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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 28 February 2008

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KINGS, the poignant Irish language film that was nominated for an Oscar which tells the personal stories of a Camden community, will be screened in the cinema on the road that inspired it.
The film has been chosen as a showpiece of the 2008 London Irish Film Festival.
It was adapted from Jimmy Murphy’s play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road and is the story of a group of young Irishmen who fled economic deprivation and the Troubles in search of a better life in London. Fast forward 30 years and the characters meet again: we hear their stories of lives spent grafting on the roads and building sites across England,
The lead is Colm Meaney and his performance has a deep layer of sensibility as one of the Gaelic-speakers searching for a sense of identity in an anonymous and uncaring London.
Screened at the Tricycle on March 14, director Tom Collins will present the film, and all profits raised are going to the Aisling Project, which helps older Irish ex-pats return to Ireland for either holidays or permanently.

THE Irish Centre in Camden Square will also be used as a venue, while the Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square is also showing free Irish films through out the week-long event.The festival includes:

Tea at the Pictures
March 13, 3pm
The McDonagh Pictures; Sin Sceil Eile: Tell Me A Story; Teeth; A Film From My Parish 6 Farms; Ding Don Denny’s History of Ireland
All at the Irish Centre, Camden Square.
020 7916 7272

Frongoch;
Marion and The Princess
March 15, 3.30pm
Kings
March 14, 8pm
The Tricycle, Kilburn High Road.
020 7328 1000

Mise Eire (I am Ireland)
Our Country
March 15, 2pm
Rocky Road to Dublin; Portrait of Dublin; Dubliners
March 15, 4pm
Barbican, Silk Street.
020 7638 8891

Tell It To The Fishes; Irish and Proud of It, Once
March 16, 2.30pm
Prince Charles
020 7494 3654

DAN CARRIER

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