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11 December // NICE X Irish Film Festa // Lies We Tell, North Circular // Cinema La Compagnia, Florence, Italy
The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.
1 November // Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival [17th edition] // The Outcasts [restoration] + Q&A with director Robert Wynne-Simmons // Bruges, Belgium
7-8 November // Irish Film Festival of India // My Left Foot // Film City, Noida, India
7-9 November // Irish Film Festival Frankfurt // North Circular, An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], That They May Face the Rising Sun // Arthouse Kinos: Harmonie, Frankfurt, Germany // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland Frankfurt
8 November // Belfast Film Festival // Anne Devlin: 40th anniversary screening followed by Q&A with writer and director Pat Murphy, lead actor Bríd Brennan, and cinematographer, Thaddeus O’Sullivan, hosted by filmmaker Margo Harkin // QFT, Belfast
11-17 November // 38th Braunschweig International Film Festival // Sunlight + Q&A with actor Barry Ward // Braunschweig, Germany
13-17 November // Irish Film Festival London [13th edition] – IFTUK // Mrs Robinson, The Flats, We Beg to Differ, Prospect House, Two for the Road, Twig, Housewife of the Year, Eat / Sleep / Cheer / Repeat, Ransom 79, Swing Bout, Our Father, King Frankie, Perennial Light, The Company of Wolves, Bring them Down. Friday Shorts Programme, at ICA: Farmers!?, Peter Peter, Yara, A Border of Flat Stones, Calf, The Legend of the Dun Cow Saturday Shorts Programme, at ICA: Nay Day, Clodagh, Turnaround, A Wind and the Shadow, Kiki, One More Round, Naked Lights // Vue West End, Vue Piccadilly, ICA, London, UK
USA non-theatrical tour of Verdigris in association with Mná Mná Films and Prelude 10 November // Celtic Junction Arts Center // St Paul, MN 12 November // Irish American Heritage Museum // Albany, NY 13 November // Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley // Utica, NY 14 November // United Irish Cultural Center // San Francisco, CA 16 November // Irish American Heritage Center // Chicago, IL 19 November // Davidson-Davie Community College // Thomasville, NC 19 November // University of Montana Irish Studies Program & Friends of Irish Studies in the West screening at The Roxy Theater // Missoula, MT 19 November // Gordon State College // Barnsville, GA 21 November // Santa Fe College // Gainesville, FL 23 November // Irish Heritage Club Seattle + Emerald City Irish Film Festival // The Tin Room Theater, Burien, Seattle 23 November // Seattle Galway Sister City Association + Emerald City Irish Film Festival // The Tin Room Theater, Burien, Seattle 24 November // Kansas City Irish Center // Kansas, OH
15 November // Littératures Européennes Cognac (LEC) // That They May Face the Rising Sun // Cinéma Galaxy, Cognac, France
17 November // European Arthouse Cinema Day // I Dream in Photos,/em> // Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with Embassy of Ireland, Valletta
19 November // Jay Leyda: Witnessed Years // Mise Éire // Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, Germany // This screening is presented as part of Zeitgeist Irland 24 in association with Culture Ireland and Embassy of Ireland Germany
20-24 November // Irish Film Summer Season at Matucana 100 // Redemption of a Rogue, I Must Away, The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp // M100, Santiago, Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago de Chile
25 November – 1 December // Festival du Film Britannique et Irlandais d’Ajaccio // Verdigris + Q&A with director Patricia Kelly // Lætitia Cinema, Ajaccio, Corsica, France
25 November – 3 December // Semaine du Film Britannique et Irlandais de Brest // Lies We Tell, Nothing Compares // Brest, France
2-6 October 2024 // Dinard Festival du Cinema Britannique et Irlandais | Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film // Bring Them Down, September Says, That They May Face the Rising Sun, The Flats, The Irish Question, Baltimore, Dance First, Kneecap, Twig // Dinard, France
5, 11, 23, 29 October // Spectacle Theater: annual October series of rare, unique and independent horror cinema from around the world // North American premiere of the restoration of The Outcasts. The screening on 5 October will be followed by a remote Q+A with director Robert Wynne-Simmons moderated by filmmaker Dónal Foreman, with thanks to distributor Deaf Crocodile // Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY, USA
10-20 October // DocsMX // The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp // Mexico City, Mexico
24 October – 2 November // Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival [17th edition] // The Outcasts [restoration] + Q&A with director Robert Wynne-Simmons // Bruges, Belgium
17 October – 24 November // Irish Film Festival Australia // Brendan Gleeson: Farewell to Hughes’s, Stolen, Verdigris, Sunlight, Ó Bhéal, Lie of the Land, All You Need is Death, A Greyhound of a Girl, Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Tarrac // Dendy Cinema, Newtown, Sydney [17-20 Oct], Cinema Nova, Carlton, Melbourne [24-27 Oct], Luna Cinema, Leederville, Perth [1-3 Nov] Dendy Cinema, Coorparoo, Brisbane 15-17 Nov], Dendy Cinema, Canberra [22-24 Nov], and a selection of films online across Australia from 17 Oct – 3 Nov
16-21 September // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg – 15th edition // Kneecap, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, The Banshees of Inisherin, Puffin Rock and the New Friends, Blurred Lines + Q&A with director and actor Mark Agar and producer and actor Siobhan Aislinn, The Line +Q&A with producer Lee Crowley, Birdsong, Face Down, The People Before + Q&A with actors Imelda May, Liz White, Ray Fearon, producers Anne Heath and Sally Wood, Barber + Q&A with director Fintan Connolly, Froggie + Q&A with actor Sean T. O’Meallaigh, Baltimore, Kiss of the Con Queen + Q&A with writer and actor Eoin O’Brien. Shorts Evening: Warts and All + Q&A with director Pat Shortt, Catastrophic, The Wilde Sisters, The Golden West, The Waiting Day // Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg, Ciné Utopia, Kinoler, Luxembourg
18 September // Boston College // Reefer and the Model + Q&A with director Joe Comerford // Burns Library, Boston College, Massachusetts
19-21 September // SF Irish Film Festival // Kiss of the Con Queen, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Verdigris, Rory Gallagher: Calling Card. Short films: Unhinged, The Golden West, Remote Strutting, Fadó Fadó, Return, Fairview Park, The Golden West // Delancey Street Theater, San Francisco, USA
22 September // Art sur Toile in collaboration with MACS as part of the exhibition Orla Barry: Shaved Rapunzel & La Petite Bergère Punk // Notes from Sheepland // Plaza Arthouse cinema, Mons, Belgium
25-29 September // The Irish Festival of Oulu // The Job of Songs, North Circular, Puffin Rock and the New Friends, All You Need is Death, A Greyhound of a Girl // Culture Centre Valve, Oulu, Finland
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 // SANFIC – Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine // That They May Face the Rising Sun // Santiago de Chile, Chile
28 August // Ciclo de cine de verano // Song of Granite // Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
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 NICE Festival presents Apriti Cinema open air screenings // That They May Face the Rising Sun, A Greyhound of a Girl // Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
22-28 July // Yn Chruinnaght | Celtic Gathering // The Camino Voyage [24th July] // Centenary Centre, Peel, Isle of Man
30 July // Irish Language Cinema Season // Poitín + Q&A with Sé Merry Doyle // Kiln Theatre, London, UK
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, Rome, Italy
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 the Embassy of Ireland, Bangkok
24-26 May // Irish Film Festival Berlin // Baltimore + Q&A with directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, That They May Face the Rising Sun, In the Shadow of Beirut, Verdigris + Q&A with director Patricia Kelly and producer Paul Fitzsimon, Face Down, Róise & Frank, Lola + virtual Q&A with producer Alan Maher, Prospect House + Q&A with director Paul Mercier and producer Anne Gately Shorts Programme 1: Animated shorts, curated by award-winning Irish animators Clíona Noonan and Jack O’Shea: Trolley Boy, Wet and Soppy, A Different Perspective, Wartime Sometime, Cost of Curiosity, Pinokidoki, Red Rabbit, Meanwhile, The Final Nail in the Coffin, Coda, Late Afternoon, Shergar, Still Up There, An Gadhar Dubh, The Fall of the Ibis King Shorts Programme 2: curated by Film in Limerick from the ENGINE shorts scheme Shorts Programme 3: Cumha, Cantata, Nothing to be Done, The Final Chapter, Anima, Vonnie: Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon, Knockser, Letter to Lia, Lamb, Shakes Versus Shav, Calf, Warts and All // ACUD Kino, Berlin, Germany // Part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.
24-26 May // Conradh na Gaeilge presents Gaeltacht Chois Tamaise [Gaeltacht by the Banks of the Thames] // Arracht [25th May] // Haverstock School, Chalk Farm, London, UK
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 Sheepland, Anne Devlin, Lies We Tell, Face Down, John McGahern: A Private World with introduction by Prof. John McCourt, Rector of The University Macerata, and Q&A with director Pat Collins, Lie of the Land + Q&A with director John Carlin and actor Nigel O’Neill, In the Shadow of Beirut, That They May Face the Rising Sun + Q&A with director Pat Collins, I Dream in Photos + Q&A with director Gary Lennon, Short Film Competition, programme 1: Baby Steps, What Now?, Worry World, Calf, Every Other Weekend, The Final Chapter, Once A Beige Day, Wrecker, Short Film Competition, programme 2: Teacups, Knockser, Cantata, Ruff Patch, Simon, Cumha, You, I Know, One Night in Millstreet, Verdigris + Q&A with director Patricia Kelly and producer Paul FitzSimons, Irish Classic Tribute to Cillian Murphy: Breakfast on Pluto // Casa del Cinema, Rome Italy
5 April // Ciné Gael Montréal // An Evening of Irish Short Films: Griffintown – A People’s History. Episode 2. Colonization and Industrialization, Lady Betty, Rough, Best Foot Forward, Fall of the Ibis King, Wireless, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Teacups, Ruthless // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
10-14 April // Filmfest Bremen // German premiere of Hole in the Head + Q&A with director Dean Kavanagh, producer Anja Mahler, and actor Lynette Callaghan // Atlantis Filmtheater, Bremen, Germany // Premiere screening as part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.
12 April // Ciné Gael Montréal // Stolen // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
12-14 April // Irish Film Festival Ottawa // Verdigris, Joyride, Ann, Apocalypse Clown, Face Down, Lie of the Land // Arts Court Theatre, Ottawa, Canada
19 April // Ciné Gael Montréal // Tarrac // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
20 April // Renewing Roots and Fréa present // Stolen + pre-recorded Q&A with director Margo Harkin // Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds, UK
22-27 April // Scéal Eile Irish Film Festival // Lies We Tell, Tarrac, The Last Rifleman, Lie of the Land, Verdigris, Stolen, In the Shadow of Beirut, Ó Bhéal, Cantata, Apocalypse Clown, Double Blind, Puffin Rock and the New Friends, North Circular [at Irish College Leuven] // Cinéma Galeries Brussels; Cinéma Aventure Brussels, Belgium
26 April – 5 May // Trento Film Festival: Mountains & Cultures // That They May Face the Rising Sun // Multisala Modena, Trento, Italy
27 April – 5 May 2024 // Rock This Town Festival // North Circular // Pau, France
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 Lad from Old Ireland, Rory O’More, His Mother, Brennan on the Moor // Cinéma Le Sémaphore à Nîmes, Nîmes, France
8-18 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // My Left Foot + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, Faith and Branko, Nothing Compares + Q&A with IFTA-nominated editor Mick Mahon, George Best – All By Himself, The Ghost of Richard Harris, If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story, Ulysses | FILM, Ghosts of Baggotonia + Q&A with director Alan Gilsenan, Queen of Ireland, Baltimore + Q&A with producer Edwina Forkin, Peter O’Toole, Along the Sky Road to Aqaba, In the Name of the Father, Dear Mother, The Man Who Wanted to Fly, An Buachaill Gealgháireach [The Laughing Boy] + Q&A with Theo Dorgan, Somewhere in the Body // Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia
9-10 March // Emerald City Irish Film Festival // Tarrac, Róise & Frank, Stolen, Wolfwalkers, The Secret of Kells, The United Irishmen // Pacific Science Center, Seattle, USA
9-17 March // IRL Festival // North Circular // Registry Theatre, Kitchener, ON, Canada
13 March // Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith // Rocky Road to Dublin + The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin // London, UK
15-31 March // Spectacle Theater presents // I See a Darkness + Q&A with filmmakers Katherine Waugh and Fergus Daly // Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY, USA
16 March // Irish Film Festival Berlin presents Irish Music on Screen // Shane [aka Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan], Nothing Compares, North Circular, The Camino Voyage // Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany // This event is part of Zeitgeist Irland 24.
