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It would take an epic saga to do justice to the long, storied career of cultural icon Bob Dylan. James Mangold’s excellent biopic hinges instead around his first major reinvention, when he plugged in his electric guitar at 1965’s Newport... Read More
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All screenings on 35mm film unless otherwise stated.
There will be Digital Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on Monday 6th, and 20.30 on Thursday 9th.
1838; Estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) is tasked with securing a property in the... Read More
Tickets for preview screenings are on sale from Monday, December 16th.
Walter Salles, the Oscar-winning director of Central Station and the Motorcycle Diaries, returns with his finest work in many years; I’m Still Here focuses on the true-life story of... Read More
The Last Showgirl sees Pamela Anderson mounting an extraordinary comeback performance as Shelly, a Las Vegas dancer who is left adrift after the revue show she has been performing in for 30 years is suddenly closed by stage manager Eddie (Dave... Read More
Multi-hyphenate Jesse Eisenberg’s second film as writer-director also sees him take on the roles of producer and star. Sharing lead acting duties with Kieran Culkin (best known for his television work, most notably as Roman Roy in Succession), the pair... Read More
When their seventh album Sea Savage hit the American Billboard charts, cult Irish thrash band Gama Bomb were trapped by lockdowns, missing a drummer, and unable to tour.
Survival of the Fastest captures their quest to make it to Hellfest... Read More
Join us on the Feast of Epiphany for our annual screening of John Huston’s pitch-perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead.
As the New Year dawns in 1904, the elderly Misses Morkan and their niece Mary Jane,... Read More
In 1947, architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) flees persecution in Budapest for the US; initially forced to toil in poverty, circumstances thrust him into the orbit of Harrison van Buren (Guy Pearse), a millionaire businessman who comes to recognise the spark of revolutionary genius in the Hungarian’s innovative... Read More
The new film from Irish director John Crowley (Brooklyn, 2015), an unabashed weepie, tells the love story of Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield, with whom Crowley previously worked in 2007’s Boy A). Doing so across jumbled timelines, the... Read More
In one of the IFI’s most popular traditions, perennial favourite It’s A Wonderful Life, required viewing over the festive period, once again returns to our screens to warm even the coldest of hearts. James Stewart is at his most likeable... Read More
Amateur filmmaker Flora Kerrigan was a keen member of the Cork Cine Society in the late 1950s and 1960s. Over eight years, she crafted remarkable animation and live-action shorts on 8mm film, earning international accolades and an airing on RTÉ.... Read More
These Magic Light adaptations of Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler stories make the perfect pre-Christmas family cinema outing. Featuring the musical adventures of London street cat and busker Fred, followed by the travels of a very greedy rat, in search... Read More
Paul Schrader’s visually stunning portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima’s last day,... Read More
Seems there is always space for a new Christmas film, and this latest from US director Alexander Payne, (Nebraska, Sideways) fits the bill. Paul Giametti is unforgettable as the grumpy boarding school master, Mr Hunham, who is left with the... Read More
Robert Kennedy was one of the first American Catholic priests to be installed as a Zen teacher in the U.S, causing outrage in the U.S. Zen community from people objecting to the installation of a cleric from another faith.
Dónal... Read More
In the early 1970s, charismatic hippie couple Peter and Harriet Cornish escaped the chaos of the modern world and headed to the wilds of West Cork where they established a spiritual haven which would eventually blossom into Dzogchen Beara, a... Read More
With Luca Guadagnino’s Queer released on December 13th, we invite audiences to savour, perhaps for the first time, the unique flavour of David Cronenberg’s earlier adaptation of a William S. Burroughs novel, also featuring William Lee, the author’s alter-ego, played here by Peter Weller,... Read More
Once top of his class, teenager M (Putthipong Assaratanakul) now wastes his days on a game-casting enterprise whilst living off his mother’s generosity. When his grandmother, Amah (Usha Seamkhum), is diagnosed with terminal cancer, M spies an opportunity; driven by... Read More
1983; a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and bomb blasts terrorises the Pacific Northwest. As law enforcement agents search for answers, Terry Husk (Jude Law) a troubled FBI agent in search of a quieter pace of life,... Read More
Founder of Studio Ghibli, director Hayao Miyazaki is responsible for some of contemporary animation’s most beloved films, including My Neighbour Totoro (1988), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), and of course Spirited Away, a film of rare and rich beauty. The film... Read More
In 1962, against the backdrop of Cold War tensions and a world of paranoid conspiracy, Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow), a promising young PHD student, travels to a physics conference at an isolated lodge high in the Swiss Alps, where an... Read More
11 December // NICE X Irish Film Festa // Lies We Tell, North Circular // Cinema La Compagnia, Florence, Italy
The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.
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In this highly original feature documentary, Tomás, a middle-aged film producer, embarks on a journey of discovery with his friend and colleague, film director, Alan. As they progress, we witness first-hand Tomás’s unearthing of fresh and startling childhood happenings which... Read More
Why do so many men struggle to show their feelings? Part therapy, part road trip, BAFTA award winning filmmaker Duncan Cowles asks men how they open up in order to directly address his own difficulties in being intimate and open... Read More
Daniel Craig plays William Lee (the alter ego of author William S. Burroughs, previously played by Peter Weller in Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch), a middle-aged drug addict cruising the ex-pat gay bars of Mexico City in the early ‘50s, where he meets... Read More
This extraordinary anthology of interviews with 14 leading Irish filmmakers represents a new body of knowledge in the field of documentary studies. Filmmaker and PhD candidate Tom Burke invites filmmakers to speak about ethics, consent, and relationships with the subjects... Read More
1 November // Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival [17th edition] // The Outcasts [restoration] + Q&A with director Robert Wynne-Simmons // Bruges, Belgium
7-8 November // Irish Film Festival of India // My Left Foot // Film... Read More
Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the US State Department sends ‘jazz ambassadors’ Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Duke Ellington to Congo, a newly independent, resource-rich African nation, to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup that would lead to... Read More
Between 1969 and 1995, women all over Ireland competed to win the Housewife of the Year, a competition celebrating “cookery, nurturing, and basic household management skills”. Broadcast on RTÉ from 1982, the programmes featured not just the competition itself but... Read More
A delicate ode to female friendship, Payal Kapadia’s narrative debut brilliantly captures the pace, colours and atmosphere of life in modern Mumbai. Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, more... Read More
When the Pope unexpectedly dies, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), Dean of the College of Cardinals, is tasked with presiding over the conclave, the time-honoured and highly secretive process for electing his successor. From all over the world prospective Cardinals descend... Read More
Mikey Madison is a revelation as charismatic sex worker Anora in Sean Baker’s wildly entertaining, frenetically paced comedy. Ani, as she prefers to be called, meets Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch, in a New York strip... Read More
An unassuming man in 1980’s Ireland must grapple with his conscience in the face of an overwhelming moment of insight in Tim Mielants supremely confident adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated 2021 novella. The setting is New Ross, Wexford, in... Read More
2-6 October 2024 // Dinard Festival du Cinema Britannique et Irlandais | Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film // Bring Them Down, September Says, That They May Face the Rising Sun, The Flats, The Irish Question, Baltimore, Dance... Read More
16-21 September // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg – 15th edition // Kneecap, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, The Banshees of Inisherin, Puffin Rock and the New Friends, Blurred Lines + Q&A with director and actor... Read More
9-10 August // Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival // That They May Face the Rising Sun, Baltimore, Tarrac, Apocalypse Clown, The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry // Manship Theatre, Baton Rouge, USA
18-25 August... Read More
In a Traveller camp overlooking a neglected council estate, three brothers who went their separate ways are forced to reunite for their father’s funeral. The death of their father forces them to rekindle their relationships.
Two sisters must put aside their fraught relationship in order to hide the body of a dead clown. This film was written, shot and edited in 48 hours.
This unconventional documentary from Ross Killeen (Love Yourself Today) is an emotive human story featuring the artist Asbestos and his journey through the slow decay of his mother’s memories as they disintegrate due to her advancing Alzheimer’s disease. His work... Read More
12 July at 15:30 // Galway Film Fleadh: Culture Ireland and IFI International present Festival Programmers’ Panel & Networking Session // Veranda Lounge, Galmont Hotel, Galway, Ireland
19-20 July // Irish Film Festa Rome in association with... Read More
Hands down the sexiest, queerest opening sequence of any film in this year’s festival, Desire Lines tells the eye-opening, heart-opening, shirt-opening stories of gay men who are trans and trans guys coming out as gay. Mixing documentary and interviews, the... Read More
Queer visionaries shaping tomorrow’s cinema. Eight films that dare to shatter cinematic norms with flair and style, as we see bold content meet experimental form. Playful yet profound, a collection that honours the fearless creativity of filmmakers who break the... Read More
The hijras in India are the oldest ethnic transgender community in the world, traditionally considered to be a third gender, alternately feared and respected, and attributed with powers for both good luck and bad. Rudrani Chettri is a hijra activist... Read More
David Robilliard was a talented British artist who died in 1988, aged just 36 years old, one of the many young gay men of his generation lost to AIDS. In this emotional documentary, actor and contemporary art devotee Russell Tovey... Read More
At the dawn of the new millennium, Canadian musician Merrill Nisker unleashed the mighty Peaches onto an unsuspecting world with her soon-to-be iconic album, The Teaches of Peaches. Minds were duly blown. Berlin was the centre of the universe and... Read More
From maligned pleasure seekers to disruptive activists, this programme dives deep into an array of subjects that remain risqué within the queer community today. Risky sex takes centre stage in shorts on chemsex and cruising; films face facts with direct... Read More
This haunting tale of urban alienation, childhood reckoning, and regret brought together two of Ireland’s finest actors in performances that broke hearts and re-energised our appetite for cinema at a grand yet human scale. We are so excited to return... Read More
George Platt Lynes is the brilliant American gay photographer you’ve almost certainly never heard of. By day, Lynes was one of the most sought after celebrity and fashion editorial photographers of his day, but throughout the rest of his creative... Read More
Roland Javornik’s documentary Darklands unveils the tantalizing secrets of the renowned queer kink festival. Behind the closed doors of Antwerp’s awe-inspiring Waagnatie, the spectacular fetish event brings around eight-thousand international visitors ready to explore their sexual imaginations and find their... Read More
Afrad Vk’s debut feature is a beautiful tragic romance between two young men preparing for the final days of college life. Suku and Charlie are roommates-turned-lovers cocooned in their own private world, filling their days with literature, sex, drinking, and... Read More
A must-see for lovers of underground cinema, queer culture, the bizarre and the renegade. Pre-gentrification King’s Cross, London. The Scala cinema stands as a forlorn reminder of the neighbourhood’s former glory. But it is soon to be adopted by a... Read More
Director Fawzia Mirza presents The Queen of My Dreams, a vivid comic drama about rich family history and the journey of migration that contrasts the timelines of two coming of age tales – one a young Muslim woman in Pakistan,... Read More
Manon Rivière (Flavie Delangle) is seventeen years old, angry, abandoned, and a true star of the ice hockey rink. In search of her absent father Franck, she ups sticks from her Alpine village and heads off to the town where... Read More
15 June // Ciné Gael Montréal with Montréal Bloomsday Festival // The Future Tense // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
16 June // Cinema D’iDEA // Verdigris + Q&A with director Patricia Kelly // Scena,... Read More
Nurses Shelley and Kate must work out how to cover up the murder of Kate’s husband. But what to do with the body? The knife? The nosy neighbour?
Between being constantly outbid on dilapidated houses, and their odd roommate penchant for being naked, house hunting has not been easy for young couple Brian and Suzanne. After years of living in sub-par rented accommodation, they can’t believe their luck... Read More
Peggy runs the family farm as well, if not better, than her mother and father did before her. Her brother Joe is pushing 50, suicidal and depressed. He’s more than a reluctant farmer and an alcoholic. Joe becomes sole heir... Read More
Declan Flynn, a man struggling for self-acceptance, is preyed upon by a gang of self-described ‘Queer-bashers’ in Dublin, 1982. Based on a true story, and seen as a major catalyst for Ireland’s LGBTQ Pride movement.
Shay, a queer woman, navigates her brother’s funeral in Dublin’s inner city. Set in a comedic, working-class pub filled with broken hearts, each familiar face Shay encounters represents a stage of grief.
Woodlice is a short film based on a true story, depicting grief through symbolism in both surreal and real forms, exploring relationships with grief, religion, and motherhood.
A street performer arrives in a dreary suburb and discovers an unlikely kinship with a young person. Inspired by the science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury’s own story of how he became a writer.
In a small Irish town teens Diana and Sol are finally graduating. Diana once dreaded this day, fearing a mundane and adult future, but now has a plan for adventure among the stars with her best friend Sol. When doubt... Read More
The Leper is a comedy-drama about Frankie, a paparazzo reflecting on the encounter that made him question his career.
Florence works for the Echo Grief Centre, where actors are hired to recreate the memories of bereaved clients in an attempt to remedy their regrets.
A red warning comes into place on the eve of Hannah’s surf assessment. Sensing an ill omen, her anxiety rises. Her worst fears are realised when a surf accident forces her into the eye of her own repressed storm of... Read More
A flat-jockey’s life begins to unravel after falling from his horse in a race. Fired by his trainer mother and grappling with his injury, he desperately tries to maintain his riding weight, whilst struggling to support his family.
Jake’s mother takes in a new exchange student. Although hesitant at first to show her around, once they meet, that changes instantly. They spend an amazing week together and Jake writes a love letter to thank her for showing him... Read More
Working remotely, Mia excels in software development while imagining a lively office. Challenges from her boss, and support from a colleague, push her to overcome her insecurities.
Tony is your average, working class Irish hero who runs a door-to-door ironing service. When the perils of modern day competition come for him, does he have what it takes to overcome them?
After sisters Emily and Mary Wilde lose their lives at a party in 1871 they find themselves stuck in purgatory unable to move on. The sisters navigate through unraveling the hidden truths of their past. But who is really in... Read More
When a brother and sister come across the dead body of legendary Irish warrior hero, Cú Chulainn, they come up with an idea to help them save Ulster from Queen Méabh.
Maria, a new mother living in isolation, encounters a mysterious wayfarer seeking shelter from an approaching storm. The stranger reveals a disturbing interest in Maria’s personal life that will challenge her notion of what is real.
It’s the 29th of September, 1979, and everyone in Dublin is going to see Pope John Paul II. Everyone, except Marian and Pamela.
Molly, a brown Irish woman, is tasked with writing a daunting letter. Over time, she finds the courage to overcome writer’s block, ultimately writing the letter and freeing herself from the burden.
A transgender woman arrives in her rural hometown for her mother’s funeral and is met by the father she left behind.
When Dhuckia grows up, she wants to be a boat builder like her father. But when he finds out that she is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, he must make a terrible choice.
A Syrian father, haunted by his past, struggles to adapt to life with his daughter in rural Ireland.
A drug-infused end-of-school house party breaks down barriers between two best friends with an unspoken love for each other.
Seeking a sense of control in her life, Caroline becomes a minimalist. In an ironic twist of fate, a severe winter storm leaves her trapped without power, and she must burn her few belongings in order to survive.
New York’s first Irish language film tells the story of Éanna O Connor, a lost twenty-something, who moves away from home in search of a new life in the big city. In need of money he takes a job minding... Read More
A schoolboy on the edge plots revenge against his brutal school bully.
Awards: Best Film Made In the Boyne Valley, Boyne Valley International Film Festival, 2024 Best European Film Cinematography – Alba Fernandez – European Cinematography Awards (ECA), 2023
On the remote coast of Connemara, a runaway trans-teenager has a chance encounter with a bereaved, suicidal fisherman that sees the two form an unlikely bond.
After suffering a recent loss, a young mother brings her daughter on a trip to Inis Oírr. Set over three days in spring, this film explores the rebuilding of a fractured mother-daughter relationship.
Troubled by a recent tragedy, Sean is visited by an old friend, PJ. PJ tries to cheer his friend up, but his own thoughts are occupied by a donkey he saw earlier that day.
An Spidéal is a village steeped in the arts but recently has been quietly suffering, and visibly gloomy. Local creatives, young and old, explore the past to navigate an uncertain yet optimistic future.
Created as part of an Irish Queer Archive’s 2024 exhibition Normáilte explores the experience of growing up queer, linking to the growth of the LGBTQ+ movement in Ireland over the last 50 years.
An uplifting tale about defying the odds. Seán, a nine-year-old neurodivergent boy, dreams of acting, despite the challenges he faces. With unwavering determination and the support of his family, Seán decides to audition for the community play.
Liam is a lonely farmer who dreams of a more glamorous life. His neighbours help him to realise his dreams by hosting a talent show in the local hall.
Moncha is a love letter to rural life, self-preservation, and the subtle devotion to our internal and external worlds.
This is a story about our responsibility to a world we have doomed, our division in the face of its peril, and the splintered morality of our efforts to save it.
Mikey’s new friend, Pidgey, follows him home for family prayer time. Unfortunately, the sanctity of Mammy’s sitting room is no place for a chaotic pigeon.
As the line between reality and memory blurs, a mother confronts her fears and uncertainty, revealing a narrative of resilience and love. This journey leads to a profound moment when her daughter bravely discusses her illness. Starring Niamh Algar and... Read More
When a young man accepts an ill-fated job offer to construct a motorway that will run straight through an old stone circle, he quickly learns that a road built at such expense does not lead very far.
Awards: James Horgan... Read More
Dwelling is a performance work that blends the real and digital world, questioning our relationship with technology, creating imperceptible, poetic worlds that allow the audience to experience the lives of others.
In the throes of his overstimulated, energy-poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has “the time”. He will pursue his curiosities, challenge his limiting beliefs, embrace fear, beauty, even the... Read More
In this re-telling of the Greek tragedy Antigone, set against Dublin’s gangland, young Twig dreams of escaping with her lover Eamon, but her brothers’s deadly feud over the future of their late father’s kingdom draws her back. After the death... Read More
3 May // Ciné Gael Montréal // Young Plato // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
16-26 May // European Union Film Festival Bangkok // Sunlight // House Samyan, Bangkok, Thailand // Presented in association with... Read More
Conor Walsh wrote his heart in minimalist piano compositions. Described in the press as ‘meticulously crafted’ and ‘genuinely spellbinding’, his music came from a practice of non-directedness, directing us only to transcendence from our quotidian existence. This musical reverie celebrates... Read More
When six friends get together for New Year’s eve and a drink gets spiked, secrets and conflicts reveal themselves begging the question, who is really responsible? Who has consented?
Focussing on the modern day stigmas of consent, stereotypes, inner turmoil,... Read More
The debut feature from eclectic Irish documentarian Paul Duane (Natan, 2013; While You Live, Shine, 2018; Best Before Death, 2019) sees him combine his wide array of interests to create a distinctly Irish entry to the folk horror canon. Anna (Simone Collins)... Read More
2-15 April // Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe // That They May Face the Rising Sun [In competition] // Les 7 Parnassiens, Paris, France
4-7 April // Irish Film Festa Rome // Shakes vs Shav, Notes from... Read More
About to lose everything, the Wards prepare to escape crippling debts for a new life via a mysterious stranger, with big promises for the right fee. But last-minute doubts see the pair fighting for everything they were about to abandon.
8 March // Cine Gael Montreal // Rose Plays Julie // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
8-17 March // Écrans Britanniques // Lies We Tell, Barber, How to Tell a Secret, Silent films ciné-concert: The... Read More
9 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // Ann // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
23 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // Sunlight // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
29 February –... Read More
Three men seeking sanctuary in Ireland find themselves caught on the streets between a hostile asylum policy and an increasingly militant far-right.
Awards: Best Irish Short Documentary, Dublin International Film Festival 2024 Honourable Mention, Tempo Short Film Awards, Tempo Documentary... Read More
[IFI International – do not amend. Ireland + European premiere Galway2024]
A struggling actor on the verge of success is contacted by Hollywood producers for a huge role in a blockbuster film, but when he’s sent to shoot in Jakarta,... Read More
11-15 January // Norient Festival // North Circular // Kino Reitschule, Bern, Switzerland
19-28 January // Chandler International Film Festival // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], An Irish Goodbye // LOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Chandler, AZ, USA... Read More
John Murry was on the cusp of greatness with his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013) when, addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on Irish shores a broken man. Now, he is ready to retrace his... Read More
This documentary profile explores the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton, who quit “the best job in the world” at the peak of his career aged just 40. As chief photographer for Reuters in India, McNaughton... Read More
US non-theatrical tour of An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] and An Irish Goodbye, in association with Super Ltd and Network Ireland Television 4 November // Irish Repertory Theater // New York, NY 7 November // Berry College //... Read More
With a distinguished cast including former 007 actor Pierce Brosnan, two Presidents, a Prince, and an unconventional Irish Lord, director Frank Mannion looks at the influence of the Irish diaspora, and asks what it means to be Quintessentially Irish with... Read More
4-8 October // The Irish Festival of Oulu // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], The Banshees of Inisherin, My Sailor, My Love // Cultural Centre Valve, Oulu, Finland
05 October – 05 November // Irish Film... Read More
John Behan RHA is Ireland’s best-known living sculptor. He is as busy as ever in his early 80s, with regular exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. In addition to this heavy workload, he feels so strongly about the suffering of refugees... Read More
A sleepy Irish fishing community is destabilised by the return of Brian (Paul Mescal), the errant son of Aileen O’Hara (Emily Watson), who shows up unexpectedly at the funeral for a local fisherman, announcing his intention to revive his brother-in-law’s... Read More
A Moroccan immigrant looks back at his life on Aid El Kbir. Aid El Kbir is a celebratory Islamic holiday that occurs two months after Ramadan.
