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The Linenhall Arts Centre’s season of world cinema continues with a screening of the Brazilian coming-of-age film The Way He Looks this Tuesday (February 24) at 8pm.

Athlone Film Club will screen We Are the Best! next Tuesday October 21 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

Athlone Film Club will screen The Lunchbox in the Dean Crowe Theatre on Tuesday September 23 at 8pm. This is a funny and touching comedy-drama from first-time writer-director Ritesh Batra. Join fellow film enthusiasts for a glass of wine from 7.30pm.

Sound+Vision, Ballina’s annual film festival, returns this year celebrate music in film once again. Through a week-long programme of film screenings and other events, Sound+Vision this year celebrates the music of Generation X – the 1990s youth culture phenomenon. When American author Douglas Coupland published his debut novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture in 1991, he was inadvertently labelling the coming decade’s generation of alienated, disaffected young adults. His book sought to capture an ennui which became something of a zeitgeist for the period. This culture of the Generation X ‘slacker’ found a musical voice in the guise of grunge – a musical hybrid inspired by punk rock, heavy metal and indie rock, and characterised by contrasting song dynamics and apathetic or angst-filled lyrics.

FOLLOWING HOT on the heels of their box office smash, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Truman Town Theatre returns to the Town Hall with another darkly hilarious play, Shortcut to Hallelujah, written and directed, like its predecessor, by Mick Donnellan.

Want to see a film with a difference? Well Athlone Film Club’s penultimate screening of the season on Tuesday March 29 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre is just that. The British film, Skeletons (2010), is a black humoured and quirky tale about exorcism.

ON FEBRUARY 1 1996, at the Town Hall theatre, Druid presented the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s Beauty Queen Of Leenane thereby launching one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers in modern theatre.