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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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That They May Face The Rising Sun

That They May Face The Rising Sun

The Courthouse | Friday 25th | 9.45 pm | Sponsor: Courtney Crash Repairs

A beautifully bittersweet portrait of a very particular time and place ... – full of humour and warmth  ...

  • Director: Pat Collins
  • Cast: Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy, Sean McGinley, Ruth McCabe
  • 111 minutes, Ireland / UK, 2023, 12A

Ireland, the 1970s. Joe and Kate Ruttledge return from London to live in a small rural community. They quickly become close friends with many of the older men and women living in the area.

Over the course of a year, Joe and Kate grapple with major life decisions, while also witnessing their neighbours’ moments of joy, disappointment, conflict and loss.

Based on John McGahern’s final novel and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins (Song of Granite), That They May Face the Rising Sun is a beautifully bittersweet portrait of a very particular time and place. It’s a perfectly observed slice of life – full of humour and warmth, while also tenderly reflecting on the people and traditions that Ireland has lost.

Winner: Best Irish Film - Dublin Film Critics’ Circle Awards, DIFF 2024

“★★★★★ [A] perfectly pitched adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel” – Donald Clarke, The Irish Times

“A lyrical, loving celebration of the everyday… beautifully realised and quietly beguiling” – Allan Hunter, Screen Daily

“An achingly tender and richly textured portrait of a year in the life of a close-knit Irish farming community” – Jerry Whyte, Cineoutsider

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