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Social Pictures: A special screening of ‘Empire of Light’ in the Stella


By Sarah Gill
04th Jan 2023

Andres Poveda

Social Pictures: A special screening of ‘Empire of Light’ in the Stella

In the run up to the Christmas holidays, the Stella cinema in Rathmines played host to a very special screening of Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light.

Take a look at who stepped out for this premiere screening of Empire of Light ahead of its Irish release on Monday, 9 January.

When was it?

Tuesday, 20 December.

Where was it?

The Stella Cinema, Rathmines, Dublin.

Why were we there?

Ahead of its release in Irish cinemas on Monday, 9 January, The Stella Cinema hosted an exclusive screening for a select few back in December.

Empire of Light, from Searchlight Productions, is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. From Academy Award-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, the film is set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.

Starring Olivia Colman as a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Micheal Ward as a new employee who longs to escape this provincial town in which he faces daily adversity, both characters find a sense of belonging through their unlikely and tender relationship.

Take a look at the trailer below…

Empire of Light
Doireann Ní Bhriain and Andy Pollak
Empire of Light
Brenda Fricker
Femi Bankole and Simba Bianchi

To see who else attended this special screening of ‘Empire of Light’, browse through the gallery below…

Photography by Andres Poveda.