As part of its landmark 70th anniversary, Cork International Film Festival is bringing the magic to Cinemax Bantry with a special selection of festival screenings this month.
Audiences in Bantry can look forward to two acclaimed new films on Tuesday, November 11th with Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (pictured) at 6pm, and Oliver Laxe’s Sirât at 8.15pm. The former, a French/USA production, is a ‘vibrant love letter to the birth of the French New Wave’ while the Spanish Sirât is a ‘visually stunning and emotionally charged odyssey through the Moroccan desert’.
Cinemax Bantry will also take part in the Festival’s Super Cine Saturday on November 15th, where the venue features IFI Cork on Camera at 2.30pm, a unique archival programme celebrating Cork’s cinematic and literary heritage.
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This show includes newly uncovered footage from the 10th Cork International Film Festival from 1965, and two short film adaptations of Frank O’Connor’s works, Larry and Guests of the Nation.The films in this programme are preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive.
On the same day at 5pm, Jafar Panahi’s darkly humorous thriller, It Was Just an Accident will be screened. This Iranian/French/Luxembourg production won the 2025 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where a small mishap triggers a chain reaction of problems.
Tickets are available now via corkfilmfest.org or the myCIFF app.The festival runs until Sunday 16th November 2025, showcasing over 200 films and events across Cork City and county.
