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Next up for Westport Flim Club is the 2012 Oscar nominated film, Monsieur Lazhar. This film is in the French language with English subtitles. Based on Evelyne de la Cheneliere’s 2002 one man play Bachir Lazhar, Monsieur Lazhar is a touching exploration of deep and painful issues such as death, injustice, and grief, which are carefully handled by director Philippe Falardeau with a gentle sensitivity and maturity that results in a moving film. Following the tragic suicide of a popular teacher in a Montreal public grade school, Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar presents himself at the principal’s office as a candidate for her replacement, claiming to have 19 years’ teaching experience. Immediately likeable, with his warm smile and kind eyes, Bachir’s character is compassionate and complex, ultimately helping his class come to terms with what has happened, allowing them to develop not only academically, but also emotionally.

Athlone Film Club’s new season starts off on a high note on Tuesday September 18 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre, with the captivating French Canadian film, Monsieur Lazhar.

The season of mellow fruitfulness is upon us again and it is time for the Linenhall Film Club to extend a warm welcome to cinephiles old and new. Kicking off an autumn programme full of goodies on Tuesday, September 18, is the uplifting and highly acclaimed Canadian film Monsieur Lazhar. After the suicide of a popular teacher at a Montreal school, the eponymous Monsieur Lazhar shows up at the stressed head’s office and is appointed as the class’s substitute teacher. A man of dignity and compassion, with his old-school methods Lazhar turns out to be an excellent teacher, bringing emotional stability to pupils troubled by the earlier events, but as the film unfolds his own tragic circumstances as a refugee from his native Algeria are revealed, in a film nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Oscars.

A Monster Christmas Bingo will take place at Ballina Community Sports Centre on Monday December 12 at 8.30pm.

INSPIRED BY a true story, 50/50 features Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, starring as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis.

IN 1910 New York’s Kalem Film Company made history by sending its leading filmmakers - director Sidney Olcott and screenwriter/actress Gene Gauntier - to County Kerry.

The Irish Wheelchair Association will host a monster Easter bingo on Sunday April 17 in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet starting at 8pm.

On October 31 the Western Care Association Halloween Monster Bingo will take place in the Royal Theatre and Event Centre.

THE CANADIAN author and actor Joel Hynes will be in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Wednesday October 27 at 6pm to talk about and sign copies of his novel Down To The Dirt.

Audiences are in for a rare treat with the Puppet State Company’s adaptation of The Man Who Planted Trees which comes to Castlebar’s Linenhall Arts Centre on Friday October 22 and Saturday October 23 for the RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival. An engaging blend of comedy, puppetry, and inspiring storytelling, this beautiful show has become a regular feature in the fringe programme of UK and Scottish festivals, selling out and winning awards for the last two years.