Schedule for this month

Black Bread by Augustí Villaronga broke several records and counts to the third most awarded film in the history of the Goyas. Besides the coveted Goya award for Best Movie, the film is also the first Catalan movie which Spain submits for an Oscar nomination in the Category Best Foreign Language.  

Black Bread is set in the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the 1940’s where a local man is accused of murder and his son sets out to find the truth. The eleven-year-old Andreu stumbles upon a crushed wagon in the underbrush at the foot of a high cliff and witnesses the dying moments of the man and boy inside. When the police suspect Andreu’s father of foul play he goes into hiding and Andreu is sent to live with relatives. There, the frightened boy starts to create a fantasy life but is forced to confront a world of adult deception, festering hatreds and the war’s monstrous consequences.  

Agustí Villaronga is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor, who was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía (Spanish National Film Award) in 2011. He has received numerous awards such as: Annual Awards of the “Goya” Academy, Fotogramas Magazine Silver Awards, Gaudí Awards and Sant Jordi Film Awards.

Goya Award to Best Film in 2010.

Juan is a prison officer who arrives one day before his official starting date at his new destination. Upon arrival he suffers an accident just before a prison mutiny breaks out in the most dangerous sector of the prison, the FIES. His colleagues look after themselves and leave his fainted body in cell 211. When he wakes up he takes in what has happened and pretends to be a prisoner himself.

Daniel Monzón was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1968. Before working as a director he was a film journalist and critic in newspapers and the radio. He also worked for Spanish public television as assistant director in the programme “Días de cine”.  In 2000 he directed his first film, “Heart of the Warrior”, for which he was nominated for a Goya award in the new director category. Then he directed “The Biggest Robbery Never Told” (2002) and “The Kovak Box” (2007), a thriller for which he won the Audience Award at the Lund Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden).  

Fit for viewing by persons aged 18 years+

Ireland is one of just two EU countries that has a majority of migrants from the EU member states. The diversity and scale of EU migration is a recent phenomenon though there is a long tradition of migration to Ireland from some EU-15 states, especially the UK, Germany and France. Ireland has also become home to a range of people from outside the EU including Nigeria, China, India, Philippines and Brazil.

This conference is the first part of the three part conference series under the main topic “How Migration Challenges Notions of Society, Education and Culture”.

Key issue of this conference is the way how migrant-receiving countries face the challenge to integrate newcomers into its education system and how to deal with the newly emerging diversity within the educational system.

Dympna Devine from the University College Dublin, Audrey Bryan from St. Patrick’ s College Drumcondra and Brigitta Busch from the University of Vienna will also contribute their knowledge about  migration, education and cultural diversity. Moderator of this conference will be Bettina Migge from the University College of Dublin.

Goya Award to Best Film in 2008.

Pamplona, Spain, June 2001. Camino, an eleven year old girl is on her deathbed in a hospital room. Surrounded by her family, friends, priests and sanitary personnel she gives example of a happy and serene death. In this holy atmosphere and when death seems inevitable, an extraordinary event takes place in her room.

Camino is a film based on a true story. It is an emotional adventure that takes place around an extraordinary eleven year old girl that is facing two completely new emotions: falling in love and dying.

Javier Fesser is a Spanish director and screen writer. With "Camino", Fesser opened a debate on the Opus Dei in Spain. Alexia´s family, the girl that Fesser based his film on were opposed to the film

Acoustic music doesn’t come much more varied than the multi-cultural Sligo based ensemble NoCrows. This lively group plays a unique blend of Irish traditional, gypsy, classical and world music.

Springing from modest roots in a Wednesday night session in the multicultural hotpot of Sligo’s Shoot The Crows pub, NoCrows has been making great waves in the European folk and world music circuit since 2008 with acclaimed performances at some of Europe’s biggest festivals including Glastonbury’s Acoustic Tent, Dranouter and Labadoux (Belgium), San Sebastiá (Mallorca) and Bern (Switzerland).

The group has three CDs on its own label Crows Records and Dervish’s Whirling Discs. The new CD, NoCrows on the Moon, launched in late 2010, is a collaborative labour of love with more original material than their previous records and no less than twenty musical guests from ten countries including Sharon Shannon, French rock star Cali, Donegal maestros Fidil, Mallorcan songstress Miquela Lladó, Irish jazz drummer David Lyttle and Armenian Oud player Haig Yazdjian. Also featuring some studio treatments by Mike Scott, NoCrows on the Moon represents a collaborative and creative milestone for the group.