16 March // St Patrick’s event // The Camino Voyage // Cēsis, Riga, Latvia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Riga
16-17 March // The Irish Film Festival Los Angeles // The Disembodied Adventures of Alice, Tarrac, One Night in Millstreet, In the Shadow of Beirut, Verdigris, Double Blind, Apocalypse Clown, Much Ado About Dying // CIACLA, Los Angeles, USA
18-22 March // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // Verdigris + Q&A with actors Geraldine McAlinden and Maya O’Shea, Lies We Tell + Q&A with actor Chris Walley, Lie of the Land, Ballymanus + Q&A with director Seán Doupe, Double Blind, That They May Face the Rising Sun // Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg
19 March – 13 April // The Korean Film Archive presents Cinematic Spaces: Ireland // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], That They May Face the Rising Sun, Adam & Paul, Garage, Maeve, Anne Devlin, The Quiet Man, Odd Man Out, The Cry of Granuaile, In the Name of the Father, This Other Eden, Michael Collins, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Calvary, The Banshees of Inisherin, Korea, Michael Inside, Dublin Oldschool, // CinemathequeKOFA, Seoul, Korea
20-26 March // Rencontres du cinéma européen // North Circular // Cinéville Garenne de Vannes, Vannes, France
22-24 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival // Verdigris // TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Canada
28 March // Great Movies: Classic Thursday Cinema // Adam & Paul // MOKis Cinema, Bielawa, Poland
29 March // Cine Gael Montreal // Sunlight // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
24 March // Irish Film and TV UK presents A Focus on Flora Kerrigan in association with IFI and Maynooth University, and with introduction by Kassandra O’Connell, Head of IFI Irish Film Archive // Early Animations, Dead End, A Hard Day’s Knight, Off Beat, The Seventh Day, The Worms are Having Fun, Discord, Cold Feet, Moonshine, Dreammaker, Epitaph // ICA, London, UK
30 March // SF Irish Film DocFest // In the Shadow of Beirut, Notes from Sheepland, The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry // Delancey Theater, San Francisco, USA
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 – 3 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Opening gala: Lies We Tell + Q&A with director Lisa Mulcahy and writer Elisabeth Gooch, Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, Tarrac, Notes from Sheepland, Much Ado About Dying, My Lost Russian Mother, The Silent People [Norman Houston Short Film Award] + Q&A with Cinemagic producer Joan Burney Keating and director Keith O’Grady, Lie of the Land + Q&A with director John Carlin, Sunlight, Stolen + Q&A with director Margo Harkin and producer Martha O’Neill, Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Liricí [A Life in Lyrics] + Q&A with director Alan Gilsenan, One Night in Millstreet + Q&A with director Andrew Gallimore, Double Blind [2 screenings], Puffin Rock and the New Friends, Ó Bhéal + Q&A with director Ciara Nic Chormaic, That They May Face the Rising Sun, The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry, Verdigris + Q&A with director Patricia Kelly. Shorts Program 1: Far Away, Headspace, Man of Arran, Making Waves, Malcolm, Unhinged Shorts Program 2: Picture Day, Irreverence, Mud Queen, Scrumpy, Licence for Nil, The Golden West Shorts Program 3: Screen Ireland Spotlight: Shake Versus Shaw, Cantata, Worry World, Bog, Two for the Road, Lamb, Baby Steps // AFI Silver, Silver Spring, Washington, USA
29 February-10 March [In-Person: 29 February – 4 March, Virtual: 4-10 March] // Chicago Irish Film Festival // Verdigris + Q&Q with director Patricia Kelly, producer Paul FitzSimons, music John Conlan, actor Geraldine McAlinden, In the Shadow of Beirut, Ann + Q&A with director Ciarán Creagh, Double Blind, Hungry Hill + Q&A with director Mieke Vanmechelen, Lies We Tell + Q&A with director Lisa Mulchay and writer Elisabeth Gooch, Made in Dublin + Q&A with director Jack Armstrong, One Night in Millstreet + Q&A with boxer Steve Collins, Songs of Blood and Destiny + Q&A with director Trish McAdam, Translating Ulysses, Lie of the Land + Q&A with director John Carlin, Stolen + Q&A with director Margo Harkin and producer Martha O’Neill, That They May Face the Rising Sun 25th Anniversary Shorts: Chicken, Frankie, Fifty Percent Grey, The Door, Useless Dog, Downpour, Noreen, The White Dress, Teeth, Fear of Flying, Undressing My Mother, Dream Kitchen Shorts 1: Life is Unpredictable (In-Person and Virtual):The Silent People, Berdansk’y, Keepers of the Channel Light, The Bully, Baps and Buns, Street Musician, Cod & Chips, The Golden West Shorts 2: Seize the Day (In-Person and Virtual):Trouble, JFK – The Three Miles, Barry vs the Binman, Calf, Waiting Day, Headspace, Dear Imelda Family Shorts: The Innkeeper, Scrumpy, Fishing Poles, Alva + The Gizmazing Maze, Picture Day, A Bedouin Dream Shorts 3: First Steps: Fintan O’Toole and the Evolution of James Joyce as an Artist, Porter, Whispers, Man of Arran, You Don’t Have to Be Good, A Different View, A Little Chilli, Baby Steps Shorts 4: Finding Your Voice: The Life of Lester Wink, Scartin’ Midges, Forest/ry, Lamb, When Horses Run, Un-read, Unhinged, Burn it All // AMC Theatres: Newcity, The Society of Arts: Gallery Theatre, Theatre on the Lake, and online // Chicago, USA
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
25-28 January // Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend Würzburg] – 50th anniversary // The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry, If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story // Central Kino, Würzburg, Germany
26 January // Ciné Gael Montréal // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
31 January – 2 February // Irish Film Festival: St. Brigid’s Day // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], Lies We Tell // Renaissance Cinema, Rabat, Morocco // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Rabat
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 // Mount Berry, GA 12 November // Gordon State College // Barnsville, GA 12 November // Nova Southeastern University [Irish Film Festival running 6-12 Nov] // Sherman Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL 13-17 November // University of Hawai’i: Honolulu Community College // Honolulu, HI 13 November // Gaston College // Dallas, NC 14 November // Harper College // Palatine, IL 14 November // Lyric Theatre at Virginia Tech University // Blacksburg, VA 14 November // Santa Fe College // Gainesville, FL 15 November // University of Wisconsin-La Crosse // La Crosse, WI 15 November // Snow College // Ephraim, UT 15 November // Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley // Utica, NY 15 November // University of Hawai’i: Hawai’i Community College // Hilo, HI 15 November // University of Hawai’i: Leeward Community College // Pearl City, HI 16 November // University of Hawai’i: Windward Community College // Kāne‘ohe, HI 16 November // Central Piedmont Community College // Charlotte, NC 16 November // Lone Star College // Houston, TX 16 November // Morehouse College // Atlanta, GA 17 November // Davidson-Davie Community College // Thomasville, NC 19 November // Kansas City Irish Center // Kansas City, MO 28 November // University of Montana Irish Studies Program and Friends of Irish Studies in the West // Missoula, MT 29 November // Rowan College of South Jersey // Vineland, NJ
6-12 November // Irish Film Festival at Nova Southeastern University // Young Plato, Lakelands, An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] + An Irish Goodbye // Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
14 November // Cross Cherbourg-Ireland season and Mois du film documentaire // North Circular // Bibliothèque Jacques Prévert (salle Paul Eluard), Cherbourg, France
15-19 November 2023 // Irish Film Festival London [12th edition] // One Night in Millstreet, Face Down, Lie Of The Land, Tarrac, 406 Days, Verdigris, Croíthe Radacacha, Lies We Tell, Ó Bhéal, A Greyhound Of A Girl, Reefer and the Model, Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania. Screen Ireland Shorts: Cod & Chips, Uroboros, Bog, Callus, Worry World, Nana Dee, Pediment, The Last Set, Waiting Day // Vue West End, Vue Piccadilly, London Irish Centre Camden, London, UK
17-25 November // Gijón International Film Festival // Desperate Optimists retrospective: Helen [restoration], Baltimore, The Future Tense, Further Beyond, Rose Plays Julie, Mister John, Who Killed Brown Owl, Moore Street, Joy // Gijón, Spain
25 November // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // Avant-premiere of A Greyhound of a Girl // Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg
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 Festival Australia // Aisha, Ballywalter, Joyride, Lakelands, LOLA, My Sailor, My Love, Róise & Frank, Sunlight, Barber, God’s Creatures, It is in us all, Lyra, My Father’s Dragon, North Circular, Pray for Our Sinners, Ann, Stolen, Unhinged, Shame//Less // Dendy Cinema, Newtown, Sydney [5-8 Oct]; Dendy Cinema, Corparoo, Brisbane [13-15 Oct]; Dendy Cinema, Canberra [20-22 Oct]; Luna Cinema, Leederville, Perth [27-29 Oct]; Cinema Nova, Carlton, Melbourne [2-5 Nov]; online across Australia [5-15 Oct].
6-8 October 2023 // Irish Festival Fribourg // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], Young Plato, Breaking Out, Redemption of a Rogue, A Date for Mad Mary // Rex Cinemotion, Fribourg, Switzerland
19 October – 1 November // Mostra Internacional de Cinema – São Paulo International Film Festival // Garage, Adam & Paul with filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson in attendance // Espaço Itaú de Cinema Frei Caneca, Espaço Itaú de Cinema Augusta, São Paulo, Brazil
17 October // Observatoire de la Diversité Culturelle // North Circular // Les Lias, France
25 October // Filmoteca Española // This Other Eden // Cine Doré, Madrid, Spain
26 October // Short Screens Film Club // Six Shooter // Cinéma Aventure // Brussels, Belgium
26-30 October // Irish Film Festival Ottawa Docfest // North Circular, Mincéir, Ballymanus, The Ghost of Richard Harris, Ghosts of Baggotonia, 100 Years of Ulysses// Ottawa, Canada // Hosted on the IFI International online platform, available across Canada.
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 October // Irish American Heritage Museum // Albany, NY 11 October // Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley // Utica, NY 12 October // United Irish Cultural Center // San Francisco, CA 20 October // Irish American Heritage Center // Chicago, IL
31 October – 1 November // Irish Film Festival Bangkok // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], You Are Not My Mother // Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Thailand // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Bangkok
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 Declare // Cinémathèque [features], Ciné Utopia [shorts], Luxembourg
8 September – 8 October // New Jersey Film Festival [Hybrid] // Hole in the Head // Rutgers Film Co-op, New Jersey Media Arts Center + online // New Jersey, USA
29 September – 1 October // SF Irish Film Festival // The Miracle Club, The Ghost of Richard Harris, Lakelands, Nothing Compares and shorts programme: Songbird, Dúirt Tú [You Said], Stan by me, Malcolm, Pork, The Street Where You Live, Legends of the Mountain, Bad Vibes, Lady Betty, An Irish Goodbye // Delancey Street Theater, San Francisco, USA
27 September – 1 October // Pop Montréal // North Circular // Cinéma Moderne, Montréal, Canada
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 Film Festival Maputo // Wolfwalkers // Beira, Mozambique // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Maputo
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
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, Róise & Frank // Jakarta, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
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 Fundadores Manizales; Cinemanía Bogotá; Cinemateca de Bogotá, Colombia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bogotá
5 May // Cine Gael Montreal // Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
10-24 May // European Film Festival Zambia // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] // Ster Kinekor Mandahill, Lusaka, Zambia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Lusaka
11-21 May // Seattle International Film Festival // Hole in the Head + Q&A with director Dean Kavanagh and producer Anja Mahler // SIFF Uptown Cinema + SIFF Film Centre, Seattle, USA
16 May // Munich Filmmuseum [Filmmuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum] // This Other Eden // Munich, Germany
16-31 May // EU Film Festival Singapore – 32nd edition // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] // The Projector, Singapore // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore
17-20 May // DOC-Cévennes: Festival international du documentaire de Lasalle // North Circular // La Filature, Lasalle, France
25-27 May // BFI Southbank // This Other Eden // London, UK
25-28 May // Irish Film Festa Rome // My Sailor, My Love; Memory of My Father; How to Tell a Secret, Aisha, Big Griff, Ballywater, The Ghost of Richard Harris + introduction by Barry Monaghan, UCC, The Sparrow, The Talk, A Runner, Sunlight + Q&A with actor Barry Ward, An Cailín Ciúin + Q&A with director Colm Bairéad and producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoí, Let the Wrong One In. Short Films Competition (Animation, 50′): Memory of My Father, Candlelight, Small Hours, An Béal Bocht: A Tribute to Tom Collins, Out of Competition. Short Films Competition (Live Action, 120′): The Talk, The Happy Herd, The Life of Lester Wink, Hyfin, The Radio, A Runner, Anam Chara, Big Griff, Universal. Irish Classic: A Tribute to James Flynn: Veronica Guerin Anam Chara, Tarrac + Q&A with director Declan Recks, screenwriter Eugene O’Brien, actors Lorcan Cranitch and Cillian Ó Gairbhí // Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy
27-29 May // Étonnants Voyageurs [Festival Internationale du Livre et du Film] // North Circular // Auditorium, Saint-Malo, France
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 // Irish Film Festival Ottawa // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], Róise & Frank, The Sparrow, Wolfwalkers, Tarrac, An Irish Goodbye // Arts Court Theatre, Ottawa, Canada
28 April // Cine Gael Montreal // An Evening of Irish Short Films: Nothing to Declare, The Forty Foot, Wednesday’s Child, Regular Rabbit, Sucking Diesel, For the Birds, Bardo, An Irish Goodbye // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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 Ní Chianáin and producer David Rane, LOLA, Vicky, The Cry of Granuaile + Q&A with director Dónal Foreman, Aisha, North Circular, Róise & Frank, How to Tell a Secret + Q&A with co-director Anna Rodgers, Pray for Our Sinners, The Sparrow + Q&A with director Michael Kinirons and producer Alicia Ní Ghráinne, Lakelands Shorts Program 1: First Date, Ships of Souls, As if There Were Trees, Uprooted, Lady Betty Shorts Program 2: La Tumba, Foxglove, Viva, You’re Not Home, Wine Lake // AFI Silver, Silver Spring, Washington, USA
2-12 March [In-Person: 2-5 March, Virtual: 6-12 March] // Chicago Irish Film Festival // The Sparrow + Q&A with director Michael Kinirons and producer Alicia Ní Ghráinne, Clodagh, How to Tell a Secret, Aisha, LOLA, The Ghost of Richard Harris, My Sailor, My Love Shorts 1: Sign of the Times:Lady Betty, First Date, Mudslingers, Mask, #Nana Rocks, Wallpaper, The Secret Life of Jim, Erased, Where do all the Old Gays Go? Shorts 2: Turn, turn, turn! (In-Person and Virtual):Glitterbug, The Talk, Torn, Noah, Agape, The Unchaotic Cabinet that wishes for me to Sleep, Wednesday Child Shorts 3: Hey, What’s Going On?: Steppin Up!, Tina Times Two, Hermit, VHS, Haven, The Mother of All Assumptions Shorts 4: That’s What Friends Are For:Homebird, Shall We Sit?, Un/Cut, Bruise, Still Up There, Ready?, Snooze, Lambing, Flags and Emblems Shorts 5: Can I Help You?: Masterpieces, La Tumba, The Vlog, The Radio, Regular Rabbit, Ghosting, Every Five Miles, The Artists [Na hEalaiontóirí], Wireless Short Documentaries 1: Journeys Near and Far (In-Person and Virtual): H.P Lovecraft and the Moon Bog, The Michael Groden Papers, Tears of an Exile. Crossroads, We’re Not Making Gone With The Wind Short Documentaries 2: Doers and Dreamers (In-Person and Virtual)Focail Nua (New Words), A Stone Place, Vonnie : Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon, Memories of Richard Harris, and Shackleton’s Cabin // Logan Theatre, Gallery Theatre, Theatre on the Lake, and online // Chicago, USA
5 March // SF Irish Film Festival: Documentary Day // North Circular, Violet Gibson: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, The Man With the Moving House, Superstars // Delancey Theater, San Francisco, USA