A romance at a trippy Halloween rave goes wrong. Lola’s public breakup is disrupted when an Elvis impersonator comes to the rescue. Sharing confidences and ghosts from their past they reminisce and find meaning in their newly shared bond.
Awards:... Read More
An Irish immigrant moves to New York in 1989 to study acting. He works through the grief from the loss of his mother’s passing and the death of his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Awards: Director’s Choice Award, Thomas Edison... Read More
A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on Christmas Eve. Ned the older brother’s humanity is challenged when he risks everything to have his younger brother Marco experience a real Irish Christmas.
Awards: Best Screenplay, Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film... Read More
13-28 September 2023 // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // A Greyhound of a Girl, The Miracle Club, Ballywalter, Sunlight, The Eternal Daughter, Breaking Out, The Ghost of Richard Harris, An Irish Goodbye, Movers and Shapers, Nothing to... Read More
Val Barber (Aidan Gillen), a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow (Deirdre Donnelly) to find her missing granddaughter, Sara. The search gets murky as long-buried secrets – including Barber’s own – come to the surface, and new and... Read More
Darren needs help. His fears and anxieties are manifesting themselves in the most unusual of ways – through the medium of opera. He visits his therapost to find a quick solution, but sometimes restoring harmony is about facing the music.
11-26 August // Heimat Europa Film Festspiele // North Circular // Pro-Winzkino Hunsrück, Simmern, Germany
20-27 August // SANFIC – Santiago International Film Festival // Sunlight // Santiago de Chile, Chile
18-31 August // European... Read More
Irish filmmaker Sam Jones, in his first feature documentary, welcomes the newfound friendship of US citizen Gabe, and follows him to a remote Russian village in search of the mother he and his sister were taken from in childhood when... Read More
The names of the United Irishmen – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, William Drennan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and Mary Ann McCracken – have become the stuff of legend, but the reality of what they achieved is often forgotten. In their... Read More
A cinematic exploration of the rise of Hip Hop and Electronic artists in Ireland embracing oral traditions of folklore, ancient poetry and sean nós singing to create a new fusion sound, a culture clash through music.
An ensemble piece, featuring... Read More
Young couple Anna and Aleks collect folk ballads, the rarer the better. Following a tip from a fellow collector, they secretly record a song so ancient that it is in a forgotten dialect. However, once they begin to translate the... Read More
A talented mandolin player who prefers his own company, discovers an unexpected sparring partner in a remote place. After taking the time to listen to himself, he realises that his talent must be shared in order to progress.
Dennis left Ireland in the midst of the global financial crisis in order to find work abroad. Hashem was a politician in Bangladesh, but had to flee for Spain after a change in government and threats on his life. Alicia... Read More
The remote volcanic island of Ascension sat smouldering for a million years, largely devoid of life, until its radical transformation by process of ‘terraforming’ into a tropical paradise.
But there is more to this island than meets the eye. The... Read More
IFI International [synopsis pending]
Trapped in a marriage with a controlling husband, middle-aged, middle-class Marian takes on a secret part-time job as a census enumerator. The job is no picnic. On her tough inner-city route, she faces dismissive and abusive locals who flatly refuse... Read More
A troupe of failed clowns and an intrepid reporter embark on a chaotic road trip of self-discovery after a mysterious solar event plunges the world into anarchy. When international clown master Jean DuCoque dies suddenly, Bobo (David Earl), a hobo... Read More
On December 27th 1973, German businessman, factory manager, and honorary consul Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He was never seen alive again by friends or family. He became one of the ‘disappeared’, and it seemed that... Read More
14 July at 15:30 // Galway Film Fleadh: Culture Ireland and IFI International in partnership with Screen Ireland: Networking at the Fleadh // Galmont Hotel, Galway, Ireland
Stolen tells the story of how women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ were treated in an Ireland dominated by the Catholic Church. Between 1922 and 1998 over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in Irish church-run... Read More
One Night in Millstreet is the story of Ireland in 1995, a snapshot of a country told through a high-stakes prize fight in Millstreet, Cork between the then-unknown underdog Steve ‘The Celtic Warrior ’Collins and the larger-than-life champion Chris ‘Simply... Read More
The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
Awards: Golden Lion Award for Best Film, Venice International Film Festival, 2023... Read More
A group of protesters film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition.
Shot in Enniscoe House in Mayo, the conflict between heritage and development and
The cast... Read More
A collection of intertwined stories told through the eyes of an old AirBnB apartment. Within the walls of this apartment, we witness five guests experiencing a crisis of love, unaware of the stories that have transpired within the same walls... Read More
Based on internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern’s award winning novel of the same name, That They May Face the Rising Sun is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980’s rural community in Ireland.
Joe Lee (Fortune’s Wheel) focuses on the plight of the 1,000 Irish Debenhams workers who were made redundant in April 2020 when Debenhams UK Retail Ltd. shut all 11 Irish stores including their flagship store on Dublin’s Henry Street.
The... Read More
Humans were originally hunter-gatherers and foraging for wild foods and plant medicine was a fundamental skill of our ancestors. Restoring this sacred practice we have always known but yet forgot, may help us awaken our deep-rooted power.
Kawa Nemir is a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language, wandering from one exile to another, retaining and never forgetting every new word and idiom of his language, wondering how to transfer this collective memory onto paper.
James Joyce’s... Read More
11 year old Mary has a huge passion for cooking and dreams of becoming a great chef. Her grandmother Emer, with whom she has a very special relationship, encourages her to make this dream come true, despite the obstacles in... Read More
An orphaned heiress in an isolated manor is forced to adapt to embrace her family’s dark legacy, in this adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas.
Note: film currently on competitive circuit and not available for screening at cultural festivals
Wealthy art-loving British heiress Rose Dugdale, radicalised at Oxford, finds herself hiding in a remote cottage in Ireland, following an audacious and violent art heist.
Gathering at pace beyond the cottage is the biggest police hunt in Irish history. With... Read More
Seven strangers enrol in an apparently routine drug trial at a pharmaceutical facility, but soon discover an unexpected side effect – they are unable to fall asleep. Concerned for the safety of the patients, the supervising doctor advises the pharmaceutical... Read More
Filmmaker Simon finds his life drastically interrupted when he is called back from Delhi to London to care for his dying uncle David, an eccentric, cantankerous, flamboyant thesp obsessed with King Lear. David has been given months to live but... Read More
2-15 June // Irish Film Festival Tokyo // This Other Eden // Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo
16-25 June // Europe on Screen Festival // Ann, Sunlight,... Read More
Reeling from a recent separation, a single mother and her young son move into a pub-attached house and fall prey to their invasive new landlord.
On March 13th 2020, five students and two faculty members from the Mid Ulster College of Arts disappeared without trace. They were last seen near the village of Glenarma, over sixty miles away from their campus. Two years later, footage... Read More
After snorting a line of powdered horn, a lonely Irishman undergoes a Kafkaesque metamorphosis that turns him into a rhino-head man. Embodying both hunter and hunted, he guides us into an eclectic series of real and fantasy worlds, from the... Read More
2-10 May // European Film Festival // Wolfwalkers // Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano [CCFM], Maputo, Mozambique // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Maputo
4-14 May // Festival Eurocine Colombia // The Cry of Granuaile // Cinema... Read More
Notes from Sheepland bursts with candid observations of the lipstick-wearing, always swearing, no-nonsense artist and shepherd, Orla Barry. Through her fields, her digital diaries, and the pedigree sheep she cares for, we discover how the art is in the doing.... Read More
31 March-16 April // Visions of Europe Season // This Other Eden // QFT, Belfast, UK
14 April // Cine Gael Montreal // Arracht // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
14-16 April //... Read More
2-5 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] + Q&A with director Colm Bairéad, Nothing Compares, Ghosts of Baggotonia, The Ghost of Richard Harris, Ballywalter, Homebird, Young Plato + Q&A with director Neasa... Read More
1-2 February // St Brigid’s Day: Women Creating Change // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality + Q&A with Gráinne Healy // Kino Atlantic, Warsaw, Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
... Read More
Former addict Leon (Barry Ward) is indebted to Iver (Liam Carney), his friend who helped him back from the edge. Now the tables have turned; Leon is clean and bursting with unbridled energy while Iver is at death’s door. Diagnosed... Read More
Amhras (Doubt) is a tale of love, pride, and unspoken regret. Tom (Philip Coffey) and Simon (Owen Moloney) are brothers who have spent the last 25 years living with a looming sense of injustice. Cast adrift in life as children... Read More
6 January // Irish Film Festa Rome takes part in Casa del Cinema’s 13 giorni in festa // Redemption of a Rogue // Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy
20-29 January // London Short Film Festival // The... Read More
Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic paean to the city of his birth is a bittersweet, but irresistibly charming, child’s-eye view of growing up at a time when the tension and violence of the Troubles were beginning to exert an increasing hold over... Read More
When Gary Lennon (I Dream in Photos) lived next door to a Music Conservatory in Shanghai he became acutely aware of the piano-mania sweeping the country. With over 40 million piano students in China, the competition to secure places in... Read More
Travellers from all over the world gather in the village of Doolin, County Clare, hoping to connect with their Irish heritage through traditional Irish music. But things are changing: facing rapid modernisation at the hands of tourism, confronting depression and... Read More
12-year-old Mully (Charlie Reid) has lost his mother, and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they’ve raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully flees the scene, steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy... Read More
9-11 December // European Food & Film Festival Laos // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Vientiane Center, Vientiane, Laos // Presented in association with Embassy of Ireland, Hanoi
9-18 December // European Film... Read More
When Glaswegian performance artist Stephen Skrynka learns that a life-long obsession with building and riding a century-old fairground attraction, the ‘Wall of Death’, was shared with Michael Donohoe and Connie Kiernan (who built a wall in 1979 and inspired the... Read More
4-12 November // Seville European Film Festival // Hole in the Head + Q&A with director Dean Kavanagh // mk2 Cinesur Nervión Plaza, Seville, Spain
13-25 November // European Film Festival Jordan // Here Before // Amman,... Read More
Klostės — Folds or Pleats — is a black and white, non-verbal feature film created by the people of Kaunas, Lithuania, together with Irish artist and filmmaker, Aideen Barry. The film, which was inspired by Kaunas Architectural Modernism and the... Read More
Clouded Reveries concerns the life and work of poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Ní Ghríofa was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2020 with the publication of her debut novel A Ghost in the Throat. Lauded by the... Read More
Based on the true story of the then 15-year-old Ann Lovett, who gave birth in the grotto in Granard; the last day of her life, a girl alone and abandoned by society, its prejudices, taboos, and traditions.
In a career spanning five decades, a broad range of film genres and a glittering array of best actor awards, Limerick-born Richard Harris (1930 – 2002) brought an electric presence to both stage and screen. He was nominated for Oscars... Read More
An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity.
‘Baggotonia’ was both an area and a cultural... Read More
This musical odyssey traveling the length of Dublin’s North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, explores the history, music and residents of this richly storied street. While exploring many dark narratives from the city’s history, from colonialism,... Read More
Atomic Hope follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems and avoid calamitous climate change. Filmed over a ten-year period, these advocates for nuclear energy... Read More
10-12 October // Irish Film Days // Róise & Frank, Doineann [Storm], Breaking Out // Rainbow Theatre, Amman, Jordan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Amman in partnership with the Royal Film Commission
11-16... Read More
Mincéir is a unique piece conveyed in the shape of a 50 minute documentary that brings the audience on a journey across the Irish Travellers’ traditions exploring strong connections with art, their past traditions, present transitions and future views. It... Read More
The perils of petty grievances are imaginatively explored in Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh’s (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) latest comedy-drama, set on the fictional island of Inisherin off the west coast of Ireland during the time of the Civil War,... Read More
Aoife (Kelly Gough) returns home to help her father (Lorcan Cranitch) recover from a heart attack. Day to day they get along just fine but never talk about the loss of Aoife’s mother. Over the summer, Aoife gets pulled back... Read More
Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), an eighteen-year-old with aspirations to be a cartoonist, rejects the comforts of suburbia and strikes out to make his fortune as a comic book artist. Robert’s tentative friendship with the unhinged Wallace (Matthew Maher), whom he meets... Read More
25 August – 16 October // Irish Film Festival Australia // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance, Love Yourself Today, You Are Not My Mother, Into the West, Young Plato, Let the Wrong One In, An Cailín... Read More
4-7 August // Festival DEVAră // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Magna Curia Palace – Sala Șemineului, Deva, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
5-14 August // Festival... Read More
When wild teen Kevin Coyle accidentally causes a tragic incident he does something seemingly unforgivable: he keeps the tragedy a secret. Kevin must watch in horror as the consequences of his lie unfold before his eyes, with the sparrow he... Read More
Aisha (Letitia Wright) lives at a Direct Provision Centre in a state of uncertainty; having fled Nigeria from a violent gang that murdered members of her family, she is desperately trying to find some degree of permanency, where she and... Read More
This creative documentary investigates the idiosyncratic world of Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin and its many social, institutional and architectural changes over 80 years. He is... Read More
Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest people to come out on Irish television. Enda McGrattan, also known as Veda, promised to keep their HIV status a secret but eventually broke free with... Read More
This new feature-length documentary from Adam Low (Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens) unlocks Joyce’s masterpiece in all its surprising, poetic, moving, verbose, sexually explicit and endlessly hilarious glory, from its earliest crossed out manuscript pages to the... Read More
Pigeon racing is now a multi-million dollar industry, attracting high-stakes competitors from all around the globe.
Pigeon fanciers register their prize racers, box them up and dispatch them to faraway places to compete in a series of lucrative races, but... Read More
Acclaimed Indian classical musician and composer Ustad Wajahat Khan and much-loved and renowned Irish musician and composer Peadar Ó Riada come together in a unique exploration of the shared musical heritage of their beloved native traditions.
Compiled from over 40... Read More
6 July // London Pride: free screening of The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London
8 July // Galway Film Fleadh: Networking at the Fleadh // Galway, Ireland // Presented in... Read More
The subject of an illegal “cure” for autism is discussed by Fiona Pettit O’Leary, a woman who is trying to stop the abuse of vulnerable people.
While Irish director Dean Kavanagh’s latest film sees him take a step away from his previous, more purely experimental work towards a traditional, narrative style, the playful approach to the medium of cinema on display and the healthy dose of... Read More
8-15 June // International Filmfest Emden-Norderney // Foscadh [Shelter] // CineStar 5, Emden-Norderney, Germany
9 June // Mois des fiertés: Pride screening // Queen of Ireland // Cinema Star, Strasbourg, France // Presented in association with the... Read More
Following a violent attack on a night out, Cian O’Reilly (Éanna Hardwicke), a promising young Gaelic footballer, sustains a life-changing injury. Cian, a young farmer, had been happy with his lot: working contentedly alongside his father (Lorcan Cranitch) on the... Read More
England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to embrace their inner Bowie years before he was even born and place bets... Read More
Steps of Freedom, a spectacular performance-based documentary, follows the evolution of Irish dance from humble origins to present-day global phenomenon which sees weekly Irish dance classes held in more than 60 countries around the globe, millions attending theatre shows and... Read More
3-15 May // Festival Eurocine // Foscadh [Shelter], Doineann [Storm], Breaking Out // Bogotá [Cinemateca de Bogotá, Cinemanía], Cali [Cinemateca La Tertulia], Medellín [Procinal Las Americas, Colombo Americano], Manizales [Teatro Fundadores], Colombia
5 May // London Irish... Read More
Following the discovery that her smear test results were incorrect, a fact that had been withheld from her, delaying diagnosis and negatively impacting on treatment for her cervical cancer, Vicky Phelan realised that other women may have been similarly affected.... Read More
Keira Woods’ daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country. Keira soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family’s souls... Read More
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
3 April // Irish Arts Center New York presents Féile na Gaeilge // Arracht // Irish Arts Center // New York, USA
8-14 April // Irish Film Festival Ottawa [HYBRID] // In person at the Arts Court... Read More
3-6 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Redemption of a Rogue, You Are Not My Mother, Secrets from Putumayo [Segredos do Putumayo], The Tribe of Gods, Brian Friel – Shy Man, Showman, An Irish Goodbye, Here Before, Let... Read More
13 February // London Irish Centre and IFI presents // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality + Q&A with Vanessa Gildea hosted by Vanessa Monaghan, Chair of the London Irish LGBT Network // London Irish Centre, Camden, London,... Read More
A couple in a doomed relationship become trapped in their favourite forest. The endlessly winding paths lead nowhere, the trees never end, the sun never sets, and a sinister presence stalks them, trying to drive them insane. There is no... Read More
In the early 1970s, the world-class waves of Ireland were uncharted waters for the international surfing community. Amidst the conflict of the Troubles, pioneers in both Dublin and Belfast transcended political hostilities to host the 1972 Eurosurf championship, while every... Read More
27-30 January // Internationale Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend] // Arracht // Central im Bürgerbräu // Würzburg, Germany
An exploration of Irish musician Áine Tyrrell’s journey as she plays Australia’s largest folk festival, Woodford Festival, just north of Brisbane with her new band over New Year’s Eve 2019/20. She has emigrated to Australia, partly to escape domestic violence... Read More
The comedy classic features much-loved Irish actor Jimmy O’Dea, playing a salesman working along the Irish Border who runs into trouble when he encounters jewel thieves. Cross-border rivalry plays out between a Garda, played by Noel Purcell (Moby Dick, 1956... Read More
At the peak of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to worldwide fame her iconoclastic actions resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-1993, the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer... Read More
1-30 November // Encuentro de Cine Europeo Argentina // The Silver Branch // Buenos Aires, Argentina // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Buenos Aires
4 November // Outdoor Cultural screening of The Silver Branch... Read More
For five city friends, a day out hiking in the Irish countryside takes a turn for the worse when one of them suffers an accident. Forced to take a shortcut off the mountain, the friends cross onto private property in... Read More
Teenager Char and her mother, Angela, share a house with grandmother, Rita. Relations are fraught as Angela’s poor mental health and erratic behaviour cause Rita to become increasingly impatient and Char to isolate from her bullying classmates. When Angela disappears... Read More
Tomás is a successful television producer. Specialising in investigative journalism, over the years he has made many enemies in Dublin’s criminal underworld. In search of peace and quiet, he and his wife Siobhan take their baby son Oisín to their... Read More
6 October // Arracht [Monster] // Cinema Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abu Dhabi
16-17 October // Open House at the Chicago Irish American Heritage Center // Brief Encounters:... Read More
Celebrating the joys of an Irish Wedding in all its pleasant predictability – the requisite chats about the weather, the haggle over the beef or salmon, the losing of the rings, the ditching of the heels, the intergenerational whirl around... Read More
An emotive, intimate film on the life and death of acclaimed young Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, whose murder by the New IRA in April 2019 sent shockwaves across the world. Directed by her close friend Alison Millar, the film... Read More
1-4 September // EFACIS [the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies] EFACIS Conference 2021: Interfaces and Dialogues // Tomorrow is Saturday, Henry Glassie: Field Work, The Great Book of Ireland. Guests confirmed as panellists:
Matt 16, is a nice kid from Northside Dublin. A little too nice for his own good and it has been holding him back his whole life. He always puts other people’s needs before his own but will he ever... Read More
When a new family moves in next door, their young daughter, Megan, quickly captivates Laura, stirring up painful memories of her own daughter who died several years previously. Before long, Laura’s memories turn to obsession as Megan’s unsettling behaviour begins... Read More
The fascinatingly complex story of how Pádraig Ó Dónaill/Patrick O’Donnell, a man from the Donegal Gaeltacht with no overt political affiliations, came to shoot and kill one of the leading figures of the assassination squad The Invincibles, and Ireland’s most... Read More
Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan deep dives into the life of the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy... Read More
Untold Secrets voices the experiences of survivors of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes, and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke, who was fostered out of the Bon Secours Mother & Baby Home in Tuam. A... Read More
Lily, a girl with a secret, is on the cusp of becoming a young woman. With her best friend, the fiercely loyal and flamboyant Simon, she navigates the treacherous waters of school life. When a misunderstanding with the beautiful and... Read More
Ryan McMullan and his musical team gather on Cruit Island, Co Donegal for an intense 4-day recording and listening session as they work on Ryan’s debut album, a pivotal moment in his career. Against the majestic landscape, we meet singer/songwriter... Read More
11-15 August // Serile Filmului Romanesc // Adam & Paul: The 12th edition of the festival is dedicated to the actor and director Ion Caramitru who will be in attendance. // Iași, Romania // Presented in association with the... Read More
The 8th traces Ireland’s campaign to remove the 8th Amendment – a constitutional ban on abortion, and shows a country’s transformation from a conservative state in thrall to the Catholic church to a more liberal secular society. The film includes voices... Read More
A university drop-out living with her mum, and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up. A bittersweet life-affirming story about the unexpected connections that can change the course... Read More
A black-market medic carrying out illegal operations for the criminal underworld gives refuge to a young girl, and must choose between breaking her medical oath or crossing her ruthless employers.
