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The work of women filmmakers has been recognised and celebrated in recent years. However, women’s contribution to the field of nonprofessional filmmaking remains under-explored. As part of a project funded by the Irish Research Council Kasandra O’Connell (IFI Irish Film... Read More
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Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.
PROGRAMME ONE
GAEL LINN: AMHARC ÉIREANN
The Irish Georgian Society protest the... Read More
PROGRAMME TWO
PLACES FOR PEOPLE
Commemorating European Year of Architectural Heritage 1975,... Read More
16-21 September // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg – 15th edition // Puffin Rock and the New Friends, Blurred Lines + Q&A with director and actor Mark Agar and producer and actor Siobhan Aislinn, The Line +Q&A with... Read More
Cédric Kahn revisits the controversial case of Pierre Goldman, a far-left Jewish activist who faced a life sentence for armed robbery and murder in 1969. In his 1975 appeal hearing, Goldman (Arieh Worthalter) pleads not guilty to murder, plunging his... Read More
Follow the story of Conor, an Irish teenager growing up in the 1980s in Dublin. When he meets the girl of his dreams, Raphina, he attempts to start a band to get close to her and find significance in his... Read More
‘You’ve been scammed’, one of the most dreaded phrases of our online banking times, is the prompt for this super, witty comedy, starring June Squibb as the senior who has been defrauded of her savings, by someone claiming to be... Read More
This month’s Bigger Picture choice comes from our film-loving Box Office team, who will present Tampopo, the second feature from the late, great observer of Japanese society, Jûzô Itami. When a nomadic truck driver stops by a hole-in-thewall ramen shop,... Read More
Join us for this month’s screening at 13.00 on Sunday, September 22nd. The film chosen could be anything from throughout the history of cinema, from a silent classic to a preview of a hotly anticipated upcoming release.
Whether it’s a... Read More
In association with Samhain Fable Festival, we are showing classic Walt Disney animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first ever animated feature film. Based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, the mouse house drew together an extensive team working... Read More
In a last bid attempt to save a crumbling period mansion from imminent demolition a rag-tag bunch of conservationists, actors, and filmmakers attempt to stage a re-enactment of its storied past. The project, led by mono-maniacal actor/director Lorcan (Barry Ward)... Read More
In the 1950s, Chet Baker’s jazz trumpeting, intimate crooning, and matinee idol looks epitomised West Coast cool. When photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him three decades later, time and drug addiction had ravaged Baker’s life and angelic beauty. Shown... Read More
When Will Ferrell finds out Harper Steele, his close friend of 30 years, is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship. The pair... Read More
An aging movie star makes a Faustian pact to regain her youth and beauty in Corelie Fargeat’s smart, funny, and sensationally entertaining body horror that, amid the gleefully grotesque set-pieces, offers genuine insight into the lengths women are forced to... Read More
The Critic is a deliciously dark and sharp-witted thriller set in 1930s London ‘theatreland’ featuring an all-star cast including Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Romola Garai, and Lesley Manville. Anand Tucker’s reimagining of Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call focuses... Read More
The IFI and Penguin Random House celebrate 30 years of Paula Spencer, and the publication day of Roddy Doyle’s new novel, The Women Behind the Door, with a screening of Family: Paula.
FAMILY: PAULA, EPISODE4 OF 4
We first met Paula (Ger Ryan) in... Read More
The Third Man, here reissued on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, was the highest placed British film in the most recent Sight and Sound Greatest Films list. Director Carol Reed’s gripping adaptation of a script by author Graham Greene... Read More
1970s, rural Yorkshire. Richard (Matt Smith) and Juliette Willoughby’s (Morfydd Clark) idyllic family life is thrown into turmoil when their young son Owen starts acting strangely. A tragic event drives a wedge between the once happy couple. At Starve Acre,... Read More
“What is particularly striking, however, uniting most critics so far, is how elegantly the film flows; there is a curious, intuitive logic weaving together these randomly chosen scenes and clips. It’s an outstanding achievement.” – The Guardian (UK)
Visionary musician and... Read More
For Culture Night 2024, The Tiernan MacBride Library will transform into a pop-up museum, full of interesting and unusual artefacts from the collections of the IFI Irish Film Archive. Archive staff will be on hand to explain the stories behind... Read More
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
OUR Q&A SCREENING OF THE OUTRUN IS SOLD OUT.