6-27 March // Irish Film Festival Dar es Salaam Tanzania // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance, An Irish Goodbye, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up // Alliance Française, Dar es Salaam & Alliance Française, Arusha // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Dar es Salaam
7 March // Irish Film Days St Patrick’s screening // Arracht // Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Valletta
9-21 March // European Union Film Festival // Aisha // Broadway Cinematheque and Palace IFC, Hong Kong, China // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Hong Kong
10 March // Cine Gael Montreal // The New Music // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
10 March // Francophonie Month 2023 // The Camino Voyage // Kino Suns Theatre, Riga, Latvia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Riga
10-19 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], A Dog Called Money and Q&A with director Seamus Murphy, Nothing Compares and Q&A with IFTA-nominated editor Mick Mahon, Digging for Fire and Q&A with Darragh Dukes, Eoin O’Kelly, Kevin Brew, Setanta: A State of Independence, Young Plato and Q&A with director Declan McGrath, Horrible Creature and Q&A with director Áine Stapleton, 100 Years of Ulysses, Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance and Q&A with director Ruán Magan, Atlantic and Q&A with cameraman Ed Godsell, The Pipe with Bojan Simišić from Eko Straža joining the director Risteard O’Domhnaill for a conversation on past and present ecological issues in both Ireland and Serbia. // Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia
14-28 March // Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe // Lakelands // Les 7 Parnassiens, Paris, France
17-26 March // Écrans Britanniques // Sunlight // Cinéma Le Sémaphore à Nîmes, France
18 March // St Patrick’s Day film event // Wolfwalkers // El Corte Inglés Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal // Presented in association with Embassy of Ireland, Lisbon
18 March // From the Bowls of Memory: Two Films from Ireland, a Land of Fiction & Absences // Coilín and Platonida [silent with English & German intertitles] and with Q&A director James Scott, Budawanny [in English & silent with English intertitles] and pre-recorded intro/outro // Spectacle Theater, New York, USA
19-24 March // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], Róise & Frank, Lakelands, Tarrac, LOLA // Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg
20 March // Irish American Heritage Museum Albany // Róise & Frank // Albany NY, USA
21-25 March // Scéal Eile Film Festival // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], Breaking Out and Q&A with director Michael McCormack, Sunlight, Lyra, Wildfire, Aisha, Nothing Compares, Blarney, Cyprus Avenue, Traveller, Secrets from Putumayo and programme of shorts // Cinéma Galeries Brussels; Cinéma Aventure Brussels, Studio Skoop Ghent, Kask Cinema Ghent, De Cinema Antwerp, Belgium
31 March // Cine Gael Montreal // Making the Grade // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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
8 February // Emerald Film at Kodolányi János University // The Dead – moderated by Prof Ferenc Takács, President of the Hungarian Joyce Society // Budapest, Hungary
10 February // Cine Gael Montreal // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality, When Women Won // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
20-25 February // The Alex Blake Charlie Sessions // Nothing Compares, Joyride // Pasir Panjang Power Station, Singapore // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore
24 February // Cine Gael Montreal // Wolfwalkers // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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 Stones Will Speak // ICA, London, UK
26-29 January // Internationale Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend] // Róise & Frank // Central Kino, Würzburg, Germany
27 January // Cine Gael Montreal // Róise & Frank // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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 Weeks // Young Plato // European Commission Representation Building, Helsinki, Finland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Helsinki
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, Jordan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Amman
15-20 November // Irish Film Festival Nova Southeastern University // Redemption of a Rogue, Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance, Arracht // Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
16 November // Galician Cinema & Food Festival // The Camino Voyage // Coral Gables Art Cinema, Miami, USA
17-21 November // Irish Film Festival London // Opening Gala: Aisha. Aftersun, Imbas Forosnai, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up, How to Tell a Secret, Ghost Light, The Cry of Granuaile, North Circular, Above the Law, Million Dollar Pigeon, Out of Place, Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart, Gilgamesh, An Irish Goodbye, In Bruges. Shorts a Haon: Saudade, Wednesday’s Child, You’re Not Home, Ready?, Mask, Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You, Un/Cut, Cleaner, Ruthless. Shorts a Dó: The Un-Chaotic Cabinet that Wishes for Me to Sleep, Yield, Baths, An Encounter, Dash, Bad Boy Buck, Mary, Martin & Ben, First Date. Shorts: A Trí – documentary programme: Frank – The Man with the Camera, Vonnie: Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon, Northern Chirish, His Car, Hatchets & Hope – The Killarney Mountain Meitheal, Halted, A Stone Place, Nothing to Declare. Audience Choice: An Cailín Ciúin Closing Gala: Róise & Frank // Vue Leicester Square, Riverside Studios, Bertha Dochouse, Vue Piccadilly, Garden Cinema, ICC, London, UK
17 November – 3 December // EU Film Festival Canada // Redemption of a Rogue // Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa; Toronto Royal Cinema, Toronto; The Cinemateque, Vancouver; and online on Eventive // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa
26-27 November // Irish Film Festival Bangkok // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // House Samyan, Bangkok, Thailand // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bangkok
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 October // IFF Kinenova // Garage // Skopje, Macedonia
20-30 October // European Film Festival Zimbabwe // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // The National Gallery Bulawayo [20-23 October], MMX Harare [27-30 October], Zimbabwe // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria
22-29 October // Seminci – Valladolid International Film Festival Guest country: Ireland // Retrospective of Irish film 2001-2021 Disco Pigs, In America, Song for a Raggy Boy, Adam & Paul, Breakfast on Pluto, Once, Helen, Eamon, The Fading Light, One Million Dubliners, Queen of Ireland, The Farthest, Mammal, Song of Granite, Rosie, Sea Fever, Redemption of a Rogue, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up // Teatro Calderón, Valladolid, Spain
26 October // Irish Film Days // Let the Wrong One In // Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Valletta
27 October – 8 November // EU Film Festival Tanzania presents ZIFF // Doineann [Storm] // University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Dar es Salaam
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 Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], The Cry of Granuaile, Who We Love, Redemption of a Rogue. Online only: Untold Secrets, Ulysses | FILM, Breaking Out, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up, Keep It a Secret, How to Tell a Secret // Chauvel Cinema, Sydney [25-28 Aug], Kino, Melbourne [1-4 Sep], Palace Barracks, Brisbane [8-11 Sep], Palace Raine Square, Perth [15-18 Sep], Palace Electric, Canberra [22-25 Sep], online [30 Sep-16 Oct], Australia
15 September – 15 October // Cine Europa 2022 – EU Film Festival Philippines // Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up // SM Seaside City, Cebu [16 Sep], Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila [23 Oct], Philippines // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Manila
16-24 September // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // Irish films screening: Continuing Traditions + in-person Q&A with Ustad Wajahat Khan & Alishaan Khan, and a reception with live Irish traditional music with the Luxembourg branch of Comhaltos Ceolteoiri Eireann; Doineann [Storm], Keep it a Secret, Unsinkable, Foscadh [Shelter] + Q&A with Siún Ní Raghallaigh (former CEO of Ardmore Studios in Bray, Co Wicklow, and MD of TG4 broadcaster), Taste of Home + introduction by Carine Rustom (UNHCR) and a Q&A with Bibi Wintersdorf of Kachen magazine, Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance + Q&A with director Ruán Magan, Nothing Compares, Joyride + a live Q&A with director Emer Reynolds // Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg, Ciné Utopia, Luxembourg
23 September – 07 October // #It’s Time To Act – A Nature Film Festival in Vietnam // Losing Alaska // Hanoi University, Hanoi [27 Sep], Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City [5 Oct], Vietnam // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Hanoi
29 September – 1 October // SF Irish Film Festival // Nothing Compares, Young Plato, Arena: James Joyce’s Ulysses, Joyride. Short Stories, Tall Tales – shorts program 1: Ruthless, Crows, Woodpeckers, A Better You, For the Birds, Snooze. Short Stories, Tall Tales – shorts program 2: Foxglove, First Date, Nothing to Declare // Delancey Street Theater, San Francisco, USA
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 Interceltique Lorient // The Camino Voyage // Auditorium du Cercle Saint-Louis, Lorient, France
5-14 August // EU-Asia Documentary Festival // Pure Grit // Broadway Cinematheque, Palace IFC, Hong Kong, China // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Hong Kong
18-21 August // Literacki Sopot – Sopot By the Book // Maeve, Adam & Paul, Foscadh [Shelter] // Goyki 3 art Inkubator, Sopot, Poland
19-28 August // Râșnov Film and Histories Festival (FFIR) // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Amza Pellea Cinema, Râșnov, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
22 August // Special screening to mark the centenary of the death of Michael Collins // Michael Collins and Q&A with the film’s director of photography Chris Menges // Prince Charles Cinema London, UK
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 association with Culture Ireland and Screen Ireland
20-24 July // Irish Film Festa Rome // Breaking Out + Q&A with director Michael McCormack and musician Maurice Seezer; Wolf + Q&A with director Natalie Biancheri; film preceded by short An Irish Goodbye with directors Tom Berkeley and Ross White attending; Young Plato + Q&A with director Neasa Ní Chianáin and producer David Rane; Nightride & film preceded by short Nothing to Declare with director Garret Daly attending; Redemption of a Rogue & Q&A with actor Aaron Monaghan & the film will be preceded by the short Memento Mori with director Paul O’Flanagan attending; Irish Classic: The Wind that Shakes the Barley; Boys from County Hell & the film will be preceded by short The Bridge with director Mark Smyth attending // Teatro all’aperto Ettore Scola + Sala Deluxe, Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy
23-30 July // Folk Holidays Náměšť nad Oslavou // Breaking Out // Old Weaving Mill Hall, Náměšť nad Oslavou, Czechia
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 Permanent Representation of Ireland to the Council of Europe
10-11 June // Annual Conference of Joyce Society Japan // Ulysses | FILM // Otsuma University, Tokyo, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo
9-26 June // Festival de Cine Europeo – Euro Film Festival Chile // Foscadh [Shelter] // Corporación Cultural de La Reina, Centro Nemesio Antunez, Santiago de Chile; Cine Club de la UACH, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago de Chile
13 June // Irish American Heritage Museum Albany presents Arracht // Albany NY, USA
15-19 June // Midnight Sun Film Festival // Garage screening from 35mm, with director Lenny Abrahamson in attendance // Sodankylä, Lapland, Finland
16-26 June // Europe on Screen Festival // Doineann [Storm] // Jakarta, Indonesia
25 June // FFE – European Film Festival // Foscadh [Shelter] // Timișoara, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
29 June // Irish Film Days // Deadly Cuts // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre, Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Malta
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 Centre // The 8th + Q&A with filmmakers // Camden, London, UK
5-11 May // FFE – European Film Festival // Foscadh [Shelter] // Cinema Eforie [10 May] // Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
6-8 May // Irish Film in Cinema Season // Kings // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London, UK
12-14 May // Celtic MKE Irish Film Festival // Citizen Lane // Milwaukee, USA
13-22 May // EU Film Festival // The 8th // FestivalScope, Brazil // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Brasília
17-20 May // EU and Japan Pilgrim Routes Symposium // The Camino Voyage // Cervantes Institute, Tokyo, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo
21-22 May // Irish Film Festa Rome // Wolfwalkers, Broken Law, Róise & Frank, Foscadh // Casa del Cinema // Rome, Italy // Short Films: Animation Programme: A Cat Called Jam, Günter Falls in Love, Mam’s Old Chair, Memento Mori, Soul Office, Wet & Soppy; Short Films: Documentaries: Ireland’s Last Matchmaker, Nothing to Declare, Rescue Dog, Speaking in Silence; Short Films: Drama: An Irish Goodbye, Bugaloo, Cherry, Constance, Harvest, Just Johnny, Rat, Rough, Ruthless, The Bridge; hosted on IFI International online
25 May // Irish Film Days // Redemption of a Rogue // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre // Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Valletta
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 Theatre: Deadly Cuts, Lost Children of the Carricks + Q&A with director Prof. Ó hAllmhuráin, Death of a Ladies’ Man + Q&A with director Matthew Bissonnette & producer Corey Marr, You Are Not My Mother + Q&A with actor Hazel Doupe, Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance. Online hosted by IFI International: Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up, Redemption of a Rogue, Endless Sunshine on a Cloudy Day, Doineann [Storm], The Great Book of Ireland, Death of a Ladies’ Man, Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Ottawa, Canada
19 April // Irish Film London presents Waking Ned // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London
24 April // Cinema Camino // The Camino Voyage // Hartlooper Cultural Institute // Utrecht, The Netherlands
26 April [postponed from 7-8 December 2021] // Inaugural German Irish Film Summit // Arracht // Moviemiento, Berlin, Germany // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin
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 the Wrong One In, Lost Lives, Doineann [Storm], Death of a Ladies’ Man, One Upon a Time in Ireland, Ryan McMullen: Debut, The Dance, Foscadh [Shelter], Where’s the Craic? Shorts Program 1: Energy, The Yellow Dress, In Orbit, Rat, Bog Portraits Shorts Program 2: Ruthless, Nightlink, A Haiku to My Mind Via Limerick, Reavey Brothers, Forerunner, Ramblin’ Man // AFI Silver // Silver Spring, Washington, USA
3-13 March [In-Person: March 3–6, Virtual: March 7–13] // Chicago Irish Film Festival // Doineann, Róise & Frank, Mam’s Old Chair, An Irish Goodbye, Blarney, The Quay Co-op US, Forerunner, Once Upon a Time in Ireland, Darkey Kelly, Memento Mori, The Killarney Echo, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up, Double Yellow, Gateway, Tempvs, Where the Merrows Roam, A Haiku to My Mind via Limerick, Keep it a Secret, Sit Down Shut Up, Redemption of a Rogue, In the Room, Nosy Neighbor, Hillwalkers, My Brain in Blue Light, You Are Here, Aliquippa, PA: It’s All About the People, The Maltese Connection, The Blue Shroud Shorts 1: Documentaries: In Between Lands, System, Forget Me Not, Memory of Mariga, Outside In, Visionaries, The Small Steps Shorts 2: Twists and Turns: Magic, The Cure, Algorithm, Scrap, Shadowed Reflections, Afterlife, Foxglove, Dollar Generals Shorts 3: Family Time: Rian, Ruthless, Cherry, Irish Meadows, Don’t Open Me [Não Me Abre], The Lost Pig, The Boat, The Wake Shorts 4: Speak Up: Shine, Debutante, Woodpeckers, Flanneur, Acheron, Tea, Trick Shot, Guard Up, Chicken Out Shorts A: Family First: Chicken Out, Mam’s Old Chair, The Wake, Shine, Double Yellow, An Irish Goodbye Shorts B: Let’s Talk About It!: I’ll Wait Here, Woodpeckers, Tea, Guard Up, You Are Here, In the Room, Magic, Nosy Neighbor Shorts C: Change of Plan: Debutante, The Cure, Afterlife, Shadow Reflections, Trick Shot, Dollar Generals Shorts D: Reflections: Acheron, Memento Mori, Flanneur, Darkey Kelly, The Killarney Echo [Macalla Chill Áirne), The Boat, Algorithm, Scrap Shorts E: Tiny Lessons, Mighty Voices: Cherry, Don’t Open Me [Não Me Abre], Irish Meadows, Rian, Ruthless, The Lost Pig Short Docs A: Stories to Remember: The Small Steps, Visionaries, My Brain in Blue Light, Memories of Mariga, Forget Me Not, Sit Down Shut Up Short Docs B: Living Life: Forerunner, A Haiku to My Mind via Limerick, System, In Between Lands, Outside In Dublin Animation Film Festival partnership: Program A [for children 8 and up]: The Ghost Dog, Marcopolis, Fly Away, the Adventures of Mr Pineapple, A Minor Tale. Program B [for children 11 and up]: Pursuit, Sunride, The Late Shift, Did You Hear About Her Dad, Alientated // Logan Theatre, Gallery Theatre, Theatre on the Lake, and online // Chicago, USA
