Rathmullan Film Festival 2020

20 Feb | 10am-1pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 9-14Yrs - Slide, fly and drive chairs around the studio to create a surreal chase film where the laws of physics and the real world no longer apply. Cormac O'Kane, award-winning Animation Lecturer at LYIT will teach the ins and outs of Pixilation, a stop-motion technique which uses people instead of puppets.

20 Feb | 10am-1pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 5-9Yrs - Build your favorite movie character using recycling material and bring your new friend along with you to watch Pinocchio (1940, 88min, PG) about a living puppet who, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Workshop from 10-11am and must be pre-booked as places are limited. Screening starts at 11.15am, it is FREE and open to everyone. No pre-booking needed.

20 Feb | 7-8:30pm | Drumhalla House - Comic Con comes to Rathmullan! Put on your favourite super hero costume, take a walk down our red carpet & join us for a celebration of local creativity.You will be treated to face painting, virtual reality & green screen fun, followed by a screening of short films featuring children from the Rathmullan Celtic Academy, St Garvan’s N.S. & St Joseph’s N.S. Tea, coffee & sweet treats for all.

20 Feb | 7-8:30pm | Drumhalla House - Comic Con comes to Rathmullan! Put on your favourite super hero costume, take a walk down our red carpet & join us for a celebration of local creativity.You will be treated to face painting, virtual reality & green screen fun, followed by a screening of short films featuring children from the Rathmullan Celtic Academy, St Garvan’s N.S. & St Joseph’s N.S. Tea, coffee & sweet treats for all.

Ticket valid for: 2 Adults & 2 Children - 20 Feb | 7-8:30pm | Drumhalla House - Comic Con comes to Rathmullan! Put on your favourite super hero costume, take a walk down our red carpet & join us for a celebration of local creativity.You will be treated to face painting, virtual reality & green screen fun, followed by a screening of short films featuring children from the Rathmullan Celtic Academy, St Garvan’s N.S. & St Joseph’s N.S. Tea, coffee & sweet treats for all.

21 Feb | 10am-1pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 9-14Yrs - The time has never been better for young people to dip their toes into the world of filmmaking! Learn how to use smartphone technology to produce films using industry standard techniques with Póca Productions. Explore the various roles on a film set and how to shoot and edit a scene on a mobile device.

21 Feb | 10am-1pm | St Joseph’s N.S | 5-9Yrs - Join Susan Harding, Pixalili Fabric POD, for a pre-screening workshop where you will make, shape and build your very own clay character. Chicken Run (2000, 84min, PG) tells the story of rooster Rocky and chicken Ginger who decide to escape from a chicken farm when they learn that their owner is plotting to have them killed. Workshop from 10-11.00am and must be pre-booked. FREE Screening starts at 11.15am and doesn't require pre-booking.

Fri 21 Feb | 4-6pm | Big Paddy's Pub - Selection of short films made by the Women in the Archives project which celebrate women’s history, heritage and social roles in Northern Ireland: Voices of Gullion (6min), The Threads That Bind Us (17min), Breaking The Mould (17min), Women in Farming (17min), ROGHA (6min), A Fantastic Journey: from the Mournes to the Rockies (26 min).

21 Feb | 6-7pm | Flagpole Pitch | 5-12Yrs - An evening of soccer fun hosted by Rathmullan Celtic FC. Learn a few new skills including dribbling, passing, shooting, and ‘Head Catch’.

21 Feb | An Stad | 6.30-8.30pm - Prince fans unite! Written and directed by Prince, Under the Cherry Moon (1986, 100min, 15A) tells the story of a trust-fund beauty and the pianist at a hotel in Nice on the Riviera. A film that is ‘so delightfully deranged that you stare at it in amazement that such a thing could have possibly emerged from a Hollywood studio.” (Peter Sobczynski, May 4, 2016). Prince-themed food available and live Prince-themed music to follow film.

21 Feb | 8-11pm | An Bonnan Bui Café & Bistro - Directed by Julie Taymor and starred by Salma Hayek, Frida (2002, 123min, 15A) charts the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who channelled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. The film will be followed by The Arty Quiz where Shelagh Cullity, Art Historian, will test your knowledge of art, from cup cake depictions of famous paintings to names of artists. Pre-theatre menu available.

22 Feb | An Bonnan Bui Café & Bistro | 11.30am-1.30pm - Directed by Carlos Pronzato and Richardson Pontone, Lama (2019, 80min, subtitled) gives voice to those affected directly and indirectly by the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster caused by mining activities in Brazil in 2019. 250 people lost their lives and damage was caused to the local fauna and flora. The screening is followed by a discussion.

22 Feb | 2-5pm | St Joseph's N.S. - Join Revive Sports & Injury Clinic, KmK Salon & Mayhem Kickboxing Derry for an afternoon of family fun. 2-3pm – Kickboxing Class (6-14Yrs) and 3.15 – Screening: Mulan (1998, 88min, PG) - To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. Want to watch the film, but don’t want to try kickboxing? Don’t worry - the screening is free and open to all!

