Since 2016, the CICAE has organised the European Arthouse Cinema Day, celebrating arthouse cinemas around the world, their audiences, and of course, European films. With the goal of introducing the diversity of European films to new audiences and promoting local arthouse cinemas as community hubs, the EACD supports cinemas in developing exciting new programmes designed to boost film literacy and awareness, so European films reach the audiences they deserve.

This year’s European Arthouse Cinema Day 2024 was made possible with the collaboration of the Embassy of Ireland in Malta, the Embassy of France in Malta and the Alliance Francaise de Malte-Méditerranée. The European Arthouse Cinema Day is organised by CICAE, the International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas

Sunday, November 17, 2024, 5.00pm
I dream in photos

Duration: 1 hour 20 mins
Language: English

This documentary profile explores the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton, who quit “the best job in the world” at the peak of his career aged just 40. As chief photographer for Reuters in India, McNaughton travelled extensively in Asia covering news stories of world importance. His photographs of the exiled Rohingya Muslims secured him the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 2018.

We find Cathal now living a monastic life in a fisherman’s cottage in Cushendall, Co. Antrim. His obsession with his art drove him away from his family and son. As he rebuilds personal relationships, he is challenged by the demons of his past. Directed by Gary Lennon (A Doctor’s Sword, Castro’s Spies) and Ollie Aslin, this documentary considers Cathal’s 25-year-long body of work and the importance of photojournalism in a world saturated by social media and fake news.

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Sunday, November 17, 2024, 7.30pm

De Gaulle

Language: French with English subtitles

Duration: 1 hour 50 mins

Certification: 15

1940. De Gaulle opposes Pétain because he wants to continue the military offensive. In Colombey, his wife Yvonne is forced to leave. The family knows the routes of the exodus to Brittany. As the armistice looms, de Gaulle chooses to leave for London, where Churchill, who becomes an ally, allows him to speak to the BBC on 18 June. Yvonne and Charles eventually found themselves, after a long journey, in the London capital.

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