5 March // SF Irish Film Festival: Documentary Day // Keep it a Secret, Breaking Out, Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Delancey Theater, San Francisco, USA
8-12 March // UN Women International Women’s Day Film Festival // Losing Alaska // Amman, Jordan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Amman, and UN Women, Jordan
12-20 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // Redemption of a Rogue and Q&A with cinematographer Burschi Wolnar, Blarney, An Encounter, ULYSSES | Film, Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, Foscadh [Shelter], Son and Q&A with producer Anne-Marie Naughton, Faith and Branko and Q&A with director Catherine Harte // Kinoteka // Belgrade, Serbia
CANCELLED 16-27 March // Irish Film Festival Russia // Karo 11 Oktyabr // Moscow, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Russia
17-20 March // The Irish Festival of Oulu // Breaking Out, Pure Grit, Love Yourself Today, Redemption of a Rogue, Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, Who We Love // Oulu, Finland // Presented in collaboration with IFI International online
19 March // Ár Lorg Saoirse: A Radical Irish Cinema // Anne Devlin, Maeve // Maysles Documentary Center, New York, USA
22 March // Irish Seniors Social Group Ottawa // Blarney // John Stewart Hall, Church of St Columba, Ottawa, Canada // Presented in association with Irish Film Festival Ottawa
23-24 March // Scéal Eile Film Festival // Arracht, Redemption of a Rogue, Pure Grit // Cinema Galeries, Brussels; Ghent, Belgium
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, UK
27-30 January // Internationale Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend] // Arracht // Central im Bürgerbräu // Würzburg, Germany
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 // Santiago de Chile, Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago de Chile
5-7 November // Irish Film Festival Ottawa // Áine Tyrell – Irish Troubadour, Untold Secrets; Brief Encounters: IFI & WFTI Short Film Showcase: Break Us, Match, Pat, Life Boat Home, The Grass Ceiling, Saving Grace, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Grace Alone, Procession // Ottawa, Canada // Presented in collaboration with IFI International online
5-7 November // Irish Film Festa Rome Silver Stream // Gaza, A Bump Along the Way // Rome, Italy // Presented in collaboration with IFI International online
6-14 November // Calgary European Film Festival: 10th edition // Canadian premiere: Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini // Hybrid edition, online + Globe Cinema Calgary, Canada // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa
11 November // SF Irish Film Festival // Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away // Delancey Street Theatre, San Francisco, USA
12-28 November // EU Film Festival Canada // Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away // Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver + online, Canada // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa
14 November // European Arthouse Cinema Day // Ooops: The Adventure Continues // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre // Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Valletta
12-14 November // Irish Film Festa Rome Silver Stream // Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Poster Boys // Rome, Italy // Presented in collaboration with IFI International online
15-23 November // European Film Weeks // The Silver Branch [20th Nov] // Eurooppasali – Europasalen, Helsinki, Finland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Helsinki
17-21 November // Irish Film Festival London: 10th anniversary // Opening gala: Arracht, Closing gala: Deadly Cuts The Story of Looking, The Dance + Silence [double-bill], New York Our Time, Into the West, While You Live Shine, Redemption of a Rogue Shorts a Haon: Memento Mori, Ascending Grace, Caravan, The Colour Between, Cease, The Cure, Suited, The Grass Ceiling Shorts a Dó: Cherry, Scrap, Foxglove, Magic, Her Song, Nails, Inherent, Seven Feet Nine & a Quarter Inches Online programme: New York Our Time, While You Live Shine, Untold Secrets, The Queen v Patrick O’Donnell, Northern Ireland: 100 Years of Happiness // Venues: Riverside Studios, Hammersmith Irish Centre, Bertha DocHouse, London, UK
17-26 November // Panorama of European Films – 14th Edition // Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, Here Before // Cairo, Egypt // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
29 November // International Human Rights Day // Queen of Ireland // Cine Doré, Madrid, Spain // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Madrid
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: IFI & WFTI Short Film Showcase: Break Us, Match, Pat, Life Boat Home, The Grass Ceiling, Saving Grace, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Grace Alone, Procession // The Mayfair Theatre, Chicago Irish American Heritage Center // Chicago, IL, USA // These screenings are part of the center’s offering of free events during Chicago Architectural Foundation’s Open House weekend.
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:
Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic // Online screenings are available to registered conference delegates on IFI International.
3-12 September // Irish Film Festival Australia online // A Bump Along the Way, Áine Tyrell – Irish Troubadour, Boys from County Hell, Broken Law, Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, Deadly Cuts, Death of a Ladies Man, Finding Jack Charlton, Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, The Bright Side, Wildfire, Wolfwalkers // Sydney, Melbourne, Australia
3-12 September // Queer Wave: Cyprus LGBTQI+ Film Festival // Dating Amber [4th Sep] // Nicosia, Cyprus // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Nicosia, Cyprus
15 September // Earthly Visions: A European Film Selection, presented by EUNIC // Song of Granite // SALT, Oslo, Norway // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Oslo
15-26 September [ONLINE on FestivalScope] // Europe on Screen Festival Jakarta // Redemption of a Rogue, Wildfire // Jakarta, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
17-24 September // LGBT Film Festival Poland // GAZE on Tour shorts: Frida Think, Becoming Cherrie, Muirgheilt, Boy Saint, In Orbit, Boardwalk, 134, Equal // Warsaw, Kinoteka [17-24 Sep], POZNAŃ, CKZ/Kino Pałacowe [27 Sep – 03 Oct] BYDGOSZCZ, MCK/Kino Orzeł [30Sep–03Oct], Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
17-25 September // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // In cinema: Herself, Mountrath Unlocked, Shadows, Who We Love, Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, Here Before, I Never Cry, My Salinger Year, End of Sentence, A Bend in the River, Ooops 2: The Adventure Continues. On IFI International online: To the Moon, The Queen v Patrick O’Donnell, Untold Secrets, Áine Tyrrell – Irish Troubadour, Mountrath Unlocked, Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, Men Who Sing, Lost Lives. Brief Encounters: IFI & WFTI Short Film Showcase: Break Us, Match, Pat, Life Boat Home, The Grass Ceiling, Saving Grace, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Grace Alone, Procession // Luxembourg
20-25 September // Chagford Film Festival // Michael Collins // Chagford, UK
24-26 September // SF Irish Film Festival [San Francisco] // In cinema: Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, Wolfwalkers, Redemption of a Rogue, Untold Secrets, Short Stories: Tall Tales [shorts programme] On IFI International online: Redemption of a Rogue, Rialto, Brief Encounters: IFI & WFTI Short Film Showcase: Break Us, Match, Pat, Life Boat Home, The Grass Ceiling, Saving Grace, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Grace Alone, Procession // San Francisco, USA
24 September – 3 October // Lusaka International Film Festival // Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs [29Sep] // Manda Hill’s Ster KineKor // Lusaka, Zambia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Lusaka
27 September // Arracht // Cinema Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abu Dhabi
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 Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
15 August // Copenhagen World Pride // Queen of Ireland with Rory O’Neill in attendance // Grand Teatret // Copenhagen, Denmark // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Copenhagen
20-29 August // Rasnov Film and Histories Festival (FFIR) // The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine // Rasnov Citadel, Rasnov, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
21-29 August // Pride Košice // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Košice, Slovakia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bratislava
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 // Programming Irish Film Worldwide panel // Galway Film Fleadh // Presented by IFI International and Culture Ireland:
31 July – 01 August // Irish Film Festa Rome presents outdoor screenings at the Casa del Cinema // Extra Ordinary, Bruno // Rome, Italy
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 Fest // GAZE on Tour 2020 shorts: Outside the Box, Kelly, A White Horse, The Calamus Emotion, Coming Home, From His Perspective, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Cailín Álainn // New York Irish Center, USA
16-23 June // Days of European Film // Redemption of a Rogue // 17th – Kino Pilotů Prague, 18th – Světozor Prague, 20th – Scala Brno, Czech Republic // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Prague
23-29 June // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Online screening presented by Irish Screen America and the Consulate General of Ireland, Los Angeles, in celebration of LA Pride // The film will be preceded with an introduction by Orla Keane, Consul General of Ireland in LA. Following the screening a Q&A with directors Linda Cullen & Vanessa Gildea who will be joined by human rights advocate and former Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone.
24 June – 3 July [postponed from 6-16 May] // Festival Eurocine // Redemption of a Rogue // Cinemateca de Bogotá, Centro Cultural Gimnasio Monderno, Bogotá; Procinal Mayorca, Medellín, Colombia // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Bogotá
29 June // Pride Celebration // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Cabaret Restaurante Show, Bogotá, Colombia // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Bogotá
30 June // Francophone Film Festival – marking the Organisation internationale de la francophonie // The Camino Voyage // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre, Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Malta
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 con Centro Arte Alameda // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Santiago de Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago del Chile.
26-30 May // The Irish Festival of Oulu presents // Arracht, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, Wildfire, Rosie // Oulu, Finland // Online event is presented on IFI International.
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 Festival Ottawa // A Bump Along the Way, + The Ferry, [short], Arracht, + Bainne [short], Wildfire, Rosie, + Saoirse [short], Broken Law, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, The Winter Lake, The Last Right // Ottawa, Canada // Online event is presented on IFI International.
29 April // Launch of the IFI Collection, a compendium of new and recent Irish films representing the best of Irish independent filmmaking talent. Available for worldwide online rental on IFI International.
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 Who Shot Mussolini, What is Going to Happen Next. Shorts Program 1 – Somewhere, Sometime: Ballast, How to Rob a Witch, I Like Chicken but I Don’t Like That, Sister This, Brute, Mourning Murder, 60 Days of Hell, The Final Performance, Bitch, Operator Shorts Program 2 – Desperate Measures: Stay Safe, Stay Home, Stay Sane?, The Blocks, Cost You Nothing, How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic, Ciúnas [Silence], The Lucky Man, Lockdown Upside Down, Ascending Grade, Lucky, Crooked Shorts Program 3 – All in a Day: The Long Summer – Still to Come?, We Don’t Choose How, The West Kerry Cowboy, Christy, Back Home, Paddy’s Day ’90, The Mountain Keg, The Ferry Shorts Program 4 – Life Lessons: Fisherman, Kickabout, A Cat Called Jam, Shielding Nico, Cat, Mini Hugh, 4X4, The First Step, Paddy, Getting In Shorts Program 5 – Suprises: At Heart and Soul, A Better You, Expiry Date, Grow Old With Me, Sign of the Times, Tyre Kickers, Wet & Soppy, The Widow, An Irish Underdog Story, The Yellow Dress Amazing Animation – shorts curated by Dublin Animation Festival: After You, Bright Side, The Beekeeper, Don’t Forget the Bread, Far Isle, Meowngrel, Rawr, Ruslan, Shoot, Streets of Fury, The Voyage, To the Stars, Unhinged Green Way Film Agency shorts: Rough, Spread the Wings, Kathleen was Here, Flicker, Hunger // Chicago, USA
4-14 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Arracht, Tomorrow is Saturday, Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away, The Racer, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, Boys from County Hell, Wolfwalkers, Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells, True North: The First Generation, The 8th, Martin McGuinness: I Fought, I Made Peace, I Made Politics, Wildfire, Playback, Here are the Young Men. Shorts Program 1: Time Traveller, Ascending Grace, Wet & Soppy, A Better You, Reunion, We Don’t Choose How Shorts Program 2: Spread the Wings, Flicker, How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic, The Dead Hands of Dublin, Cúl an Tí // Online and presented in association with AFI Silver, Silver Spring, Washington, USA
12-21 March; extended to 28 March following government guidelines // Belgrade Irish Festival / Beogradski irski festival // Beckett on Film [Cultural Centre Parobrod], Wonder Walls, Sea Fever, Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens, This Ain’t No Disco, Shooting the Darkness, The Great Book of Ireland [in cinema + online], Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine [online], 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film, Arracht [online] // Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia // Online events are presented on IFI International with Serbian subtitles.
15-20 March // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // The Winter Lake, Wildfire // Online event is presented on IFI International.
17-21 March // Irish Film Festa Rome presents Silverstream // Arracht, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, Wildfire // Rome, Italy // Online event is presented on IFI International with Italian subtitles.
17-21 March // Irish Film Festival Boston // Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody, Arracht, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, A Bump Along the Way, The Man Who Wanted to Fly, The Last Right, Katie, Metal Heart, When Women Won. Shorts programme 1: Father Father, Featherweight, 134, HALO, Silence, Honest, Streets of Fury Shorts programme 2: The Bird and the Whale, Ruby, Paddy, A White Horse, Mother, One Night at a Time, The Ferry Shorts programme 3: New Irish Short Documentaries: The Last Organist, Sunny Side Up, The Workhouse Prodigy, The Night is Black and the Day is White, Maid in America, Coming Home: Ag Teacht Abhaile, The Vasectomy Doctor, Saoirse, Strong at the Broken Places Brief Encounters: IFI & WFTI Short Film Showcase: Break Us, Match, Pat, ‘Life, Boat, Home’, The Grass Ceiling, Saving Grace, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Grace Alone, Procession // Boston, USA // Online event is presented on IFI International.
17 March – 14 April // Regards d’Ailleurs Festival édition Jeune Public // Sing Street, Handsome Devil, Into the West, Song of the Sea // Dreux, France
25-28 March // San Francisco Irish Film Festival: documentary edition // When Women Won, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Let Your Colours Run Free, The Great Book of Ireland // San Francisco, USA // Online event is presented on IFI International.
