The Cinematic Spaces series has aimed to offer audiences the opportunity to travel to an iconic location through its
cinematic representations. Each iteration of the series has featured a wide selection of films that viewed together
formulate a vivid cinematic portrait, one hopefully so potent that audiences would have felt transported. Now we head
to our next destination of Ireland.

For film lovers, contemplating cinematic Ireland will conjure up a diverse range of images. Some may remember the
powerful period dramas that explored the nation’s history of conflict while others may fondly recall the romantic
music films. We hope that this screening program will enrich these established images through new encounters with
Irish cinema.

Beginning with two masterworks that together represent a classical Hollywood approach to the portrayal of Ireland 
(Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out and John Ford’s The Quiet Man), we encounter along our travels the first Irish film directed
by a woman (Muriel Box’s This Other Eden), two revelatory feminist films of First Wave filmmaker Pat Murphy (Maeve
and Anne Devlin), two film adaptations of the works of celebrated Irish author John McGahern (Cathal Black’s Korea and
Pat Collins’s That They May Face the Rising Sun), two complementary films on Ireland’s war of independence and civil
war (Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins and Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley), Jim Sheridan’s searing indictment
against the injustices committed during the Troubles (In the Name of the Father), two thought-provoking black
comedies by brothers John Michael and Martin McDonagh (John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary, Martin McDonagh’s
The Banshees of Inisherin), two early works by renowned filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson (Adam & Paul and Garage), and
several exemplary works of recent Irish independent filmmaking that explore topics of parental love (Colm Bairead’s
The Quiet Girl), excavation of female history (Donal Foreman’s The Cry of Granuaile), cycle of incarceration (Frank
Berry’s Michael Inside), and Dublin rave culture (Dave Tynan’s Dublin Oldschool). We encourage you to make the most
of your travels and experience these wonderful portraits of Ireland on the big screen.

Finally, we would like to notify you of particular destinations that have not been accessible until now. We are proud to
announce the Asian premieres of That They May Face the Rising Sun, Anne Devlin, Korea, The Cry of Granuaile, and
Dublin Oldschool, and the Korean premieres of This Other Eden, Maeve, Adam & Paul, and Michael Inside.

Thank you. We hope you enjoy Cinematic Spaces: Ireland.

※ We would like to thank Eleanor Melinn and the Irish Film Institute
for their invaluable help in curating this screening program.