Sharing a love of film is the reel deal

CORK Cine Club’s latest programme runs from Oct 11-Dec 13 at its new venue, St John’s Central College in Cork city. With screenings of art house films and documentaries every Thursday night, the season kicks off with Even The Rain, directed by Iciar Bollain. This socially aware film is about a production team in Bolivia making a controversial film about Christopher Columbus. Meanwhile, a local uprising against water rates takes place.

“It’s a very interesting film,” says Ann FitzGerald, a barrister, one of the five voluntary members of the Cork Cine Club committee. “A multinational company manages to take over the water supply of an indigenous population which fights back. It stars Gael García Bernal.”

For FitzGerald and the other committee members, running the Cine Club is very much a labour of love. They hope St John’s Central College will be their permanent home, having previously screened films at the Half Moon Theatre and the Crawford Art Gallery. With film courses taught at St John’s Central College, FitzGerald says it’s an appropriate venue.