Rona (Saoirse Ronan) has left her fast-paced life in London for Scotland’s far-flung Orkney Islands, hoping the stark change of scene will help in her battle with alcohol addiction, which led... Read More
IRISH PREMIERE
Japanese journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault to prosecute her high-profile offender; her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems, and has been credited with... Read More
November, 2021. Twenty-six royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave the vaults of a Parisian Museum to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these... 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... Read More
Belfast’s New Lodge is a Catholic neighbourhood violently affected by the Troubles. Many of the men who live here engaged in paramilitary activity in their youth and now suffer from disillusionment, unemployment, and poor mental health. The women work to... Read More
In 1988, following a wave of IRA atrocities, the British Government introduced a Broadcasting Ban, silencing Sinn Féin and other loyalist and republican paramilitary groups by forbidding broadcasters to allow anyone affiliated with these bodies to speak on television or... Read More
Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films as his community of Masafer Yatta is gradually eradicated by the destruction and forced displacements of the Israeli occupation. Adra builds an unlikely alliance with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who reports on what his... Read More
WORLD PREMIERE
An impressive cast of heavyweight contributors examines the impact of America’s most contagious export – cultural and political vitriol – on global society. The film investigates how nefarious elements of rhetoric and conspiracy are seeded though paranoia and... 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
This selection of short documentaries from Ireland and around the world focuses on issues affecting young people today. Universal themes of adolescence, identity, and self-discovery are explored in a diverse range of cultural narratives. Programme includes: One Flower at a... Read More
In collaboration with In Real Life, a Screen Ireland-supported project developing audiences for documentary cinema, we explore the evolving role of documentary in the cinema, streaming and TV landscapes. A panel of filmmakers and industry professionals will consider the ongoing... Read More
The life of an elderly woman running a farm in the countryside between Northern Ireland and the Republic is observed in a portrait marked by stillness and a meticulous chronicling of the everyday. The film also explores Grimm’s... Read More
Veteran musician and filmmaker Nick Kelly sets off to cycle from his home in Dublin to Glastonbury, carrying all his gear on his bike and playing in pubs and clubs along the way. He’s accompanied by his easy-going musical partner... Read More
In April 2022, a group of ordinary workers made history when they successfully won their election to become the first unionised Amazon workplace in America. This feat would be extraordinary for any union, let alone the Amazon Labor... Read More
In a remote village in southern Egypt, a group of girls protest the conservatism of their culture by forming a street theatre troupe. They dream of becoming actresses, dancers, and singers, challenging the expectations of their families with... Read More
Amid violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee the country following Russia’s full-scale invasion. From cats and dogs in abandoned buildings to lions and... 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... 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
Oscar nominees Colman Domingo (Rustin), and Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) lead a cast of non-professionals, many of whom play themselves, in Greg Kwedar’s inspirational true story, based on the Rehabilitation Through the Arts programme founded at Sing Sing Correctional... Read More
An adaptation of the best-selling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Touch is the achingly poignant story of an elderly man who, on receiving a troubling medical diagnosis, embarks on an epic quest to find his long-lost first love. Widower Kristofer... Read More
blur: Live At Wembley Stadium, a cinematic two-hour concert film immortalising their historic 2023 show which saw blur perform their iconic and much-loved songs for 150,000 fans in a transcendent, once-in-a-generation performance that delivered a sweep of ecstatic 5 star reviews.
A genuine gamechanger, Pulp Fiction, just director Quentin Tarantino’s second feature, has had an inestimable influence on American cinema over the last thirty years. Following his blistering debut with Reservoir Dogs (1992), his sophomore effort, co-written with Roger Avary (Killing... 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.
A reforming constitutional lawyer and senator in her early career, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. Later, as a crusading UN High Commissioner, she built a lasting legacy; fearlessly challenging perpetrators of... Read More
Kylo Ren discovers that Emperor Palpatine still lives, and has amassed a fleet of staggering proportions. He is ordered to kill Rey, whose power in the Force the Emperor has foreseen, and fears. As Kylo struggles with his task, Rey... Read More
Having located Luke Skywalker, Rey battles to convince him to return to the fray. In the process, she discovers she has a link to Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), son of Leia and Han, former protégé of Luke, now a leader... Read More
Thirty years after the fall of the Empire, a new threat has risen from its ashes, the First Order, determined to destroy the New Republic. Leia, now leader of the Resistance, seeks Luke, who has been in hiding. A map... Read More
Following the daring rescue of Han from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance discovers that the Empire is building a new and even more powerful Death Star. Our heroes must travel to the forest moon of Endor... Read More
Three years after the events of A New Hope, the Imperial Fleet, led by Darth Vader, continues its efforts to crush the Rebellion. While Han and Leia seek refuge with old friend Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), Luke travels to... Read More
As the Empire’s terrifying new weapon, the Death Star, comes online, rebellion leader Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) manages to smuggle its plans to safety in a robot, R2-D2, who escapes with counterpart C3-PO. The two land on Tatooine, where... Read More
With the galaxy at war, Palpatine’s hold over the Senate grows. Fearing for the safety of the pregnant Padmé, Anakin also falls under his control, with consequences tragic to the Jedi Order and to the Republic, leading to the emergence... Read More
Ten years after the events of The Phantom Menace, Anakin (Hayden Christensen) is now Obi-Wan’s apprentice. While a separatist movement threatens peace in the galaxy, Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) consolidates his hold over the Senate. Tasked with keeping Padmé safe,... 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.
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low-life scum’ Naoise & Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of... Read More
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
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
The IFI International programme is supported by Culture 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
Char lives in a North Dublin housing estate with her mother, Angela and her grandmother Rita. Lately her mother has been unwell and confined to her bedroom. One day, after being forced to drive Char to school Angela goes missing... 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
Solitary marine biology student Siobhán endures a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew... 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.