San Francisco Irish Film Festival

March 5th and 6th

The Roxie Film Center

San Francisco 

THURSDAY 5TH OF MARCH 8PM

Hardy Bucks

‘Hardy Bucks’ follows the lives of Eddie and Buzz, two “shturdy, reliable fellas,” as they face the travails of life in the fictional hamlet of Castletown (aka Swinford). Citing their interests as “shlappin’, fightin’ and rollin’ around,” Eddie and Buzz are joined by their pals, ‘The Boo’ and ‘French Toast’, as they face off against their arch nemesis, ‘The Viper’.

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Saviours

Saviours is an intimate, gripping documentary following three young boxers from the same Dublin boxing club, St. Saviours Olympic Boxing Academy. The club is a safe haven amongst the dangerous flats of Dublin’s north inner city, where, under the guidance of the club’s canny coaches, three boxers fight for a better life both inside and outside the ring. It is one of the few Irish documentaries that got a general release in Irish cinemas.

Directors/Photography: Ross Whitaker, Liam Nolan

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FRIDAY 6TH OF MARCH 7PM

32A

A charming coming-of-age story, 32A — a bra size, not a bus number  – follows 14-year-old Dubliner Maeve Brennan (McCarthy) as she comes to terms with becoming a woman. Along the way she meets and falls for hunk Brian Power (McDaid), falls out with her friends and gets into trouble in school.  Set in 1979, 32A does its level best to bring the era to life: from music to clothes to even the box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes on the breakfast table.

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SHORTS

This year we will show the very best short films from Ireland served up what Magners Irish Cider. We will repeat “New Boy”, a short film directed by San Francisco’s own Steph Green based on a story by Roddy Doyle. The film was nominated for an Academy Award this year. The program will also include ‘Shapes’, ‘God and Napoleon’, ‘The Wednesdays’, ‘Spacemen Three’, starring Pat Shortt and the award-winning animated short, ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’.

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