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language, and Finland’s international feature film entry to the 96th Academy Awards®.
3.30pm in The Arc Cinema Cork
Watch the trailer for Fallen Leaves here
BOOKED OUT.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Directed by Anna Hints (Estonia, France | 89 min | 2023 | 15)
Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.
Winner of the European Film Award for European Documentary 2023 and 2023 Winner Directing Award: World Cinema – Documentary at Sundance Film Festival.
6pm in The Arc Cinema Cork
Watch the trailer for Smoke Sauna Sisterhood here
BOOKED OUT.
An integral part of these screenings is rating your favourite film. When you have watched the film at the cinema, you will automatically receive an email asking you to rate the LUX Audience Award films you have watched: five stars ‘excellent’ to one star ‘poor’.
The Teachers’ Lounge will not be screening as part of the CIFF European Film Weekend and will be showing in cinemas from March.
LUX – The European Audience Film Award was introduced in 2020 and is presented every year by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy, in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. The long list of films in contention is drawn from all the Fiction and Documentary nominations put forward to the EFA Awards. Five of those films were selected at the EFA Awards, and are shortlisted for the LUX Audience Award 2024. For more information on the LUX Audience Award visit here.
Proudly presented by Cork International Film Festival in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland.
