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TIRO FILM CLUB
A cosy, mini‑cinema night for cultured people who love great films as much as great food, wine and conversation.
Reserve a spot online, come hungry and curious, and we’ll take care of the rest. Watch essential films about things that truly matter - from food systems, the fashion industry, natural wine, music & arthouse to the importance of supporting tribal people. TIRO film club screenings aim to educate and inspire you to action.
TIRO Film Club is where Westport’s film lovers, wine geeks and curious minds meet under one small roof. Hosted in The Gallery – Ireland’s hidden‑gem natural wine and vinyl bar – it fuses thoughtful cinema with organic, low‑intervention wines, local food and that unmistakable cosy, upcycled Gallery atmosphere. Expect surprising pairings, from quietly powerful indie films to joyful classics, always shown with care and intention.
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“Eskawatã Kayawai – The Spirit of Transformation” is a 2023 documentary about the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) people of the western Brazilian Amazon and their cultural–spiritual rebirth after decades of colonization, slavery, and suppression.
“Eskawatã” is described as “transformation,” especially in a spiritual and cultural sense linked to Huni Kuin traditions and to their work with sacred plants such as ayahuasca.
The phrase “Eskawatã Kayawai” is used as a guiding concept for inner and collective change, aligning human life with nature, ancestral wisdom, and more harmonious ways of living.
Film focus and story
The phrase “Eskawatã Kayawai” is used as a guiding concept for inner and collective change, aligning human life with nature, ancestral wisdom, and more harmonious ways of living.
Film focus and story
- It follows the Huni Kuin as they revive language, rituals, and ceremonies that had been prohibited or heavily repressed during earlier waves of colonisation and extractive exploitation.
- The film documents ceremonies, daily forest life, and the role of sacred medicines as tools for healing, identity, and community strength.
- The directors (Lara Jacoski and Patrick Dequech) frame the movie as a long-term, relational project made over several years, more like a shared lived process than an external “report.”
- Cultural renaissance: the Huni Kuin’s rapid recovery of ancestral practices over roughly two decades, after generations of forced assimilation and violence.
- Spiritual ecology: seeing the forest as a living intelligence and entering ceremonies as dialogue with the land and the “spiritual intelligences” of plants like ayahuasca.
- Responsibility and reciprocity: the filmmakers emphasise not treating Indigenous knowledge as an extractive resource but approaching it with humility, respect, and reciprocity.
- Message to the wider world: the story is presented as a beacon for other Indigenous communities and for non-Indigenous societies seeking to reconnect with roots, community, and the Earth.
Cousins Jamie Mackenzie and Ben Wylson set off on an extraordinary three year adventure; without knowhow or training they attempt to ride bicycles on every continent without using airplanes...
On their absurd mission, Jamie and Ben battle through landslides and over mountains; they traverse deserts and somehow hitch lifts across all of the world's great oceans. Surviving near fatal accidents, life threatening illness and even becoming the first to cycle in the desolate East Antarctic; it seems nothing can stop them...
In this compelling story of friendship, through shier perseverance and indomitable spirit, Jamie and Ben visit 35 countries, and in so doing change the course of their lives... forever.
Free Wheels East is a feature length documentary which tells the story of a truly global adventure. Astonishingly this film was stitched together from just 24 hours of footage that Ben and Jamie shot on the road, and an interview filmed in 2009.
This in-house film also includes a score written and played on a guitar carried with them on their journey.
Peter Coyote (Narrator), Jamie Mackenzie, Ben Wylson
Jack Wylson Official selection Newport Beach International Film Festival (California)
"A 21st-century adventure story that really happened and actually worked, and makes the financial consultants look silly in a way that Occupy Wall Street can’t quite accomplish." - The Japan Times
On their absurd mission, Jamie and Ben battle through landslides and over mountains; they traverse deserts and somehow hitch lifts across all of the world's great oceans. Surviving near fatal accidents, life threatening illness and even becoming the first to cycle in the desolate East Antarctic; it seems nothing can stop them...
In this compelling story of friendship, through shier perseverance and indomitable spirit, Jamie and Ben visit 35 countries, and in so doing change the course of their lives... forever.
Free Wheels East is a feature length documentary which tells the story of a truly global adventure. Astonishingly this film was stitched together from just 24 hours of footage that Ben and Jamie shot on the road, and an interview filmed in 2009.
This in-house film also includes a score written and played on a guitar carried with them on their journey.
Peter Coyote (Narrator), Jamie Mackenzie, Ben Wylson
Jack Wylson Official selection Newport Beach International Film Festival (California)
"A 21st-century adventure story that really happened and actually worked, and makes the financial consultants look silly in a way that Occupy Wall Street can’t quite accomplish." - The Japan Times
THE NETTLE DRESS
A feature documentary by Dylan Howitt
This is a deeply moving and gentle film, a meditation on life, family and love, Tom screened the Irish Premiere of this film in 2025 to a small, intimate audience, all were mesmerised and touched by its authenticity and softness.
Allan Brown makes a dress by hand just from the fibre of foraged stinging nettles over 7 years.
A modern day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
Our film is a handspun labour of love too and follows him every step of the way.
'This is an exquisite film. Extremely beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief. An inspiration'. Sir Mark Rylance
A feature documentary by Dylan Howitt
This is a deeply moving and gentle film, a meditation on life, family and love, Tom screened the Irish Premiere of this film in 2025 to a small, intimate audience, all were mesmerised and touched by its authenticity and softness.
Allan Brown makes a dress by hand just from the fibre of foraged stinging nettles over 7 years.
A modern day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
Our film is a handspun labour of love too and follows him every step of the way.
'This is an exquisite film. Extremely beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief. An inspiration'. Sir Mark Rylance
YINTAH - meaning “land” - is a feature-length documentary on the Wet’suwet’en fight for sovereignty.
Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.
YINTAH is about an anti-colonial resurgence—a fierce and ongoing fight for Indigenous and human rights in the face of a colonial government committed to seizing lands at gunpoint.
Wet’suwet’en land is unceded: There is no treaty, no bill of sale, or no surrender placing the land under Canadian authority. In 1997, the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ (Hereditary Chiefs) of the Wet’suwet’en people proved in Canada’s top court that they had never given up ownership to 22,000km2 of land.
Yet, despite this court ruling, Canada has authorized fossil fuel giants to build pipelines across Wet’suwet’en land. The result: a decade long clash between Wet’suwet’en land defenders and Canadian police seeking to seize Wet’suwet’en land at gunpoint.
YINTAH is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Freda, Molly, and the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ are part of a centuries-long fight to protect their children, culture, and land from colonial violence. For the Wet’suwet’en, their very future is at stake.
Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.
YINTAH is about an anti-colonial resurgence—a fierce and ongoing fight for Indigenous and human rights in the face of a colonial government committed to seizing lands at gunpoint.
Wet’suwet’en land is unceded: There is no treaty, no bill of sale, or no surrender placing the land under Canadian authority. In 1997, the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ (Hereditary Chiefs) of the Wet’suwet’en people proved in Canada’s top court that they had never given up ownership to 22,000km2 of land.
Yet, despite this court ruling, Canada has authorized fossil fuel giants to build pipelines across Wet’suwet’en land. The result: a decade long clash between Wet’suwet’en land defenders and Canadian police seeking to seize Wet’suwet’en land at gunpoint.
YINTAH is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Freda, Molly, and the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ are part of a centuries-long fight to protect their children, culture, and land from colonial violence. For the Wet’suwet’en, their very future is at stake.