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Festival: October Bank Holiday Weekend (23rd - 26th) 2025

Winter Screening

Clones Film Festival is delighted to host a short season of Winter Screenings over the next few months, to ease us back out of the darkness.

"Rose"

 

If you were at the screening during Clones Film Festival 2024 and missed the ending of the film, this screening is free of charge for you, just let the staff at the door know as we are re-screening this wnderful film on Saturday 25th January in the courthouse. 

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The Teachers' Lounge

The Teachers' Lounge Clones Film Festival

The Olde Post Office | Friday 25th | 5.30 pm  Sponsor: Rory McMahon Gas Distributors Clones 

When one of her students is accused of theft, Carla decides to take the matter into her own hands ...

  • Director: Ilker Çatak
  • Cast: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
  • 98 minutes, Germany, 2023, Cert: 12A

Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch) is a newly appointed, very dedicated high school teacher. When one of her students is accused of theft, Carla decides to take the matter into her own hands, setting a trap for the ‘real’ thief. But her actions back fire and things begin to spiral out of control, pushing Carla to her limits.

Forced to face the consequences of her own actions, her relationship with her students and colleagues begin to disintegrate.

İlker Çatak misses nothing in his brilliantly observed drama. In his unsparing film, the school becomes a proxy for the cultural and ethical clashes of modern-day society, a microcosm in which the outside world no longer exists and nothing remains private. 

Winner - Best Screenplay, Dublin International Film Festival 2024

“★ ★ ★ ★ An ingeniously plotted thriller with a twist ... Essential viewing.” – The Sunday Independent

“★ ★ ★ ★ ... a masterclass in using a stripped-back, minimal approach to gripping effect, evident throughout Ilker Çatak’s terrific, taut, Oscar-nominated drama.” – Wendy Ide, The Observer



“★ ★ ★ ★★ Leonie Benesch is sensational in this unlikely white-knuckle thriller.” – Tara Brady, The Irish Times

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