Black '47. Photo Courtesy of the Bangkok Screening Room

Avid moviegoers should make note as the Irish Film Festival returns to Bangkok this weekend. Running from Friday to Sunday, the festival is back for its third successive year, hosted, as always, by the Embassy of Ireland. Three quality feature films from the Emerald Isle will be screened alongside six shorts, covering a variety of genres.

The festival will be held at the Bangkok Screening Room (BKKSR), Sala Daeng 1. Films will be screened in English with Thai subtitles. Tickets are 120 Baht (90 Baht for members/students/children).

The Irish Film Festival is a ticketed event. For ticketing information please visit dfa.ie/irish-embassy/thailand.

The programme is as follows:

Black '47 (2018) is a dark, gritty revenge thriller set during one of the darkest times in Irish history: the Great Famine, or Great Hunger, a period of mass starvation, disease and death in Ireland. The film follows Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad. He abandons his post to return home and reunite with his estranged family, only to find devastation.

Brooklyn (2015) is an adaptation of Colm Toibin's best-selling novel, with a script by Nick Hornby. Bringing to life the Irish-American immigrant experience, this beautifully crafted film tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish migrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn.

Making The Grade (2017) is a heartwarming documentary which explores the tales of students and their piano teachers across Ireland. At the heart of each story is the piano lesson. Making The Grade is a film investigating how the art of piano playing touches the lives of ordinary people. It will take the audience on a musical journey filled with humour, wisdom and honesty.

the Bangkok Screening Room

Film Schedule:

Friday, Oct 4 20:30 Black '47

Saturday, Oct 5 15:00 Making The Grade 17:00 Black '47 19:00 Brooklyn

Sunday, Oct 6 15:00 GAZE On Tour 2018 (Free admission: a programme of six Irish shorts. Tickets allocated on a first come, first served basis 30 minutes before screening.) 17:00 Black '47 19:00 Brooklyn

The Bangkok Screening Room is located on the second floor of the Woof Pack Building, 1/3-7 Sala Daeng Soi 1, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500.