The May Film Tour is back for 2023 and will take place at locations nationally throughout the month of May to celebrate the annual Bealtaine Festival.
The May Film Tour is organised jointly by access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute to co-incide with the annual Bealtaine Festival, and features free screenings of films specially selected with older audiences in mind.
This year the Bealtaine Festival will be continuing to celebrate the theme of In(ter)dependence. With this theme in mind, the films chosen for the 2023 May Film Tour are Living and A Bunch of Amateurs.
The 2023 May Film Tour is presented with the support of Lionsgate Films UK and Met Film Distribution UK.
A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
Members of a working-class amateur filmmaking club, ‘BRADFORD MOVIE MAKERS’ grow old together amid flickering memories and challenging final years. Clinging to their dreams, and to each other, fuelled by endless cups of tea, this gently comedic, profoundly moving portrait of shared artistic folly speaks to the escapist dreamer in us all and to the enduring power of face-to-face time together, in an increasingly lonely, digital age.
Where to attend a free screening of A Bunch of Amateurs
(Please note that while screenings are free, most require advance booking of tickets)
May 03 @ 19.30 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
May 07 @ 15.00 Downtown Movies Charleville, Co Cork
May 11 @ 13.00 Esker Arts Centre, Offaly
May 19 @ 20.00 Terryglass Film Club, Nenagh, Co Tipperary
May 21 @ 20.00 North Westmeath Community Cinema, County Westmeath
May 25 @ 14.00 Cloughjordan Cine Club, Co Tipperary
May 25 @ 20.30 Seamus Ennis Art Centre, Naul, Co Dublin
LIVING
LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful – into one he can say has been lived to the full.
Where to attend a free screening of Living
(Please note that while screenings are free, most require advance booking of tickets)
May 02 @ 11.30 The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon,Co Leitrim
May 05 @ 10.15 Friarsgate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co Limerick
May 09 @ 20.00 An Tain Theatre, Dundalk, Co Louth
May 09 @ 20:00 Tuar And Art Centre, Moate, Co Westmeath
May 10 @ 11.00 & 20.00 Dunamaise Art Centre, Portlaoise, Co Laois
May 11 @ 15.00 Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, Birr, Co Offaly
May 12 @ 20.00 Downtown Movies Charleville, Co Cork
May 17 @ Lavey Community Cinema, Knockanoark, Co Cavan
May 18 @ 14.00 Cloughjordan Cine Club, Co Tipperary
May 23 @ 19.30 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
May 23 @ 20.00 Brewery Lane Theatre & Arts Centre, Co Tipperary
May 25 @ 15.00 Seamus Ennis Art Centre, Naul, Co Dublin
May 25 @ 13.00 Esker Arts Centre, Offaly
May 17 @ Lavey Community Cinema, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan
May 30 @ Lavey Community Cinema, Crosskeys, Co Cavan
May 31 @ Kilmallock Library, Kilmallock, Co Limerick
