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We finish out our 2025 film programme with the poignant French comedy drama The Marching Band (12A). It screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Dec 9th, at 7.30pm. Full details in our latest newsletter; bit.ly/Mar_band

#wffa2025 #wffaautumn2025 #themarchingband
@vertigorel.bsky.social
Chalk and cheese or two peas in a pod?
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December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"A brilliant political allegory in the form of a psychological thriller, Michael Haneke's Hidden achieves the remarkable, building power on both fronts as it proceeds."
Sheri Linden, Boxoffice Magazine

Hidden (16) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, November 25th, at 7.30pm.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"It's an indecently gripping movie, undeniably about colonial guilt and the legacy of the Algerian War. But, equally, by the film’s closing credits multiple questions remain."
Kevin Maher @thetimes.com

Hidden (16) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, November 25th, at 7.30pm.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Twenty years after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Hidden (Caché) has cemented its status as a modern classic. Read all about it in our latest newsletter; bit.ly/Hidd_en

Hidden (16) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, November 25th, at 7.30pm.

#Hidden #wffa2025 #wffaautumn25 📼
Hiding in plain sight
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November 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"★★★★ Deaf takes an intimate, incisive look at the all-too common challenges of new parenthood, while presenting circumstances that are fascinatingly specific. Affecting and enlightening, it’s a powerful piece of cinema."
@emmasimmonds.bsky.social
@thelistuk.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Our autumn film programme resumes in Garter Lane Arts Centre
on Tuesday, Nov 18th, with Deaf (12A) In the meantime, you can catch Abode (15A) in Movies@Dungarvan and the upcoming Waterford International Film Festival. Get full details in our latest newsletter; bit.ly/D_eaf

#wffa2025 #Deaf #Sorda
The sound of silence.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"A stunning, emotionally satisfying adventure tale, built on rock-solid source material."
Peter Debruge @variety.com

The Count of Monte Cristo (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Oct 28th at 7.30pm. Advance booking available in-person, online & 051-855038.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"★★★★ The Encampments proves essential as an exposé on wild distortion of messaging and the betrayal of institutions’ promoted values."
JOSH SLATER-WILLIAMS, LITTLE WHITE LIES
@lwlies.com

The Encampments (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Oct 14th at 7.30pm.

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October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"An eye-opening, timely and provocative human rights documentary. A powerful protest for truth, justice and democracy, and a protest against war, hatred and fascism."

AVI OFFER, NYC MOVIE GURU

The Encampments (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Oct 14th at 7.30pm.

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October 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Clear, direct, and compelling … At its core Beat The Lotto is a story about a group of underdogs trying to crack a complex system.”
Dale Kearney @filmireland.bsky.social

Beat the Lotto (G) will be introduced by Director Ross Whitaker in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Sept 30th.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Beat the Lotto is a terrific yarn, with plenty of humour and drama as a group of ambitious schemers look back at their effort to best a national institution.

Beat the Lotto (G) will be introduced by Director Ross Whitaker in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Sept 30th at 7.30pm.

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September 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"★★★★★ Vermiglio is exquisite. There’s a rough, earthy tenderness to the picture and a kinship with other recent examples of Italian folk cinema."
@wendyide.bsky.social
@theobserveruk.bsky.social

Vermiglio (PG) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Sept 23rd at 7.30pm.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
'He's getting the band back together, whether they like it or not.' The Ballad of Wallis Island (PG) is a winning crowd-pleaser with a perfect mix of humour and poignant character work.

Get full details of our autumn film programme by clicking on this link; bit.ly/autumn_25

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September 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Ballad of Wallis Island (PG) opens our autumn film programme in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, Sept 16th, at 7.30pm. Advance booking available online, in-person and 051 855 038.

#tbowi #WallisIsland #TimKeay #TomBasden #CareyMulligan #HerbMcGwyer
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September 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
'Torres deserves her Oscar nod. She gives a wonderful performance as Eunice, whose stoicism even after she and one of her daughters are also carted off, whose pride in her identity and determination to protect her kids, drive the rest of the film.'
@vinerbrian.bsky.social @dailymail.co.uk
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June 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
'There’s an ethereal quality to Jolie’s performance that matches Callas’ legendary persona, and despite the deep sense of melancholy that pervades the film like a ghostly veil, this is still a love story – and one where the heroine lives forever.'
@hannahstrong.co.uk @lwlies.com
#Maria #wffa2025
June 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
'★ ★ ★ ★ La Divina, Jolie-style, is as much a performance as a person – a diva who never encountered a rococo staircase she couldn’t imperiously sweep down.'
@wendyide.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Maria (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, June 3rd, at 7.30pm.
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June 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
'★ ★ ★ ★ La Diva Eterna lives in Jolie, with a performance as towering as it is understated: sad and soulful and heartbreaking. She has never been better. Brava!'
@thenuge.bsky.social @empiremagazine.bsky.social
Maria (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on June 3rd, at 7.30pm.
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May 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“A gruelling but ultimately rewarding experience, this is Leigh at his most confrontational, devastating and humane”
@lauravenning.bsky.social @empiremagazine.bsky.social

Hard Truths (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre this evening at 7.30pm.

#MikeLeigh #MarianneJeanBaptiste #wffa2025
May 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A knotty, rough-hewn marvel.”
@donaldclarke.bsky.social
@irishtimes.com

Hard Truths (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tues, May 27th, at 7.30pm. Further details in this week's newsletter; bit.ly/H_Truths

#HardTruths #MikeLeigh #MarianneJeanBaptiste #wffasummer25 #wffa2025
Hard Truths
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May 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“★ ★ ★ ★ ★ … a stunning film full of heart and compassion.”
@carynjames.bsky.social BBC.com

Featuring a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, May 27th, at 7.30pm.

#HardTruths #MikeLeigh #MarianneJeanBaptiste
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May 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
'the sound is consistently fantastic and the energy is electric.'
@peterhowellfilm.bsky.social @thestar.com

Becoming Led Zeppelin (PG) promises to test the full sonic capabilities of the sound system in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Friday, May 16th.

#becomingledzeppelin
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May 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
'★★★★ For those who never saw Led Zeppelin live, the early concert footage alone is worth coming to see.'
James Mottram, NME

Becoming Led Zeppelin (PG) explores the origins of this iconic group. See it on the big screen in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Friday, May 16th, at 7.30pm.
#wffa2025 #waterford
May 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We have two contrasting films coming up next week; Flow occupies our regular Tuesday slot, followed by Becoming Led Zeppelin on Friday 16th. Read more in this week's newsletter; bit.ly/Fl_ow

#wffasummer25 #wffa2025 #Flow #GintsZilbalodis #oscarwinner #Oscars2025 #BestAnimatedFeatureFilm
Flow and the Zep
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May 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
'A wildly entertaining, modern-day screwball comedy set in 2018 that barrels through New York and Las Vegas.'
@wendyide.bsky.social
@screendaily.com.web.brid.gy

Catch Sean Baker's Oscar winning Anora (16) in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, April 29th, at 7.30pm.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM