IFI International: October 2025 Director: Book cinema tickets 1-5 October // Dinard Festival du Film Britannique et Irlandais | Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film // Spilt Milk + Q&A with director Brian Durnin, actor Naoise Kelly, producer Laura McNicholas, Aontas + Q&A with director Damian McCann, actor Bríd Brennan, Christy + Q&A with actor Diarmuid Noyes, Oddity, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, A Want in Her, Testimony // Le théâtre Debussy, Auditorium Stephan Bouttet, Emeraude Cinéma Dinard, Le Balneum, Cinéma Le Familial de Saint-Lunaire, Dinard, France 3-5 October // Hartlepool Folk Festival // O’Donoghue’s Opera + Q&A with director Sé Merry Doyle // Borough Hall, Hartlepool, UK 9-19 October // Sitges Film Festival | Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya // Seven Chances section: The Outcasts [restoration] // Cinema Escorxador, Sitges, Spain 9 October – 9 November // Irish Film Festival Australia // Fran the Man, Froggie, Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man, Fidil Ghorm [The Blue Fiddle], Housewife of the Year, Bring Them Down, In Time – Dónal Lunny, Christy, A Want in Her, Kathleen is Here, Mrs Robinson, Dead Man’s Money. Online only: Never Stop the Action, The Spin, Chasing the Light, David Keenan – Focal ar Chanbhás // Chauvel Cinema, Sydney [9-12 October], Palace Barracks, Brisbane [17-19 October], The Kino, Melbourne [23-26 October], Palace Electric, Canberra [31 October – 2 November], Palace Raine, Perth [7-9 November], and a selection of films online across Australia from 9 October – 9 November in association with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). 10 October // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg in collaboration with CinEast // Sanatorium // Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg 30 October // Vancouver International Film Festival presents Samhain: Roots of Halloween // The Outcasts [restoration] // VIFF Centre, Vancouver, Canada // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Vancouver The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland. Director: