IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025: ONCE WE WERE PUNKS + Q&A Director: Frank Shouldice 96 mins, Ireland, 2025, Digital Book cinema tickets DUBLIN PREMIERE 1980s Bailieboro, Co Cavan, four school friends form a punk band and set their sights on world domination. When the big breakthrough never comes, careers, adulthood, and emigration intervene. But when they meet up at a funeral 25 years later they pick up where they left off. Frank Shouldice (The Man Who Wanted to Fly) has found another bunch of witty Cavan men to beguile us as they reignite friendships and revisit their musical youth. The screening on Friday, September 12th will be followed by a Q&A with Frank Shouldice & Band Members. The screening on Monday, September 15th will be introduced by Frank Shouldice & Band Members. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn. Screening as part of the IFI Documentary Festival 2025. Director: Frank Shouldice 96 mins, Ireland, 2025, Digital