Cinemax Bantry Part of Cork International Film Festival 2025
Cinemax Bantry is honored to be one of the venues of the 70th edition of the Cork International Film Festival for the third years in the row. On Tuesday 11th November We will be showing 'Nouvelle Vague' and 'Sirât'. On Saturday 15th of November 'Cork Lens: IFI Cork on Camera' and 'It Was Just an Accident'.
Mark your calendars and join us on Tuesday 11th and Saturday 15th of November for an unforgettable 2 days with the Cork International Film Festival.
Nouvelle Vague
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Showing Tuesday, November 11th @ 6PM
106 minutes, France, United States 2025, Cert: CLUB
Director: Richard Linklater Language: French
Cast: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
106 minutes, France, United States 2025, Cert: CLUB
Director: Richard Linklater Language: French
Cast: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
Paris, 1960. Jean-Luc Godard has built a reputation as a film critic and cannot resist any longer the itch to make his own film. François Truffaut, who the year before became the film world’s darling with his debut The 400 Blows, has a story for him. Godard gets on it, wants Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in the lead roles.
This film will be called Breathless and was to become one of the most beloved and admired films in history.
Expectations were high for Richard Linklater’s self-declared love letter to the French New Wave, told in Godard’s way. His success is undeniable and his joy making it contagious. From DoP David Chambille’s superb black-and-white compositions to the wonderful performances of an ensemble cast composed of barely known actors channelling to perfection the famous figures of the New Wave, you are left wanting more. And you can! thanks to a restored print of Godard’s Breathless, screening twice at the festival.
Expectations were high for Richard Linklater’s self-declared love letter to the French New Wave, told in Godard’s way. His success is undeniable and his joy making it contagious. From DoP David Chambille’s superb black-and-white compositions to the wonderful performances of an ensemble cast composed of barely known actors channelling to perfection the famous figures of the New Wave, you are left wanting more. And you can! thanks to a restored print of Godard’s Breathless, screening twice at the festival.
Sirât

Showing Tuesday, November 11th @ 8:15PM
115 minutes, Spain, France 2025, Cert: CLUB
Director: Oliver Laxe Language: Spanish, French, Arabic
Cast: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda.
115 minutes, Spain, France 2025, Cert: CLUB
Director: Oliver Laxe Language: Spanish, French, Arabic
Cast: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda.
The thundering bass of an illegal rave in the Moroccan desert. A father, with his son, searches among the gyrating dancers for his missing daughter. A group of seasoned ravers reveal to them that a final event will be taking place in another desert location, and they follow the revellers across the barren wastes towards this last party, only to be confronted by their own existential limits.
Despite bigger films playing at this years’ Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s Sirât was the one which garnered the most discussion, with many cinema-goers leaving the screen shaken by what they had experienced. And what an experience it is! To say too much about the film itself would be sacrilege, but it is safe to say that Sirát pitches itself as an enthralling journey film, bringing to mind other masterpieces of the genre, such as William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, whilst remaining completely fresh and quite unlike anything you have seen before. A deserving winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, it demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible, with its thundering soundtrack by Berlin electronic producer Kangding Ray bringing you into the thick of the moment with every heavy, pulsing beat.
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