More movies at the Model
A short season of independent film has got underway at the Model.
The programme called New Irish Directors will focus on works from the country’s emerging filmmaking talent. A spokeswoman said: “It is the intention of The Model to provide a platform to new voices in contemporary art and by extension cinema and with these carefully selected films we are bring fresh and diverse Irish stories to Sligo audiences.” The series started last week April with Tomato Red, a film that recently premiered at Dublin International Film Festival .
For the second film the action moves to Cork and the breakout comedy The Young Offenders on Thursday 27th April at 8pm.
The film is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner- city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum- fluff moustaches. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale of cocaine in the hope they can sell it so as to escape their troubled home lives… The Young Offenders is an auspicious debut from filmmaker Peter Foott in this gag- filled caper.
Changing beat completely for the third film a documentary with a Sligo connection from duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. Taking as their point of departure the compelling 18th- century figure Ambrose O’Higgins. They attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from Ireland to Chile. Key locations in O’Higgins’ life – a lake in Sligo, a field in Meath, the port of Cadiz, the sea, and the edge of a snow- covered mountain in the Andes – are visited and reflected upon in the hope that something might be revealed, as if these very locations might contain clues.
Closing the series is the drama Mammal, a portrait of emotional loss. The film follows the story of a divorced woman living alone in Dublin who learns that her teenage son has been found dead. Enduring her unsettling grief privately, an encounter with a homeless youth called Joe, played by rising star Barry Keoghan leads to an unorthodox relationship.