Mags, a hot-headed pizza delivery cyclist who reckons herself to be entirely self-sufficient, is just about getting by during the property crisis in Dublin. When her bike is stolen and she loses her job, her eviction seems inevitable. With nowhere... Read More
Every Christmas in Dublin, the crowds gather for Damien Dempsey’s Christmas gig at Vicar Street. For many, these shows have become a cathartic ritual, a safe space where emotions can be laid bare.
We meet Dempsey and three members of... Read More
17 July // Pride event // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Letní kino Kinská, Prague, Czech Republic // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Prague, in association with Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
21 July... Read More
In 2011, Ireland became a frontline state as the oil and gas industry attempted to introduce the controversial practice known as Hydraulic Fracturing – or “fracking” – into Europe. A ten year groundswell campaign started in the border counties of... Read More
At the corner of a street in Paris, Joan Verra runs into her first love, a once young Irishman. Overwhelmed, she leaves for her country house and revisits the last 40 years, building a fantasized picture of her life. Her... Read More
Pure Grit is a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story chronicling three years in the life of a young Native American woman on the Wind River Reservation in Northern Wyoming. Sharmaine, a former horse... Read More
Headmaster Kevin McArevey illustrates how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community, in a marginalized, working class community in Belfast’s Ardoyne, which for generations has been... Read More
10-27 June // EU Film Festival Chile [online] // Redemption of a Rogue // Santiago de Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago de Chile
12 June // CraicFest presents: Craic LGBT Film... Read More
6-8 May // EU Film Festival Malawi // The Camino Voyage [7th May] // Lilongwe, Malawi // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Lilongwe, and the EU Ambassador
21-23 May // Fundación Iguales en colaboración... Read More
Probation officer Cathy Madden is tasked with rehabilitating the notorious killer ‘Bloody’ Mary Laidlaw and integrating her back into society after twenty years in jail for the murder of her husband two decades before. Is she a witch, a psychopath... Read More
The story of two estranged brothers on opposite sides of the law; Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána but his loyalty to the force is tested by his ex-convict brother Joe following a botched robbery. Suddenly... Read More
1-10 April [Postponed from 13-22 January] // Panorama of European Films // Arracht // Karim Cinema and Zamalek Cinemas // Cairo, Egypt // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
9-13 April // Irish Film... Read More
The GAZE on Tour 2020 Irish LGBT shorts programme spans an array of Irish talent from all sides of the border creating an excitingly diverse collection of drama, animation and documentary.
This programme, curated for GAZE festival 2020, reflects the... Read More
Yet another tragic miscarriage sends Adaeze’s life out of kilter. The medical diagnosis that further pregnancy attempts will be difficult means Adaeze must face the reality of the situation with her husband, Nonso. Adaeze evaluates the emptiness now left inside... Read More
To help her mother regain her joie de vivre after breast cancer and to cushion the blow of her father’s news, sassy 14-year old Aisling sets her up on what she hopes will be the perfect date but when the... Read More
From acclaimed writer/director Ivan Kavanagh, Son is a bold and unnerving character driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Babadook. Having escaped from a cult as a child, a mother must face her past when... Read More
Narrated by Liam Neeson, this landmark documentary marks the 175th anniversary of the start of the Great Irish Famine and provides a comprehensive guide to one of most defining moments in Irish history which led to the loss of over... Read More
4-8 March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // The Edge of Chaos, The Evening Redness in the South, I Never Cry, The Winter Lake, Arracht, The Hunger, A Call to Arts, Tomorrow is Saturday, Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman... Read More
Gillian Marsh’s portrait of David McGowan, a Sligo funeral director, confronts the business of death and how it is ritualised within Irish society, where we are known to grieve better than anyone else. With unprecedented access to the procedures, science... Read More
23-27 January // Al Ain Film Festival // Arracht // Screening on 24th and 26th at Star Cinema, Bawadi Mall, Al Ain, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE
Daniel Buckley (Darragh Byrne) is a nervous teen with a stutter, struggling to navigate his way in small-town 80s Ireland, trying to woo costume designer Carla while taking driving lessons from nerdy Donna.
Having to grow up quickly following... Read More
Renowned Irish documentarian Alan Gilsenan explores The Great Book of Ireland, a lavish vellum manuscript dubbed a “modern-day Book of Kells”. This extraordinary tome contains the original work of 9 composers, 121 artists and 144 poets including Eavan Boland, Samuel... Read More
4-6 September // Irish Film Weekend presented by Irish Film Festival Russia // Animals, Comedy shorts: Procession, A Quack Too Far, Father Father, Psychic, Mary, Ghost Gaff, The Ladies, Barbershop; Dark Lies the Island, The Last Right // Moskino... Read More
Even before its release, Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has, quite rightly, become one of the most lauded and garlanded Irish films of recent years. Adapted from Foster, a short story by Claire Keegan, it centres on nine-year-old Cáit, a shy... Read More
8 November // European Arthouse Cinema Day // A Bump Along the Way // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre // Valletta, Malta // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Valletta
19-29 November [Online + Rescheduled from 13-17 May]... Read More
Tomorrow is Saturday is an intimate portrait of the life and work of Irish collage artist Sean Hillen. Diagnosed in his late 50s with Aspergers, Hillen has reached a point where he finds it almost impossible to work in his... Read More
2-4 October // Immagini e Suono del Mondo [Ethnomusicological film festival] // Lomax in Éireann // Firenze, Italy
4-11 October // ZagrebDox: International Documentary Film Festival // The Camino Voyage [VOD for 60 days in Croatia] //... Read More
A funny and touching examination of life on either side of a foreskin divide.
Also available as part of Wardrop’s Shorts, a programme of five shorts directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman.
A little commentary from the valley of the squinting windows.
Bojayá: Caught In The Crossfire follows the story of LeynerPalacios, a community leader and Nobel peace prize nominee, who lost 32 relatives in one massacre. The 2002 Bojayá massacre was and remains, one of the worst mass atrocities in Colombia’s... Read More
6 September // LGBT Film Festival Poland launch event // Queen of Ireland // Warsaw, Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
12 September // Gasra na Gaeilge and The Adelaide Irish Club... Read More
There are only two stories: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
A stranger arrives to a rural village and calls for auditions asking people to tell her ‘dreams, lies, memories and gossip’.
Together, they... Read More
A child possessed. An exorcist locked in combat with an ancient evil. Using firsthand interviews, dramatic reconstruction, archival evidence and Martin’s own words, this documentary film tells the true story of Father Malachi Martin, and asks, in the battle for... Read More
Chemikal Underground has been Scotland’s premier indie label since its establishment in the 1990s, releasing work by a diverse range of fondly-remembered groups such as Bis, Magoo, and Urusei Yatsura, although the label’s greatest successes came from Arab Strap, Mogwai,... Read More
Bloodlight And Bami – Jamaican patois for the red light of a recording studio and bread – follows the incomparable Grace Jones across the globe as she visits family in Jamaica, appears on French television, and performs in Dublin’s Olympia... Read More
There’s only three ways to succeed in life…lie, lie and lie. Situations Vacant is a contemporary comedy set in the world of Dave Bracken. It’s a film about self esteem, how to have it, how to lose it and how... Read More
The film follows the story of Mohammed, who is captured by the US military in Afghanistan and transported to a secret military black site. When the army convoy he is riding in plummets off a steep hill, Mohammed finds himself... Read More
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star now living in listless retirement in Dublin, embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the US. Estranged from his father for over 30 years, Cheyenne... Read More
19th century Ireland; a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years –... Read More
When Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) finds a handbag on the subway, she doesn’t think twice about tracking down its rightful owner, who turns out to be Greta (Isabelle Huppert), a lonely piano teacher in desperate need of company. Struggling to... Read More
Babygirl, the second feature from Armagh-born writer-director Macdara Vallely, revisits the world of troubled teens which he first explored in Peacefire (2010). Set in the Bronx, Babygirl is an unsettling drama about a Puerto Rican teenager (Yainis Ynoa) who finds... Read More
For Alice, an ex-model and struggling actress, for Charlie, a sweet and gifted musician who has lost all control of his life; and for Felix, with nothing in his head and a teenage girlfriend whom he’s been trying to leave... Read More
A comedy-drama road movie telling the story of a man bringing the body of someone he barely knows for burial with his family. His good intentions are motivated by trying to patch up his relationship with his own brother. However,... Read More
A psychological drama telling the story of Micí Phincí Ó Foghlú, a young musician with a tragic past who is crippled in a car accident. He is given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent avant-garde... Read More
The inventor of modern ice skating, Sonja Henie was always surrounded by her family, never alone, and with an appetite for money, men, parties and alcohol. After eleven World Championships and three Olympic gold medals as a figure skater, she... Read More
Twenty-four hours in the life of a young Irish mother and child as they battle homelessness while living in emergency accommodation.
Racing from young love to tortured loss and back again this story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church.
With a unique point of view on... Read More
Heidi and Jane are best friends living in a small town in the desert. When Jane, a Rodeo Queen contestant and military wife goes missing Heidi, now alone in the world, must begin a search across the desert for her... Read More
Vita and Virginia details the intimate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and her muse, the novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Drawing on their passionate correspondence, the film celebrates the unconventional and intoxicating relationship which flourished... Read More
After breaking free from his foster home, feral teenager Joey Moody returns to Laytown, a rural Irish town just over the horizon, in a bid to reclaim his family’s caravan park and salvage his friendship with his best mate and... Read More
Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first pointed her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to eschew traditional family life and become a photojournalist, she found herself... Read More
Coilin and Alex are part of Dublin’s bohemian underworld of musicians, artists and comedians, who eschew hard work in favour of changing the world. But over the course of twenty-four hours of degradation, they are forced to look the real... Read More
A road movie and thriller, inspired by Irish folk legend, Pursuit is a tale of love, betrayal and revenge, and the pursuit of a life beyond crime, bondage and a shattered dream.
Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland
Faith is in a bad place. Her Dad, Sean, is ill – she fears he is dying and is haunted by the prospect of a life alone. Faith confides in her teacher and sports coach Sissy – who tells her... Read More
Set in Sardinia, during the bombardment of World War II, Annetta is an Accabadora, a woman who helps people die with dignity, a practice existing in Sardinia until the 1950s. She searches for acceptance and love with a deep desire... Read More
An eccentric multi-millionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple fall in love and wish to get... Read More
A junior officer at the Hague Tribunal of Justice, Vince is young and ambitious. Nikola Radin (“the General”) was a highranking officer in the Yugoslav Army. When the wars in Socialist Yugoslavia started, he resigned his post and disappeared into... Read More
Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family with she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room. Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland
When a series of mysterious murders happen in Clayton, a small mid-west town, John Wayne Cleaver, a 16 year old obsessed with serial killers, is suspicious. Fearing he might become a serial killer himself, John makes a list of rules... Read More
Oscar-nominated Irish director Juanita Wilson’s second feature is an adaptation of the novel longlisted in 2000 for what was then the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award by ‘country noir’ author Daniel Woodrell, whose work has previously been brought to the... Read More
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a posthumously published early epistolary novella, Love & Friendship sees Whit Stillman transpose his urbane, ironic brand of humour to 18th-century England with delightful results. A director of literary sensibility, Stillman incorporates playful... Read More
It is winter in Montauk, at the far end of Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach. The chairs are waiting for two people who have, for a long time, been lost to each other. He... Read More
Successful heart surgeon Steven (Colin Farrell) is engaged in a bizarre relationship with sixteen-year-old Martin (Barry Keoghan) in Yorgos Lanthimos’s (Dogtooth, 2009; The Lobster, 2015) outstanding new film that pushes the director’s signature style to extremes of inky-black humour and horror.
Steven introduces Martin to... Read More
Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals the fate of the young and impressionable Antaine by convincing him to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later, the reappearance of the... Read More
Raghdan Aziz’s new home in the west of Ireland seems to be the perfect getaway from his controlling Bradford-based Muslim father, Amir. However, when Amir lands on his doorstep with a birthday present of the keys to a former abattoir... Read More
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. He has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered by a strange ritual. Suddenly,... Read More
The story of Cathal Ó Searcaigh, the Irish gay poet, who spends part of every year in Nepal where he has ‘adopted’ a family and their country. Neasa NÍ Chianáin’s film follows Ó Searcaigh to his adopted home and contrasts... Read More
When a young girl goes missing in a small town, a troubled fisherman is forced to confront the past that destroyed his family.
Michael, a man living in the rural west of Ireland. In his self imposed isolation he spends his days building something in his workshop with only his dog for companionship. When his life is again shattered Michael must finish constructing... Read More
A former gangster and her estranged son meet at the wake of his father.
Cian and Pat have been joined at the hip since they were kids and have the run of their small town in the midlands. Cian is content to coast through a life of booze and casual hook-ups while Pat has... Read More
It’s the late 70s in London and a new generation is asking questions and finding answers, it’s called PUNK, and it don’t matter what you are or where you’re from.
When nervy Al has an absurd encounter with a stranger, he begins to question his whole identity. Set in the not too distant future.
A self-obsessed call centre worker deals with personal heartbreak, as the world crumbles around him… due to a zombie apocalypse.
In post-conflict Northern Ireland, paramilitaries have evolved into street gangs who enforce their own brutal street justice in the form of “punishment” attacks. But when they pass a death sentence on a local dog, they bite off more than they... Read More
A young man deals with the struggles of everyday life, while trying to get his mother to an important medical appointment.
A young woman finds herself a prisoner in the home of an old man who has recently lost his wife. As her desperate attempts to escape accelerate, he soon realises that he has taken on more than he can handle.
Told through imagery, a tempestuous relationship between a father and son unfolds over a lifetime.
Alex, a trans teenager, sets himself a challenge to confront his anxieties about how the world sees him and how he sees himself.
A couple experience the pain, laughter and uncertainty of fertility treatment, whilst trying to hold their relationship (and beloved cat) alive.
A capsule romance accelerates dramatically against the backdrop of the pandemic as two filmmakers are forced to move in together after two weeks of knowing each other.
Awards: Best Short Documentary, Galway Film Fleadh 2020
A man and his dog travel by tractor to a bog where turf and memories are ignited and the future pondered.
An abandoned school building in Dublin’s City Centre opens its doors to former pupils for one day only.
Despite being forced off the road in the 1980s, sisters Maggie and Nora still travel back to Connemara every summer to rekindle their connection with the land. With their caravans pulled up on the side of the road they recall... Read More
Up & Away is a short documentary on the 1973 IRA Mountjoy Helicopter Escape, told through the eyes of four men who were in the prison that day.
Sophia Murphy writes a letter to her younger self to make sense of the lifelong abuse she suffered at the hands of her father.
Homeless artists Jenny and James survive day to day in their tent, living off money collected from street art. When James is confronted with a sudden, life altering event, he must overcome his loss by finding solace and meaning in... Read More
Zoe, grieving for her deceased son, has become distant from her emotionally unavailable husband who buries himself in work. Dealing with her grief alone, she seeks refuge in the form of a homemade robot suit. Slowly, she works to rediscover... Read More
On a desolate Northern Ireland border, a man begins a desperate search for his family knowing the future he feared is nigh.
Claire and Timothy are chilled to discover that the same strange woman keeps popping up in the background of their holiday snaps. Who is this apparent stalker?
Patsy, the traffic warden, after getting clipped by a pushbike while crossing the road, must ‘follow his nose’ to find the girl of his dreams who hit him.
Sidney is a failed pianist who comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he soon finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams are quickly realised! Just when he thinks he... Read More
The Banshee’s song comforts Peggy as she unspools the threads of her past, weaving myth and reality she tells Eve her devastating story.
A Girl meets a Robot while fleeing across an empty desert. They must work together if they hope to survive their pursuers.
A man just wants to dry his underwear. Tormented by the weather, he is forced to use the local laundromat each evening, instead of his garden washing line. But another customer is watching him from afar.
A young sheltered boy idolises his older rebellious brother, who is fighting a guerrilla war. But how the young boy thinks war is, and the reality of war are far from similar.
The story of a young boy named Brian who tries to escape the hardships of reality.
“There’s method to the madness.” All Square Boi wants is a cup of tea and he’s willing to face insanity to get it!
Boy is awoken in the middle of the night, following an entity that may be connected to a group of missing kids.
Imposing a Lockdown is much easier than lifting one.
Overthinking on your first date, what could possibly go wrong?
The story of how Cnoc Mordaáin was formed. According to local legend there was a giant who terrorised the local people. A hero ‘Ciarain’ sailed across the water to save the people from the giant and in doing so, turned... Read More
Ant Hill City is thrown into panic when a giant foot appears. Our hero, Agony Ant, is running out of time to craft the only weapon that can stop it.
Willy watches his favourite western every night before bed, until this faithful eve in which he takes a bump to the noggin, leaving him in the local old folk’s home, which spurs his own spaghetti western of a situation.
After the death of her father, Tot roams through a mystical world carrying her grief with her as she searches for closure.
Awards: The James Horgan Award for Best Animated Short, Galway Film Fleadh, 2020
First Officer Maedhbh has high hopes for her first day of work. But when she fails to impress her hero, Captain Cara, and with a cabinful of restless passengers, it’s far from what she expected.
A son, determined to salvage his fractured relationship with his father, embarks on a journey to find a classic car from their past.
A lonely simple-minded barman working in a dead-end pub in the middle of nowhere rural Ireland has a fleeting encounter with a stranger that lights a flicker of something that might have been, or a glimpse of how things could... Read More
Sadhbh tells the story of young mother, Claire, who struggles to keep her life together while attempting to present a mask of strength against the judgement of the outside world. But she hides a heartbreaking secret, and sometimes accepting the... Read More
Martin lives an isolated and monotonous life on a farm. He tends to livestock and cares reluctantly for his alcoholic, bedridden father. An encounter with a care worker unearths buried trauma, sending Martin on a journey of reckoning that will... Read More
Haunted by visions, a young woman revisits an abusive past seeking to expel inner demons and put an end to her torment. However, she soon finds reality is her true horror and it bares the face of man.
Kathleen is 18 and alone. The system has no place for her now. What does the future hold when the past is all you’ve got? This visually arresting and emotionally-taut tale depicts the ongoing problems surrounding young adults who age... Read More
When betrayal stalks their camping trip, three friends unwittingly conjure up the wild, elemental spirits of vengeful Nature, with horrifying consequences.
21-31 August // The Histories and Film Festival in Rasnov (FFIR) // The Wind that Shakes the Barley [25Aug] // Rasnov Citadel, Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest 26 August – 6 September... Read More
11 July // Programming Irish Film Worldwide panel // Galway Film Fleadh // Presented by IFI International and Culture Ireland:
At 46, Dubliner Colm (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) has a comfortable life: a managerial job in the city’s docks; a home in a leafy suburb with two healthy teenage children; and a kind loyal wife, Claire (Monica Dolan). But his emotional and... Read More
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must... Read More
Fergus O’Farrell was the charismatic voice of Interference, one of the most influential bands on the Irish music scene in the ’80s and ’90s. Although diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at a young age, Fergus did not define himself by his... Read More
This inspiring drama of female empowerment is based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, Female Genital Mutilation activist. Fleeing a forced marriage in war-torn Somalia in 2006, Ifrah (Aja Naomi King) is trafficked to Ireland where a medical examination when... Read More
Matthew, a troubled teenager on the cusp of adulthood, finishes school along with the menacing Kearney and nihilistic Rez. In a final summer of excess, Matthew falls in love with his childhood sweetheart Jen, but is dragged into shocking acts... Read More
A vast compendium of moony sequences combine to create this cinematic ode to the moon. Drawing on a wealth of international cinematic archive (including sequences from the IFI Irish Film Archive) Tadhg O’Sullivan, director and editor extraordinaire, deftly interweaves the... Read More
Michael Keegan-Dolan is one of the most exciting and thought-provoking choreographers working in dance and theatre today. Keegan-Dolan’s latest show, Mám, brought the virtuoso concertina player Cormac Begley, the European musical collective ‘s t a r g a z e’... Read More
A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post,... Read More
Telling the story of a black, working-class boy who comes of age in 1960s Dublin, this feature documentary from maestra Emer Reynolds (The Farthest) paints a warm and detailed portrait of one of Ireland’s greatest rock legends.
As lead singer... Read More
A gripping psychological thriller following two teenagers on a journey of self-discovery as they dismantle the terrifying obstacles of the world they live in. Confined to an abandoned hotel with their slightly unhinged mother, the siblings live by night and... Read More
Life in her cloistered, self-sufficient commune is the only life Selah has ever known. She has grown up cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune with a band of young women who are presided over by a... Read More
Samuel O’Shea, a hard-drinking womaniser, has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, his first wife and grown children have turned against him, and he has begun seeing strange things. Looking for answers, Samuel discovers he has a terminal... Read More
New York in the 1990s: after leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent to J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she... Read More
Dishevelled Jimmy Cullen returns to Co Cavan after seven years of exile to make peace with his dying father and seek redemption for past sins before he too bids this world farewell. Moments after his arrival, his father breathes his... Read More
Bríd Ní Neachtain stars as the recently widowed Róise, who believes that a stray dog embodies the spirit of her late husband Frank. Isolated since his death two years ago, the appearance of the dog shakes her out of herself.... Read More
When his over-cosseting parents pass away reclusive John Cunliffe is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of twenty-six. After inheriting mountain land that obstructs a lucrative wind-farm development, John is forced to navigate the choppy waters of... Read More
Based on the award-winning TV series, a young puffin called Oona undertakes a challenging mission to protect the home she loves and ensure the survival of her puffin community.