17-28 March // Irish Film Festival Russia // Wolfwalkers, Broken Law, Poster Boys, Tomorrow is Saturday, The Winter Lake, Wild Mountain Thyme, Rose Plays Julie, Calm with Horses, Wildfire. Comedy shorts: The Lucky Man, Ascending Grace, How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic, Algorithm, Ballast, Dead Run, Operator // KARO 11 Oktyabr, Moscow + KARO Varshavsky Express, St. Petersburg, Russia
27 March + 01 April // Hong Kong Gay & Lesbian Film Festival // Closing film: Dating Amber // Hong Kong, China // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Hong Kong
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
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] // Irish Film Festival Australia // Extra Ordinary, Arracht, The Ballymurphy Precedent, Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens, Dark Lies the Island, The Last Right, Endless Sunshine on a Cloudy Day, When Women Won, Calm with Horses, Rialto, Poster Boys, Sé Mo Laoch: Steve Cooney // Australia
20 November – 03 December // EU Film Festival Vietnam // Brooklyn // Ho Chi Minh City [23Nov], Hanoi [26Nov], Hue [28Nov], Can Tho [02Dec] // Vietnam // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Hanoi
21 November – 05 December // Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival // Closing gala: Dating Amber // Hong Kong, China // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Hong Kong
27-29 November: [Rescheduled from 25-29 March] // Irish Film Festa in Short An special online shorts edition // LIVE ACTION SHORTS: THE APPOINTMENT (Northern Ireland, 2019) – David Moody; BREAK US (Ireland, 2019) – Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair; CIUNAS / SILENCE (Ireland, 2019) – Tristan Heanue; CYNTHIA (Ireland, 2019) – Jack Hickey; FATHER FATHER (Northern Ireland, 2019) – Michael McDowell; THE GRASS CEILING (Ireland, 2029) doc. – Iseult Howlett; HALO (Ireland, 2019) – Michael-David McKernan; MAYA (Ireland, 2019) – Sophia Tamburrini; PARTING GIFT (Northern Ireland, 2018) – Paul Kennedy; LE PETITE MORT (Ireland, 2019) – Michael Smiley; RUBY (Northern Ireland, 2019) – Michael Creagh; THE VASECTOMY DOCTOR (Ireland, 2019) doc. – Paul Webster; WAS THAT A YES? (Ireland, 2019) – Ray Mac Donnacha // ANIMATION SHORTS: ABE’S STORY (Ireland, 2019) – Adam H Stewart; ARCHIE’S BAT (Ireland, 2029) – Shannon Egan; STREETS OF FURY (Ireland, 2019) – Aidan McAteer; THEM (Ireland, Germany, 2019) – Robin Lochmann; THE WIREMEN (Ireland, 2018) – Jessica Patterson; // OUT OF COMPETITION: A CONCRETE SONG (Ireland, 2019) – Dave Tynan // Italy
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] // Zagreb, Croatia
15-18 October // Animated Spirits Tokyo [online edition] // The Bird & the Whale // Tokyo, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo
6 October – 8 November // LGBT Film Festival Poland online // GAZE on Tour 2018 shorts: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw.
9-10 October // Irish Film Festival Boston presents Drive-in Irish Movies // A Bump Along the Way, The Last Right, Shorts: The Bird and the Whale, Ruby // Irish Cultural Center, Canton, MA, USA
18 October – 08 November // CineLibri // Here are the Young Men [3 screenings] // Sofia, Bulgaria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Sofia
30-31 October // Samhain Celebration // The Hole in the Ground // Artis Cinema, Tallinn, Estonia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tallinn
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 presents Cinema Gaelach // The Camino Voyage // Adelaide Irish Club, Adelaide, Australia
18-25 September // LGBT Film Festival Poland // GAZE on Tour 2018 shorts: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Warsaw and other cities around Poland, and online // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
18-27 September // British and Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // A Bump Along the Way + virtual Q&A with actor Bronagh Gallagher and producer Louise Gallagher, The Tribe of Gods + virtual Q&A with director/co-writer Loïc Jourdain, The Last Right + virtual Q&A with director Aoife Crehan, The Castle + virtual Q&A with director/writer Lina Luzyte, Arracht + virtual Q&A with actor Seán T. Ó Meallagh, Bruno + virtual Q&A with actor Diarmaid Murtagh, Breaking Ice + virtual Q&A with director/writer Jason Branagan // Ciné-Utopia, Cinémathèque // Luxembourg
24-27 September [rescheduled from March] // Māoriland Film Festival // The Camino Voyage [26th Sep] // Otaki, New Zealand
25 September // Irish Film Festival Russia presents // Dark Lies the Island // Moskino Muzeon outdoor cinema, Moscow central park, Russia // Screening presented in collaboration with Moskino cinemas
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 // Sumedate Suveööde Filmifestival 2020 // Brooklyn [28Aug] // City Hall, Rakvere, Estonia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tallinn
11 July // Programming Irish Film Worldwide panel // Galway Film Fleadh // Presented by IFI International and Culture Ireland:
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
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, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Kaņepes Kultūras centrs // Riga, Latvia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Riga 7 March // San Francisco Irish Film Festival: Documentary Day // Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens, Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody, Shooting the Darkness, Bending Glass // San Francisco, USA 10 March // St. Patrick’s screening // Song of the Sea // Tirana, Albania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Athens + Alliance Française ALL SCREENINGS AFTER 14th MARCH CANCELLED: some screenings to be rescheduled to later dates TBC: 11 March – 8 April // Regards d’Ailleurs Film Festival // This edition is dedicated entirely to Ireland as the country of focus for 2020 // Vivarium with director Lorcan Finnegan in attendance, Without Name, ’71, In the Name of the Father, Into the West, You’re Ugly Too, Laws and Men, Sing Street, Frank, Queen of Ireland, Good Vibrations, This Other Eden, Hunger, Le libraire de Belfast, Song of the Sea, Waking Ned, Rosie, My Left Foot, The Boxer, The Guard, Bloody Sunday, Irlande(s): L’aube d’un pays, The Quiet Man, Innisfree, Once, Man of Aran, Extra Ordinary, Let Us Prey, Calvary, Jimmy’s Hall, Hidden Agenda, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Drummer and the Keeper, The Miami Showband Massacre, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Aran: Souvenirs d’un monde flottant, Philomena, Five Minutes of Heaven, The Pipe, Breakfast on Pluto, Irish Destiny, A Kind of Magic, Garage, The Commitments, Michael Collins // Dreux, France ALL MOSCOW SCREENINGS AFTER 17th MARCH POSTPONED [new dates TBC] 11-22 March // Irish Film Festival Russia // Extra Ordinary, with actor Barry Ward in attendance, Never Grow Old, The Last Right, Dark Lies the Island, Animals. Classic film: Grabbers // Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Russia 12-14 March // Craic Fest // The Prize Fighter, Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody, Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story, Eden, Street Leagues // Cinépolis Chelsea // New York, USA CANCELLED: 13 March // American Pilgrims on the Camino Gathering – 23rd edition // The Camino Voyage // Olympia, WA, USA CANCELLED: 13 March // St. Patrick’s Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge screening // The Camino Voyage // Kanepes Cultural Centre // Riga, Latvia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Riga CANCELLED: 13 March // The Celtic Section, Department of English at University of Uppsala presents a screening of The Camino Voyage. Artist Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, featured in the film, will perform traditional Irish accordion music + Q&A // Slotsbiografen // Uppsala, Sweden // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Stockholm CANCELLED [Postponed to March 2021]: 13-22 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // In the Name of the Father + Q&A with Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot, The Field, In America, The Boxer. Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens, Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect, Shooting the Darkness, Wonder Walls, Beckett on Film, The Man Who Shot Beckett + Q&A with photographer John Minihan, 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film, This Ain’t No Disco + Q&A with Donal Dineen, Sea Fever // Kinoteka // Belgrade, Serbia POSTPONED: 15 March // St. Patrick’s screening of The Camino Voyage at the Embassy of Ireland, Stockholm, Sweden POSTPONED: 15-22 March // ZagrebDox: International Documentary Film Festival // The Camino Voyage // Zagreb, Croatia POSTPONED: 19-21 March // Irish Film Festival UAE // Arracht, Metal Heart, The Breadwinner, Float Like a Butterfly, The Drummer and the Keeper // Vox Cinemas // Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Abu Dhabi POSTPONED to 19-22 November: 19-22 March // Irish Film Festival Boston // A Bump Along the Way + Q&A with actor Bronagh Gallagher and writer Tess McGowan; The Bird and the Whale +Q&A with director Carol Freeman and composer Chris McLoughlin, The Last Right + Q&A with director Aoife Crehan, Metal Heart, Extra Ordinary, When Women Won, In League with Gaddafi, Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story, Katie + Q&A with director Ross Whitaker and producer Aideen O’Sullivan, The Job of Songs, Cumar: a Galway Rhapsody, The Man Who Wanted To Fly. Shorts Program 1: 134, A White Horse, HALO, Father Father, Featherweight, Honest, Mother, Ciúnas [Silence], Streets of Fury. Shorts Program 2: The Sunny Side Up, The Night is Black and the Day is White, The Workhouse Prodigy, Strong at the Broken Places, Maid in America, The Last Organist, Coming Home [Ag Teacht Abhaile], The Vasectomy Doctor // The Somerville Theatre // Boston, USA POSTPONED to 24-27 September: 18-22 March // Māoriland Film Festival // The Camino Voyage // Otaki, New Zealand POSTPONED to 28 November: 21 March // St Patrick’s screening of The Camino Voyage // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre // Valletta, Malta // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland in association with the Francophone Film Festival marking the organisation internationale de la francophonie POSTPONED to September: 22 March // St Patrick’s screening // A Bump Along the Way // Luxembourg, Luxembourg POSTPONED to Q4: 25-29 March // Irish Film Festa // Rome, Italy POSTPONED: 26 March – 2 April // Festival de Cine Europeo // Extra Ordinary // Fine Arts Miramar // San Juan, Puerto Rico // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Atlanta and the Embassy of Ireland in Washington POSTPONED: 27 March // A Day of Fieldwork: Reconsidering Alan Lomax’s Global and Local Legacies // Lomax in Éireann followed by a panel discussion on the film and Lomax’s legacy on approaches to both fieldwork and performance with Glenn Hinson, Joseph Decosimo, Natasha Sumner, and Tiber Falzett; moderated by Martin L. Johnson. // University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Atlanta CANCELLED: 28 March // Cine Gael Montreal Spring Season // An evening of Irish short films // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada POSTPONED: 31 March // IFI Ciné-concert at the Metrograph // The Cohens and Kellys // New York, USA
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 Cultural Centre Hammersmith // Eat the Peach // London, UK 13 February – 01 March // EU Film Festival Hong Kong // The Camino Voyage // AMC Pacific Place and Broadway Cinematheque // Hong Kong, China // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Hong Kong 16-21 February // Rétrospective Pat Collins presented by the University of Saskatchewan // What Remains, Oileain Thoraí, Pilgrim, Tim Robinson: Connemara, Fathom // Cinémathèque Québécoise // Montreal, Canada 21 February // Cinegael Montreal // Sooner or Later // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada 27 February – 1 March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // A Bump Along the Way, Breaking Ice, Bruno, Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody, Gaza, Guns and Rosaries, Kilimanjaro Mama, Sea Fever. Shorts programmes: 9 Months, Pure Gold, Kathleen, Halo, Match, Rip to the Rescue, Spooky Talent Agency, Wine Lake. The Vasectomy Doctor, Cut Throat, Mosney, Mother, Stray, Starry Night, The Space Between Us, Fragile, By Your Side, The Anderson Corporation. Hearts & Crafts, My Mother’s Shoes, Weekend Warriors, A Quack Too Far, Under Growth, Legend Has It, 72 Miles, The Beekeeper, Seanie & Flo, Mary. Tá M’Athair Anseo, The Promise, Ghosts from Now, Run, The Night is Black and the Day is White, Abe’s Story, Square One, Up and Away, Love Her Bones. // The Gallery Theatre, The Logan Theatre, Theater on the Lake // Chicago, USA 27 February – 1 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // A Bump Along the Way, The Dig, Extra Ordinary, Sea Fever, Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens, A Girl from Mogadishu, Dark Lies the Island, Gaza, Katie, Shooting the Darkness, Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody. Shorts programme: First Disco, Boardwalk, Stray, Lúbtha [Queer], Face it Again, The Anderson Corporation Will Change Your Life // AFI Silver // Silver Spring, Washington MD, USA 28 February – 1 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival – 10th anniversary // Dark Lies the Island, Sea Fever, A Bump Along the Way, Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens // TIFF Bell Lightbox // Toronto, Canada
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 Festival [Jeden Svet] // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Liptovský Mikuláš Slovakia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bratislava 24 January // Cinegael Montreal – Spring season launch // The Lost Children of the Carricks // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada 28 January – 3 February // Mumbai International Film Festival // Irish Focus: Between Land and Sea, Atlantic, The Farthest, Gaza, The Breadwinner, A Doctor’s Sword. EU Focus: special Irish entry: The Camino Voyage // Mumbai, India // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Mumbai 29 January // Imbolc International Arts Festival // The Camino Voyage // Derry, UK 29-31 January // Scéal Eile Irish Film Festival // A Bump Along the Way, Gaza, Extra Ordinary // Brussels, Leuven, Ghent, Belgium 30 January // Pride Academy and St Brigid’s Day // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality + Q&A with Gráinne Healy // Premier KultCafé // Budapest, Hungary // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Budapest 30 January // Cinema Space and the Embassy of Ireland Abu Dhabi presents Once // Manarat Al Saadiyat /Cinema Space // Abu Dhabi, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abu Dhabi 30 January-02 February // Internationale Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend] // Float Like a Butterfly // Central im Bürgerbräu // Würzburg, Germany
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 // Cambridge, MA, USA
7-12 December // EU Film Festival China // A Dog Called Money, Never Grow Old, Jimmy’s Hall, The Stag, The Hole in the Ground, Dare to be Wild, Wakewood, Brooklyn, The Secret Scripture // Jinan Palace Cinema [7-8], Beijing Film Academy [9-12], China
8 December // Tęczowe Podbeskidzie presents a screening of The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Bielsko-Biała, Poland
10 December // Light Industry Cinema presents // Guests of the Nation, Screening in the Rain, By Accident // New York, USA
11 December // Solas Nua presents Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair visual arts event // Citizen Lane // Silver Spring, Washington, MD, USA
13 December // Cinema Obscura // Gaza // Mozilla Community Space // Jakarta, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
17 December // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Under the Clock // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
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 // Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
6-12 November // Irish Film Festival // I, Dolours, Lomax in Éireann, The Drummer and the Keeper // Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University // Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
6-16 November // Panorama of European Film // The Camino Voyage // Cairo, Egypt // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
8 November // Villanova University Irish Studies Film Presentation // The Camino Voyage // Bartley Hall, Villanova University // Philadelphia, PA, USA
13 November // Trondheim Filmklubb // The Camino Voyage // Cinemateket Trondheim // Trondheim, Norway
14-24 November // EU Film Festival // The Camino Voyage // Addis Ababa, Ethiopia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Addis Ababa
16 November // Centre Culturel Irlandais presents the French premiere of The Camino Voyage // Paris, France
20-24 November // Irish Film Festival London // Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story, A Bump Along the Way, Dark Lies the Island, Bruno, Extra Ordinary, Cumar: A Galway Odyssey, Short films: The Bird and the Whale, Them, Hearts and Crafts, Sadhbh // Regent Street Cinema // London, UK
26 November // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Keepers of the Flame // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
26-27 November // EU Food and Film Festival Laos // Brooklyn [29th Nov] // Vientiane, Laos // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Hanoi, Vietnam
29 November – 1 December // Vancouver Irish Film Festival // A Bump Along the Way, Gaza, The Camino Voyage, The Dig, Extra Ordinary, The Irish Pub, Into the West // Vancity Theatre // Vancouver, Canada
29 November – 17 December // EU Film Festival Bangkok // The Drummer and the Keeper // Bangkok Screening Rooms // Bangkok, Thailand // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bangkok
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 47, Making the Grade, GAZE on Tour shorts: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Bangkok Screening Room // Bangkok, Thailand // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bangkok
5-20 October // CineLibri // Breakfast on Pluto // Sofia, Bulgaria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Sofia
7-11 October // Irish Film Festival // The Silver Branch, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Once, The Camino Voyage, Pavee Lackeen // Manaus, Brazil // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Brasilia and facilitated by the Cultural Secretariat of the State of Amazonas.
