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Deaf

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ángela, a deaf woman, and Héctor, her hearing partner, are in a loving, solid relationship, using sign language and lip reading to communicate. When Ángela becomes pregnant they are both very excited. However, the question of whether their baby will be deaf or hearing charges an unexplored tension between the couple. After a complicated, emotionally

€5 – €9

The Painted Man by Dan Colley

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A street performer arrives in a dreary suburb and discovers an unlikely kinship with a young person. Inspired by the science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury's own story of how he became a writer, this surreal coming-of-age film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, past and present. Veteran theatre director Dan Colley brings his strikingly visual

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Musician Herb McGwyer made his name in a popular folk duo with former creative and romantic partner Nell Mortimer. Now a struggling solo artist, Herb accepts a lucrative offer from eccentric lottery winner Charles Heath to perform a private gig on a remote island. The appearance fee will fund Herb’s new album. But it turns

€5 – €9

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Tis the season for love, laughter and one of the most cherished stories of all time. Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Michael Caine gives a performance that's anything but "bah, humbug!" as greedy, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge. One fateful Christmas

€4

It’s a Wonderful Life

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge - but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him.

€5 – €9

The Kitchen Brigade

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

French stars Audrey Lamy and François Cluzet lead a fantastic cast in Louis-Julien Petit’s big-hearted feel-good comedy. Disgruntled sous-chef Cathy Marie (Lamy) leaves her job at a high-end gourmet restaurant to pursue her dreams of becoming a head chef at her own restaurant. But when her plans don’t quite work out, she finds herself strapped

€5 – €9

Springsteen – Deliver Me From Nowhere

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Following the acclaim of his album The River and a hugely successful tour, Bruce Springsteen retreats to rural New Jersey. Struggling with the pressures of success - culminating in a crippling identity crisis and haunted by memories of a turbulent childhood - he starts to write a new album: a raw, haunted acoustic record that

€5 – €9

The Ice Tower

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In a snow-swept France in the 1970s, Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, runs away from her home in an isolated orphanage with no explanation. One night, she takes shelter in a building that turns out to be a film set where they are shooting an adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen Pretending to be

€5 – €9

Sentimental Value

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Sisters Nora and Agnes are surprised when their estranged father - esteemed filmmaker Gustav - arrives at their mother’s funeral. Gustav wants to reconnect, and approaches Nora - a successful but troubled actor - to play the lead role in an autobiographical film he’s written. She refuses, but Gustav won’t let go of his dream

€5 – €9

Eleanor the Great

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In Eleanor The Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we

€5 – €9

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This powerful docudrama is built around the 2024 audio recording of a call between Hind Rajab - a young girl seemingly alone in a damaged car in Gaza after a firefight - and the dispatchers at a Red Crescent emergency response centre. As the hours pass, the call centre team grows increasingly desperate as they

€5 – €9

Blue Moon

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

1943. Set in real time at in iconic Broadway bar Sardi’s, where lyricist Lorenz Hart has just stormed out of Oklahoma!’s opening night. Hailed a magnificent success for Hart’s former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ and his new partner Oscar Hammerstein, Hart laments and surmises his life and career with humour and ire as the post-show celebrations

€5 – €9

No Other Choice

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Yoo is a paper expert who is abruptly fired after his company is taken over by an international firm. Yoo and his wife Lee are determined to keep the family home and sustain their lifestyle, which includes expensive cello lessons for their prodigy daughter. However, Yoo struggles to get a new role in the paper

€5 – €9