As a huge storm approaches, the last Little Egg of the... Read More
A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang members and gentrifiers threatening their community.
In what might soon be termed the Cartoon Saloon magic, the hugely talented Kilkenny studio bring their fifth animated feature to the screen. Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, this stunningly imagined world draws on history and mythology to... Read More
16-23 June // Days of European Film Festival // Extra Ordinary // Kino Lucerna, Prague [16th], Kino Světozor, Prague [20th], Bio Central, Hradec Králové [20th], Czechia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Prague
The IFI... Read More
Born within a year of each other, Lauren and Kelly are very close sisters, you would never see one without the other, but over the years the mystery of their mother’s death tears them apart.
Kelly, keen to escape their... Read More
Priest and furniture maker Daniel Pacheco works in one of the most dangerous cities in the world: San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He tries to save lives, but that’s no simple matter in a country with staggeringly high murder rates. The... Read More
A coming-of-age comedy drama about two closeted teenagers, Eddie and Amber, who fake a relationship in order to stop all the speculation around them.
At first they love the reaction and begin to enjoy their peculiar arrangement. They become close... Read More
It’s the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Dave and his son Finny, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built to save all animals. But as it turns out, the obscure Nestrians aren’t... Read More
Life in an Ark with 50,000 others has many dangers: icebergs, unwelcome visitors, storms, woodworm and a very fragile truce between carnivores and herbivores. All hopes are pinned on a dove dispatched into the wild in search of land. The... Read More
In the backwater town of Six Mile Hill, local lads Eugene and William scam hapless tourists visiting the burial place of Abhartach, a blood-thirsty vampire said to have inspired the creation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Eugene’s relations with his father... Read More
Summer 1998. The opening stages of the Tour de France have been relocated to Ireland. Fictional Belgian rider Dom Chabol (Louis Talpe) has been one of the best support riders on the Tour for the last 20 years. It’s a sacrificial... Read More
On the surface, Sandra is a young mother struggling to provide her two young daughters with a warm, safe and happy home to grow up in. Beneath the surface, she has a steely determination to change their lives for the... Read More
This film was released on 6th December 2019 and is no longer screening.
Retired Belfast couple Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have, over the years, learned to live with the death of their teenage daughter. Their existence is... Read More
Coinciding with the second anniversary of the historic referendum which saw over 1.4m Irish citizens vote to overturn the Irish Constitution’s controversial 8th amendment, the film tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign. In the aftermath... Read More
The extraordinary true story of the Irish woman who shot Mussolini is brought to life in Barrie Dowdall’s documentary. Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, shot the dictator at point-blank range as she faced a fascist mob... Read More
Having been promised the ‘trip’ of a lifetime by their Irish friend and mushroom expert Jake, a group of American teenagers arrives in Ireland, keen for adventure. Despite Jake’s warnings about the shrooms they shouldn’t eat, things start to go... Read More
Celebrated filmmaker and artist Vivienne Dick weaves a personal and philosophical documentary remembering 1970s New York in its heyday for bohemian artists and musicians. Featuring contributions from many of her contemporaries at that time, the film also contrasts the “No... Read More
Veterinary student Rose (Ann Skelly) is an only child who has always wanted to know who her biological parents are. Having traced her birth mother Ellen (Orla Brady) who has no wish to have any contact, Rose travels from Dublin... Read More
An all-Traveller cast stars in this drama about a young boy who uses the power of his imagination to cope with some tough realities in his life. Jack lost his mum at a young age, has a hearing impairment and... Read More
Street Leagues follows the men and women of the Irish Homeless Street Leagues as they overcome homelessness and addiction through the power of sport. The film documents their journey to playing in the Homeless World Cup and features contributions from... Read More
On the eve of the great famine, fisherman Colmán Sharkey (Dónall Ó Healaí) ekes out a meagre existence for his family on the west coast of Ireland. Wrongly blamed for the murder of an inclement local landlord (Michael McElhatton) he... Read More
Three successful female athletes explore how being physically courageous, unapologetically competitive and deeply passionate in team sport can unlock a freedom to really occupy your own skin. Based on ‘The Fear of Winning, an essay by Eimear Ryan.
An affable cat that is new in town just wants to make friends. When he tries to befriend three dogs he struggles to make them see him as he sees himself. He is just one of the dogs.
After being phased out of his job, a dangerously unstable man’s life spirals out of control when the prescription pills he takes start to have a side effect, allowing him to see the parasitic beings that have long been puppeteering... Read More
Two sisters talk on the phone about an upcoming birthday; tempers flare as promises are broken. Secrets are revealed and tears are shed. Both women eventually realise that shame is one thing they can’t afford if they’re going to survive.... Read More
A 16 year old school dropout interviews for a job, but when he is let down by his brother, he lashes back and looks to his friends for support.
A man living in an idyllic simulated world is forced to return to a life he sought desperately to escape.
Set in a Neo-Steampunk world, a shy introvert named Douglas enlists the help of A Better You, a customizable carbon clone to help him win the girl of his dreams.
Combining documentary and dance performance, this visually arresting film dives into the mind and creative process of Oona Doherty’s award winning dance show Hope Hunt.
Awards: Best Irish Short Film, Dublin International Film Festival, 2020
Kachalka, Kiev’s enormous open-air gym is a community constructed facility that is free-to-use. Made entirely from recycled scrap materials repurposed from the country’s Soviet past it is widely considered to be ‘the most hardcore gym in the world’. The film... Read More
Traversing the same bodies of land and water this short film conceptually links the intercontinental routes of migratory birds with the journeys of refugees and migrants. Above the law, they traverse the same bodies of land and water.
The anxiety of house-hunting takes on a nightmarish dimension in Lorcan Finnegan’s accomplished second feature, a lean psychological thriller made with clockwork precision which offers a wry commentary on the creeping malaise of suburban married bliss. In the market for... Read More
A darkly comic relationship drama based on a short story by Icelandic writer Gyrðir Elíasson, The Flight to Memmingen tells of the rise and tragic demise of standup comedian Dave Murphy. He just wants some peace to write his famine... Read More
A slapstick comedy about an unhappy young girl whose life is turned upside-down when she finds a mysterious runaway with psychic powers in her back garden.
A forest creature’s quiet life is turned upside down when her new neighbour attempts to win her affection.
Set in the heart of Dublin’s ever-changing Ringsend, this experimental film explores the special bonds between grandparents and grandchildren, grief and ageing.
The inside scoop on the murky world of the ice cream business.
93-year-old organist George takes us though his love of music and his move from Belgium to Ireland almost 60 years ago.
Colombian beekeeper Ramón Galvis Rodríguez reflects on the future of our planet as a direct result of the gradual extinction of bees.
A look at the Cork Cancer Care Centre and their mission to deliver ‘blankets of hope’ to cancer patients around Ireland.
John, the successful star of a family sitcom, has a heated conversation with his taxi driver on his way home from work.
As his life changes outside his control, a young man struggles to keep his car on the road.
A writer waits for inspiration. It finally comes courtesy of a dispossessed woman who he invites into his home.
A lady of a certain age is always unlucky in love.
A genre-blending short film which sets dance, music and an ethereal aesthetic against a backdrop of friendship, love, lust, and betrayal.
Scenes from an Instagram marriage.
Feeling trapped at her sister’s wedding, Fiona must face the past to escape the ruins of a life she once dreamed of.
A compelling horror hat explores the fragility of mental health during pregnancy.
Angela and her two kids find themselves on the verge of homelessness. An increasingly desperate situation leads Angela to commit an uncharacteristic act placing the family’s future in jeopardy.
Kelly comes back to her childhood house after many years abroad to help her sister tidy for the estate agent.
A family drama between three estranged siblings who are forced to reconnect when a tragedy occurs in their family.
Nick, a drug-addled bad boy, arrives uninvited to his best friend’s birthday party, where he discovers why all have abandoned him.
Two school friends entertain the curiosity of their lives on the eve of a grand departure.
George is mourning a death that did not come to pass, and Lucianne’s bemused sympathy makes some sense of this;
Nathan begrudgingly visits his infirm childhood friend Edgar, but their lives have diverged beyond any personal history.
After caring for her elderly father for years, Lisa is unable to deal with his passing and begins to see him everywhere.
Sarah is a nine-year old girl whose faith is tested after many failed attempts to evoke a sign from the Virgin Mary.
It’s not easy being a teenager. Especially when you have a chestnut for a head.
A lone teenage girl roams the streets of Dublin urgently trying to buy alcohol in this intense family drama.
Peggy gets a visit from the Grim Reaper.
A dying mother, wracked with guilt from historical tragedy, is brought reconciliation with her estranged daughter.
An elderly woman struggles after a violent break-in that has robber her of her husband and her peace of mind.
Rosie Curran has spent her life trying to adhere to the often harsh societal rules of 1940s Ireland. However, in the face of an impossible and unthinkable situation, Rosie must gather every scrap of strength and defiance within her to... Read More
Through a series of enchanting encounters, Fern discovers how to see the world from a different perspective.
A deadpan sci-fi, interweaving moments of familiar routine with esoteric messages from deep space.
A mysterious quest goes horribly wrong. Dealing with the inevitable decay that envelopes the world in which we live, you cannot barter with forces beyond your control.
Who do we see when we look at people? By putting people in a box do we restrict our own true potential?
A bog worker in the Irish midlands struggles to come to terms with the end of his era.
The story of a child who was burnt as a witch.
A girl who works in a late-night supermarket has a strange obsession. After a visit from a late-night customer she becomes paranoid.
A son, banished from his village for refusing to worship a false idol, bears witness to the brewing conflict beyond that may likely destroy civilisation itself.
In a perfect Celtic society, a young girl finds herself face-to-face with a dark family secret.
A father and daughter struggle to cope with the death of a central family member. They choose to express their grief in opposite ways.
Violent Max Punchface gets trapped in an alien land with only some friend sheep for company/punch practice.
A girl wakes up to discover that a creature from her nightmares has materialised into reality. Will she decide to run, or will she face this demon head on?
A puppet grows tormented at the hands of her manipulator.
20,000 words and four years of hard work deleted, in one clumsy click. How would you react?
A fox must deal with a very noisy duck before he can get his precious sleep.
A lonely young boy builds a unique bond with an unsuspecting creature and learns that sometimes it’s better to let go and move on.
In an encounter between innocence and assumed evil we witness the daily struggles of an imprisoned 21-year-old.
As the refugee crisis quietly continues, four Irish clowns travel to Greece to perform for children living and waiting in temporary shelters.
Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs both served years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. After being exonerated, what are the chances they both met and fell in love?
Things I didn’t say but wish I did.
If you think climate change is a joke, you are the joke.
Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of jazz.
In a small corner of the UK, a battle is being waged. A battle for love. A battle to be EQUAL.
Brid O’Griofa, a native of Inisheer, reflects on life in pre-modern times.
Ireland, 1851. A farm hand at the end of the Great Famine encounters a ghostly female figure leading him to a new hope.
Bainne is a coproduction between Sky Arts and Screen Ireland.
Awards: Best First Short Drama, Galway Film... Read More
A bereaved man, grieving and drunk, idly asks for a way out. Unfortunately, in doing so, he irritates someone that could give him just that.
A cautionary tale. If a strange bloke appears at your window in the middle of the night and asks you out on a date, just say no.
In Victorian London an overworked writer, Abe, is inspired by his day job in the theatre to create a bloody brilliant novel.
Awards: Golden Knight, Malta International Film Festival 2019 Best Animated Sequence, Galway Film Fleadh 2019
At the precipice of womanhood and plagued with foreboding dreams, Maria must confront the mistrust of her family as a strange epidemic sweeps the nation.
Over the course of her 21st birthday Ava explores the grief felt by the loss of her twin sister and attempts to overcome it.
A weary slasher villain puts in the hours necessary to pull off perfect kills until he encounters victims that don’t behave as they should.
Mark and Sophie plan to rob a post office but as things go awry, they each discover what they are really made of.
Father James must decide what kind of a father God wants him to be.
A girl with a dark past finds herself alone and on the run. Sometimes moving forward is harder than it seems.
Summer, 1991, 17-year-old Kat escapes from her family for a night of freedom and fun with the local teenagers but struggles to stave off a pressing responsibility.
Cormac is consumed by historical demons, living with the aftermath of a childhood accident. Could he have done something to prevent the tragic event?
Awards: Best Actor in a Male Role, Peter Coonan, Richard Harris International Film Festival 2019
Over the course of a fraught evening Cynthia navigates her once familiar circle of fiends and comes to realise that some bridges can’t be mended.
Awards: Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama, Galway Film Fleadh 2019
An everyday scenario: two people sitting together, in an ordinary place completing their unremarkable, mundane tasks. But sometimes life is not so ordinary.
A couple drive to the city to collect their teenage daughter from hospital. On the return journey everyone seems happy to avoid discussing her reason for being there.
Awards: Rising Star Award, Irish Screen America 2019 Best Short Film, Disappear... Read More
Bernie fights stigma, shame, and her own demons while trying to hold her family together in the wake of her son’s drug-related death.
Aoife searches for her birth mother and unveils a past that entangles two other women in town.
Wishbone is an awkward, honest look at strained female friendships. Three young women break bread – and possibly each other – over a later supper at the Fleadh.
When 17-year-old Bridget escapes from a psychiatric hospital, she rings home from a rural phone box…but her parents are waiting for the call.
John and Stephanie wake to the sound of someone outside. This stranger wants Stephanie dead. Why? We come to learn that Stephanie may be harbouring a monstrous secret.
In a post-apocalyptic Irish midlands, an overconfident American jet pilot tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from her domineering mammy, but around here, getting involved with family can be deadly.
Len and Ruby are celebrating their ruby wedding anniversary. Len has a history of odd and outlandish gifts. Ruby hopes that this year will be different.
Set in 1978, Pat tells the story of a music lover from rural Ireland who keeps in touch with her son in New York through the only phone box in the village.
A young mother and her son flee an abusive husband in the middle of the night only to find themselves trapped in their car in a field with a homicidal bull.
Fintan, a young gambling addict, fights his inner demons in, for him, the very bizarre surroundings of St. Marie’s Hope House, a general addiction rehab centre.
When two people meet at a party, they have more in common than they think.
In 2017, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly known as The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence – but they were no longer a pop group. They were now undertakers, planning to build a monument, The People’s Pyramid, out... Read More
In 1992, Bill Drummond’s enormously successful pop group The KLF ceased activities. Since 2014, he’s been on a world tour visiting Kolkata, North Carolina and elsewhere. In each place he carries out his self-imposed ‘work’ – building beds, baking cakes,... Read More
There was once an invisible optician, living in a strange and lonely world. Her story starts with a broken lens and the woman who taught her to see things differently.
Cara must make a choice – abandon her sisters and pursue her dreams, or sacrifice herself so that one day they too might stand a chance.
A lonely driver takes drastic action to protect a customer from heartbreak. A single-take film about loneliness, intentions and infidelity.
A man struggles to free himself from a mind packed full of indecipherable thoughts. He spends a night searching for judgement. A judgement he feels he deserves.
Brendan’s mother Eilis reveals a dark secret on her deathbed, one to which Brendan must find the answer – what happened to her lost child?
A woman’s eyes are opened to her coercive, controlling partner when an old friend is allowed to come to dinner.
Date night disaster as Mark’s perfect evening with Jane leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
A cantankerous musician endeavours to break a magical curse by passing on a sense of joy to others; something which doesn’t come naturally to him.
A woman hunted, accused of witchcraft, who finds love in an unlikely ally. Can she escape with her life? Can she ever truly be free?
A young couple find themselves growing apart in their new rural life until a masked figure appears and things come to a head.
Set over the course of one night, a taxi driver returns to work after the death of his daughter, only to encounter the young boy who might be responsible.
A young man throws himself off a lighthouse to end it all, but it’s only the beginning.
A woman attending a weight loss class loses more than she wanted to.
For Dan, ALEX is more than a virtual assistant; he’s his soulmate. Love, jealousy and control all play a part in this dark comedy that was written, produced and edited in 48 Hours as part of the Little Cinema, Galway... Read More
On the day of a regional Irish dancing Feis, an Irish couple struggle to cope with their child’s gender identity.
In the otherwise tranquil Dublin neighbourhood of Stoneybatter, one local issue has divided neighbours: the pigeons.
An iconic statue of Big Tom McBride, created by artist Mark Richards, was commissioned by Monaghan County Council, for the market square in Castleblayney. From the initial commission to the unveiling, an emotional journey is taken in art and in... Read More
A veteran troupe of wrestlers assemble a ring on a seaside promenade. A summer festival prepares for their exhibition of physical drama.
Farmer Michael is a Galway-based, divisive character getting millions of views online. But his creator, Stevo Timothy, has a past with far more twists and turns than anyone would expect.
The story of Danny Rock, a 22 year-old unemployed young man from a small tourism-dependent town in the West of Ireland, who raps. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Tupac Shakur and NWA, he uploads self directed, edited and written... Read More
A short documentary detailing Ireland’s reputation, culture, and future from the perspective of seven young inhabitants of the country. Stylised as a light-hearted reflection piece, Our Land provides the spectator with an understanding of how the interviewees’ regard Ireland as... Read More
6 March // Cine Gael Montreal Spring Season // The Man Who Wanted to Fly // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada CANCELLED: 6-8 March // LadyFest Riga // GAZE on Tour 2018: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls,... Read More
A Song for Ireland is one of eight documentaries made in Northern Ireland by Irish-American filmmaker Arthur MacCaig. It traces a history of Ireland through music and explores how the nation’s musical heritage has been influenced by its long and... Read More
Adrian (Cilléin McEvoy) is a talented pianist with a promising career ahead of him. Playing music is the only thing he lives for until his world falls apart when he is diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease. Afraid of the... Read More
7-15 February // EU Film Festival Ghana // The Silver Branch // Kumasi [7-8 Feb], Accra [9-15 Feb], Ghana // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abuja, Nigeria 9 February // Niall Tobín tribute at the Irish... Read More
Sara (Charlie Murphy) has married into the feuding Mannion family and is embroiled in a complex web of erotic dysfunction. Though husband Daddy Mannion (Pat Shortt), 20 years her senior, is a big cheese in a small town, she is... Read More
The GAZE on Tour 2019 Irish LGBT shorts programme reaffirms the quality of LGBT film and filmmaking talent within Ireland, as well as the standard of work being produced internationally by Irish creators. The sheer scope in the exploration in... Read More
Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis) is an enforcer for the Devers, a family of criminals in an Irish seaside town. Quicker with his fists than his wits, Arm had a brief moment of glory when he represented his county in... Read More
A homeless man searching for his lost dog forges an unexpected bond with a young boy.
15 January // Georgia Public Broadcasting presents a special screening of Black 47 with special guest James Frecheville // Atlanta, GA, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta 21 January // One World Film... Read More
Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) is a brilliant young marine scientist and PhD student who is more at home amidst laboratory equipment than people. She must complete a series of tasks, including a deep sea dive, as a component of her studies,... Read More
Six years after his unexpected death in 2013, Seamus Heaney’s wife Marie and their three children talk intimately about their family life and read the poems he wrote for them. His surviving brothers remember their childhood and the shared experiences... Read More
Lost Lives is an ambitious cinematic film inspired by the book of the same name. Written over seven years by five journalists, it is a book recording the circumstances of every single death in the Northern Irish Troubles: 3,700 entries document... Read More
4 December // REEL TIME: Poetry, Performance and Internal Politics: On Black Mountain + the Poets’ Theatre by Jonathan Creasy, UCD // By Accident with introduction and post-screening conversation with Fanny Howe, daughter of Mary Manning // Harvard //... Read More
After a one-night-stand with a younger man on her 44th birthday, party-loving single mother Pamela (played effortlessly by Bronagh Gallagher) discovers that she is pregnant. Meanwhile her disapproving, strait-laced daughter Allegra (Lola Petticrew), who sees herself as the adult of... Read More
Largely unknown outside Northern Ireland, the deaths of eleven innocent people at the hands of the British Army in a Catholic estate in Belfast is one of the most significant events in the Troubles.
In one small Belfast housing... Read More
Documentary about Irishman Sean Garland, known as the man in with the hat, a former Workers’ Party president and Official IRA Chief of Staff, and about what he has seen not only in Ireland, but in places as far away... Read More
Unquiet Graves: The Story of the Glenanne Gang details how members of the RUC and UDR (a British Army regiment) were centrally involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the recent conflict in Ireland. It reveals how... Read More
For six years, a virus has devastated Europe, transforming people into zombie-like monsters. All is lost until a cure is found. The cure, which has a 75% success rate, restores the infected to full physical health, although the cured remember... Read More
Prolific Irish director Alan Gilsenan has throughout his career frequently addressed issues of social interest. Following the success last year of documentary Meetings With Ivor and the release earlier this year of fiction feature Unless, The Meeting blends the two... Read More
Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures across Ireland to track down their long lost brother John Joe.
Inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007, The Young Offenders follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the... Read More
This film screened on 10th December 2019.
Jarman’s angriest film, a striking collage of Super 8mm, home video footage, and new material, is a distressing, nightmarish vision of a country which had, under Thatcher’s rule in the 1980s, as the... Read More
Varanasi on the Ganges is famous for its Muslim silk weavers whose lives are closely interwoven with that of their Hindu neighbours. For over a thousand years the skills of their trade have passed from one generation to the next.... Read More
2 November // Irish Screen America // Float Like a Butterfly + Q&A with director Carmel Winters // Ahrya Fine Arts by Laemmle // Los Angeles, USA
6-10 November // Noordelijk Film Festival // The Dig //... Read More
Celebrating the legacy of a prodigiously talented Irish singer-songwriter, Heyday charts Mic Christopher’s musical journey from Grafton Street busker to The Mary Janes and rock stardom to the near-fatal accident that radically changed his world view and ignited a drive... Read More
Every four years, an elite group of sailors endeavour to sail single-handed, non-stop in a circumnavigation of the planet, through the most unpredictable and perilous conditions imaginable. They are the competitors in the Vendee Globe Race – one of the... Read More
This engaging compendium follows five young students as they embark on their transformative cross-border Erasmus journeys leaving the comfort of their homes (in France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Ethiopia), overcoming their fears and adapting to new cultures (in Lithuania, Finland,... Read More
Following in the tradition of Flann O’Brien, Kevin McAleer, and Father Ted, Extra Ordinary views rural Irish life through a surreal comic lens. Lonely driving instructor Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins), believing herself responsible for the death of her paranormal investigator... Read More
Frustrated by the music scene’s increasing omission of guitar music in festival line-ups and the exclusion of punk rock from national radio playlists, once-popular band The Blizzards take matters into their own hands, blowing their whole budget on a music... Read More
In the near future – or perhaps an alternate version of the present – those without a soulmate are dispatched to a grand hotel in the countryside where they have 40 days to rectify the situation by engaging in a... Read More
2-6 October // Irish Festival of Oulu // The Camino Voyage, Lomax in Éireann, Making the Grade, Black 47, Patrick’s Day// Cultural Centre Valve // Oulu, Finland
4-6 October // Bangkok Irish Film Festival // Brooklyn, Black... Read More
Trying to escape a broken past, Sarah (Seána Kerslake) is rebuilding her life on the outskirts of an isolated rural town with her young son, Chris (James Quinn Markey). Following the discovery of a mysterious sinkhole in the vast forest... Read More
Two priests are sent to a 1960s Magdalen laundry to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a found footage film whose setting adds a level of genuine horror to proceedings.
Cinema archivist David Williams (Rupert Evans) lives with his wife, Alice (Hannah Hoekstra), and their five-year-old son, Billy (Calum Heath). All seems well until David begins to suspect that Alice is cheating on him. His anxiety is compounded by a... Read More
When a ruthless gang of outlaws terrorises a sleepy frontier town, the local undertaker, Patrick, faces a profound moral dilemma. He plays a dangerous game, providing for his family as he profits in the wake of the violence sweeping the... Read More
Charting the path of TransGreystones, a group created to support the trans community in Wicklow, the film delineates their emotional journey to create their first art exhibition. Heartening in its depiction of subjugating vulnerability and isolation, the film explores the... Read More
A heartfelt documentary that explores the definitions, connections and commonalities of what it means to be lesbian. Through interviews and group discussions with all facets of the Irish LGBTQI+ community, the film delves into the lives of rural and urban... Read More
This film was released on Friday 9th August 2019 and is no longer screening.
This portrait immerses us in the heart of the Gaza Strip among an eloquent and resilient cast of characters under siege. Blockaded by Israel and Egypt,... Read More
7 September // Czech Film Archive // Come on Over ciné-concert with musical accompaniment by pianist Elaine Loebenstein // Ponrepo Cinema // Prague, Czech Republic // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Prague
9 September... Read More
Raped at 14 by a Catholic Priest, human rights activist Colm O’Gorman challenges Pope Francis to tell the truth about the cover up of abuse during his divisive visit to Ireland in August 2018.
Awards: Best Irish Documentary Short, Docs... Read More
This docu-drama follows Hugh Lane’s hard-fought venture to establish a public modern art gallery in Dublin in the early years of the 20th century – a time of political agitation and the forging of a new Irish cultural identity.
In Los Angeles, the perfect world of gay TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) is shaken with the end of a significant relationship and a very public on-air meltdown.
Forced to take time off, he fills his empty days and his... Read More
This film was released on Friday 28th June 2019 and is no longer screening.
Fraternal twin sisters Emma (Jordanne Jones) and Chantal (Leah McNamara) are worlds apart. Emma is self-conscious, and unsure of which path to take in life; she... Read More
In 1915, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle travelled with their young children Giorgio and Lucia to Switzerland to escape the turmoil of World War I. Lucia later trained as a dancer and performed throughout Europe. Her career ended when, in... Read More
2 August // Embassy of Ireland screening during Pride Festival // Queen of Ireland // Hanover House // The Hague, The Netherlands // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, The Hague
22-25 August // aGLIFF... Read More
A macho Traveller becomes increasingly concerned that his young son is soft. Directed by James Doherty, Breathe is a short film exploring the life of Patrick (John Connors, Cardboard Gangsters) as he struggles to accept his son (Lee O’Donoghue).
A delightful emigrant comedy about a young Irish girl who comes to America disguised as a boy in order to claim a fortune left to her late brother. Marion Davies shines as Patricia O’Day masquerading impishly as a boy and... Read More
The 375 residents of Newtok, Alaska watch their homes disappear into rolling seas as winter storms steal their coastline and melting permafrost erodes the edges of their town. Tom Burke’s (The Liberties) elegiac study follows the community as they struggle to maintain their... Read More
24 June-31 August // EU Film Festival // Black 47 // Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi [2 July] // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi
5 July // Navigatio Asociación de Santander // The... Read More
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This debut feature from the Tohill Brothers will no doubt prove to be one of the year’s strongest Irish releases, a downbeat but canny mix of thriller and western tropes.
Callahan (Moe Dunford) has just finished his prison sentence for... Read More
5 June // Sofia Pride Film Festival // GAZE on Tour short films: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Sofia, Bulgaria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Sofia, and GAZE LGBT... Read More
Offering a unique representation of the Irish-Canadian experience, Paud Mulrooney’s Super 8 films and self-developed photographs of life on Cat Lake and Ogoki Post Reserves with his young family (including his daughter the film-maker) are a rare window into the... Read More
The Overcoat is a warm and unique Christmas story about an office worker that saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.
Notes by Screen Ireland
This film screened on Monday 8th April 2019.
This profile of 80-year-old feminist activist Máirín de Búrca takes us from her childhood in Chicago, to her membership of Sinn Féin, to her role as a founder of the Irish Women’s Liberation... Read More
1-12 May// Irish Film Festival Australia // Float Like a Butterfly, The Camino Voyage, Unquiet Graves, The Drummer and the Keeper, Dublin Oldschool, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Metal Heart, Between Land and Sea, No Party for Billy... Read More
The Red Tree is a “powerful and poetic” short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini’s Fascist regime.
Available as part of a curated series of... Read More
Johnny is a young Traveller who has to come to terms with his sexuality, and wants to help his deeply traditional community to do the same.
Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2018.
On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.
Drew leaves another disappointing gay hook up and wonders why he feels so alone.His internal monologue delves deep into the mind of a lonely gay man – his desires, his insecurities and his wavering belief he’ll find love.
Available... Read More
The tale of an adolescent girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. In the wake of a violent and vicious homophobic attack, she is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life.
Available as... Read More
A dark comedy about the sensationalised media representation of trans people, and the burdens of local planning regulations.
Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2017.
The GAZE on Tour 2018 Irish LGBT shorts programme reaffirms the quality of LGBT film and filmmaking talent within Ireland, as well as the standard of work being produced internationally by Irish creators. The sheer scope in the exploration in... Read More
15-year-old garden centre worker Kyle battles shadowy agents so he can save his dying older brother with a special plant.
Two boys travel to the big city on a self-appointed mission from God.
A child’s unusual behaviour during the school nativity rehearsals results in the principal calling a meeting with the boy’s mother.
A man and his child live a nomadic existence. After he murders a woman, their relationship begins to break apart.
An imaginative girl tries o create a spaceship after he loss of her Mother, while her grieving father descends into alcoholism.
A man who searches for missing women is frustrated by the lack of official response.
Raymond Ovens has been living on his own in a house full of dust and memories.
The valiant individuals, who provided front line and core services for HIV-AIDS patients in the late ’80s.
3 April // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith // Keepers of the Flame + Q&A with director Nuala O’Connor // London, UK
4-21 April // Days of European Film // Black 47 // Světozor [8th] and Lucerna [10th],... Read More
Reflecting on the Sallins Mail Train Robbery case and a miscarriage of justice.
A veteran of the British Army struggles with post- traumatic stress disorder.
A portrait of artist and musician Kevin Nolan, diagnosed at 19 with schizoaffective disorder.
Amy has an amazing zest and love for life, despite going through struggles.
A Cuban woman’s motives for visiting the beauty salon everyday.
A man wakes up with a strange tune in his head. But what is it? And how did it get there?
A woman’s attempts to control her new life are being challenged by a person from her past.
After the sudden death of her adventure-loving spouse, Julia decides it’s time for a fresh start.
Sean races against the clock to his mother’s deathbed while dealing with inter-family politics over the phone.
An act of devotion gives a struggling young woman the strength to love.
A young mother is forced to find the balance between her maternal duties and her own desires.
Languishing in rural Ireland, Clare receives an opportunity to leave and kick-start her life. Will she take it?
A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognisable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.
Awards: Best Short Film, IFTA, 2018 The Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama, Galway Film Fleadh, 2017 National... Read More
Dancing with the queer bones of British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement.
The power of the female spirit to transcend and transform the human body.
A Sisyphean fisherman is tied to the worms he fishes with.
An unknown crisis darkens the heart of a mysterious wreck.
A couple’s burgeoning love becomes twisted by a malevolent entity.
Casper’s childlike beliefs clash with his older brother’s bleak reality.
Five friends go on a mountain bike ride in a isolated wood. But someone does not want them to be there.
Driving down a dark country road, Niall picks up a strange man who’s cradling a mysterious cardboard box.
A horror about a father’s shame after he and his son glimpse something frightening on a lonely, dark road.
Lana must face her demon and the trap into which she has been placed since childhood.
He loses his mind caring for an old man… An Irish retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic Gothic tale.
Two thieves on the lam witness a phenomenon that may prove to be their salvation… or their doom.
Chief surgeon Dr.Amy McCarthy has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her.
An isolated conspiracy theorist learns how to re-enter the outside world with the help of a mysterious accomplice.
An estranged grandmother and grandson are forced to live together for a brief period of time.
As the best man, Ed, doesn’t realise that his speech will be the most important that he will ever make.
In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his.
MJ turns social media addiction to deadly revenge.
A journey through the unconscious mind of a man yearning for connection.
When a man discovers a boy following him on his daily trek, he wrestles with his sanity as he shakes away his haunting companion.
When words fail them both, music is all they have to bring them together.
Fisher returns to his community to make amends with his daughter but is it too little, too late?
Two ex-paramilitaries attempt to heal old wounds, but the secrets of the past won’t let the present lie.
A Roma boy attempts to find his footing in a city that does not fully accept him.
A deeply personal assessment of the highs, lows and personal risks of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Referendum.
Two adolescent boys become aware of their budding sexuality. Based on a poem by Peter LaBerge.
A corporation markets a drug that can alter your sexuality, targeting wealthy straight customers and vulnerable gay people.
Mr Ripple chronicles the man behind Ireland’s oldest-serving ice cream van, and looks at this dying tradition.
A pioneering initiative within the Mental Health Service provides a space for hope and recovery for the local community.
Exploring the strange limbo state we experience in the aftermath of a breakup, Lint follows one person’s bizarre attempt at regaining some sense of normality.
A young driven female relay runner begins to question her sexuality when a new member joins the team.
Two crustaceans find love on a Belfast beach.
A string of confessions unveil a tale of religious guilt, sin and redemption in this short experimental drama set against the dramatic and rugged Northern Irish coastline.
In this dark comedy, a young man explores his attitude towards life and death when his suicide plans are interrupted.
A pitch-black comedy on the social contract of human endeavour between men and women in the paradox of modern life.
Sarah, a young writer, returns home to Ireland to face the challenges of what she ran away from.She attempts to see with mature eyes and to form a steady relationship amongst family drama surrounding her. When faced with a man... Read More
Two strangers meet on a park bench. But is one of them harbouring a dark secret?
6SKIN is a sound and image fantasia utilising vibrant dance, immersive soundscape and vivid animation.
Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain describes the soul-searching journey of first-year medical student Viv, whose first encounter with a cadaver in the anatomy room sends her a quest into the nature of what it means... Read More
Through the interspecies gaze we observe the of the most ancient and highly honoured dog breeds, the Saluki. Guiding us in love, preparing us in death and transforming us in life.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini’s work with super-8 conjures a mysterious territory that exists between memory, subjective perception and the objective materiality of the filmed image.
An experimental non-narrative film looking at time from a specific place, Glenbride in Co. Wicklow.
‘In the beginning, the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep…’
There’s no replacement for a mother’s love.
After discovering that they were both married to the same man at the same time, two women try to cultivate a relationship between their children.
A new mother finds that having a baby causes her post-natal anxiety and intrusive thoughts.
When Caoimhe’s sister shows up in London to have an abortion, she is faced with a decision: whether or not to help her estranged sibling.
A woman’s inner child knows why she hurts herself and other’s around her. Is she ready to listen?
An actor is struggling badly with her latest role.
On this day, Maeve has set a deadline.
An introverted mother’s worst fears are amplified when she is stalked by the feral children living in the woods surrounding her home.
The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism.
It’s the final disco of the Gaeltacht, and one thirsty fifteen-year-old is determined to get the shift against all odds.
Despite a grá for our native language, many Irish people fear speaking it. Comedian Aine Gallagher explores why.
A young boy begins to suspect his new neighbour is a world famous pianist who has been missing for over 20 years.
Daniel, a trumpet player whose best audience is his cows, must leave his rural surroundings to search for the uncle who inspired him, and the dream which eludes him.
A jogger and a young man try to save a car crash victim’s life.
“I didn’t get into photography to cover war. I didn’t go to Iraq or Afghanistan. I didn’t go to other wars in distant lands because I’m not interested in war. But here I am.”
Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to face the world he’s been ignoring. Now he must take a leap of faith or be trapped forever.
Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant pilgrimage to the old fairground where their friend Sam went missing three decades ago. This time, Michael has a secret to confess.
Several years have passed since the suicide of his long-term girlfriend, and David is now in a new relationship. But a chance encounter with the dead woman’s sister raises complex questions about his complicity in her death.
A lost soul stumbles drunkenly through Dublin city. In a park, death finds him and shows him many things.
Tar éis Éirí Amach na Cásca, iompraíonn Tom a dheartháir gortaithe trí bhunchnoic Chill Mhantáin chun cabhair a fháil. Ach mar gheall ar chluiche páistí a bhaineann le haithne contráilte, ní thiteann rudaí amach mar ba chóir.
It is the... Read More
A child’s journey to reunite her parents leads Sophie to the realisation that ‘family’ comes in many guises.
Since ancient times the seventh son has been said o possess great magic. They are healers, in tune with nature, animals, and all living things.
1982, Cork. Roy is 11, small and sure he’s going to get on his club’s starting team. Even if no one else is.
A snapshot into the lives of a family of dancers in the West of Ireland. While preparing dinner, the mother brings to light their competitive edge.
Sraicfhéachaint ar shaol teaghlaigh damhsóirí in larthar na hÉireann. Nochtaíonn an mháthair an cumas... Read More
This sumptuous documentary pays homage to the life and ideas of Peter Rice, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished engineers of the late twentieth century. Without his innovations and collaborations with the leading architects of his time, some... Read More
Fintan’s already fragile relationship with his youngest daughter is put to the test with the arrival of some unexpected news.
Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old lady named Bridie…
It’s a hot summer and a young inner-city boy, Donal, is trying his hand at cutting lawns for pocket money. When he meets Gerry, his luck changes.
Two best-friends set out on a quest in pursuit of their first crush.
Somewhere Down the Line follows a man’s life, loves and losses, shown through the exchanges he has with the passengers in his car.
Violet is the cautionary tale of a young girl who despises her reflection. Tired of the abuse, her reflection decides she’s not going to take it any more…
The squeaky hinge gets the oil. But when the squeak escapes the oil, it’s sure to get you!
Jane is a neglected 12 year old working in the family shooting range. She’s always been good with guns, and one evening at the local carnival she gets a chance to prove it – forever altering the course of her... Read More
Up in the clouds, a nervous, young raindrop is terrified about his first fall to earth as an imminent storm rapidly approaches.
An autistic boy’s world is thrown into chaos as he searches for his mother.
A reflection on the intangible experience of grief, January Hymn sees Clara return home for the first anniversary of her father’s death.
A woman is excited about the approaching birth of her first child.
A shipwrecked fisherman takes shelter in an abandoned house on a remote island, but soon realises he is not alone.
Scaoiltear fear as an bpríosún le castáil ar a iníon fásta. Ach cuireann trioblóid agus náire sa bhaile baol ar saoirse an fir.
A man gets out of prison to see his adult daughter. Shame, rejection and trouble with his... Read More
A journey through the memories and hopes of people who have been displaced in life, exploring how they find their link home.
One Halloween night a smouldering suitcase was pulled off a bonfire in Dublin, saving a true story of love, loss and hope.
A young priest is sent to a remote island off the Irish coast to help protect an estranged fishing community from dark supernatural forces, but nothing is as it seems.
A man follows the orders of a dog to wear a coat with impossible pockets.
A sensitive but slightly oddball student enters the life of her unsuspecting teacher and wreaks havoc.
When a young boy asks Santa Claus for the ultimate gift, he sets out to prepare the entire neighbourhood for the big day. But the boy’s plans are turned upside down when he meets the one lady who doesn’t want... Read More
A black comedy in stop motion about the world’s second oldest man who learns that ambition can be a killer.
During the last year of The Great Famine in Ireland, a farmhand working for the local landlord has hardened his heart against his countrymen to ensure his own survival. But when he encounters a ghostly female figure stealing milk from... Read More
A charismatic television psychic is forced out of retirement by his two manipulative sons and taken on the road. The last obstacle to gaining a large cult following is a sceptical TV host determined to bring them down.
Since the beginning of the neon industry in Ireland in the 1930s, the community has been incredibly closed and tight knit. There is no formal training, with only five glass benders in the country today. Eighty year old Paddy Dignam... Read More
A group of friends are given lifelike baby dolls to care for over twenty four hours, but how will they rise to the challenges of teenage motherhood?
Retired butcher Joe Williams runs a boxing club in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick. He trains boxers from both settled and traveller communities. In a dying town where most of the buildings are empty, the boxing club is one of the few... Read More
Dr Andrew Rynne was the first doctor to perform vasectomies in Ireland, estimating that he has performed over 35,000. Persevering in the face of opposition from the Church and State in Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s, Dr Rynne continued... Read More
A grieving farmer becomes convinced — that his sheep are falling prey to a dangerous predator.
In an attempt to find and capture the creature he risks sacrificing his already strained marriage.
Jack is excited about heading out to sea on a fishing trip. But things take a sudden dark turn when his dad stops the boat and tellsJack that they have hit a monster.
What Jack sees in the water will... Read More
A father takes his daughters on an impromptu day out to the seaside with unsettling consequences.
Nora and Devon live in a bubble of electronic music, dance and intense young love in a tiny flat in Dublin city until they set out to confront someone from Nora’s childhood. Once there, Nora comes to the realisation of... Read More
A young man and his elderly father are terrorised by a mysterious black dog in Connemara in 1910.
Set in Ireland in the 1960s, The Wiremen is the fantastic tale about six-year-old Rosie as she hunts through the dark for a fairy only to encounter the mystical and terrifying Wiremen.
Awards: Best Irish short film, China Ireland International Film Festival,... Read More
One Sunday, Theo, who finds his family’s weekly church attendance to be an absolute bore-fest makes a brave decision that puts him at odds with the Son of God. Will Theo confess or will he hold fast, and risk dire... Read More
Arriving at a new home in Paris, Eve begins to explore the city, wandering through crowds devouring the freedom, with Max drifting around her — a companion, a burden, a mystery. Eve faces and tests herself, tests their bond and... Read More
When he manages to destroy the town’s beloved Virgin Mary statue, Charlie O’Connor does the only thing he can do; he frames his older brother.
A woman walks into a party dressed as Frida Kahlo, only to find that her version of unique has mass appeal.
A community of bedraggled misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how — an eccentric folk music funeral.
Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further away from... Read More
Danny ‘Danger’ Kelly is a retired journeyman boxer who accepts a last-minute fight. But there’s one problem – it’s his weekend to look after his teenage daughter, Leah. He thinks he has nothing to lose, while Leah just thinks he’s... Read More
A Back To The Future-obsessed traveller boy strives to finish building his own DeLorean replica before his family are evicted from their halting site.