10-16 October // One World Film Festival-Jeden Svet // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // 10th – Lumiere Cinema, Bratislava followed by Q&A with Dr. Gráinne Healy // Faculty of Arts, Bratislava [10th] // Bardejov, Banska Bystrica, and Zilina [dates TBC], Slovakia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bratislava
11-13 October // Omagh Literary Festival // The Camino Voyage // Strule Arts Centre // Omagh, Co. Tyrone
11-20 October // Indonesian Eco Film Festival // Colony // Jakarta, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
13 October // European Arthouse Cinema Day // Sing Street // Spazju Kreattiv // Valletta, Malta // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Malta
14 October // Atlanta Pride Festival // Queen of Ireland + Q&A with Rory O’Neill / Panti Bliss // Atlanta, GA, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta
16-31 October // Irish Film Festival Singapore // Float Like a Butterfly, Once, The Hole in the Ground, Song of the Sea, The Camino Voyage, The Crying Game // Singapore // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore // The screening of Float Like a Butterfly on 20th October will be followed by a Q&A with director Carmel Winters and production designer Toma McCullim. A number of workshops
16 October // Fairfield University – Irish Studies Department // No Stone Unturned // Connecticut, USA
16 October // The Irish in Film Series presented by the Irish Studies Department at Fairfield University // No Stone Unturned // Kelly Center Presentation Room // Connecticut, USA // Film presented by Kevin Cassidy, PhD, Department of Politics
19-20 October // iBAM [Irish Books, Arts, Music] // Short film programmes: IFI Documentary Festival shorts curated by Dean Kavanagh: The Reek, Johnny, For When I Die, Mother & Baby, Inhale, The Last Miner, Pigeons of Discontent, Hey Ronnie Reagan. IFI Brief Encounters New Fiction curated by Dean Kavanagh: Time Traveller, Fern, Behind Cars, Wave, Take Me Swimming. GAZE on Tour shorts curated by GAZE Festival: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // The Mayfair Theatre, Chicago Irish American Heritage Center // Chicago, IL, USA // These screenings are part of the center’s offering of free events during Chicago Architectural Foundation’s Open House weekend.
22 October // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Máirín de Burca: A Loner’s Instinct // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
25-26 October // Irish Screen America, Glucksman Ireland House and the Irish Arts Center present // Float Like a Butterfly New York premiere + Q&A with director Carmel Winters [25th]; Katie [26th] // Cantor Film Center // New York, USA
25-27 October // Friday Harbour Film Festival // The Camino Voyage // San Juan Island, Washington, USA The Camino Voyage
30 October // Movimiento // Come on Over ciné-concert with musical accompaniment by Elaine Loebenstein // City-kino // Linz, Austria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Vienna
31 October // Come on Over ciné-concert with musical accompaniment by Elaine Loebenstein // City-kino // Linz, Austria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Vienna
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 // Hungarian National Film Foundation presents Budapest Classics Film Marathon // Come on Over ciné-concert with musical accompaniment by pianist Elaine Loebenstein // Budapest, Hungary // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Budapest
13 September // Come on Over ciné-concert with musical accompaniment by pianist Elaine Loebenstein // Slovenska kinoteka // Ljubljiana, Slovenia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Ljubljiana
12-22 September // European Film Festival Jordan // The Camino Voyage screening on 19th September // Royal Film Commission; Al Hussein Cultural Centre // Amman, Jordan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Amman
13-21 September // British & Irish Film Festival // Extra Ordinary, Alcock and Brown: The True Story, The Man Who Wanted to Fly, Never Grow Old, Shorts programme: Triúr a Bádh [Three Were Drowned], Rip to the Rescue, Fern, Mother & Baby, Hey Ronnie Reagan, Lily // Ciné-Utopia, Cinémathèque, Kinepolis-Kirchberg // Luxembourg
14 September // Philadelphia Céilí Group // The Secret of Kells // Commodore Barry Arts & Cultural Center // Philadelphia, PA, USA
18 September // Queen of Ireland + panel discussion with Rory O’Neill // Warsaw, Poland // Presented in association with the Irish delegation to the OSCE and Embassy of Ireland Vienna, as a parallel event to the HDIM human rights fortnight
18-21 September // Equality March in Toruń // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Dwór Artusa w Toruniu // Toruń, Poland // With support from the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
19-21 September // San Francisco Irish Film Festival // Float Like a Butterfly, Gaza, Shorts programme 1: Psychic, Ruby, Feathers, Wren Boys, Johnny. Shorts programme 1: Seanie and Flo, Father Father, The Barbershop, Run, No Dogs, Family Way. Shorts programme to be followed by Q&A with writer, director and producer Roisin Kearney // Delancey Street Theater // San Francisco, USA
20 September // Culture Night screening of Making the Grade // Journalists’ Association of Ankara // Ankara, Turkey // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Ankara
20-29 September // 100% Manusia // Sanctuary // Jakarta, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
23-28 September // Chagford Film Festival // The Camino Voyage // Chagford, UK // Presented in association with London Film School and University of Exeter
26 September // Irish Network Houston Fall Screening // The Camino Voyage // Houston, USA
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 [All Genders, Lifestyles and Identities Film Festival] // Breast Friends, Cat Calls // Austin, TX, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate of Ireland, Austin, Texas and Gaze Film Festival
26-31 August // Euro East Africa film Festival // A Different Kind of Day, Breathe, Time Traveller, Mother and Baby // National Theatre // Kampala, Uganda // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Kampala
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 Camino Voyage // Centro Botín // Santander, Spain
5-7 July // PolskaEire Festival Ruda Śląska // Song of the Sea, Once, Handsome Devil // Ruda Śląska, Poland
9 July // Irish Cultural Centre // Under the Clock + Q&A with director Colm Nicell // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith // London, UK
12 July // IFI International Annual Exhibitor Network Event at the Galway Film Fleadh // Galway, Ireland
17 July // Chicago Film Festival Summer School // The Camino Voyage // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Chicago
21 July // Festival N2 // The Camino Voyage // Auditório do Cultural Centro de Chaves // Chaves, Portugal
26-27 July // Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival // Float Like a Butterfly, Black 47, Lomax in Éireann, Metal Heart, Extra Ordinary // Manship Theatre // Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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 Film Festival
6 June // Irish cultural screening // The Camino Voyage // Rome, Italy // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland to the Holy See
24 June-31 August // EU Film Festival // Black 47 // Max Mueller Bhavan/Goethe Institut, Chennai [30 June] // Other locations around India to be confirmed // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi
14-23 June // European Film Festival // My Left Foot // Bucharest (Elvire Popescu Cinema), Sibiu (Ion Besoiu Cultural Centre), and Târgu Mureș (ARTA Cinema), Romania, and Chisinău (Odeon Cinema), Republic of Moldova) // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
15 June // EU Film Festival Mauritius // Sing Street // Port Louis, Mauritius // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria
16 June // Bloomsday screening of Nora at Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith // London, UK
15-23 June // Bucharest Pride Festival // GAZE on Tour short films screening on 16th June: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // DESCHIS Gastrobar & Family Forum @ Rezidenta Scena9 // Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest, and GAZE LGBT Film Festival
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 Burns. GAZE on Tour shorts 2018/9: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Penrith [1 May] , Sydney [1-5 May], Melbourne [9-12 May], Australia
1-20 May // Festival Eurocine // Irish focus: Queen of Ireland, Michael Inside, The Runway, The Camino Voyage, A Date for Mad Mary, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Song of the Sea // Bogotá [1-12 May], Medellín, Calí & Manizales [16-22 May], Colombia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bogotá
2-12 May // Toronto Jewish Film Festival // The Cohens and Kellys – ciné-concert // Toronto, Canada
3 May // Cinegael Montreal // Michael Inside // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
3-26 May // EU Film Festival // Sing Street // Nairobi, Kenya // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Nairobi
7 May // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Natural Grace // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
7 May // St. Paul Irish Arts Week // Máirín deBurca: A Loner’s Instinct // Celtic Junction Arts Center // St. Paul, MN, USA
8 May // Irish Network Houston // Lomax in Éireann // Anderson Hall, University of St. Thomas // Houston, TX, USA
10-19 May // EU Film Festival // Sing Street // Singapore // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore
10 May-29 June // EU Film Festival // The Silver Branch // Curitiba [17th May], Brasilia [18th May], Florianapolis [7th June], Salvador [12th June], Recife [29th June], Brazil // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Brasilia and EUNIC
11 May // Films with a Mission: Medical Films from the Catholic Mission Archives 1930s-1960s // Bridge of the Ford the Story of Drogheda, Aran of the Saints, Ecce Ancilla Domini // Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image // London, UK
15 May // Black 47 followed by panel discussion // Plaza Theatre // Atlanta, GA, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta
21 May // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Documentary shorts curated by IFI’s Dean Kavanagh: The Reek, Johnny, For When I Die, Mother and Baby, Inhale, The Last Miner, Pigeons of Discontent, Hey Ronnie Reagan // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
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], Prague // Panorama [16th, Boskovice // Prague and Boskovice, Czech Republic // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Prague
5 April // Irish Arts Center New York // Lomax in Éireann // New York, USA
5 April // Cinegael Montreal // An evening of Irish short films: All in Good Time, Time Traveller, The Shift, Mother and Baby, Kubrick by Candlelight, Late Afternoon, The Swimmer // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
7 April // Féile na Gaeilge / Irish Language Day: The Sea / An Fharraige // The Camino Voyage // Irish Arts Center New York // New York, USA
9 April // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Aisling Gheal // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
12 April // Cinegael Montreal // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
18-30 April // Europe on Screen Festival // The Drummer and the Keeper, Michael Inside, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid // Jakarta, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
23 April // London Irish Centre and IFI present // His & Hers // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
25-27 April // Kangasala Irish Festival: The Spring Gathering // Under the Clock, Making the Grade // Kangasala Arts Center // Tampere, Finland // Presented by the Irish Music Society of Tampere
29 April – 5 May // Filmkunstfest // Ireland as guest country of honour. Opening Gala: German premiere of Greta; Maze, Song of Granite, Black 47, The Breadwinner, Michael Inside, Kissing Candice, Float Like a Butterfly, I, Dolours // Filmpalast Capitol // Schwerin, Germany
29 April – 9 May // EU Film Cycle // Sing Street // Maputo, Mozambique // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Maputo
1-3 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival // Under the Clock, Dublin Oldschool, Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], The Camino Voyage, The Dig // TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3 // Toronto, Canada
2 March // South Side Irish Parade Film Festival // Black 47, Song of the Sea // Beverley Arts Center // Chicago, USA
2 March // Valencia Irish Cultural Association // Yu Ming is Ainm Dom // Cine Las Vegas // Valencia, Spain
2 March // San Francisco Irish Documentary Film Festival // I, Dolours, The Camino Voyage, Under the Clock // Delancey Street Theater // San Francisco, USA
7 March // Craic Fest // Dublin Oldschool, The Camino Voyage // Village East Cinema // New York, USA
7-24 March // China Women’s Film Festival // The Breadwinner [9th & 22nd], Float Like a Butterfly [9th & 23rd] with guest director Carmel Winters // Empire Cinema // Hong Kong, China // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Hong Kong
8 March // Cinegael Montreal // Shelter Me // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
9–17 March // Belgrade Irish Festival // The Little Stranger with special guest Lenny Abrahamson, Garage , Black 47, Michael Inside, The Sounding, The Quiet Man, The Dreaming of the Quiet Man, The Rocky Road to Dublin + Making Of, No Man’s Fool – Patrick Kavanagh, Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien with guest director Sé Merry Doyle, Peek Zoo, An Engineer Imagines, A Spot on the Conscious, Boy in the Bubble, The Breadwinner, Song of the Sea, Dublin Oldschool // Kinoteka // Belgrade, Serbia
10 March // UN International Women’s Week Film Festival // Jaha’s Promise // Millennium Cinema // Tirana, Albania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Athens
11 March // Tyneside Cinema // Adam and Paul // Newcastle, UK // Presented on 35mm from the IFI Irish Film Archive
12 March // IRL Festival // The Camino Voyage // Registry Theatre // Ontario, Canada
12 March // London Irish Centre and IFI present // The Camino Voyage // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
12 March // Oscar Forever // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Goethe Institute // Nicosia, Cyprus // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Nicosia
12-17 March // Irish Cultural Week // Michael Inside [15th], The Drummer and the Keeper [16th], The Camino Voyage [17th] // Cinemateca Paulo Amorim, Casa del Cultura Mario Quintana // Porto Alegre // Brazil // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, São Paulo
13–24 March // Irish Film Festival Russia // The Dig + guest actor Moe Dunford, Black 47, Michael Inside, Metal Heart, Steel Country, The Delinquent Season, Dublin Oldschool + guest director Dave Tynan, Good Favour + guest director Rebecca Daly, The Drummer and the Keeper, Notorious, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen, Comedy shorts: Kubrick by Candlelight + guest director David O’Reilly, Fern, Wave, Mother, The Shift, Animated shorts: The Overcoat, Old Fangs, The Ledge End of Phil, Late Afternoon, Somewhere Down the Line // Karo 11 Oktyabr, Moscow, Russia // 15-17 March, Karo 7 Ligov, St. Petersburg, Russia // 22-24 March, Karo Koltso, Kazan, Russia
15 March // The Celtic Studies section of the Department of English, University of Uppsala // Black 47 // Slottsbio // Uppsala, Sweden
16 March // Sarajevo Irish Festival // The Breadwinner + Q&A with Anita Doron and Saara Chaudry // Kino Meeting Point // Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina // Presented in association with the Embassy of Canada, Sarajevo.
