03 February // St Brigid’s Festival // Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story // Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France

5-8 February // Elles font leur Cinéma // Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story // Cinéma Omnia République, Rouen, France

6 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

08 February // Semaine du Film Britannique et Irlandais de Brest // Mrs Robinson // Cinéma Les Studios, Brest, France

16 February // F’hainstrick // Notes from Sheepland // Kino Intimes, Berlin, Germany

20 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // Christy // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

26 February – 1 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Opening night gala: the East Coast premiere of Saipan + Q&A with directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, moderated by Dr. Darragh Gannon, Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University. Post-screening reception generously sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland, Washington, D.C.
BP Fallon: Rock ‘n’ Roll Wizard, Ag Taisteal Siar [Travelling Back], A Quiet Love, A Want in Her, Testimony
Norman Houston Award Program: Award-winning short Three Keenings, in a double bill with No Ordinary Heist + Q&A with director Colin McIvor, followed by Award Ceremony & Reception. Award presented in association with the Northern Ireland Bureau and Georgetown University, Global Irish Studies Initiative;
Girls & Boys, In Time – Dónal Lunny – presented in association with University College Dublin, Creative Futures Academy followed by Q&A with director Nuala O’Connor moderated by P.J. Mathews, Professor of Irish Literature, Drama, and Culture at University College Dublin and Director of the UCD Creative Futures Academy.
Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man,
Báite + Q&A with director Ruán Magan, writer Sheena Lambert, and actor Eleanor O’Brien, moderated by Patrick Meskell, Solas Nua Board Chair Emeritus.
Horseshoe,
Celtic Utopia [Utóipe Cheilteach] + Q&A with director Dennis Harvey moderated by Maedhbh Mc Cullagh, Capital Irish Film Festival Director.
Listen to the Land Speak + guest introduction by Ruán Magan
Daniel O’Connell: The Emancipator – Presented in partnership with University of Notre Dame and University College Cork. Followed by a panel discussion with director Ruán Magan; Dr. Jay Roszman, Historian and Lecturer at the School of History, University College Cork; and Dr. Chanté Mouton Kinyon, Assistant Professor of English at University of Notre Dame moderated by Christopher Morash, Author & Diplomat.
Sanatorium + Q&A with director Gar O’Rourke, moderated by Sky Sitney, Professor of Film and Media Studies Program at Georgetown University, and Co-Founder & Festival Director of DC/DOX.
Aontas
Closing night gala: Christy, welcome by Embassy of Ireland’s Deputy Head of Mission to the United States, Fionnuala Quinlan, followed by a closing night festival reception.

Shorts Program 1: Cogar, Farmers!?, Babaí Brain, The Invitation, We Beg to Differ, Come Back, Conveyance.
Shorts Program 2: Night Driver, Whins, I Found a Place, Seahorse, Retirement Plan, Purebred, Trasna na Líne.
Shorts Program 3: No Mean City, Meteoric, The Assassination of Michael D. Higgins, Boobs, Pulse, Naked Lights
Family Friendly Shorts Program: Éiru, Wildkind, One Track Mind
// AFI Silver, Silver Spring, Washington, USA

26 February – 8 March [In-Person: 26 February – 1 March, Online: 2-8 March] // Chicago Irish Film Festival // Opening Gala: Báite + Q&Q with director Ruán Magan, writer Sheena Lambert and actor Eleanor O’Brien; Beo Faoin bhFód [Buried Alive!]; Dance Master + Q&A with dancer and choreographer Breandán de Gallaí, producer Anne Stirling, and director Richard Howard; Movie Magic + Q&A with writers-directors Alex Kennedy and Michael Magarren; Aontas; A Lesser Gift + Q&A with writer-director Owen Dara and actor Jessica Lancaster; BP Fallon Rock N Roll Wizard, Sanatorium, Girls & Boys, Life on Mercury, Samanta Nobody + Q&A with producers Niall Flynn and Rodger Taylor, A Quiet Love, Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man + Q&A with Dr. Andrew Wilson from Loyal University, Sunphlowers. Closing gala: Saipan + Q&A with directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn.

Shorts 1: Wide Eyed: Wildkind, The Cat Burglar, The Cloud Herder, Little Caesar, Glitch, No Worries, Éiru
Shorts 2: On the Brink: Cabbage, Mile 24, Ider Óg agus Aosta: Between Young and Old, Come Back, Pike, Lipstick, The Invitation
Shorts 3: Under Pressure: Beyond the Finish Line, Gael Force, The Art of Resistance, Childhood, The Man Who Built the Waldorf Astoria, John Dunning: Big in Japan
Shorts 4: So it Begins: Bunker Baby, The Knife, Not, Cogar, Dance Me Clean, Vanilla, Dive, Romance is Dad
Shorts 5: Holding On: An Talamh Faoi Gheasa: The Enchanted Land, The Laughing Boys, The Third Date, Mint Condition, Sean Fear, Mismatched, What it is to be Irish, The Protagonist Gene, Swept Off His Feet, Ceol
Shorts 6: The Long Goodbye: Lived Once Buried Twice, Joe’s Finale, Meteoric, The Last Word, Save Me From Heaven, Cut Off, Hometime, Three Keenings, The Hangup, Póg Mo Pigeon
// AMC Theatres: Newcity, and online // Chicago, USA

Online programme, 2-8 March: All Our Yesterdays, Brendan Gleeson – Farewell to Hughes’s, Emerald Nightingales: Irish Nurses in the NHS, King Frankie, The Trackless Wild, Song of A Wandering Tip, ou Will Die In Prison – An Irishman’s Hostage Story, Movie Magic, A Lesser Gift. Shorts 1: The Man Who Built the Waldorf Astoria, The Hangup, Idir Óg agus Aosta: Between Young and Old, John Dunning: Big in Japan, Póg Mo Pigeon, What it is to be Irish, Swept Off His Feet, Sean Fear
Shorts 2: Beyond the Finish Line, Romance is Dad, Gael Force, Meteoric, The Third Date, The Laughing Boys, Three Keenings, Ceol

The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.