A Holocaust survivor working in a New York funeral home makes a distressing discovery.
Delving into the peculiar, solitary psyche of West Cork open-water swimmer Stephen Redmond (the first person ever to complete the world-famous Ocean’s Seven Challenge), The Swimmer looks at the beauty and poetry of Stephen’s passion and touches the lives of... Read More
A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father’s intentions to keep his mother alive, despite her expressed wish to the contrary.
Smithy & Dickie celebrates old love letters, while questioning how the current digital age is potentially obliterating any record of our most precious moments.
Ground down by endless nights awake, an insomniac takes a nighttime walk, where she finds comfort in a fellow sleepless stranger.
The world is poisoned. A sacrificial population is tasked with carving out a clean passage with neon lights between pockets of surviving civilisation. One ‘runner’ dares to race for her life against all the odds.
Discarded in death as they were in life, Mother & Baby bears witness to children of the ‘fallen’ women of Ireland.
A desperate castaway navigates shark-infested waters to reach a nearby island paradise, and pits his wits against an escalating run of extraordinary bad luck.
An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.
Nominated for Academy Awards 2019.
In 1984, a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world’s spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral home. It was said that Ballyporeen would never be the same again…
Deposits concerns the connection of all the ‘Disappeared’, who are the remains of those murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and those killed centuries earlier by the British Redcoats. In common they are buried without trace, but are connected by... Read More
Faced with the prospect of yet another Christmas without her emigrated family, Alma, a lonely Irish grandmother, is at an all time low. This would-be tragedy quickly turns into a comedy as the universe conspires to bring her closer to... Read More
A man cruises around late at night looking for something. He pulls in to ask two young girls for directions – only to flash them to get a cheap thrill. Unfortunately, he has picked the wrong girls. They are also... Read More
An intimate portrait of Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo as he aims to highlight the extent of our wastefulness and the impact this has on our environment through his ‘Trash Animals’ sculptures.
A baby whale separated from his family encounters a caged bird – the sole survivor of a shipwreck.
On a remote beach in the west of Ireland, Anne begins her journey to become the Bellwether – the sheep that can lead the flock.
A solitary man sets out to conquer an isolated island.
A random encounter between two young adults who have Down Syndrome and a group of youths has unexpected consequences which change the day for everyone.
1-3 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival // Under the Clock, Dublin Oldschool, Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], The Camino Voyage, The Dig // TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3 // Toronto, Canada
I, Dolours is the story of one of the first female leaders in the IRA. A member of a crack IRA unit which she claims was run by Gerry Adams, Dolours Price participated in the Old Bailey car bomb attack... Read More
1-9 February // Clermont Ferrand Film Festival // Yu Ming is Ainm Dom // Clermont Ferrand, France
8 February // Cinegael Montreal // Float Like a Butterfly // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
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We Ourselves is a formally unconventional film dealing with the lives of a group of seven friends over a period of more than two decades. In consecutive monologues, the film tells the story of Irish characters who worked together in... Read More
In rural Ireland in the 1960s, Frances (Hazel Doupe) is a young Traveller who has coped with tragedy from an early age. When her father Michael (Dara Devaney) is imprisoned, Frances learns to fend for herself and her brother, developing... Read More
A feature length docu-drama centered on an infamous event in Irish history, the brutal slaying in 1882 of a family of five in the remote village of Mám Trasna in the west of Ireland.
A swift and severe response from... Read More
Mick O’Dea RHA is one of Ireland’s most renowned living painters. His diverse range of work includes a ten-year study of the War of Independence, culled from found and researched images. As he prepares a monumental exhibition “The Foggy Dew”... Read More
This documentary (from the makers of Older than Ireland) celebrates the century-long tradition, firmly embedded in the hearts and minds of Dubliners, of meeting under Clery’s clock. This once-popular meeting place provides a starting point for a fascinating journey through... Read More
This feature-length documentary tells the story of generations dealing with the consequences of war and civil war in Ireland. It brings to light the diverse experiences of some of the 85,000 ordinary Irish men and women who made pension and... Read More
A powerful new documentary about the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own Northern Irish towns. They did not leave home in search of war and adventure: the violence erupted around them. They expected a... Read More
Featuring the highly successful Starboard Home album and showcase gigs at the National Concert Hall, Dublin this documentary celebrates the formative bond between Dublin’s port, city and river through music, song and spoken word.
The film illustrates the songs, airs... Read More
A lyrical portrait of a brilliant yet tormented artist, Slán leis an gCeol (Farewell to Music) explores the complexities of a talented and philosophical man. Tony MacMahon, one of Ireland’s most remarkable traditional musicians, was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s and... Read More
Two rivals vie for the affections of Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deliciously caustic black comedy. Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, has long been the trusted companion of the insecure, jealous and physically ailing monarch (Olivia... Read More
Given the number of films which have taken their inspiration from Ireland’s troubled history, the lack of those that depict the events of the Great Famine is all the more noticeable, and so credit is due to director Lance Daly... Read More
11 January // Cinegael Montreal – Spring season launch // Black 47 // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
24 January // Irish Cultural Centre // I, Dolours + Q&A with director Maurice Sweeney //... Read More
Eighty-something Cavan bachelor Bobby Coote left school at 13 and says his reading and writing isn’t great. He spends his days fixing clocks and making violins from old furniture. But he’s never lost sight of a lifelong dream to take... Read More
In 1951 American musicologist Alan Lomax travelled to Ireland and, guided by piper Séamus Ennis, began recording and collecting traditional Irish songs and music. Released as the album Ireland, and credited with the folk and traditional music revivals of the... Read More
4th December // Embassy of Ireland lecture and cinema cycle dedicated to the work of Irish director Thaddeus O’ Sullivan // Citizen Lane // Lisbon, Portugal // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Lisbon, Portugal
Secluded deep in the forests of Central Europe, a strictly devout Christian community is suffering a crisis of faith following a series of unsettling incidents and a devastating loss. When a young man stumbles onto their compound bearing scars of... Read More
Katie Taylor has won six European and five world amateur championships and was a Gold Medal winner at the London 2012 Olympic Games. After a disastrous campaign at the Rio 2016 Olympics, she turned professional and attempted to rebuild a... Read More
An eccentric north Kildare cattle farmer campaigns for his rights against the planning decisions of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) in Feargal Ward’s beautifully nuanced documentary.
The film charts Reid’s halting progress in his long battle with the IDA which... Read More
Roddy Doyle’s first original screenplay since When Brendan Met Trudy (2000) puts a human face to Dublin’s homeless issue and the increasing numbers of families affected.
Rosie (Sarah Greene), partner John Paul (Moe Dunford), and their four young children have... Read More
2nd to 3rd November // Copenhagen Irish Festival // Natural Grace, The Yellow Bittern // Copenhagen, Denmark // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Copenhagen
5th, 7th and 11th November // Irish Film Festival, Nova... Read More
1994’s Eurovision, hosted by Ireland, featured interval act Riverdance, which would become an overnight sensation and an iconic worldwide cultural phenomenon, spawning an unprecedented interest in Irish dancing around the world. One such place was Finland, a country far more... Read More
Following the death of her husband, a lonely woman (Monica Dolan) nurses a dry, almost dead, potted fern back to life. As the plant thrives, an unlikely relationship develops as the fern becomes her constant companion, that is until a... Read More
One of cinema’s most prolific and impactful documentary directors, Alex Gibney, is best known for tackling big stories of international significance: Enron, Scientology, clerical sex abuse, and Al Qaeda. Here, he narrows his focus to explore the 1994 Loughinisland Massacre... Read More
Diving headlong into the volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people, Moscow Never Sleepsis multi-narrative drama about the hidden bonds that connects us all. An entrepreneur whose business empire comes under siege by powerful bureaucrats,... Read More
Harry Hambridge is down on his luck and living in London. In one day, he loses his job, his father and his beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his grandfather,... Read More
James Allen (Laurence O’Fuarain) is a successful, controlling, thirty-something banker living alone and working in Dublin city at the tail-end of the recession. When a family tragedy occurs at the hands of his employer he decides to take action which... Read More
3rd to 7th October // The Irish Festival of Oulu // Inside I’m Racing, Kíla: Pota Óir, Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], Revolutions, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Song... Read More
The complexities of a father/son relationship are explored in this documentary from Irish director Donal Foreman.
Foreman, a passionate cinephile and keen filmmaker since childhood, grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian, Arthur MacCaig, whose decades-long... Read More
Inspired by true stories, seven interconnecting stories are set in and around the lost and found office of a train station in Ireland.
14th to 23rd September // Irish Culture Foundation / Fundacja Kultury Irlandzkiej // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, After 16 short films: The Party, My Life for Ireland, Goodbye Darling, A Father’s Letter, Granite and... Read More
24 August // PolskaEire Festival // Sing Street // Ruda Śląska, Poland
The history of Ireland has been deeply affected by emigration, with almost 10 million people emigrating from the island of Ireland between 1800 and 2015. Charting the journeys of five Irish emigrants across four continents as they pursue a common... Read More
On the 16th of December 2016 a group of housing activists and trade unionists commandeered Apollo House, an empty Nama-controlled office block on Dublin’s Poolbeg Street and opened a shelter for homeless people. Joined by well-known public figures, including film... Read More
Spanning a decade that culminated in the 34th amendment to the Irish constitution, Linda Cullen and Vanessa Gildea’s IFTA-nominated documentary feature follows the founders and members of the Marriage Equality in Ireland organisation as they campaigned for the extension of... Read More
5th July // London Irish Centre Film Club // The Rocky Road to Dublin + The Making of The Rocky Road to Dublin // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in... Read More
Emmet Kirwan’s play was a hit on the Irish stage, drawing from the author’s own experiences as he played Jason, an aspiring DJ whose life revolves around ‘the session’, but who is stopped in his tracks by a chance encounter... Read More
Two couples appear content in their middle-class Dublin lives: rewarding jobs, good work/life balance, happy kids and entertaining friends. Cracks begin to appear when Jim (Cillian Murphy) and Danielle (Eva Birthistle) discover that Yvonne (Catherine Walker) and Chris (Andrew Scott)... Read More
To celebrate one hundred years of women’s suffrage, artist Noel Murphy embarked on a six-month journey to paint the 53 sitting women members of the Houses of the Oireachtas in one single portrait, unveiled in the Oireachtas on International Women’s... Read More
This atmospheric, hallucinatory drama about youth at risk in small-town Ireland represents an auspicious feature debut for Northern Irish director Aoife McArdle, who brings to the cinema screen the dynamic visual sense she honed through working on celebrated music videos.
The Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon animation studio (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea) returns with another Oscar-nominated triumph; directed by Nora Twomey – co-director of Kells – The Breadwinner is a beautifully realised ode to resilience under oppression and... Read More
Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) has many reasons to be happy: her three teenage daughters, her twenty‐year relationship with her husband, and her work as a successful translator and novelist. But suddenly, all the quiet satisfactions of her life disappear when... Read More
Dafhyd Flynn plays Michael McCrea, an impressionable 18-year-old living with his grandfather Francis (Lalor Roddy) in a Dublin housing estate. His life is derailed when he is caught holding a bag of drugs for a friend’s older brother and sentenced... Read More
Over 30,000 students prepare for piano exams each year in Ireland. In this delightfully quirky and uplifting documentary, we are invited into the world of the piano lesson. The film examines the special bond between piano teachers and their pupils,... Read More
Experimental filmmaker Dean Kavanagh’s latest work is a genre-defying exploration of the cinematic apparatus. The film concerns a character (played with corporeal intensity by Cillian Roche) who happens upon a group undergoing bestial metamorphosis. Narrative is not at the forefront... Read More
Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundaries of documentary and fiction. Directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi, with the visual intensity that has marked him as one of Ireland’s most radical and unique filmmakers, it follows a couple... Read More
Director Niall McCann’s observational drama centres on well-known Irish musician Adrian Crowley. While being interviewed by a film crew for his latest album, an interruption causes Adrian to ponder – what would a film about his life be like? Could... Read More
Following the success of Fortune’s Wheel (about Bill Stephens, the Fairview lion tamer), director Joe Lee focuses now on another Dublin neighbourhood, Inchicore, to tell the extraordinary story of life as lived over 200 years in Richmond Barracks, Keogh Square and St... Read More
A young autistic boy fascinated with motorsport unexpectedly finds a chance to put his passion to the test.
Director Aleksander Szeser captures the essence of Formula racing in this short film shot at Dublin’s Mondello Park, while Ethan Dodd embodies an... Read More
A crew of explorers takes to the beloved, sacred Camino de Santiago – not by land but by sea – in this evocative, immersive documentary by director Dónal Ó Ceilleachair (Aisling Gheal, Ó Chúil Aodha go hÓileán Í). The adventurers,... Read More
3rd June // Eve Film Festival // Revolutions // Ottawa, Canada
3rd June // European Film Festival // Kissing Candice // Sibiu, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
7th June // Equality... Read More
2nd May // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Medellín, Colombia
3rd May // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Calí, Colombia
7th to 13th May // European Film Festival // Kissing... Read More
3rd April // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Maze // Paris, France
4th April // Irish Film Festival London presents a UK tour of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America and Q&A with director Maurice Fitzpatrick //... Read More
1st – 4th March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, A Little Bit of Tear, I’m Talking to You, Markey’s Bad Week, Writing Home, Thespish, The Breadwinner, Zoo, Keep it... Read More
26/02/2018
James Demo’s feature documentary is an intimate portrait of international peacemaker Padraig O’Malley, an Irish man who helps make peace for others but struggles to find it for himself. Padraig has worked in conflict resolution for over 40 years. Among... Read More
3rd – 11th February // Cine O’Clock: Cinéma britannique & irlandais // A Date for Mad Mary, Patrick’s Day // Lyons, France
6th February // Centre Culturel Irlandais // It’s Not Yet Dark, The Sound of People // Paris, France
23rd... Read More
Kíla: Pota Óir is a portrait of one of Ireland’s most respected cult bands who merge folk and world music traditions into a euphoric live experience. Now in their 30th year, Kíla, formed by a bunch of musical youths in... Read More
5th – 14th January // Fenians, Fremantle and Freedom Festival // Maze, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Sing Street, Song of the Sea // Fremantle, Australia
26th January // Irish Language, A Day of Irish Literature,... Read More
Alan Gilsenan’s feature documentary tells the incredible story of Eliza Lynch, the Cork-born woman who became lover to Francisco Solano López, later the president of Paraguay. Maria Doyle Kennedy captures the spirit of Eliza in her later years, while Paraguayan... Read More
A searing portrait of one of Ireland’s most renowned traditional musicians, concertina player Noel Hill, as he recovers from a serious assault that left him a battered shadow of his former self. Noel Hill’s dream of a new life with... Read More
Featuring 30 men and women, all born before 1916, Older than Ireland is something of a landmark documentary that explores what it means to have lived 100 years, and more, in Ireland. Director Alex Fegan, who recently took the measure... Read More
Panti Bliss – AKA Rory O’Neill – is many things: Ireland’s premiere drag queen, successful businesswoman and, most recently, an accidental activist and campaigner on the world stage championing LGBT rights. Described by long-time co-conspirator Niall Sweeney as a “glamorous... Read More
This piercing new film by Carol Morley offers us the true story of an ill-fated modern-day Eleanor Rigby. In 2006, council officials forcibly entered a north London flat with an eviction notice, only to recoil at the decomposing body of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman... Read More
Playwright Ed Smith (Matthew O’Brien) has fallen far from the heights of his early success on the Dublin stage. When he receives word of a family bereavement he travels home to Mayo to attend the funeral and reconnect with family... Read More
Screening in tribute to filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, this is an inspirational portrait of a filmmaker who recently lost his battle against Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
When he was diagnosed with MND in 2008, Simon was told he had four years... Read More
A programme of seven of the short films commissioned by the Arts Council and TG4, in association with the Galway Film Centre, for Splanc! 2016. This is a special edition of the Irish-language documentary scheme in which film artists provide their creative responses... Read More
Part documentary, part reverie, I Am Belfast is Mark Cousins’ film exploration of the city he calls home.
Incorporating contemporary dream-like sequences, archival film and a haunting score by David Holmes, the film portrays the city in an ethereal light not... Read More
This film screened 13th July 2016.
This compendium of short films invites us into the quirkily observed world of director Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman. Their early work as classmates at the National Film School at IADT in Dun... Read More
Born and Reared explores contemporary Northern Ireland through the lives of four men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. In Northern Ireland today communities struggle to come to terms with the horrors and sacrifices of the past. Four men, of... Read More
In 1961 George Best, a shy well-mannered Belfast teenager, was recruited by Manchester United to become what Pelé would call “the greatest player in the world”. A devilishly charismatic figure, Best achieved celebrity status early. His football was transcendent (playing... Read More
The Road to God Knows Where was a breakthrough, iconoclastic film for Alan Gilsenan and remains a memorable zeitgeist movie of Ireland in a transformational decade. The 1980s was a period of social regression, emigration and political crisis. Capturing the... Read More
This film was released on Friday 8th December 2017 and is no longer screening.
Acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins (Silence) presents the life story of legendary sean nós singer Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí). The film celebrates the genius of the musician while painting... Read More
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy is a new film work by Irish-born, Turner Prize-winning artist Duncan Campbell. Filmed in and around the Kerry village of Dún Chaoin the film integrates newly-scripted dramatised material with footage from The Village (1968),... Read More
The GAZE on Tour 2017 Irish LGBT shorts programme explores the past, present and future of the Irish LGBT experience, and portrays the spectrum of storytelling produced on our island.
Tuesday Night Director: Michael Healy A dark comedy about the... Read More
In this keenly anticipated second feature documentary, Ken Wardrop explores a series of mother/ son relationships to reveal the universality of their experience. Zooming in on the state of Oklahoma, recently voted the manliest state in the USA, Wardrop finds his... Read More
In this provocative political thriller which deals with the complexities of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, diplomat Henry Stanfield (Roger Allam) has been appointed by the PM to lead the recently established Truth Commission. His attention is brought to focus on three... Read More
In their documentary debut Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure Ambrose O’Higgins (father of Bernardo O’Higgins, the first leader of independent Chile) and attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from... Read More
In 1879, fifteen people in the village of Knock, Co. Mayo witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The village was declared a Marian Shrine and today welcomes over one million pilgrims annually. Aoife Kelleher (One Million Dubliners) builds a... Read More
This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening.
In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his... Read More
This film screened 28th September 2016.
Free-spirited Meg thinks she has everything she wants, a great job and an exciting social life. But things are suddenly turned upside-down when she finds herself needing the one thing that she least expected... Read More
In 1975 Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad began a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland respite from the Troubles. Project Children ultimately brought more than 20,000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban USA for summer-long visits... Read More
In 2008 a troupe of seasoned players set off on the most ambitious theatrical tour of Ireland ever undertaken. Stephen Brennan, Alan Stanford, Barry McGovern and Johnny Murphy had first performed Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Gate Theatre... Read More
For a fleeting moment in the early 1980s Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest Formula 1 driver, a man who looked set to rival Senna and Schumacher with his fearless style and his record-breaking speeds. Coming from humble Dundalk roots... Read More
Takasera, a village in Western Nepal, is settled on a hill above an ancient lakebed, composed of hundreds of tightly interwoven houses, giving an appearance of a giant buzzing bee-hive. Surrounded by mountains, and connected only by a dead-end dirt... Read More
Ivor Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health for many decades. Some people wish he wasn’t. Yet many people owe their lives to him. Browne somehow managed to be part of the establishment while still being one... Read More
This observational feature – at times intimate, at times epic – embeds itself in a community of surfers in Lahinch, Co. Clare, following their on-and off-season lives over the course of a sea-buffeted year. The surfers have dedicated their lives... Read More
After an eclectic range of films in recent years, Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) returns to Irish themes and material with this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s acclaimed novel. The elderly Rose (the inimitable Vanessa Redgrave) is the last... Read More
Hidden just outside the town of Kells in County Meath is an enchanting, worn and weathered country house now home to Headfort, Ireland’s only boarding school for primary school children.
At its heart is a bemused elderly couple, John and... Read More
Revolution in Colour reclaims the story of the Irish struggle for independence during the first quarter of the 20th century from the remote world of black and white to the vibrant world of living colour. A meticulous job of colourisation brings a... Read More
Returning to boarding school after the holidays, Ned (Fionn O’Shea), a bullied but resilient outsider, is dismayed to find he has been assigned a new roommate, Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a rugby-playing Adonis. When Conor is drafted into the gang of... Read More
Blood Fruit takes us back to the height of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1984 when Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell Outspan grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid... Read More
Amanda Coogan: Long Now is an exploration of Coogan’s durational performance art practice. The film follows Coogan during a grueling six week live durational exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town.
Hosted in Dublin’s RHA Gallery, the exhibition became... Read More
Ruth (Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a woman filled with rage, guilt and self-loathing, unable to forgive herself for a drunken indiscretion with a colleague which resulted in the loss of her husband and her unborn child. As her moodswings and angry... Read More
Director Lorcan Finnegan’s debut feature sees land surveyor Eric (Alan McKenna) working in a remote woodland area.
Having begun his task alone, the location has unsettled Eric, a situation not alleviated by the arrival of assistant and mistress Olivia (Niamh... Read More
‘Smolt (n.) Young salmon migrating to sea for first time.’
