7 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // The G // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

21 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // That They May Face the Rising Sun // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

27 February – 2 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Opening night gala: Mrs Robinson + Q&A with ​President Mary Robinson moderated by ​author​ Caitríona Palmer | Welcome by ​Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason. Post-screening reception sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland, Washington, DC. Kneecap, Burkitt, Don’t Forget to Remember + Q&A with director Ross Killeen, Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat, The Wise Guy, Travel Socks [Norman Houston Short Film Award] with welcome by Richard Cushnie, Director of the Northern Ireland Bureau, North America; post-screening reception sponsored by the Northern Ireland Bureau. Amongst The Wolves, Cumha, Birdsong + Q&A with director Kathleen Harris, The Irish Question + Q&A with director Alan Gilsenan and writer John Walsh, David Keenan – Focla ar Chanbás’ + Q&A with director Paddy Hayes & musician David Keenan in conversation with Pete Danelski from Eaton, DC. Dead Man’s Money + Q&A writer and director Paul Kennedy & actor Ciarán McMenamin in conversation with Solas Nua Artistic Director of Theatre Rex Daugherty, Fréwaka + Q&A with director Aislinn Clarke in conversation with Solas Nua CIFF Associate Producer Mary Turkot. Fidil Ghorm [Blue Fiddle] + special guest, actor Edith Lawlor. Housewife of the Year, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story. Closing night gala: Kathleen is Here, welcome by Ireland’s Deputy Ambassador to the United States, Fionnuala Quinlan, + Q&A with writer-director Eva Birthistle and actor Hazel Doupe in conversation with Festival Director, Maedhbh Mc Cullagh, followed by closing festival reception.

Shorts Program 1: After the Bomb, Earmark, Operation Pablo, To Break a Circle, Nay Day, Echo, Kiki, Dadboy
Shorts Program 2: Two Mothers, The Final Chapter, Findlater, West of the Horizon, Dear Imelda, Turnaround, The Innkeeper
Shorts Program 3: Clodagh, A Wind and the Shadow, The Memories of Others, Peat, Yellow Belt, Room Taken. // AFI Silver, Silver Spring, Washington, USA

27 February – 9 March [In-Person: 27 February – 2 March, Online: 3-9 March] // Chicago Irish Film Festival // Dead Man’s Money + Q&Q with director Paul Kennedy and actor Ciarán McMenamin, Fidil Ghorm [The Blue Fiddle] + Q&A with actor-musician Edith Lawlor, David Keenan – Focla ar Chanbás’ + director Paddy Hayes and musician-artist David Keenan, Chasing the Light, Billy Caldwell + The Great Lakes Treaty, Mrs Robinson + Q&A with former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Laoch: Defy the Odds + Q&A with powerlifter Tommy McCague and director Stephan Mazurek, Kathleen is Here + Q&A with director Eva Birthistle, The Outcasts [restoration], The Spin, Housewife of the Year, Four Mothers, The Irish Question + Q&A with director Alan Gilsenan.

Shorts 1: Decisions: She Said ReJoyce, Letter, Next, We’re Blood, Worried, Sick, Vinny, Polished, #bog, The Wilde Sisters
Shorts 2: What Others Think: Dublin Short, Breakfast Roll, Packrat, A Lady of Paris, Kiki, The Big City, Settle Yourself, The Last of the Handweavers
Shorts 3: Voices: Turnaround, All That’s Carried, The Carer, Remote Strutting, Eldritch Karaoke, Dead on Arrival, Mir, Two Mothers, I Found a Place
Shorts 4: Beginnings: Peat, Beyond the System, Tough Love, Shadow Fable, Cat & Mouse, Homebird, A Simple Killing, An Ode to Tony MacMahon’s Den, Room Taken
// AMC Theatres: Newcity, and online // Chicago, USA

Online programme, 3-9 March: Ann, Lie of the Land, Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini. Shorts 1: People and Places: Dublin Short, An Ode to Tony MacMahon’s Den, Kiki, A Lady of Paris, The Big City, Breakfast Roll
Shorts 2: Stories & Surprises: Featuring: Two Mothers, Peat, We’re Blood, The Last of the Handweavers, Room Taken, The Wilde Sisters

The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.