Brian Moore in Focus

Adaptation has focused  on many outstanding Irish writers over the years, starting with John McGahern in 2005. Covid may have ruled out a celebration in his centenary year of 2021 but Brian Moore (1921-1999) , the Belfast writer of some twenty novels, is long overdue a revisit. For our opening film, we have tracked down a recently remastered version of the film Black Robe (1991) from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.

Side-by-side with this focus, Adaptation present a more mixed and nuanced programme than previous years, led as much by contemporary work as by archive,  with new sections on Poetry into Film; the work of Classic Authors such as Synge and Joyce receiving new adaptations; new Irish cinema in An Cailín Ciúin and Foscadh and a healthy representation of practitioners from the North West across the programme, on both sides of the camera including Donal O’Kelly (Kings), Gary Lydon (An Encounter),  Siobhán Dooney (Korea), Carrie Crowley (An Cailin Ciúin), Sandra O’Malley, John Carty and Ciarán McCauley (In The Shadow of the Glen).