Irish Film Institute -Director Rebecca Daly talks about the writing process behind The Other Side Of Sleep

Director Rebecca Daly talks about the writing process behind The Other Side Of Sleep

‘The script started with a newspaper article about a young woman’s body that was found wrapped in a duvet in Northern Ireland. This image of the duvet around a body and a visual confusion between sleep and death stuck, and… Read More

IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Behold the Lamb

IFI Press Release    – 29th February 2012

IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Behold the Lamb, a new darkly comic feature from Northern Ireland

12pm, 11th March 2012

This debut feature from shorts filmmaker, writer and theatre director John McIlduff… Read More

The Curious Case of Laura

‘Though frequently described as a “classic film noir”, Otto Preminger’s Laura is, in fact, a strange and almost unclassifiable hybrid: part whodunit, part high society melodrama, part police procedural – all blended together with just a dash of necrophiliac obsession to… Read More

Waiting for Margaret

While promoting The Iron Lady in Berlin earlier this month, Oscar-winner Meryl Streep bemoaned the shortcomings of the awards season and its lamentable tendency to ultimately focus upon a very narrow field of contenders – a damn shame, it should… Read More

Francophonie 2012

IFI Press Release 27th February 2012  March 4th- 31st 2012  

To mark this annual celebration of the French language and highlight the thriving culture of French language filmmaking, the IFI is delighted to present the three films  as part… Read More

IFI Education’s Animation Evening Course

IFI Press Release                                                                                                                              23rd February 2012

The Irish Film Institute presents Drawing Pictures, an adult evening course on the history of animation

March 6th, 13th, 20th  & 27th 6.30 – 8.30 pm

It’s an exciting time for Irish animation, with… Read More

Fastnet Films: A Runaway Success

IFI Press Release                                                                                                  21st February 2012

 

A season of Fastnet Films at the IFI with special guests including Jim Sheridan, Lance Daly and Rebecca Daly.

 

Dublin-based Fastnet Films, consisting of producers Macdara Kelleher and Morgan Bushe, plus… Read More

David Kelly condolences

It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of David Kelly, one of Ireland’s best loved, most delightful characters – both on and off the screen.  To international audiences he embodied a quintessential Irish rogue – a… Read More

Rebecca Daly’s ‘The Other Side of Sleep’ set for nationwide release

Truly haunting’ – The Guardian

Nominated for Best Director and Best Actress at the 2012 Irish Film and Television Awards

First Irish film by an Irish woman to be included in the Cannes Film Festival

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