Cinemax Bantry Part of Ciff 2025
Cinemax Bantry is honored to be one of the venues of the 70th edition of the Cork International Film Festival for the third years in the row. On Tuesday 11th November We will be showing 'Nouvelle Vague' and 'Sirât'. On Saturday 15th of November 'Cork Lens: IFI Cork on Camera' and 'It Was Just an Accident'.
Mark your calendars and join us on Tuesday 11th and Saturday 15th of November for an unforgettable 2 days with the Cork International Film Festival.
Tuesday 11th November
Nouvelle Vague
Showing Tuesday, November 11th @ 6PM
106 minutes, France, United States 2025, Cert: CLUB
Director: Richard Linklater
Language: French
Cast: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
Trailer: Nouvelle Vague
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Nouvelle Vague is Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater's love letter to the revolutionary magic of the French New Wave, reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, which ultimately cemented Godard as a pioneer of global cinema. As critic turned director Godard makes and breaks the rules, a mix of fresh faces and daring talents - including Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Guillaume Marbeck as Godard himself - bring his spontaneous, electric film to life. Capturing the youthful dynamism and creative chaos at the heart of one of the world's most beloved and influential movies, Nouvelle Vague transports us to the streets of 1959 Paris for an transformative power of cinema.
Sirât
Showing Tuesday, November 11th @ 8:15PM
115 minutes, Spain, France 2025, Cert: CLUB
Director: Oliver Laxe
Language: Spanish, French, Arabic
Cast: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda.
Trailer: Sirât
To Book you Tickets Click here : Sirât - Cork International Film Festival
The thundering bass of an illegal rave in the Moroccan desert. A father, with his son, searches among the gyrating dancers for his missing daughter. A group of seasoned ravers reveal to them that a final event will be taking place in another desert location, and they follow the revellers across the barren wastes towards this last party, only to be confronted by their own existential limits.
Despite bigger films playing at this years’ Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s Sirât was the one which garnered the most discussion, with many cinema-goers leaving the screen shaken by what they had experienced. And what an experience it is! To say too much about the film itself would be sacrilege, but it is safe to say that Sirát pitches itself as an enthralling journey film, bringing to mind other masterpieces of the genre, such as William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, whilst remaining completely fresh and quite unlike anything you have seen before. A deserving winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, it demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible, with its thundering soundtrack by Berlin electronic producer Kangding Ray bringing you into the thick of the moment with every heavy, pulsing beat.
Saturday November 15th

Cork Lens: IFI Cork on Camera
In association with the Irish Film Institute (IFI) we present two films adapted from the work of the great Cork author, Frank O’Connor.82 Mins, Ireland, Cork, Cert: Club
Showing Saturday 15th @ 2:30pm
To Book your Ticket Click Link: Cork Lens: IFI Cork on Camera - Cork International Film Festival
Born Michael Francis O'Donovan on Douglas Street in 1903, O’Connor was a prolific writer and translator, having published novels, poetry and journalism. It is as a short story writer he has earned an international reputation. Much of his writing was shaped by his impoverished Cork childhood and his experiences of the Civil War.
Preceding these will be a screening of newly discovered film from the Festival archives, covering the 10th edition of the Cork International Film Festival. Directed by Cork County librarian and local historian Pádraig Ó Maidín, it captures the great and the good on the red carpet as well as pulling back the curtains on the behind the scenes activities.
It Was Just an Accident (Yek tasadof-e sadeh)
Showing Saturday 15th @ 5pm
102 mins, Iran, France, Luxembourg Cert: Club
Director: Jafar PANAHI
Trailer: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Trailer
To Book you Tickets Click here : It Was Just an Accident (Yek tasadof-e sadeh) - Cork International Film Festival
A man, nicknamed Eghbal, is driving at night with his wife and daughter when he hits and kills a dog. The accident badly damages his engine and causes the car to later break down. He pulls over to a nearby garage, encountering a former political prisoner named Vahid, who recognizes the squeaking sound of Eghbal's prosthetic leg as that of an intelligence officer who tortured him in prison and caused him permanent kidney damage.
Winner of the 2025 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.