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film · Wednesday 15 July 2026 · 7:30pm 
The Secret Agent - Solstice Arts Centre Navan
At Solstice Arts Centre · Railway Street, Navan, Co. Meath
At Solstice Arts Centre · Railway Street, Navan, Co. Meath
ACCESS Cinema brings one of the most decorated films of 2025 to Solstice Arts Centre in Navan for a single Wednesday evening screening. The Secret Agent swept the Cannes Film Festival, collecting Best Director and Best Actor prizes - the festival’s most awarded film of the year - and it lands in Co. Meath as part of a summer strand that has been bringing subtitled world cinema to mid-Ireland every Wednesday since May. If you like intelligent political thrillers with serious filmmaking behind them, this is the kind of night out that is hard to find outside Dublin or Cork.
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent is set in Recife, Brazil, during Carnival 1977 - one of the darkest years of the military dictatorship. Wagner Moura plays Marcelo, a man on the run from the regime who is placed in a safe house by a resistance network and given cover work in a government ID office. The premise is taut from the start: every interaction is a potential trap, every colleague a possible informant. Critics have called it a “weird and wonderful political thriller” that grafts 1970s conspiracy-film tension onto sobering historical fact. Moura’s performance - which won him the Best Actor prize at Cannes - has been described as complex and deeply sympathetic, carrying the film’s nearly three-hour runtime without ever losing grip.
The film is in Portuguese with English subtitles. Certificate 15A, running time 161 minutes. It is worth noting that The Secret Agent is also Brazil’s official submission for the Academy Awards, so this screening comes with genuine international pedigree attached.
Tickets for this screening can also form part of the Solstice ACCESS Cinema season bundle: book four or more films from the May to August 2026 programme and the price drops to €6.50 per film.
Solstice Arts Centre sits on Railway Street in Navan town centre, a short walk from the main bus stop. Bus Éireann routes connect Navan to Dublin, Drogheda, and other Meath towns, and the journey from Dublin takes roughly an hour on the 109 or 109X services. If you are driving, Navan is on the N3 and there is on-street parking close to the arts centre, along with car parks within easy walking distance of Railway Street.
Navan is Meath’s county town, set at the meeting of the Boyne and Blackwater rivers, and the area around the arts centre has a good few spots for a drink or a bite before a 7.30pm showing. There is more to see in Navan and across Co. Meath.
Heading to Solstice Arts Centre in Navan? Meath has plenty more to see. Read the Navan area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.