Tickets: €15 / €10 (students ICD)

In a different voice is conceived as a tribute in four voices. Those voices that authors and translators of their work created. It is a reading that brings Ireland and Spain, Spanish and English together. We pay tribute to Thomas MacGreevy and Miguel Hernández with Luis Ingelmo’s voice, who will read poems by MacGreevy in Spanish and Michael’s Smith’s voice, who will read poems by Miguel Hernández in English.

The Irish poet Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967) was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish modern literature. He was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963. Luis Ingelmo, (Palencia, 1970) translator of English work into Spanish, will read some of his translations of MacGreevy´s poems into Spanish.

Miguel Hernández Gilabert (Orihuela, 1920-1942) was a renowned poet and playwright in the Spanish literature of the 20th century. Traditionally he is considered a member of the Generation of ‘36 although he was closer to the former generation to the extent that writer Dámaso Alonso referred to him as a shining example of the Generation of ‘27. The Irish poet Michael Smith (Dublin, 1932) has translated and published work by important classical authors; amongst them are Miguel Hernández’s works.

Desigñ arrives at Instituto Cervantes Dublin with the objective of giving Spanish design its rightful place. Spanish design is currently at its best with numerous internationally recognised Spanish creations and brand names such as Camper and Munich or designers such as Manolo Blahnik, David Delfín and Patricia Urquiola.

This exhibition comprises 100 posters that include work of various design disciplines such as graphic, furniture, industrial and interior design. Martí Guixés´s ‘do frame’ tape has succeeded in framing the exhibition posters in an affordable, simple, original and elegant fashion.

6 pm: Opening talk: Innovation and recycling.

Lecture by Dr. José Woldenberg. An account of Mexico's democratic path, described by one of its most important witnesses and key players.

José Woldenberg, a prominent professor, researcher and writer, served as Director Chairman of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) during the historic 2000 election, in which an opposition party won the Presidency of Mexico for the first time in more than seventy years. Undoubtedly, one of the most authoritative voices to discuss Mexico's democratic transition.

Among his books: Documentary History on SPAUNAM (1989); The Present Absence (1992); The Electoral Reform of 1996, a general description (1997); Memory of the Left (1998); The Mechanics of Political Change in Mexico (2000); Building of Democracy (2002); After the Transition, Governance, Public Space and Rights (2006); and Disenchantment (2009).

The session on February 21th will take place at The Trinity College, in Spanish with English consecutive interpreting. The session on February 23rd will take place at Instituto Cervantes Dublin, in Spanish.

The opening of the exhibition Desigñ at Instituto Cervantes Dublin is the context behind this intercultural dialogue about the new trends of Spanish and Irish design, under the common statement that sustainability of all products starts on design.  

The participant on the Spanish side is Carolina Blázquez, Creative Director of ECOALF, a company designing urban-outdoor apparel, footwear, luggage and other articles with a focus on innovation and sustainability. Some of ECOALF’s products are represented in the exhibition Desigñ.  

On the Irish side we’ll have Kate Cronin, the creative force of Klickity, an Irish company devoted to quality design and the protection of the environment. She is also involved in Remake, a network of Irish designers working with recycled materials.  

After the discussion we’ll open a question-and-answer session to share ideas on the aspirations of design and the possibilities of waste materials.  

Goya Award to Best film in 2008.

Adela is a separated woman with a one year old son. She is tired of her life in the village where she was born to the north of León in Spain. She decides to leave mountains and walks in the fields to go to Madrid where everything is noise, traffic and an endless to and fro. Adela adjusts to city life easily with little financial help from her son Miguelito´s father. One day she suffers a terrorist attack that shatters her life. From that moment on she would struggle to find the inner strength to return to a normal life.

Jaime Rosales collaborated with the screenwriter and playwright Enric Rufas to write this film's script. Rosales and Rufas tell the story of the parallel lives of two women and mothers. To achieve this, they use the polyvision technique, which allows them to divide the screen in two halves to show the same scene from different points of view.

Fit for viewing by persons aged 13 years+

When a young and eccentric radio announcer lets anonymous listeners call in to tell their tales of love, the show becomes a success and a sanctuary where people's deepest passions and entangled love affairs are publicly exposed.

Fit for viewing by persons aged 13 years+

Silvio is an unemployed young boy who achieves a precarious and sordid job of porn in Santiago. His contact with this world of smoking bars and girls starts to have some effects in his life. Something similar is happening to his younger brother Victor, who dreams with losing his virginity.

Fit for viewing by persons aged 18 years+