Our Spring Season continues – a peak into the programme

Sligo Film Society presents part two of the Spring season 2025 – an eclectic and thought-provoking mix of films from around the world.
 
In our second part of the Spring Season 2025 we present eight films from eight different countries around the world. From the UK we have Mike Leigh’s darkly humorous study of a family, Hard Truths, and from the US we have Sean Baker’s Oscar-nominated Anora. From Brazil comes Walter Salles’ gripping political drama I’m Still Here, and from Italy we have Vermiglio, a story of women, war and family in the Italian Alps in 1944. On Falling is abouta Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland, while A Brief History of a Family is set in contemporary China, where a middle-class family’s fate intertwines with their son’s enigmatic new friend. We also have a beautiful animation film (for adults) from Australia, Memoir of a Snail, which is vividly handcrafted and endlessly creative. And once again we participate in this year’s Japanese Film Festival with Cottontail, a film about family and reconciliation.
 
All of these films have won or have been nominated for various awards, and all are favourites on the international festival circuit. The SFS committee members take great care in the selection of the programme – assisted by the experienced staff from Access Cinema – and we look forward to sharing this exciting programme with Sligo film enthusiasts.
 
Check out the listings for the first eight screenings below. 

Sligo Film Society,  Mar - Apr 2025

6th March 
ANORA
Director: Sean Baker
Film info: 139 mins | USA | 16

Anora “Ani” Mikheeva lives in Brooklyn, working as a stripper. When Ani meets Ivan – the young, party-loving son of a rich Russian oligarch – Ivan is smitten. He starts paying Ani to become his live-in partner. After a few whirlwind weeks of excess, they get married in Vegas. But everything falls apart when Ivan’s parents find out about Ani…

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13th March  
HARD TRUTHS 
Director: Mike Leigh
Film info: 97 mins | UK, Spain | 2024 | 12A

Present-day London. Middle-aged sisters Pansy and Chantal could not be more different. Chantal is cheerful and empathetic. Pansy, on the other hand, is argumentative, hypersensitive and full of anger, with her husband Curtley and grown-up son Moses bearing the brunt of her emotional outbursts. As Mother’s Day approaches, things are at breaking point, unless Chantal can somehow help her sister…

20th March 
Memoir of a Snail
Director: Adam Elliot
Film info: 94 mins | Australia | 2024 | 15A

In 1970s Australia, snail-obsessed Grace lives in a shabby apartment with her pyromaniac twin brother Gilbert and their ailing father. When their father dies, the twins are separated and sent to foster families on opposite sides of the country. As the years pass and each sibling endures a gruelling series of tragedies, disappointments and hardships, they dream of one day being reunited.

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27th March
Vermiglio
Director: Maura Delpero
Film info: 119 mins | Italy, France, Belgium | 2024 | 12A

1944. Towards the end of WWII in Vermiglio – a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps – the arrival of Pietro, a deserted soldier, disrupts the dynamics of a local family, changing them forever. Pietro, a Sicilian, keeps mostly to himself. However, he establishes a mild flirtation with Lucia – the eldest daughter of Cesare, the much-respected village schoolteacher. Soon, Pietro and Lucia are falling in love. But their pairing sets in motion a series of events that pushes the family towards tragedy and shakes the entire village.

3rd April  
ON FALLING
Director: Laura Carreira
Film info: 104 mins | UK, Portugal | 2024 | CLUB

On Falling tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese warehouse picker working in a vast fulfilment centre in Scotland.

10th April
COTTONTAIL 
Director: Patrick Dickinson
Film info: 95 mins | UK , Japan | 2023 | 12A

A widower from Japan travels with his estranged son to England in or der to fulfill his late wife’s dying wish. Sponsored by The Cat and The Moon

17th April 
A PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY
Director: Jianjie Lin
Film info: 99 mins | China, Denmark, France, Qatar | 2024 | CLUB

A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China. Sponsored by Blend

24th April  
I’M STILL HERE 
Director: Walter Salles
Film info:  136 mins | Br azil, France | 2024 | 12A

A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of political violence.

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