Irish Film Institute -IFI International: March 2025

IFI International: March 2025


5 March // Irish Film Season at Kiln // Dreaming the Quiet Man + Q&A with director Sé Merry Doyle // Kiln Theatre Kilburn, London, UK


7 March // Cine Gael Montreal // An Evening of Short Films: Griffintown Episode 3. The Depression and War Years 1929 -1945, Mero, An Chathair Mhór [The Big City], The Invention, Still Up There, Match, A Wind and the Shadow, Malcolm, Dolorosa // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada


7-9 March // Emerald City Irish Film Festival // Kneecap, Mrs Robinson + Q&A with producer Trisha Canning, Birdsong + Q&A with ornithologist Sean Ronayne, Fidil Ghorm [The Blue Fiddle], The Problem with People, The People Before, Holy Island + Q&A with composer James Latimer.
Shorts programme presented in association with Network Ireland Television: An Irish Goodbye, Unhinged, Match, Cantata, Sound & Colour, Room Taken // Pacific Science Center IMAX Theatre, Seattle, USA


7-17 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // Michael Collins: a tribute to film director Neil Jordan. The Jugoslovenska kinoteka’s has announced the 2025 Golden Seal Award for Neil’s contribution to film art. Quintessentially Irish + Q&A with director Frank Mannion, The Good Thief, Patrick’s Day + Q&A with director Terry McMahon, Quintessentially British + Q&A with director Frank Mannion, Kneecap, An Irish Goodbye, Kathleen Is Here + Q&A with actor Hazel Doupe, The Butcher Boy, An Encounter, Adam & Paul, + Q&A with writer Mark O’Halloran, Kneecap, Housewife of the Year, The Company of Wolves // Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia


8 March // SF Irish Film DocFest // Mrs Robinson + Q&A with director Aoife Kelleher, Housewife of the Year, The Irish Question, Birdsong // Delancey Theater, San Francisco, USA


11 March // Centre Culturel Irlandais // That They May Face the Rising Sun // Paris, France


12-30 March // Offscreen Film Festival: The Haunted Isles: Folk Horror and the Wyrd in the UK and Ireland // The Outcasts [restoration] // Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium


14-16 March // Irish Film Festival Los Angeles // Fidil Ghorm [The Blue Fiddle], Eat / Sleep / Cheer / Repeat + Q&A with director Tanya Doyle and producer Daniel Hegarty, King Frankie + Q&A with Writer-director Dermot Malone and and producer Matt D’Arcy, Kathleen is Here, Four Mothers + Q&A with director Darren Thornton, A Greyhound of a Girl, Amongst the Wolves, Mrs Robinson.
Shorts 1 – New Voices: Clodagh, Calf, Turnaround, Ogham, Room Taken.
Shorts 2 – The Auteurs: Dublin Short, The Last of the Hand Weavers, An Talamh Faoi Gheasa [The Enchanted Land], Dembaya, Gael Force, Two Mothers, Smothered.
Shorts 3 – The Futures: I Found a Place, Quicksand, Written in the Stars, The Head on Him, To Break a Circle, Fuel.
Shorts 4 – The Contemporaries: Wrecker, Call Me Nancy, Farmers!?, Eamon, Cat & Mouse, Yellow Belt // CIACLA, Los Angeles, USA


14-23 March // Écrans Britanniques et Irlandais // Dance First, Dead Man’s Money + Q&A with director Paul Kennedy. Ciné-concert: Come back to Erin, Boy Wanted, Whaling Afloat and Ashore // Cinéma Le Sémaphore à Nîmes, Nîmes, France


15+17 March // Irish Film Festival Berlin // The Flats, The Irish Question, Kneecap, Good Vibrations, Gaza, Breakfast on Pluto. Art and Echoes – Short Film Selection: Imogen from the Heart, A Wind and the Shadow, Dead on Arrival, The Memories of Others // Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany


16 March // Irish Film Festival Ottawa // Mrs Robinson + live Q&A with Former President Mary Robinson via Zoom // Arts Court Theatre, Ottawa, Canada // Presented in association with the Irish Society of the National Capital Region


19-23 March // Hippfest // The Flora Kerrigan Collection, The Near Shore ciné-concert with live accompaniment by Paul Smyth // Edinburgh, UK


19-23 March // Oro de Irlanda: Cine Irlandés Contemporáneo // North Circular, Young Plato, I Must Away, The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp, Michael Inside, Redemption of a Rogue // Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago de Chile


19-28 March // Festival Panoramic: L’Irlande en Cinéma et en Émotions // Float Like a Butterfly, Redemption of a Rogue, The Drummer & the Keeper, Lakelands, North Circular, I Dream in Photos // Saint-Brieuc, France


20-24 March // Francophonie Festival // That They May Face the Rising Sun // K.Suns Cinema, Riga, Latvia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Riga


22 March // Semaine du Film Britannique et Irlandais de Brest // That They May Face the Rising Sun // Cinéma Les Studios, Brest, France


22-29 March // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // Full programme and guests to be announced shortly // Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg


26-30 March // Irish Film Festa Rome // Full programme and guests to be announced shortly Short film competition: A Wind and the Shadow, Cat & Mouse, Earmark, Gael Force, Here, I Know You, Jasmine, Lecanvey Lakers, Naked Lights, One by One the Lights Go Out, Retirement Plan, The Memories of Others, Vinny. Short films out of competition: Good Tidings We Bring, Warts & All // Casa del Cinema, Rome Italy


28-30 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival // Mrs Robinson // TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.

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