Pavilion Theatre proudly presents a brand new 15-week season of Monday Night Cinema, featuring an unmissable selection of titles from revered directors and exciting newcomers.

Best Film, Boulder International Film Festival 2026

Irish director John Carney’s (Once, Sing Street) delightful new film stars Paul Rudd as a wedding singer whose song is turned into a hit by Nick Jonas’s ex-boyband heartthrob - without giving any credit.

Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2025

Writer-director Rohan Kanawade provides a fascinating insight into funeral traditions and cultural practices in rural India, alongside a sensitive exploration of loss, class and forbidden love.

★★★★★ Irish Examiner

A heartfelt portrait of resilience and human connection in the wake of a wildfire in the rural US, starring The Crown’s Josh O’Connor alongside Meghann Fahy and Amy Madigan.

3 Wins & 3 Noms., David di Donatello Awards 2026

World-renowned opera director Damiano Michieletto dramatises Antonio Vivaldi’s time as resident composer and violin teacher in Venice, from the perspective of a gifted female student.

★★★★★ The Guardian

Sarah Friedland’s elegant, gentle and surprisingly funny debut feature follows Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), an older woman experiencing the onset of dementia who is moved to a care facility.

Best Makeup & Hairstyling Nominee, Oscars 2026

The highest-grossing Japanese live action film of all time, Kokuho is an epic drama about friendship, love and the often punishing cost of fame and ambition in the cutthroat world of elite kabuki theatre.

★★★★★ The Times

The new thriller from Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) dramatises a real-world kidnapping incident from 1977, with an all-star cast including Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino.

Palme d’Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival 2025

Acclaimed Spanish director Carla Simón (Summer 1993) once again brings her distinctive style to this intimate, intelligent and compelling coming-of-age drama, set on Spain’s Atlantic coast.

This tense, intelligent wartime drama revisits one of the most pivotal moments in World War II, the D-Day landings and the role of meteorologist Gp Capt. James Stagg (Andrew Scott) in planning them.

★★★★★ Irish Independent

This accomplished film from Pauline Loquès is a thoughtful and empathetic drama following a young man reckoning with a cancer diagnosis as he roams Paris meeting friends, family and strangers who are unaware of his news.

Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2025

Part adventure film, part dystopian sci-fi and part coming of (old) age story, The Blue Trail is the vibrant and playful new film from acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull, Divine Love).

★★★★½ Le Figaro

Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, the directors of the hit comedy-drama The Intouchables, return with this funny and charming study of family life in 1980s Paris.

Palme d’Or & Queer Palm Nominee, Cannes 2026

With his new film, Pedro Almodóvar appears to have made one of his most candid and self-reflective works yet… or has he? Another delightfully twisty and playful addition to the Spanish master’s oeuvre.