5-7 March // CraicFest // Saipan, BP Fallon – Rock N Roll Wizard, Where the Road Meets the Sky, No Ordinary Heist, Ballroom Boom. A Showcase of Irish Shorts: Mouse, I Do, HomeTime, Gael Force followed by After Party at Factory 380 // Village East by Angelika, New York, USA

7 March // SF Irish Film DocFest // Stolen Lives, A Quiet Love, Éire agus na Chéad Náisiúin [Ireland and the First Nations] // Delancey Theater, San Francisco, USA

12-22 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // The Crying Game: a tribute to film director Neil Jordan. The Jugoslovenska kinoteka will present the Golden Seal Award to director Neil Jordan and actor Stephen Rea for their contribution to film art.
Christy + Q&A with actors Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes, Eh Joe, Spilt Milk, Four Mothers, Barry Lyndon [restoration], Sanatorium, The Hearth + Q&A with director Mark Cousins, The Flats, Hush-a-Bye Baby [restoration], The Surfer, The Man Who Shot Beckett, Beckett 19 X 19, Retirement Plan, Dance to Remember, Body Arena // Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia

13 March // Filmoteca Española celebrates Ireland Week in association with the Embassy of Ireland Madrid and Tourism Ireland // The Outcasts [restoration] // Cine Doré, Madrid, Spain

13 March // Quimper-Limerick Twinning Association’s 45th Twinning Anniversary // That They May Face the Rising Sun + Q&A with publisher Sabine Wespieser // Cinéma Katorza, Quimper, France

13-17 March // Irish Film Festival Berlin // Girls & Boys, Robin in the Hood, Snot Rocket, Brendan Gleeson – Farewell to Hughes’s, Listen to the Land Speak, In Time – Dónal Lunny, The Commitments, Intermission, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Sanatorium, Spilt Milk, Patrick’s Day, Small Things Like These // Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany

13-22 March // Écrans Britanniques et Irlandais // Love Lane United + Q&A with director Jack Thornton, My Left Foot + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, Into the West + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, Horseshoe, In the Name of the Father + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, Fréwaka, Christy, The Boxer + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, Hush-a-Bye Baby [restoration] + Q&A with director Margo Harkin, The Secret Scripture + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, Aontas + Q&A with director Damian McCann, Báite + Q&A with director Ruán Magan // Cinéma Le Sémaphore, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France

14-15 March // Emerald City Irish Film Festival // Éire agus na Chéad Náisiúin [Ireland and the First Nations] + Q&A with director Ronan McCloskey, The Song Cycle + Q&A with director-producer Nick Kelly, Báite [Drowned] + Q&A with actor Juliette Crosbie, We Only Want the Earth, From that Small Island, Sunphlowers, Song of the Sea, Christy. Short Film Block: One Track Mind, Éiru, Brown Bread, Dive, Snot Rocket, Hearth, Retirement Plan
Shorts programme presented in association with Network Ireland Television: Éiru, Dive, Hearth // Pacific Science Center IMAX Theatre, Seattle, USA

19 March // Irish History Group at Glasgow St Patrick’s Festival // Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey // The Deep End, Govanhill Baths Archive & Heritage Centre, Glasgow, UK

19-22 March // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // From that Small Island + Q&A with producer Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, The Song Cycle + Q&A with director-musician Nick Kelly, Testimony + Q&A with director Aoife Kelleher, Saipan, Mr Burton, Báite + Q&A with actor Eleanor O’Brien // Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg

19-29 March // Stockfish Film Festival // Christy, Ready or Not, The Commitments, Wolfwalkers // Reykjavík, Iceland

20-21 March // Irish Film Festival Boston // Retirement Plan, Báite, Beat the Lotto, Christy // Somerville Theater, Boston, USA

20-22 March // CIACLA presents Irish Film Festival Los Angeles // Horseshoe + Q&A with actor Neill Fleming, Girls & Boys + Q&A with director Donncha Gilmore, Listen to the Land Speak, Éire agus na Chéad Náisiúin [Ireland and the First Nations] + Q&A with director Ronan McCloskey, The Unbreakable Entrepreneur + Q&A with director Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Báite + Q&A with composer Craig Stuart Garfinkle, The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan, I Hope We Can Still be Friends + Q&A with writer-director Aisha Tyler, actor Caroline Morahan, and producer Jordan Lee McGrath, Christy + Q&A with writer Alan O’Gorman.
Shorts 1 – New Voices: Éiru, Dive, Taxi, Anziety, Dragon’s Teeth, Trasna na Líne, Retirement Plan followed by Q&A with composers Joe Conlon [Dive] and Enda Gallery [Anziety] Shorts 2 – The Auteurs: No Worries!, The Laughing Boysm GAP, Dress Smart, Divorce Roulette, One Last Show in Taghmon, John Gunning: Big In Japan, Whins< + Q&A with actors Kevin Ryan and Richie Stephens, and director David Golden [Divorce Roulette] Shorts 3 – The Futures: Ceol, One by one the lights go out, Three Keenings, One More Round, I Do, The Final Chapter, Shadow, Naked Lights + Q&A with writer-director Joseph Jones and producer Patrick Sheldon [I Do], and writer-actors George Hutton and Nathan Ward, and writer-director Chris McKenna [Scáth]
Shorts 4 – The Contemporaries: ReRooted, Mouse, The Cloud Herder, The Axe Forgets, Tommy, My Neighbour, Same Difference, Heartsick + Q&A with write Alan O’Gorman [Mouse] and director John Christopher [The Axe Forgets] // Laemmle Monica Film Center, Los Angeles, USA

21 March // TBC Festival in Brittany // North Circular // Venue TBC, city TBC, France

25-29 March // Irish Film Festa Rome // Christy + Q&A with Brendan Canty, The Song Cycle + Q&A with director-musician Nick Kelly, We Only Want the Earth + Q&A with Alan Gilsenan, Crazy Love, A Quiet Love, Saipan, Beo Fhaoin bhFód [Buried Alive!], Aontas. Short film competition: A Day in the Sun, An Buachaill Nua [The New Boy], Brón, Éiru, Growing Pains, I Found a Place, I Will Go on Missing You Until Then, Man in a Wheelbarrow, Mary Christmas, Meteoric, Outlasting, Stutterbug, The Cloud Herder, The Invitation, Three Keenings // Casa del Cinema, Rome Italy

27 March // Cine Gael Montreal // An Evening of Short Films: Programme TBA // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

27-29 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival // Báite + Q&A with producer John Brady, Ballroom Boom + Q&A with Aideen O’Brien, daughter of Dixie Showband member Brendan O’Brien, Beat the Lotto + Q&A with director Ross Whitaker, Christy, Éire agus na Chéad Náisiúin [Ireland and the First Nations], Cineál Fiáin [WildKind], Birdsong + Q&A with producer Ross Whitaker, Four Letters of Love. Shorts Programme 1: Gael Force, Wake Chapter 4, Art of the Language, Tíolacadh [Divine Gift], The Invitation, Trasna na Líne [Across the Line], Lived Once Buried Twice, John Gunning: Big in Japan. Shorts Programme 2: Whins, Our Father, Heartsick, The Other Mother, A Little Bird Told Me, Three Keanings, Vanilla, The Liberties of Paddy and Bang Bang // TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.