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Experience the best in Independent and world film in a fully digital cinema based in the unique surroundings of a stunningly refurbished 1700s neo-classical church. Triskel Arts Centre in the heart of Cork city screens two titles each week with additional special events, film strands such as Experimental Film, Horror and monthly Shorts.

  • Tickets for films rated ’12A’ and ’15A’ can be purchased for persons under the ages of 12 and 15 only if accompanied by an adult guardian (of 18 years or older).
  • Tickets for films rated ’16’ can be purchased by and for persons of 16 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
  • Tickets for films rated ’18’ can be purchased by and for persons of 18 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
  • Tickets for films rated ‘NC’ can be purchased by members only, of 18 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required). Members must be over 18 years of age to attend films rated ‘NC’.

We encourage everyone to purchase tickets online in advance but, if you’d prefer to purchase in person, check out this week’s Box Office Opening Hours. We would appreciate contactless payment where possible.

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Tickets Pricing

Ticket prices before 5pm*:
Full: €7.50
With Annual Membership: €6.50
Child (under 14): €6.50

Ticket prices 5pm and after:
Full: €10.50
With Annual Membership: €8
Child (under 14): €8

We encourage everyone to purchase tickets online in advance but, if you’d prefer to purchase in person, check out this week’s Box Office Opening Hours. We would appreciate contactless payment where possible.

*Triskel may adjust these prices in special circumstances

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Cinema Membership

If you love films, then Triskel Cinema Membership is a must for you. Members benefits include:

  • Reduced standard ticket prices
  • No fees on non-cert titles
  • Invitation to special screenings and events
  • Exclusive membership newsletter
  • A free screening after every eight attended (full annual membership only)
  • Treat one guest per screening to your membership rates (full annual membership only)
  • Free 90-day subscription to MUBI

Full: €20 – purchase now
Student*: Free (sign up with valid student ID)
Silver*: Free (for over 65s)
Unwaged*: Free (for jobseekers)

* Sign up in person at Triskel Box Office

Terms and conditions

  • Card is valid for 12 months from date of purchase.
  • Titles, times, dates and prices subject to change.
  • Management reserves the right to refuse admission.
  • Membership can be revoked if not used in line with our terms and conditions.
  • Membership is non-transferrable.
  • Full Membership can be purchased online. All other memberships need to be obtained at our Box Office. Please note, we do not process memberships in the 30 minutes prior to a screening.
  • Presentation of membership card and valid ID needed to purchase tickets and enter auditorium.
  • Membership prices does not extend to satellite broadcasting events.
  • Membership price can be extended to one guest per screening (full annual membership only).
  • One free ticket earned for every eight (full annual membership only).
  • Use of recording devices is forbidden.
  • Tickets for films rated ’12A’ and ’15A’ can be purchased for persons under the ages of 12 and 15 only if accompanied by an adult guardian (of 18 years or older).
  • Tickets for films rated ’16’ can be purchased by and for persons of 16 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
  • Tickets for films rated ’18’ can be purchased by and for persons of 18 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
  • Tickets for films rated ‘NC’ can be purchased by members only, of 18 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
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Charulata

Basant Festival

119 mins – India 1964 – Subtitles 
Director: Satyajit Ray
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee and Shailen Mukherjee

Set in late 19-century Bengal, CHARULATA boasts a marvellously vital Victorian heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously bored.
Racing from window to window in her vast, ornate mansion, Charulata spies hungrily on the outside world through opera glasses. Her wealthy husband Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee), the high-minded editor of a political journal, is too preoccupied with the latest tax legislation and the forthcoming English election (Disraeli v Gladstone) to pay much attention to his wife. Somewhat unwisely, he invites his charming younger cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee, who previously starred in Ray’s The World of Apu) to come and keep her company. An aspiring writer who shares Charulata’s passion for poetry, Amal is keen to encourage her literary talent…
This is a household of seething, suppressed emotions, subtly revealed by Subrata Mitra’s eloquent camera. A richly atmospheric soundtrack – bird song, horses’ hooves, the cry of the kulfi vendor – evokes the wider world, while Ray’s wistful score and the romantic songs beloved of Charulata and Amal heighten the sense of longing.
Adapted from a 1901 novella, Nastanirh (The Broken Nest) by the great Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, CHARULATA was described by its director as “the one film I would make the same way if I had to do it again”.
Enthusiastically received at home and abroad, CHARULATA was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Direction at the Berlin Film Festival of 1965. Fifty years on, this big screen revival should not be missed.
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119 mins – India 1964 – Subtitles 
Director: Satyajit Ray
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee and Shailen Mukherjee

Set in late 19-century Bengal, CHARULATA boasts a marvellously vital Victorian heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously bored.
Racing from window to window in her vast, ornate mansion, Charulata spies hungrily on the outside world through opera glasses. Her wealthy husband Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee), the high-minded editor of a political journal, is too preoccupied with the latest tax legislation and the forthcoming English election (Disraeli v Gladstone) to pay much attention to his wife. Somewhat unwisely, he invites his charming younger cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee, who previously starred in Ray’s The World of Apu) to come and keep her company. An aspiring writer who shares Charulata’s passion for poetry, Amal is keen to encourage her literary talent…
This is a household of seething, suppressed emotions, subtly revealed by Subrata Mitra’s eloquent camera. A richly atmospheric soundtrack – bird song, horses’ hooves, the cry of the kulfi vendor – evokes the wider world, while Ray’s wistful score and the romantic songs beloved of Charulata and Amal heighten the sense of longing.
Adapted from a 1901 novella, Nastanirh (The Broken Nest) by the great Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, CHARULATA was described by its director as “the one film I would make the same way if I had to do it again”.
Enthusiastically received at home and abroad, CHARULATA was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Direction at the Berlin Film Festival of 1965. Fifty years on, this big screen revival should not be missed.
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An exquisitely traced drama of repressed desire, set in 1880 and shot in glowing, graphic black and white.
The Times (UK)

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