On this evening, Mary Manning’s daughters—Fanny Howe, Helen Howe, and Susan Howe—will introduce a rare screening of three films Manning helped realize. Two were made under the banner of Irish Amateur Films: Screening in the Rain, a brief portrait of several members of the Gate Theatre, taken at the company’s annual garden party, and a surviving fragment of By Accident, a narrative shot around Dublin that showcases IAF’s focus on advanced montage techniques and innovative cinematography. Also featured is the now-classic Guests of the Nation. Adapted by Manning from a story by Frank O’Connor, and set during the Irish War of Independence in 1921, it concerns two IRA soldiers who develop an unlikely friendship with British prisoners under their watch.