Date: 20/06/2008
Time: 20:00
Producer: Riverside Studios
Price: £6.50, 7.50
Get ready to find home.
Bring along a map.
Surf to http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1208342483
See you at Riverside Studios [Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W6 9RL]

Irish Film Season 2008: 'King' at the Riverside Studios
A beautifully shot depiction of the isolation felt by long-term migrants who struggle to find a place to call home. Kings is a story of a lost generation, rich in humanity and emotion.

A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie’s five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced to face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home. Tom Collins’s long awaited, tender film speaks directly to the dispossessed and disenfranchised who fill our city streets, to those with nowhere they feel they can really call home and shows us that what we can call home is always much closer than we think.


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