16-17 March // Irish Heritage Club Seattle // The Camino Voyage, I, Dolours, Lomax in Éireann, Under the Clock, Sanctuary // Seattle Center Armory // Seattle, USA
17 March // Inicijativa za engleski jezik i kulturu // The Breadwinner // Kinoteka // Zagreb, Croatia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Zagreb
18 March // St. Patrick’s Film Luxembourg // Metal Heart // Ciné Utopia // Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
22 March // Boston Irish Film Festival presents a gala screening // Late Afternoon, Float Like a Butterfly + Q&A with actors Hazel Doupe and Dara Devaney, director Carmel Winters and production designer Toma McCullim // Somerville Theatre // Boston, USA
22 March // Cinegael Montreal // Lomax in Éireann // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
26 March // London Irish Centre and IFI present // Sanctuary // London Irish Centre Camden // London, UK
27-31 March // Irish Film Festa Rome // The Drummer and the Keeper, Black 47, Metal Heart + Q&A with director Hugh O’Connor, Lamb, Italian premiere of The Dig with guest actors Moe Dunford and Lorcan Cranitch, Michael Inside. Isle of Docs: The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Unquiet Graves, Hear My Voice, Murdair Mhám Trasna [The Mam Trasna Murders]. Closing night: Derry Girls. Special guest of the festival is John Lynch, with screening of Angel Baby. Short film competition to focus on documentaries. IFFbooks: A Conversation with Irish-born writer Karl Geary. Photography exhibition by Hugh O’Conor // Casa del Cinema // Rome, Italy
29–31 March // Ottawa Irish Film Festival // Black 47, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen, Michael Inside, The Hole in the Ground + Q&A with director Lee Cronin, The Dig, Lost & Found + Q&A with director Liam O Mochain // Arts Court Theatre // Ottawa, Canada
1-9 February // Clermont Ferrand Film Festival // Yu Ming is Ainm Dom // Clermont Ferrand, France
8 February // Cinegael Montreal // Float Like a Butterfly // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
13 February // Irish Cultural Centre // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith // London, UK
21 February – 10 March // European Union Film Festival Hong Kong // Closing film: Michael Inside + Q&A with director Frank Berry on 10th March // Broadway Cinematheque & AMC Pacific Place // Hong Kong
22 February // Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith // The Ballymurphy Precedent // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith // London, UK
23 February // Irish Film Festival Milwaukee // Song of the Sea // Milwaukee, USA
23 February // Irish Language, A Day of Irish Literature, Film and Song // Irish language films: Bláth Gach Géag dá dTig, Dara Bán with guest Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire // University of Liverpool in Finsbury Square, London, UK
23-24 February // Irish Cultural Center of New England and Irish Curragh Club of Boston // The Camino Voyage [23rd], [matinee on 24th] // Canton, MA, USA
28 February // Cinegael Montreal // Rocky Ros Muc // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
28 February-3 March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // Opening Gale: Shelter Me + Q&A with director Jim Sheridan, and short films No Dogs, Silent Plight. Shorts Programme I: I Don’t Get it!: [Growing Pains, Fuck’s Sake, Hold the Line, Juggle, The Shift, Boy Saint, Roses, Shock, Emerald Isle, Tides], The Holy Fail, My Future Self, Shorts Programme II: Friends Are the Best!: [First Disco, Prodigy, The Lighthouse, Runaway, All in Good Time, The Bird and the Whale, Under the Self Same Moon], Grace & Goliath, Shorts Programme IV: Just One Thing: [The American Way, The Family Way, Vegetable, Wave, The Tattoo, Leap of Faith, I Saw Myself], Tradition, A Decent Proposal, Making the Grade, Shorts Programme III: Documenting Ireland: [39 Years, Mother & Baby, Movie Memories, Eden], Under the Clock, Smithy & Dickie, The Silver Branch, Pigeons of Discontent. Closing film: I, Dolours + Q&A with director Ed Moloney, Brexit: A Cry from the Irish Border // Logan Theater // Chicago, USA
28 February-3 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // The Drummer and the Keeper + Q&A with director Nick Kelly, Lost & Found, The Devil’s Doorway + Q&A with director Aislinn Clarke and actor Lalor Roddy, The Hole in the Ground, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen, Grace & Goliath, I, Dolours + Q&A with journalist and producer Ed Moloney, Don’t Leave Home + Q&A with director Michael Tully and actor Lalor Roddy, Under the Clock, The Silver Branch, Float Like a Butterfly, Lomax in Éireann + Q&A with Dr. Todd Harvey, Folklife Specialist and Curator of the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Metal Heart, Shorts programme: Day off, Whirlpool, Mother & Baby, The Invention, Late Afternoon, Grá & Eagla [Love & Fear] // AFI Silver // Silver Spring, Washington, USA
28 February-3 March // Celtic Calling // The Camino Voyage [3 screenings] // Charleston, WV, USA
11 January // Cinegael Montreal – Spring season launch // Black 47 // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
24 January // Irish Cultural Centre // I, Dolours + Q&A with director Maurice Sweeney // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith // London, UK
24-27 January // Internationale Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend] // The Drummer and the Keeper [24th], [26th – with director Nick Kelly in attendance], Lomax in Éireann [25th], [26th – with Pól Brennan of Clannad in attendance] // Central im Bürgerbräu // Würzburg, Germany
24 January-4 February // EU Film Festival Beirut // Sanctuary // Metropolis Empire Sofil Beirut [2nd Feb], Ishbilia Theatre and Art Hub, Saida [3rd Feb] // Lebannon // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
25 January // Cinegael Montreal – Spring season // No Stone Unturned // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
4th December // Embassy of Ireland lecture and cinema cycle dedicated to the work of Irish director Thaddeus O’ Sullivan // Citizen Lane // Lisbon, Portugal // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Lisbon, Portugal
7th to 9th December // Vancouver Irish Film Festival // Float Like a Butterfly, Good Vibrations, War of the Buttons, Older Than Ireland, A Date for Mad Mary, Poc na nGael [Puck of the Irish], A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot, Maze // Vancouver, Canada
6th December // London Irish Centre Film Club and IFI present // The Drummer and the Keeper // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
29 November to 17 December // EU Film Festival // Sanctuary // Bangkok [17th] and Chiang Mai [24th], Thailand // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Hong Kong
2nd to 3rd November // Copenhagen Irish Festival // Natural Grace, The Yellow Bittern // Copenhagen, Denmark // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Copenhagen
5th, 7th and 11th November // Irish Film Festival, Nova Southeastern University // Older Than Ireland, No Stone Unturned, A Date for Mad Mary // Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
7th November // John Hume in America // Rome, Italy // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Rome
7th to 17th November// Panorama of European Film // Michael Inside, The Drummer and the Keeper, The Breadwinner // Cairo, Egypt // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
8th November // London Irish Centre Film Club and IFI present // Breaking Ground: The Story of the London Irish Women’s Centre // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
15th to 16th November // Irish Film Days Festival // Michael Inside, Departure, A Different Kind of Day, Fern // Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
16th November // EU Film Festival // Song of the Sea // Hanoi and Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam
18th and 27th November // Filmoteca Española // Muriel Box retrospective: This Other Eden // Madrid, Spain // In partnership with the San Sebastian Film Festival
19th to 20th November // Embassy of Ireland lecture and cinema cycle dedicated to the work of Irish director Thaddeus O’ Sullivan // Citizen Lane // Porto [19th], Lisbon [20th], Portugal // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Lisbon, Portugal
21st to 25th November // Irish Film Festival London // Under the Clock, Smithy & Dickie, The Little Stranger, Radiator, Wren Boys, Her Name Is…, Stigma, The Secret Market, Taking the Waters, Take Me Swimming, Early Days, Grá & Eagla, Pigsy, Boy Saint, Lint, Metal Heart, Grace and Goliath, Poc na nGael [Puck of the Irish], An Cosc, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Shelter Me: Apollo House, Rosie, The Cohens and the Kellys, Aithrí [Penance], We Ourselves // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
22nd November // London Irish Centre Film Club and IFI present // The Pipe // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
22nd to 25th November // European Film Festival // Dambé: The Mali Project [23rd] // Kigali, Rwanda // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Kampala, Uganda
27th November // The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile // Manchester, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
21st to 27th November // EU Film Festival Khartoum // Sanctuary // British Council [21st], Institut Français [25th], Dutch Embassy [26th], Al Faisal Centre [27th], Khartoum, Sudan // Presented in in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Nairobi
29th to 30th November // Scéal Eile: Belgian Irish Film Festival // Sing Street // Brussels, Belgium
3rd to 7th October // The Irish Festival of Oulu // Inside I’m Racing, Kíla: Pota Óir, Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], Revolutions, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Song of Granite // Oulu, Finland
5th October // Edinburgh Playhouse // A City Solitary // Edinburgh, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
10th to 24th October // Screening Irish History // Twice Shy [10th], Hush-a-Bye Baby [17th] // Theatre RC667, Royal College, University of Strathclyde // Glasgow, UK // Please note these screenings have been moved from the CCA
10th to 24th October // CineLibri // The Secret Scripture // Sofia, Bulgaria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Sofia
11th October // London Irish Centre Film Club // Men of Arlington // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
13th to 21st October // Lumière Festival // Muriel Box and the England of the 1950s: This Other Eden // Lyon, France // In partnership with the San Sebastian Film Festival
16th to 17th October // Spanish Film Archive // Muriel Box retrospective: This Other Eden // Valencia, Spain // In partnership with the San Sebastian Film Festival
17th October // Fairfield University, Irish Studies Department // No Stone Unturned, Hidden Agenda // Connecticut, USA
20th October // Irish Network USA 6th Annual National Conference presents 2018 Irish Network Mini Film Festival // Ireland 1848, Coranna + feature TBC // New Orleans, USA // Hosted by New Orleans Irish Film Festival
18th to 28th October // Liverpool Irish Festival // Lamb // Liverpool, UK // In association with Empty Cinema Spaces at the George Lees Building // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
25th October // London Irish Centre Film Club // Natural Grace // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
25th October // LUX and Tyneside Cinema presents Between Structure and Agency // A series of short experimental films curated by Alice Butler of aemi, featuring recent films by Irish artists Saoirse Wall, Laura Fitzgerald, Sharon Whooley, Doireann O’Malley and Ronan McCrea, and a live performance by Saoirse Wall // Newcastle, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
26th October // Animated Spirits 2018 // An Island // Tokyo, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo
29th October // PLAI at the Ambasada Cultural Centre // I’m Roger Casement // Timisoara, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest. This short film will be showing together with a selection of LGBT shorts provided by BFI Flare in partnership with the British Council in Bucharest.
31st October // EFACIS presents screening at Charles University // The Great Wall // Prague, Czech Republic
14th to 23rd September // Irish Culture Foundation / Fundacja Kultury Irlandzkiej // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, After 16 short films: The Party, My Life for Ireland, Goodbye Darling, A Father’s Letter, Granite and Chalk, A Terrible Hullabaloo // Warsaw (14th to 16th), Łódź (20th to 23rd), Poland
15th September // Vancouver Irish Film Festival presents the Canadian premiere of Michael Inside // Vancity Theatre // Vancouver, Canada
16th September // Minds Film Festival // Sanctuary // GV VivoCity // Singapore
19th to 29th September // British and Irish Film Season // Black 47, The Drummer and the Keeper, The Camino Voyage, Good Favour, The Flag, Zoo, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Shelter Me: Apollo House, Inside I’m Racing, Grá agus Eagla [Love and Fear] // Ciné Utopia and Cinémathèque // Luxembourg
21st to 23rd September // Irish Film Festival // My Left Foot, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Song of the Sea, Once // Bangkok Screening Room // Bangkok, Thailand // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bangkok
21st to 29th September // San Sebastian Film Festival // Muriel Box retrospective: This Other Eden // San Sebastian, Spain
22nd September // European Film Festival Jordan //Sanctuary + guest Len Collin, director // Rainbow Theatre // Amman, Jordan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
24th to 30th September // Balinale – Bali International Film Festival // Michael Inside, The Breadwinner // Cinemaxx Lippo Mall Kuta & Plaza Renon // Bali, Indonesia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Jakarta
27th September // London Irish Centre Film Club // I Used to Live Here // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
27th to 29th September // San Francisco Irish Film Festival // Song of Granite, The Breadwinner, Michael Inside, Little Bird, Early Days, Time Traveller, QED, Rhinos, Wave // Delancey Street Theater // San Francisco, USA
24 August // PolskaEire Festival // Sing Street // Ruda Śląska, Poland
5th July // London Irish Centre Film Club // The Rocky Road to Dublin + The Making of The Rocky Road to Dublin // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
5th July // Centre Culturel Irlandais // The Drummer and the Keeper // Paris, France
13th July // IFI International – Programming Irish Film Worldwide // Galway Film Fleadh // Huston School of Film and Digital Media, Galway, Ireland
27th to 28th July // Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival // Darby O’Gill and the Little People, Zoo, Maze, Song of Granite, The Drummer and the Keeper, Halal for Beginners // Baton Rouge, USA
3rd June // Eve Film Festival // Revolutions // Ottawa, Canada
3rd June // European Film Festival // Kissing Candice // Sibiu, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
7th June // Equality Week Warsaw // Queen of Ireland // Warsaw, Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
7th June // London Irish Centre Film Club // What We Leave in Our Wake // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
7th June // CAC Málaga – Ciclo de cine irlandés // Once // Málaga, Spain // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Madrid
8th June // Cinegael Buffalo // Song of Granite, The Farthest, Coda, Late Afternoon, Second to None, Boogaloo and Graham, New Boy, Rúbaí, Stutterer, Wave, An Rinceoir, An Island // Buffalo, New York, USA
9th June // Bucharest Pride Festival // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality, GAZE on Tour shorts: Tuesday Night, Lily, The Condom Man, 3 Friends, I’m Roger Casement // Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
16th June // Vancouver Irish Film Festival // The Drummer and the Keeper // Vancouver, Canada
16th June // Bloomsday screening of The Dead // Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Kuala Lumpur
17th June // CAC Málaga – Ciclo de cine irlandés // 1916: The Documentary // Málaga, Spain // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Madrid
20th June // European Film Festival // The Secret of Kells // Kampala, Uganda // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Kampala
21st June // London Irish Centre Film Club // Further Beyond // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
22nd June // Ciné-concert at National Library of Wales // Tír na nÓg with live musical accompaniment by Saileog Ní Cheannabháin and Pádraic Keane // Aberystwth, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
23rd June // Festival Internacional de Cinema LGBTI em Brasília // Queen of Ireland // Brasília, Brazil // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Brasília
25th June // Sofia Pride Film Festival // Handsome Devil, A Date for Mad Mary, Viva // Sofia, Bulgaria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Sofia
2nd May // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Medellín, Colombia
3rd May // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Calí, Colombia
7th to 13th May // European Film Festival // Kissing Candice [12th May] // Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
3rd to 12th May // Europe on Screen Festival // A Cambodian Spring [8th, 11th, 12th May], A Date for Mad Mary [6th, 10th, 12th May] // Jakarta, Indonesia
4th to 29th May // European Film Festival // Sanctuary [4th & 26th May] // Nairobi, Kenya // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Nairobi
10th May // London Irish Centre Film Club // Nuala: A Life and Death // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
10th to 23rd May // European Film Festival // Good Vibrations // Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago // Kindly presented in association with The Works Film Group International
16th to 30th May // European Film Festival // Good Vibrations // Bridgetown, Barbados // Kindly presented in association with The Works Film Group International
16th May – 4th June // Semana da Europa // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America // 13th May, Curitiba // 15th May, Salvador // 16th May, Brasília // 29th May, Aracaju // 4th June, Florianópolis // Brazil // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Brasília
17th May // CAC Málaga – Ciclo de cine irlandés // The Runway // Málaga, Spain // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Madrid
17th May // The Queen of Ireland // San Francisco, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, San Francisco
18th to 20th May // European Film Festival // Kissing Candice [18th May] // Tîrgu Mureş, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
21st, 22nd, 24th May // 20th Anniversary of Good Friday Peace Agreement // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America // Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Japan
23rd May // Zoo, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America + Q&A // Tampa, Florida, USA // Presented by the Consulate of Ireland in Atlanta, Tampa Bay Film and the Northern Ireland Bureau.