22 Feb | 2-5pm | St Joseph's N.S. - Join Revive Sports & Injury Clinic, KmK Salon & Mayhem Kickboxing Derry for an afternoon of family fun. 2pm: Screening of Offside (2006, 99min, PG, subtitled) – Directed by Jafar Panahi, the film tells the story of a group of girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match in Iran but are forbidden by law. 3.45pm: Kickboxing Class (+15Yrs). Want to watch the film, but don’t want to try kickboxing? Don’t worry - the screening is free and open to all!

22 Feb | 2-4:30pm | Rathmullan House - Explore the ethics, challenges and benefits of working more closely with documentary subjects and giving them control over how their stories are represented on screen. Irish filmmaker Treasa O'Brien will screen a selection of her work -Town of Strangers (2018, 80min), Noor at Mytilini Port (2016, 6min) and The Blow-in (2016, 8min) - and discuss her filming methods, relationship with interviewees and audience responses.

22 Feb | 4:45-6:30pm | Rathmullan House - In association with the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival, the event will showcase a selection of shorts shot on mobile devices and screened at DSFF. Festival director Robert Fitzhugh and Donegal-based smartphone filmmaking trainer Camilla Meegan, from Poca Productions, will explore the different types of equipment, their strengths and limitations, and how smartphones are bringing new possibilities to businesses and creative industries.

22 Feb | 7.30-9.15pm | St Columba’s Church of Ireland - Casablanca (1942, 102min, PG) remains one of the world's best-remembered and most quotable films of all time. Join us for a special screening of this classic wartime romance about American expatriate Rick (Humphrey Bogart) who agrees to help his former lover Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband escape Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Soon, Ilsa's feelings for Rick resurface & she finds herself renewing her love for him.

22 Feb | 9.30pm | Beachcomber Beergarden - A screening of the 1922 classic film Nosferatu accompanied by a live soundtrack provided by musicians from across the county led by Ramelton band Aul Boy. Screening is followed by DJ Dano (Shindig Records) and his late night Horror Dance Party.

23 Feb | 10-11am | St Joseph’s N.S. | 9-14Yrs - Learn how to perform fight scenes with action performer Ed Mohan, from the Mohan Academy of Performing Arts.

23 Feb | 10-11am | St Joseph’s N.S. | 5-8Yrs - Learn acting techniques used in film and theatre productions with director, producer and teacher Roisín Patton Mohan, from the Mohan Academy of Performing Arts.

23 Feb | 11am-12pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 9-14Yrs - Learn how to become an action hero/heroine with action performer Ed Mohan, from the Mohan Academy of Performing Arts.

23 Feb | 11am-12pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 5-8Yrs - Learn acting techniques used in film and theatre productions with director, producer and teacher Roisín Patton Mohan, from the Mohan Academy of Performing Arts.

23 Feb | 12-1pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 9-14Yrs - Learn how to perform fight scenes with action performer Ed Mohan, from the Mohan Academy of Performing Arts.

23 Feb | 12-1pm | St Joseph’s N.S. | 5-8Yrs - Learn scripting and improvisation techniques used in film and theatre productions with director, producer and teacher Roisín Patton Mohan, from the Mohan Academy of Performing Arts.

23 Feb | 1-2:30pm | An Bonnan Bui Café & Bistro - Directed by Paul Crompton, the Limbless Mountaineer (2014, 40min) follows Scottish mountaineer Jamie Andrew, a quadruple amputee, as he attempts to climb the mighty Matterhorn. It's a difficult and dangerous climb even for an able-bodied climber, but Jamie Andrew is no ordinary man, he truly is one of life' s extraordinary people. Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker about the changing landscape of producing films for television.

23 Feb | 4.30-6.15pm | Beachcomber Beergarden - Want to enjoy the festival, but don’t want to leave your best friend at home? Join us for Donegal’s first dog-friendly screening! Watch Wes Anderson’s cult film Isle of Dogs (2018, G) which follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. Beachcomber Beergarden will be heated and volume will be dipped as we know dogs have superhero hearing. Please, bring a water bowl and blanket so your dog can sit comfortably next to you.

23 Feb | St Joseph’s Church | 7.30-9.45pm - A night of music and film to wrap up the festival in style! Enjoy a movie songs sing-along with the Colmcille Gospel Choir before the screening of the beautiful Irish documentary The Camino Voyage (2018, 97min, PG). The film follows musicians Glen Hansard and Brendan Begley, artist Liam Holden, stonemason Brendan-Pháid Moriarty and writer and poet Danny Sheehy on their inspiring and dangerous 2,500 kilometre boat odyssey from Ireland to Spain.