Cinemax Bantry is 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.
Cork Lens: IFI Cork on Camera
In association with the Irish Film Institute (IFI) we present two films adapted from the work of the great Cork author, Frank O’Connor.82 Mins, Ireland, Cork, Cert: Club Showing Saturday 15th @ 2:30pm
Born Michael Francis O'Donovan on Douglas Street in 1903, O’Connor was a prolific writer and translator, having published novels, poetry and journalism. It is as a short story writer he has earned an international reputation. Much of his writing was shaped by his impoverished Cork childhood and his experiences of the Civil War.
Preceding these will be a screening of newly discovered film from the Festival archives, covering the 10th edition of the Cork International Film Festival. Directed by Cork County librarian and local historian Pádraig Ó Maidín, it captures the great and the good on the red carpet as well as pulling back the curtains on the behind the scenes activities.
It Was Just an Accident (Yek tasadof-e sadeh)
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102 mins Iran, France, Luxembourg, Jafar PANAHI, Super Cine Saturday
5PM - Saturday 15 November
A man, nicknamed Eghbal, is driving at night with his wife and daughter when he hits and kills a dog. The accident badly damages his engine and causes the car to later break down. He pulls over to a nearby garage, encountering a former political prisoner named Vahid, who recognizes the squeaking sound of Eghbal's prosthetic leg as that of an intelligence officer who tortured him in prison and caused him permanent kidney damage.
Vahid stalks Eghbal to his house, kidnaps him, and prepares to bury him alive, but grows doubtful about the man's identity since he was blindfolded and had never seen his torturer's face. He reaches out to fellow ex-prisoners for confirmation and, riding around day and night. The film is Winner of the 2025 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominee of LUX Audience Award 2025.