While trying to offload secondhand cigarettes, two 12-year-olds, Darren and Leon, become embroiled in a saga involving counterfeit football jerseys. Conceived in the style of a bootleg VHS, award-winning filmmaker... Read More
Revolutions introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby, a non-traditional sport that is gaining popularity but still operates well outside the sporting mainstream. Director Laura McGann followed a number of women over four years as they commit... Read More
John Connors plays Jay Connolly, a part-time DJ and low-level drug dealer living in Darndale, an area rife with gangland violence, drugs and social problems. When his welfare payments are cut off, he decides it’s time to start dealing more... Read More
Larry, a young man with Down syndrome, is in love with Sophie, who has severe epilepsy, and is keen to express his love for her. With the help of their care-worker, they plan a romantic afternoon in a Galway hotel... Read More
A powerful documentary telling the story of the displacement of a Dublin working-class community through the film and video archives of the community itself.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of local material from the past thirty years, the film explores... Read More
Still working at the age of 95, Pritzker Prize-winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He is at the very top of his profession but has little interest in fame or fortune. Roche’s architectural philosophy is that “the responsibility... Read More
Inspired by the true story of the escape by 38 IRA prisoners from the notorious Maze Prison in 1983 (which left one prison officer dead and others seriously injured), Maze is a post-hunger strike narrative which eschews jailbreak high-jinx in favour of... Read More
Three miles off the coast of Florida a five-year-old Cuban boy Elián González is rescued from a sinking boat. 11 other passengers, including the boy’s mother, have drowned.
The film plots how the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and... Read More
An intimate portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent developments shaping modern-day Cambodia.
Shot by BAFTA-nominated Irish director Chris Kelly over six years, the film charts the gradual politicisation of two young mothers and one Buddhist monk,... Read More
Bergen-Belsen survivor Tomi Reichental has embarked on a lifelong quest to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive so that its horrors will never be repeated. Now Tomi symbolically celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin mosque and embarks on... Read More
Emer Reynolds’s enthralling documentary details NASA’s ambitious Voyager program which, in 1977, launched two probes whose original mission was to study the outermost planets of the Solar System, but went on to become the first human-created object to enter interstellar... Read More
The Lithuanian town of Visaginas is just forty years old but already it faces an uncertain future.
Created to service a nuclear power plant which showcased the wonders of Soviet technology to the West, the city floundered with its closure following the disintegration of the USSR. The inhabitants,... Read More
Caring for horses gives purpose and joy to Lorna, a 17-year-old living in the Dublin suburb of Ballymun.
A fiercely capable and determined young woman, she has her heart set on becoming a farrier, traditionally a male preserve. Her unemployed father, who shares her love of horses,... Read More
Cistercian monk Brother Geraldus (Stanley Weber) arrives on the shores of early-13th century Ireland with the aim of obtaining a religious relic of great significance from a remote community of fellow monks.
His ultimate goal is to present the object... Read More
Though crippled with debilitating arthritis, Maudie (Sally Hawkins) is forced to forge her own path when her brother sells their home. A twist of fate leads her to a job as cleaning lady for taciturn fisherman Ethan Hawke), living in... Read More
Exploring the decades-long campaign by Nobel Prize winner John Hume to secure peace in Northern Ireland, Maurice Fitzpatrick reveals how Hume, inspired by Martin Luther King and rising from the riot-torn streets of Northern Ireland, enlisted an army of heavy-weight... Read More
Irishwoman Mary Elmes (1908-2002) is a remarkable unsung heroine who saved hundreds of children from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and from the concentration camps of World War II.
In a film narrated by Winona Ryder, Andrew Gallimore pieces together the jigsaw of her... Read More
Drummer Gabriel (Dermot Murphy), recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is forced to curb his erratic behaviour when his therapist changes his medication and insists he join a special football team.
When he meets goalkeeper Christopher (Jacob McCarthy), a 17-year-old with... Read More
Seán Mannion, a talented boxer from the quiet Gaeltacht village of Ros Muc, Co Galway, left Ireland for Boston in the 1970s and rose to the heights of New York’s Madison Square Gardens where, in October 1984, he fought for the WBA light middleweight crown.
This... Read More
Successful author Daniel Doran enjoys a luxurious but vacuous London lifestyle funded by a string of international bestsellers of dubious merit.
When his estranged father falls ill, he reluctantly returns home to the Irish village of Darlingford where he faces... Read More
3rd – 4th November // IrishFest Atlanta // Atlanta, USA
4th November // How Green is the Emerald Isle? // University of St Thomas in Minnesota, Center for Irish Studies // Atlantic // Minnesota, USA
5th – 9th October // Irish Film Week, Oulu // The Summit, Mairead Farrell : Unfinished Conversation, My Name Is Emily, Brooklyn, The Sea // Oulu, Finland
6th – 8th October // Irish Film Festival, Bangkok... Read More
13th, 14th, 17th, 21st September // Semana de Irlanda de Zaragoza // Eden, His and Hers, Newsreel Programme, 1916: The Irish Rebellion // Zaragoza, Spain
21st – 23rd September // Irish Film Festival, San Francisco // A... Read More
17th – 20th August // Irish Focus at the Festival Hviezdne noci Bytča // The Dead Man of ARAN, Young Cassidy, The Quiet Man, Poitín, Irish Destiny, My Left Foot, Sing Street, The Secret of Kells, Adam and Paul, A Date... Read More
9th – 30th June // A Celebration of James Joyce // Ulysses, Bloom // Vilnius, Lithuania
16th June // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Bloom // Paris, France
22nd June // Irish Film London ‘Irish Film Makers Meet... Read More
Modern architecture in Ireland reached a high point in the early ’60s and one of its most celebrated figures was Robin Walker. Robin studied under Le Corbusier and later worked alongside Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. His return to... Read More
Set in Limerick City, Cowboys and Angels explores the alienation of Shane Bulter (Michael Legge), a young adult who moves away from home for the first time. His introverted personality is transformed by his outgoing, gay roommate Vincent (Allen Leech),... Read More
Comedy, horror, and romance collide in this genre mash-up about an alien invasion hitting a bucolic Western Irish island. An urban teetotaller assigned to work on ‘Erin Island’, Garda Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley) finds herself unimpressed by local drunkard and... Read More
Kirsten Sheridan’s third feature is a loose, experimental depiction of a modern-day bacchanal as a group of five young Dublin outsiders break into a luxurious seafront house. At the eye of the storm is Jeannie (Seána Kerslake), who has been... Read More
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DEBUT: A continuing strand showing first works by established filmmakers.
PROGRAMME 1: ALAN GILSENAN Alan Gilsenan... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: THADDEUS O’SULLIVAN Programme 2... Read More
DEBUT: This month sees the beginning of a new strand showcasing first films from established filmmakers.
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for screening times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI box office. Our August programme presents public information films designed to promote health... Read More
LOOK UP! IT’S AER LINGUS
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This month we celebrate Aer Lingus’... Read More
This film was released 1st December 2010, and is no longer screening.
A man comes home to his tamarind and honey farm in Northeast Thailand to die, confident that he will be reincarnated because he can recall past lives, including... Read More
This film screened 22nd February 2010.
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If ever a movie deserved the moniker ‘neglected classic’, it’s this one. Pitched somewhere between Chinatown and Hamlet no, really! this adaptation of Newton Thornburg’s classic counter-culture novel Cutter... Read More
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June’s programme continues our annual Joycean celebration with two films... Read More
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
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PROGRAMME 1: HONEYMOON IN IRELAND
PROGRAMME 2: TIDE ON THE... Read More
This film screened 7th February 2010.
The pinnacle of former critic Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial career, this evocative portrait of idling lives in early 1950s’ small-town America is a far more grown-up offering than almost anything from today’s... Read More
As we prepare for Obama’s flying visit to... Read More
This event screened 19th February 2010.
The Irish Film Board, in association with Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, presents a selection of the very best short films from Irish filmmakers. With stories ranging in geographic scope from post-WWII France to... Read More
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This month we present a programme of... Read More
This film was released 22nd January 2010, and is no longer screening.
A remake of the 2004 Danish film Brødre, directed by Susanne Bier, Sheridan was on much more comfortable terrain with this American production than he had been with... Read More
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This month we present Love... Read More
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This month we present Island... Read More
This film was released 3rd December 2010, and is no longer screening.
The title suggests a straight-ahead ‘creature feature’, yet Gareth Edwards’ enterprising debut manfully resists categorisation. On one hand, it’s a sci-fi thriller set in an area of the... Read More
A group of French monks in Algeria’s Atlas Mountains find their faith put to the test when the 1990s Islamic terror campaign threatens their remote community in this... Read More
This film screened 2th & 5th December 2010.
Forbidden was one of four films Capra made in the early 1930s with an actress he loved, Barbara Stanwyck, on the theme of so-called ‘tarnished heroines’. Stanwyck plays a repressed librarian who... Read More
This film screened 5th December 2010.
For Powell and Pressburger, after their run of topical original stories, this melodrama about nuns in the Himalayas, based on Rumer Godden’s novel, was a bold change of direction; the image of one of... Read More
This film screened 8th December 2010.
Lial, Hassan and Maradona Akkouch are talented dancers and musicians who have lived in the Berlin district of Neukolln since early childhood, but the family’s residency status is still unresolved and they live in... Read More
This film screened 9th December 2010.
A film about home and exile for an extended Persian family, many of whom have emigrated and more of whom have stayed at home. They decide to meet again after 20 years in Mecca,... Read More
Longtime African-American and white residents in the heart of America’s Bible belt struggle to integrate with a growing Latino population and recently-arrived Somali refugees of Muslim faith. Set on the eve of the 2008... Read More
This film was released 10th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
Much-loved French character actor Mathieu Amalric won Best Director at Cannes for this loose and intimate portrait of a group of American ‘new burlesque’ dancers doing the rounds... Read More
Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, Sofia Coppola’s latest tackles weighty issues in a deceptively casual manner, tracing the day-to-day drift of an overpaid, oversexed Hollywood leading... Read More
This film screened 10th December 2010.
Mei is an enigmatic young Chinese woman whose longing for a different life takes her from her Chinese village to England. Drifting and rootless yet learning more about herself all the time, we sense... Read More
This film screened 11th December 2010.
After identifying the body of her brother, who has, like so many illegal immigrants before him, drowned on Spanish shores, Moroccan immigrant Leila decides to bring his body back to her parents in Morocco.... Read More
Social workers Caroline and Colette are at the front line in dealing with the non-stop arrival of asylum seekers to France. Two very different women, they respond in distinctive ways to the often overwhelming... Read More
This film screened 11th & 12th December 2010.
No ballet film before this had been so ambitious either in its casting (headed by A-list dancers in Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Leonide Massine) or in its spectacular staging. The Red... Read More
This film screened 12th December 2010.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.
Made as part of a campaign by LGBT youth service BelongTo, Stand Up: Best Friend features a series of interviews with LGBT individuals... Read More
This film was released 17th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
When Peeping Tom was first released in 1960, one not untypical critical response was that it should be ‘shovelled up and flushed down the nearest sewer’. The controversy... Read More
If The Social Network dramatised the genesis of Facebook, this startling self-styled ‘reality thriller’ explores how communications technology is bringing people together but not in ways they expect.... Read More
This restored version of Jean Renoir’s timeless social satire offers a welcome reminder how the greatest films never grow old. When an impeccably right-on Paris bookseller selflessly jumps... Read More
This film screened 18th December 2010.
A tramp (Gary Cooper) is hired to embody the frustrations of the common man in a publicity stunt concocted by a desperate reporter (Barbara Stanwyck). Quickly becoming a national hero, he starts to believe... Read More
This film screened 19th December 2010.
The break with Rank over The Red Shoes drove Powell and Pressburger back into the seductive embrace of Alexander Korda, who had brought them together in 1938 and who was now, after years in... Read More
‘Insanity runs in the family,’ confesses a theatre critic (Cary Grant) to his new bride (Priscilla Lane), adding, ‘in fact, it practically gallops.’ He is thinking primarily of his two aunts, who are in... Read More
‘I remembered other European films of magic and fantasy, and my imagination took wings’: this is how Powell recalled The Tales of Hoffmann in part two of his compelling autobiography, Million Dollar Movie. Made... Read More
This film was released 27th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
IFI IRISH SHORTS This screening will include Tom Merilion’s IFB-funded dance short Flatbed. 3 minutes, 2010, Colour.
This highly atmospheric first feature by Alicia Duffy was inspired by... Read More
This film screened 27th December 2010.
Here is an unmissable chance to catch the least seen but by no means least interesting of the Powell-Pressburger collaborations: the second exclamation mark of the title is no misprint, but a pointer to... Read More
With a track record including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and The Truman Show, any new film from director Peter Weir is an event. His mature, exacting artistry... Read More
RE-RELEASE
Made between the more famous Ninotchka (1939) and To Be or Not to Be (1942), and now re-released, this is director Ernst Lubitsch’s supreme romantic comedy, a... Read More
This film screened 28th December 2010.
After the anti-climax of two late-’50s war films, the Powell-Pressburger partnership went into amicable abeyance. Powell’s solo British career was brought to an end by the critical and commercial failure both of Peeping Tom... Read More
This film screened 29th December 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s. Please note there will be no screening on December 31st.
What better way to ring out the old year than with a few... Read More
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
C.S. Lewis’ classic story tells the adventures of the Pevensie children in the snow-covered land of Narnia, after they make their magical way... Read More
This film screened 30th December 2010.
One of the most loved documentaries of recent years, the ‘penguin film’ traces the miles-long journey across ice of the Emperor penguins to their breeding ground in Antarctica. For Happy Feet and nature fans... Read More
This final, riveting instalment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy finds bisexual Goth hacker Lisbeth Salander under heavy police guard in a hospital room, nursing the bullet wounds inflicted... Read More
This chamber drama following one woman’s dangerous quest for emotional fulfilment transcends micro-budget Mexican indie cinema to merit comparisons with Last Tango in Paris and In the Realm... Read More
This film screened 4th December 2010.
The late filmmaker, Claude Chabrol, is in fine form here with this tale of suspense and quiet terror, deliciously dark and bitter like the chocolate it features. Isabelle Huppert is chocolatier, Mika, whose second... Read More
Roald Dahl’s delicious story was first brought to life on the big screen with Gene Wilder in the title role as the reclusive factory owner who offers five children a tour of his factory... Read More
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This month... Read More
This film screened 2nd December 2010.
Capra made no bones about this film: it was intended to win him an Oscar. The subject-matter was suitably daring: about the growing attraction between an American missionary in revolutionary Shanghai (Barbara Stanwyck) and... Read More
For all the media talk about globalisation, few have experienced its sharp end like the community of Rossport, Co. Mayo, in recent years, as this vividly trenchant new... Read More
Director Risteard O Domhnaill, who has spent five years filming the people of Rossport and their response to the Corrib Gas Project, will be joined by Terence Conway (Shell to Sea), John Monaghan (Pobol... Read More
One of the issues The Pipe raises is the role art and filmmaking can play within a political campaign and The Pipe’s producer Rachel Lysaght will be joined by filmmakers and artists, including Seamus... Read More
We couldn’t be more delighted to close this year’s Horrorthon shindig with this acclaimed feature debut from Garth Edwards, an inspired and inspiring riff on the alien invasion... Read More
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Sign up for a special tour of the... Read More
By 1937, Powell had been working in British cinema for ten years: in minor capacities for Hitchcock, and then as director of low-budget ‘quota quickies’, films made in response to legislation that countered Hollywood dominance by forcing cinemas to show... Read More
This arresting Mexican debut delivers both visceral horror and moral fable in its portrait of a family whose survival rests on picking off the weakest in society. It’s... Read More
Winning this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or marked the final confirmation of longtime critics’ favourite Apichatpong Weerasethakul among world cinema’s most mesmerising talents.’ A beautiful, strange dream’ was jury... Read More
We’re pleased to host the Irish premiere of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the Palme d’or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. This... Read More
Industry observers were taken aback when actor Joaquin Phoenix, seemingly on top of his game after the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, announced he was giving up acting and turning to music instead. An artist in turmoil, or was... Read More
Join us for FREE daily screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office.
This month a two-part programme will be presented on alternating days.
IRELAND: The Tear and The... Read More
This film screened in February 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
A beautiful, finely-acted film about Tolstoy and his wife during his later years. The writer of novels (Christoper Plummer in great, whiskered form)... Read More
Join us for FREE daily screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive in this timely Back to School programme. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN PICTIuIRI LE PAISTI... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: AMHARC EIREANN : CuRSAI OSTAN... Read More
We’re all going on our summer holidays!
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Film Archive collections.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN COMPILATION Stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel showing holiday camps for... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: BUTLINS MOSNEY WEEKLY NEWSREEL Jolly scenes from the very early days of... Read More
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN COMPILATION Stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel showing... Read More
Seaside Fun from North and South
Due to popular demand, this free series of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections will now screen alternating programmes DAILY at 13.10. Simply collect your free ticket from the IFI Box Office.
This film screened 14th & 15th February 2010.
Bob Rafelson was one of the producers of the late Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, which became a film industry milestone and a statement of the Zeitgeist of ‘going to look for America’... Read More
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
Throughout June (and with a double bill on Bloomsday, June 16th) we celebrate the work of James Joyce with two... Read More
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: Double Bill PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN: TEARNAMH AS POLIO This short film produced by Gael Linn shows fundraising and therapeutic work in the early days of the Central Remedial Clinic, then in Goatstown, Co. Dublin. Directed by... Read More
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN: TEARNAMH AS POLIO This short film produced by Gael Linn shows fundraising and therapeutic work in... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: CLUBS ARE TRUMPS (1959) Made at the request of Augustinian Fr. James McGrath to raise funds for Our... Read More
This film screened in April 2010.
Hitchcock’s first film after being brought to America by producer David O. Selznick was a careful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s best-selling novel. The film repeated the book’s success, winning the 1941 Oscar for... Read More
This new series of free lunchtime screenings is drawn from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect way to spend your lunch hour. This month’s programmes... Read More
This film screened 5th April 2010.
Oliver Parker (St Trinians, The Importance of Being Earnest) directs a ravishing cast in a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece. Dorian Gray, played by Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) is... Read More
This film was released 9th April 2010 and is no longer screening.
Connoisseurs of heady melodrama should flock to this sumptuous Milanese saga, which casts the ever-wonderful Tilda Swinton as the Russian wife feeling increasingly trapped within the repressive opulence... Read More
This film screened 10th April 2010.
This excellent adaptation of Wilde’s infamous novel is littered with characters of blurred sexuality and undescribed vice. Director Albert Lewin’s complex blend of Griffithian nightmare and moralising merges with a near-expressionist vision of Dorian’s... Read More
‘The stronger the villain, the stronger the film’ was a formula that Hitchcock liked to repeat, and Joseph Cotten as ‘Uncle Charlie’, soon revealed as a serial killer of wealthy widows, is his strongest... Read More
This film was released 16th April 2010 and is no longer screening.
More than seven decades later, a sense of outrage still burns in China over the so-called ‘Rape of Nanking’. This impassioned fresco recreates the dark days of 1937,... Read More
‘Will he kiss me or kill me?’ was the original poster tagline for Spellbound, showing an apprehensive Ingrid Bergman in the arms of a preoccupied Gregory Peck, who is holding Bergman with one hand... Read More
For director François Truffaut, in the book-length interview with Hitchcock that has never been out of print since its publication in 1966, this mesmerising spy thriller represents ‘the quintessence of Hitchcock’. For John Russell... Read More
Misleadingly hailed at the time as a ‘return to form’ by critics unimpressed with the merits of its more experimental predecessors, Rope and Under Capricorn, Strangers on a Train did mark a reassuring return... Read More
This event screened 22nd April 2010.
A NEW PLAY BY ALAN BENNETT The Habit of Art, a new play by Alan Bennett, marks the third screening in our NT Live series, a new initiative to broadcast live performances of National... Read More
This film was released 23rd April 2010 and is no longer screening.
A prize winner from last year’s Cannes Film Festival, this startling family drama announces Greek writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos as a hot newcomer on the international scene. That his... Read More
This film was released 30th April 2010 and is no longer screening.
From the talent and application of individual dancers and choreographers to the infrastructure of a venerable Parisian institution, this expansive portrait surveys the totality of presenting world-class ballet... Read More
Eleven years on from that masterpiece of comic unease Happiness, Todd Solondz revisits the same characters repairing their shattered lives in his latest rueful report on American manners... Read More
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect way to spend your lunch hour.... Read More
This film screened 26th April 2010.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film. An opportunity for Dublin audiences to see the first feature from talented Irish director Brendan Grant. Tonight is Cancelled, produced by Fastnet Films... Read More
This film screened 25th April 2010.
IFI FAMILY Our monthly screening, bringing you and your young film fans some of the best family films from around the world.
Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, so popular when previewed at... Read More
The final revision, in 2002, of Hitchcock’s Films ends with a new chapter on Marnie, which is, for Robin Wood, ‘surely his most difficult film, its demands upon the spectator becoming more apparent the... Read More
This film screened 28th & 30th April 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s. Combine the memoir of highly-regarded and ironic journalist Lynn Barber, the adaptation skills and wit of novelist Nick Hornby (About a... Read More
Although many critics, including Robin Wood, considered Hitchcock’s final film to be a minor if pleasant entertainment, Jonathan Rosenbaum thought it one of the director’s finest. ‘Unlike Hitchcock’s other late films (Torn Curtain, Topaz... Read More
In creating his greatest large-scale work, the painter Rembrandt may have sown the seeds of his own fall from prosperity by taking on the powerful Amsterdam establishment. That’s... Read More
The heist thriller gets a potent re-imagining in this tense and uncommonly thoughtful saga of interwoven lives.
In his native Austria, former playwright Gotz Spielmann is spoken of... Read More
This film screened 2nd March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE Mike Figgis’ film of Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave Run in conjunction with NCAD, this session focuses on contemporary artists whose work is directly informed by different genres of filmmaking such... Read More
This new series of free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive allows audiences to explore the remarkable collections of shorter films.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect... Read More
This event screened 3rd March 2010.
The Secret of Kells: 75 mins, Ireland, 2009, Colour The Door: 17 mins, Ireland, 2008, Colour Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty: 6 mins, Ireland, 2008, Colour
Join us for a last chance to view Ireland’s... Read More
This film was released 12th March 2010, and is no longer screening.
What starts as a tribute to a hero of the European art film becomes an affecting meditation on the pursuit of happiness in this hauntingly beautiful offering from... Read More
This film screened 8th March 2010.
For the month of March, in conjunction with the National Film School at IADT, we are showing four classic Hollywood films that are essential viewing for any film fan. Tom Kennedy of IADT will... Read More
This film screened 11th March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE We’re delighted to present the Irish premiere of The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights. In the Summer of 2007 The White Stripes set out on an unusual tour; visiting every... Read More
This film was released 12th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
IFI STUDENTS Special discounted screening for third level students on Mar 22nd, 8.00. Tickets 5.
For fans of Wallander, this shockingly gruesome crime thriller plays like an epic... Read More
A study of a family in crisis, Ivan Kavanagh’s fifth feature is an intense affair, by turns touching, fierce and chilling. Returning home to their widowed and dying... Read More
This film screened 14th March 2010.
Our monthly screening, bringing you and your young film fans some of the best family films from around the world.
This month’s family screening, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Festival, is Flight of the... Read More
This film screened 15th March 2010.
This film was released 19th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
More growing pains for This Is England and Somers Town star Thomas Turgoose in this vivid rites of passage tale set in an out-of-season English caravan park. His... Read More
This film screened 20th March 2010.
For ages 12+
Tokyo-3 still stands after most of civilization was decimated in the Second Impact. Now the city endures the ceaseless onslaught of the deadly Angels, bizarre creatures bent on eradicating the human... Read More
IRISH PREMIERE For ages 12+ The second film in the Evangelion saga sees the aftermath of Shinji’s initial forays into piloting one of several giant robots known as Evangelion. The city continues to endure... Read More
This film screened 21st March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE For all ages Summer Wars is the captivating and spectacular new animated feature from Mamoru Hosoda, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Millions are addicted to the vast online world... Read More
For ages 15+
Gundam Unicorn (2010) The year is U.C. 0096. Three years have passed since the end of the Second Neo Zeon War. It is said that the Vist Foundation manipulates both the... Read More
What would you do if you could ‘leap’ backward through time? When tomboyish 17 year old Makoto Konno gains this ability after an accident in her high school chemistry lab, she... Read More
This film screened 22nd March 2010.
This film screened 24th & 26th March 2010.
Wild Strawberries, our bimonthly film club for the over 55s. Despite having John Travolta and Denzel Washington in the leading roles, the 2009 remake of the subway hijack drama hadn’t a patch... Read More
This film was released 26th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
Forget all those cliches about women-in-prison movies, this Argentine saga of motherhood behind bars tells a story of resilience and hope rather than repression and exploitation. Martina Gusman’s... Read More
This undercover portrait of rock musicians in Tehran is both a courageous statement of artistic liberty and scintillating cinema in its own right.
Stymied by delays in getting... Read More
Sceptical but never scornful, solemn but never over-reverent, this story of the hopeful travelling to the French pilgrimage site proves a masterclass in intriguing ambiguity. That the church... Read More
This film screened 28th March 2010.
FILM INFO: The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish: 15 minutes, 2005, Black and White The Chronoscope: 20 minutes, 2009, Black and White
Ireland on Sunday, our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Perhaps the... Read More
This film was released 2nd April 2010 and is no longer screening.
Zapping from Hitchcock to his real-life double, from JFK to Khrushchev, from Cold War paranoia to vintage coffee adverts, this provocative and witty celluloid collage is quite unlike... Read More
IFI TEEN SCREEN Special Samson & Delilah screening for our monthly film club (age 15-18). April 21st, 4.30. Email teenscreen@irishfilm.ie for more information.
In its native Australia, Warwick... Read More
This film screened 21st February 2010.
The making of a portrait is an intimate experience, one which can be a pleasurable event for both parties or one that’s fraught with difficulties. Either way, to paint someone’s picture is a unique... Read More
This film screened 23rd February 2010.
LE FANU’S CARMILLA ? Irish writer J.S. Le Fanu’s creation, the female vampire Carmilla, has established a fascinating lineage through filmic adaptations, arguably inspiring a more radical and transgressive creative wellspring than her literary... Read More
Ireland On Screen Tues 23 Feb / IFI 3 / 5.00pm
From the Wind that Shakes the Barley to Once, from The Quiet Man to Leap Year, there have been very different images of... Read More
This film screened 24th & 28th February 2010.
Wild Strawberries, our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
Described by John Banville as ‘simply a masterpiece’, Gideon Koppel’s enthralling documentary is set in Treufeurig, a hill-farming community in mid-Wales, a... Read More
This film screened 24th February 2010.
Featured Cast: Valene Kane, Patrick O’Donnell, Bibbi Larsson, Emma Eliza Regan.? With his previous feature, Our Wonderful Home (shown in JDIFF 2009), Ivan Kavanagh proved to be an acute observer of the fissures and... Read More
This film screened 25th February 2010.
After the debacle of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam took on his first project as director-for-hire, and made a triumph of this modern-day fairy-tale, blending madness, murder, and quixotic romanticism. Jeff Bridges grounds the proceedings... Read More
This film screened 29th February 2010.
Principal Cast: Aurelia Petit, Jean-Luc Bideau, Adelaide Leroux, Jacob Auzanneau. Filmmaker, artist and wild man of British cinema Andrew Kotting reinvents himself in French as a Franco-Swiss filmmaker with this intimate and... Read More
This film was released 26th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film combines his patented whimsy and visual inventiveness with a satirical treatment of the international arms trade. Comedian Dany Boon (a megastar following... Read More
With his customary grace and skill, acclaimed Irish documentary maker Desmond Bell has mixed early cinema archive film and new material to retrace the story of navvy poet, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter Patrick?MacGill. Born... Read More
This film screened 28th February 2010.
Still a major cult movie, The Big Lebowski is the Coen brothers’ funniest creation and probably the film for which Jeff Bridges is now best known. Jeffrey Lebowski (Bridges), aka the Dude, is a... Read More
Beyond the Fire is a feature film by London-based Irish filmmaker Maeve Murphy in which a former Catholic priest (Scot Williams), recently released from... Read More
Our family film for February is this classic Oscar-winning French film. Mostly without dialogue (ideal for those who are unsure about subtitles!) the 34-minute film tells the story of a young boy, Pascal, who... Read More
This event screened 27th February 2010.
INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER RABBIT’S MOON LUCIFER RISING
In 1967, the footage for Anger’s magnum opus Lucifer Rising was stolen by Anger’s Lucifer, Bobby Beausoleil, who was later convicted for his participation in... Read More
To celebrate a quarter of a century of the teaching of filmmaking in Dun Laoghaire, the JDIFF is delighted to present a selection of its live action graduate films. Beginning in the academic year... Read More
This film screened 1st March 2010.
DOUBLE BILL
A new series of lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive provides new access to the vast collection of its shorter films professional and amateur, educational and informational, travelogues, sports films and dramas... Read More
This film screened 29th January 2010.
RE-RELEASE Made late in his career, this 1960 production shows Ozu’s sensibility at its most playful and yet somehow serious. Not untypically for the director, it turns around the question of marriage: Yoko Tsukasa... Read More
The late 1940s marked a high point for British cinema, which had developed a new confidence under the pressures of war. Dickinson’s version of Pushkin’s story, out of circulation for decades but now handsomely... Read More
This film screened 30th January 2010.
Jacques Audiard has a fascination with life’s underdogs and the ingenious means they employ to overcome their lowly status. The heroine of Read My Lips is downtrodden office secretary Carla (Emmanuelle Devos), who suffers... Read More
Many cinema memories begin with Walt Disney Animation Studios. Join us for a complimentary preview of their latest film, the Golden Globe nominated The Princess and the Frog (with thanks to Disney), a joyous... Read More
This new series of free screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive presents a wide range of material from the collections of shorter fiction and non-fiction film, which provides a unique insight into Irish society. The programmes are free and... Read More
This film was released 5th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
Director Margaret Corkery will be in conversation at the IFI on Feb 11th, 6.30. Free but ticketed.
Already a success on the international festival circuit and nominated for... Read More
This film screened 12th February 2010.
The pinnacle of former critic Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial career, this evocative portrait of idling lives in 1950s small-town America is a far more piercing and grown-up offering than the bulk of today’s Hollywood output.... Read More
This film screened 13th February 2010.
In The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino created an unforgettable portrait of the stresses and strains of male loyalty, but his directorial debut shapes a no less well-observed portrait of rutting manhood in the form... Read More
This film was released 12th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
The finest performance of Colin Firth’s career illuminates this affecting adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s early ’60s novel about an English professor adrift in Los Angeles after the loss... Read More
This film was re-released 12th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
Increasingly recognised as one of cinema’s greatest stylists, German-born Max Ophuls made films in France and the U.S., and died at 55 in 1957 after completing Lola Montes.... Read More
An underrated gem, Howard Zieff’s delightful 1975 comedy proved an ideal vehicle for Jeff Bridges, utilising to the full his winning combination of youthful innocence and unforced charm. He plays a country hick with... Read More
Re-released in a new 35mm print that does justice to its outstanding visuals and inspired soundtrack, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider(1969) became famous as one of those film industry milestones that could be... Read More
This film screened 17th February 2010.
Disney’s 1982 hi-tech fantasy, a box-office disappointment on its initial run, has belatedly been recognised as one of the most influential effects movies of the post-Star Wars era. Made at a moment when what... Read More
This film screened 18th February 2010.
The Bridges boys are cannily cast in this perceptive character drama about a jobbing piano duo on the supper-club circuit, with Beau the steady, serious one in frequent conflict with Jeff, his loose-cannon sibling.... Read More
This film screened 19th February 2010.
A courtroom thriller in the classic mould, this teaser from the pen of Joe Basic Instinct Eszterhas is constructed with old-fashioned respect for the audience’s intelligence. When a rich socialite is brutally murdered, prime... Read More
This film was released 19th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
A stellar cast and genuinely fascinating subject matter make this fictionalised account of the final days of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy an engrossing watch. Since the... Read More
IFI TEEN SCREEN Special Crazy Heart screening for our monthly teen film club (age 15-18). For more information text your name to 085 1737232.
In a career spanning... Read More
Argentine writer-director Lucrecia Martel, long-regarded among the most promising new voices in world cinema, takes a significant step forward with this exquisitely rendered cinematic puzzle. Produced by Pedro... Read More
This event screened 20th February 2010.
FIREWORKS PUCE MOMENT RABBIT’S MOON EAUX D’ARTIFICE
Shot when the filmmaker was just seventeen, Fireworks (1947, 20 minutes) remains a landmark of both experimental and gay cinema, a homo-erotic dream within a dream in... Read More
This event screened 21st February 2010.
INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS SCORPIO RISING
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) is directly inspired by the life and teachings of the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley: its dense, multi-layered imagery... Read More
New mini musicals from the Irish Film Board’s Short Shorts scheme.
The Man In 301 (Director: David Freyne), Separation’s Agency (Director: Shane Martin), Moore Street Masala (Director: David O’Sullivan), Dental Breakdown (Director: Ian Power),... Read More
Perhaps the most shamefully neglected masterpiece of 1980s American cinema, this complex and compelling modern film noir actually improves on its source material, Newton Thornburg’s fine post-Vietnam novel Cutter and Bone. Whereas the novel... Read More
This film was released 18th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
Lynn Shelton’s serious indie comedy turns the buddy movie inside out, presenting a squirmingly accurate picture of what passes for straight male sexuality. Ben (Mark Duplass) has settled... Read More
This film was released 26th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
Before Mark Chapman, before Yoko, before The Beatles, there was a John Lennon we hardly know: the Liverpool teenager (believably played by newcomer Aaron Johnston) who went to... Read More
This film screened 2nd January 2010.
Not without reason did Japanese critics recently vote Ozu’s family drama their nation’s greatest ever cinematic achievement. There’s a sense of inevitability and rightness in this ostensibly ordinary story about elderly parents visiting their... Read More
This film screened 2nd & 3rd January 2010.
This multi-character drama intently dissects the fortunes of the generation which served in or survived the war, then spent the 1950s trying to settle down to family life and white-collar jobs. It’s... Read More
This film was released 2nd January 2010, and is no longer screening.
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, director Yojiro Takita’s drama conjures an arresting story from unlikely subject matter: the travails of a cash-strapped cellist who takes... Read More
This film screened 4th January 2010.
Ozu’s last film is a piercing meditation on a man’s twilight years. Chishu Ryu, the elderly father in Tokyo Story, is just as extraordinary here as a widower who’s grown too used to having... Read More
A new series of lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive provides new access to the vast collection of its shorter films professional and amateur, educational and informational, travelogues, sports films and dramas all... Read More
This film was released 8th January 2010, and is no longer screening.
The electric guitar isn’t so much an instrument, more of a calling in this affectionate triple-portrait of rock royalty Led Zeppelin’s legendary Jimmy Page, U2’s very own... Read More
The fortunes of two little Korean girls, seven-year-old Bin and her younger sister Jin, dumped with relatives when their mum heads off to find their errant father, become... Read More
The sun has gone, the trees are dead, the few survivors wander a landscape of ashes and foreboding as novelist Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic vision is rendered terrifyingly believable... Read More
This film screened 18th January 2010.
Ireland on Sunday, our monthly showcase for new Irish film.This programme presents two half-hour experimental shorts, one about happiness and one about fear. In each, director Conor Horgan presents a captivatingly broad range of... Read More
This film was released 15th January 2010, and is no longer screening.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s previous work (After Life, Nobody Knows) has been impressive, but this family drama is so wise and true that it affirms his position at the forefront... Read More
This film screened 16th & 17th January 2010.
THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY 84 minutes, U.K., 1940, ?Black and White, 35mm
Who, with any sporting interest, could resist a film with this title? It refers, of course, to the famous ‘marble... Read More
This film screened 16th January 2010.
Arguably the most pictorially beautiful of Ozu’s films, this hearty drama about a kabuki troupe on tour in a remote coastal province packs more melodramatic punch than the familiar restrained Ozu fare. Ganjiro Nakamura... Read More
This film screened 17th January 2010.
A direct translation of the Japanese title, The Autumn of the Kohayagawa Clan, helps give a fuller idea of the tone of Ozu’s penultimate film. There is a sense that winter’s in the air... Read More
Lauded on the festival circuit, Jacques Audiard’s latest is one of the great European crime flicks of recent years. Newcomer Tahar Rahim provides a compelling central presence as... Read More
This film screened 23rd January 2010.
The moral ambivalence, playful approach to narrative and fascination with male identity that characterise Jacques Audiard’s later work are already evident in his first feature as director. Regarde les hommes tomber is ingeniously structured... Read More
This film screened 24th January 2010.
This is the film that brought Jacques Audiard international recognition following its triumph at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The most overtly satirical of his movies, it’s a wonderfully imaginative adaptation of the novel... Read More
This film screened 27th & 29th January 2010.
Fans of Hitchcock, conspiracy thrillers or period dramas will enjoy this adventure set in London and Norfolk, 1939.
Glorious 39 stars Romola... Read More
This film was released 29th January 2010, and is no longer screening.
IRISH SHORTS @ IFI This screening includes Andrew Kavanagh’s IFB-funded animation, Hasan Everywhere, about a friendship between an Israeli writer and a Palestinian artist exiled in New York.... Read More
Precious is an overweight, illiterate Harlem teenager who’s already had a son with Down syndrome and is pregnant with her second child. Home life, meanwhile, brings daily abuse... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for older people, running on the last Wednesday and Friday of each month. Showing a range of films from contemporary to classic, we aim to provide a... Read More
This is a previous screening of VIVRE SA VIE. Click here for the IFI French Fesitval 2022 screening.
If you want an instance of the singular magic worked by a director and actress in perfect synch, look no further... Read More
An unmissable big-screen outing for the original CGI classic! Computer programmer Jeff Bridges hacks the mainframe of his evil ex-employer… And finds himself beamed inside the computer by a power- hungry master control program!... Read More
AFTER THE FAIRLY TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE THAT WAS FARGO, THE BIG LEBOWSKI REPRESENTED SOMETHING OF A RETURN TO THE MADCAP COMIC STYLE OF RAISING ARIZONA. Its central protagonist is an amalgam of some lovably eccentric... Read More
THIS FILM SCREENED ON WEDNESDAY 10th OCTOBER 2011.
This screen adaptation of Brian Friel’s masterpiece, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1964, features remarkable performances from Donal McCann in the lead and Des Cave as his troubled alter-ego.... Read More
Shot with a $3,000 video camera, this three-hour opus is a compendium of Lynchian obsessions and motifs.
In her Hollywood mansion, fading star Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) receives a surprise visit from a new neighbour (Grace Zabriskie). In a strong... Read More
The most dramatic coup in film music is surely the shower music in Psycho: whoever thought the sound of violins could be so terrifying? Hitchcock originally had not wanted music for the scene but... Read More
One of Renoir’s best loved films, Boudu celebrates the battle of the human spirit against the stifling aspects of bourgeois civilisation. Boudu, incarnated by the shambling, shaggy beast... Read More
Based on fragments of a novel from the court of Nero, this story of two students and their ownership of a boy is a celebration of Roman decadence. Visionary, phantasmagoric, at times vulgar and, by the way, often tenderly gay,... Read More
An idiosyncratic reinvention of Hong Kong in 1960, centred on the figure of a jaded playboy (Leslie Cheung) who toys with the affections and fates of everyone around him and then disappears to Manila to look for his motheror perhaps... Read More
For his directorial debut, Wong came up with a (fully scripted!) riff on Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets. Andy Lau plays the two-bit punk torn between romancing the innocent-but-ailing Ngor (Maggie Cheung) and trying to keep his hopelessly self-destructive buddy Fly... Read More
In 1939,Franklin is appointed to St Jude ‘s Reformatory School as the only lay teacher amongst the Christian Brothers.He tries to build up a relationship based on trust with the boys,who are used to the verbal and physical abuse doled... Read More
A moving,highly personal portrait of a rock icon.Shane MacGowan tells of his early problems with drink and drugs and his subsequent breakdown,his discovery of punk and the voice he found through music.IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE includes interviews with... Read More
Recently re-released in a superb new print, Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Le Corbeau has been one of the great unseen classics of French cinema. Now considered a masterpiece from a director with one of the bleakest visions of human nature in the... Read More
Wong Kar-Wai’s most delicate and erotic film to date is a memory piece that takes place in the lost world of early-60s Hong Kong. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung play next-door neighbours who are attracted to each other at first... Read More
If you want an instance of the singular magic worked by a director and actress in perfect sync, look no further than... Read More
Wong Kar-Wai’s dazzling Chungking Express is probably the most exciting film we’ll see all year and has already had audiences in raptures after its Dublin Film Festival preview. Radiating kinetic energy and humour from every memorable frame, it’s a quirky... Read More
Interested in learning more about courses in film? To respond to the many requests we get each term about opportunities for studying film at third level, we are holding a Careers Day for students. Representatives from the major colleges will... Read More
Set in rural, pre-famine Ireland, a time when poverty and magic were accepted as facts of life, this is the haunting tale of a young girl’s discovery of her own powers through a ‘a wild, ungodly man’ and the passage... Read More
Echoing David Lean’s Brief Encounter with its tale of soul-mates teetering on the brink of an impossible affair, In the Mood for Love is beautifully orchestrated, supremely stylish and hypnotically executed. Displaying a masterly command of colour, composition and music,... Read More
David Lynch’s first film in nearly five years, Lost Highway is the director’s darkest, most dream-like and mysterious work since Eraserhead. As a painter who moved into feature film-making (‘to make my paintings move,’ he once said), Lynch has never... Read More
A grieving American filmmaker (Dale Dickey) and her Irish assistant (Judith Roddy) tour the west of Ireland, researching a film about Granuaile, the legendary 16th century rebel and ‘pirate queen’. The women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards... Read More
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 15:30
CHASING THE LIGHT 13:20, 18:20 (+Q&A)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 18:10
QUEER 15.20 (OC), 20.30
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 15:40
THE UNIVERSAL THEORY 13:00, 20:40
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