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An award-winning Irish film is to be given its British cinema premiere this week.

Garage is the second offering from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran — the team behind the black comedy Adam & Paul.

A landmark in Irish cinema, the film is a beautifully portrayed drama interspersed with razor sharp shards of black humour, with acutely observed characters that leave a lasting impression.

Staring Irish comedian Pat Shortt as a well-meaning misfit and petrol station attendant Josie, Garage is the story of a man’s hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever.

The film, much of which was shot in a small Co. Tipperary town, won the CICAE Award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and also picked up prizes in Dinard, Monte Carlo and Turin.

Garage opens on March 7 in London at the Curzon in Soho, the Gate in Notting Hill and at the Clapham Picturehouse.

It will also show at the Showroom in Sheffield, the Watershed in Bristol, Glasgow’s Film Theatre and the Queens Film Theatre in Belfast.