24th May // London Irish Centre Film Club // Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
24th May // CAC Málaga – Ciclo de cine irlandés // Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay // Málaga, Spain // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Madrid
3rd April // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Maze // Paris, France
4th April // Irish Film Festival London presents a UK tour of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America and Q&A with director Maurice Fitzpatrick // Leeds, UK
5th April // Irish Film Festival London presents a UK tour of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America and Q&A with director Maurice Fitzpatrick // Manchester, UK
6th April // Irish Film Festival London presents a UK tour of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America and Q&A with director Maurice Fitzpatrick // Birmingham, UK
7th April // Irish Film Festival London presents a UK tour of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America and Q&A with director Maurice Fitzpatrick // Liverpool, UK
9th April // Windhoek International School // Sing Street, Alia // Windhoek, Namibia // Screening presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Zambia
9th & 11th April // Days of European Film Festival // Mary Shelley // Prague, Czech Republic // Screening presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Prague, hosting actor Hugh O’Connor as festival guest on 11th April
13th April // Moscow Literary Event // Samuel Beckett’s Film // Moscow, Russia
13th & 16th April // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Bogotá, Colombia
15th April // Flatpack Festival // The Rocky Road to Dublin + The Making of // Birmingham, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain.
17th April // Irish Arts Centre, New York // Little Old New York ciné-concert // New York, USA
18th April // AFI // Little Old New York ciné-concert // Silver Spring, Washington, USA
18th April // Dublin Doc Fest // Documentary short film programme: Off the Board, Home, Novena, What Remains, Bloody Good Headline, Grey Area, The Truth about Irish Hip-Hop, Needle Exchange // Berlin, Germany // Screening presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin
18th to 22nd April // Irish Australian Film Festival // Maze, No Stone Unturned, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, The Flag, Song of Granite, Coming Home, The Lodgers, The Journey // Sydney, Australia
26th to 28th April // Irish Australian Film Festival // Maze, No Stone Unturned, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, The Flag, Song of Granite, Coming Home, The Lodgers, The Journey // Melbourne, Australia
26th April // A celebration of Bloomsday exhibition at Ovidius University // Ulysses // Constanta, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
26th April // London Irish Centre Film Club // One Million Dubliners // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
27th April // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Medellín, Colombia
1st – 4th March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, A Little Bit of Tear, I’m Talking to You, Markey’s Bad Week, Writing Home, Thespish, The Breadwinner, Zoo, Keep it Reel, Puc na nGael [Puc of the Irish], Aithrí [Penance], An Béal Bocht [The Poor Mouth], Men of Straw, The Widow’s Last, An Misean sa tSin [The China Mission], The Farthest, Cost // Chicago, USA
1st – 4th March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Zoo, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Maze, Bad Day for the Cut, The Breadwinner, The Secret Scripture, Puc na nGael [Puc of the Irish], Maudie, Pilgrimage, It Tolls for Thee, A Date for Mad Mary, The Farthest. Shorts programme: Proclaim, Postcard, Homecoming, A Break in the Clouds, Greta, Refuge, Maeve and the Moon, Throwline, Thespish, Wolfwakers: Behind the Scenes // Silver Spring, Washington, MD, USA
23th – 24th March // The Irish Film Fest, New Jersey // Irish language shorts: Sylvia, Cáca Milis, Beirt le Chéile, Maidhm, Céad Ghrá, Rúbaí // New Jersey, USA
1st – 18th March // EU Film Festival // The Farthest // Hong Kong, China // Facilitated by the Embassy of Ireland, Hong Kong
3rd – 18th March // Manchester Irish Festival // Irish Mancunian presents: Dancing at Lughnasa (4th March), and The Field (15th March) // Chorlton Irish Centre, Manchester, UK
4th March // Ireland Focus at the Museum of Immigration of São Paulo // Song of the Sea // São Paulo, Brazil // Faciliated by the Consulate of Ireland, São Paulo
6th March // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Broken Song // Paris, France
8th & 10th March // St. Patrick’s Festival, Auckland // Older than Ireland // Auckland, New Zealand
8th – 28th March // D-CAF: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival // Sanctuary // Cairo, Egypt // Facilitated by the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
10th March // San Francisco Irish Documentary Film Festival // Kíla: Pota Óir, The Farthest, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America // San Francisco, USA
11th March // The Celtic Studies section of the Department of English, University of Uppsala presents at Slottsbio // The Secret of Kells // Uppsala, Sweden
11th March // Irish Arts Center New York’s Annual St. Patrick’s Open Day // Family-friendly screening of Irish shorts: Joining Dots, Urban Tails, Time and Again // New York, USA
13th March // Irish Music Memoirs: A Celebration of Irish Traditional Music and Film // The Embassy of Ireland to Athens presents a screening of Song of Granite followed by a concert by Greek Celtic band Solastas, fronted by renowned singer and founding member of the Athens Celtic Music Festival, Labrini Gioti. // Athens, Greece
13th March // Teeside Irish Festival // The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile // Middlesborough, UK
14th – 18th March // Belgrade Irish Film Week // Song of Granite, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, True North, Moscow Never Sleeps, Medicated Milk, Serbian Cavalry, Talking to my Father, Hubert Butler: Witness to the Future, The Farthest // Belgrade, Serbia
14th – 25th March // Moscow Irish Film Festival // The Breadwinner, Song of the Sea, Maze, Song of Granite, Tomato Red, Maudie, Angela’s Ashes, The Farthest, Bad Day for the Cut, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America. And a programme of Irish shorts. // Moscow, Russia
15th March // London Irish Centre Film Club and IFI International presents… // The Irish Pub // London, UK
15th – 18th March // Shebeen Flick Berlin // School Life [In Loco Parentis], Without Name, Revolutions, Kissing Candice, Intermission, Amanda Coogan: Long Now, The Muttering of the Harrier, Hum, Tit for Tatt, Departure // Berlin, Germany
16th – 18th March // London, UK // St. Patrick’s Film Festival London // Damo & Ivor and Q&A with director Ronan Burke and actor Andy Quirke; An Béal Bocht; The Secret of Kells, Moon Man, Kíla: Pota Óir with director Anthony White // London, UK
17th March // Sarajevo Irish Festival // 81, Maze // Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
17th March // EFACIS and the Embassy of Ireland in Prague present a St. Patrick’s Day screening // Handsome Devil // Prague, Czech Republic
17th March // Capital Irish Film Festival and IFI presents… // Family-friendly screening of Irish shorts: Joining Dots, Urban Tails, Time and Again // Silver Spring, Washington, MD, USA
18th March // Silent film at The Barbican // Little Old New York – cine-concert with accompaniment by pianist Morgan Cooke // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain.
18th March // St. Patrick’s Film Luxembourg // Maze // Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
24th – 25th March // Shebeen Flick Düsseldorf // School Life [In Loco Parentis], Revolutions, Neon // Düsseldorf Germany
21st – 25th March // Irish Film Festa Rome // Handsome Devil, My Astonishing Self, Rocky Ros Muc, No Party for Billy Burns, An Béal Bocht [The Poor Mouth], Cal, Song of Granite, Maze, The Drummer and the Keeper, The Breadwinner // Rome, Italy
22nd – 25th March // Boston Irish Film Festival // Kissing Candice, Bless Me Father, Maze, Lost Memories, Song of the Sea, Coranna, Casual, Gustav, Hidden Potential, Coyote, The Family Way, Jon, Stacey Lee, Marky’s Bad Week, Growing Alice, Anseo I Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], The Breadwinner, Pull Like a Dog, The Farthest, Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect, John Hume in America, The Limit Of, QED, Between Land and Sea, Amy , Tit for Tatt , Up the Mountain, No Irish Need Apply, Throwline, You’re Not a Man at All, No Stone Unturned, It’s Not Yet Dark, John Hume in America, Noel Hill: Aisling Ghéar // Boston, USA
23rd – 25th March // Ottawa Irish Film Festival // Maze, Zoo, The Breadwinner, Kissing Candice, Pilgrimage, Cardboard Gangsters // Ottawa, Canada
25th March // Headingly Literature Festival, curated by Irish Arts Foundation // Kings // Leeds, UK
29th March // London Irish Centre Film Club and IFI International presents… // Older than Ireland // London, UK
3rd – 11th February // Cine O’Clock: Cinéma britannique & irlandais // A Date for Mad Mary, Patrick’s Day // Lyons, France
6th February // Centre Culturel Irlandais // It’s Not Yet Dark, The Sound of People // Paris, France
23rd – 24th February // The Irish Film Fest, New Jersey // Irish language shorts: Sylvia, Cáca Milis, Beirt le Chéile, Maidhm, Céad Ghrá, Rúbaí // New Jersey, USA
25th February // The Near Shore at Glasgow Film Festival // Ciné-concert of silent films including Scottish amateur filmmaker Ernest Tiernan’s The Farm Below the Mountain, accompanied by traditional folk trio Patrick Carayannis, Rodney Lancashire and Seamus Hernon. Free-improvisational pianist Paul G. Smyth will accompany a programme of short films. // Glasgow, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain.
26th February // The Near Shore at Dundee Arts Centre // Dundee, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain.
5th – 14th January // Fenians, Fremantle and Freedom Festival // Maze, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Sing Street, Song of the Sea // Fremantle, Australia
26th January // Irish Language, A Day of Irish Literature, Film and Song // Irish language shorts: Sylvia, Cáca Milis, Beirt le Chéile, Maidhm, Céad Ghrá, Fluent Dysphasia // University of Liverpool in Finsbury Square, London, UK
3rd – 4th November // IrishFest Atlanta // Atlanta, USA
4th November // How Green is the Emerald Isle? // University of St Thomas in Minnesota, Center for Irish Studies // Atlantic // Minnesota, USA
8th – 9th November // Bram Stoker – From Terror to Other Vampires // Bram Stoker agus Dracula // Academic conference at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, facilitated by the Department of Foreign Affairs // Mexico
8th – 18th November // Panorama of European Films // The Impossible Flight of the Stone, No Plan, Faraway Land, The Cloud of Unknowing, Throwline, Tit for Tatt, Sekar Arum // Cairo, Egypt
9th – 23rd November // European Union Film Festival // My Name is Emily, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America // Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Canada
13th, 15th and 19th November // Irish Film Festival, Nova Southeastern University // Writing Home, Congo: An Irish Affair, Bobby Sands: 66 Days // Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
29th November – 3rd December // Irish Film Festival London // The Drummer and the Keeper, Maze, Song of Granite, The Secret Scripture, The Breadwinner, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, The Farthest, GAZE on Tour shorts // London, UK
5th – 9th October // Irish Film Week, Oulu // The Summit, Mairead Farrell : Unfinished Conversation, My Name Is Emily, Brooklyn, The Sea // Oulu, Finland
6th – 8th October // Irish Film Festival, Bangkok // Once, Ryan’s Daughter, The Quiet Man // Bangkok, Thailand
25th October // Irish in Film – 10th anniversary series // After 16 short films // College of Arts & Sciences Irish Studies program, Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA
26th – 27th October // Irish Film Days / Zilele Filmului Irlandez // The Great Fall, Personal Development // Bucharest, Romania
27th – 29th October // Vevey International Funny Film Festival (VIFFF) // Zonad //Vevey, Switzerland
13th, 14th, 17th, 21st September // Semana de Irlanda de Zaragoza // Eden, His and Hers, Newsreel Programme, 1916: The Irish Rebellion // Zaragoza, Spain
21st – 23rd September // Irish Film Festival, San Francisco // A Date for Mad Mary, Rocky Ros Muc, Emerald City // San Francisco, USA
21st – 24th September // Irish Screen America // Emerald City, The Secret Scripture, Cardboard Gangsters, Song of Granite, Bad Day for the Cut, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America // Los Angeles, USA
20th – 30th September // British and Irish Festival // Aithrí [Penance], Handsome Devil, Maudie, Pilgrimage, The Farthest, The Secret Scripture, Writing Home // Luxembourg
29th September – 1st October // Irish Reels Festival // Seattle, USA
29th September – 1st October // Irish Screen America // The Secret Scripture, Song of Granite, Loving Lorna, No Plan, Bad Day for the Cut, Stutterer // New York, USA
17th – 20th August // Irish Focus at the Festival Hviezdne noci Bytča // The Dead Man of ARAN, Young Cassidy, The Quiet Man, Poitín, Irish Destiny, My Left Foot, Sing Street, The Secret of Kells, Adam and Paul, A Date for Mad Mary, Song of the Sea // Slovakia
28th August – 3rd September // Odense International Film Festival // Animated Ireland & The Long and Short of It // Odense, Denmark.
14th – 27th August // Cultural Trauma in Ireland and Brazil // Jimmy’s Hall, Hunger, The Butcher Boy, 1916:The Irish Rebellion, In the Name of the Father // São Paulo, Brazil.
9th – 30th June // A Celebration of James Joyce // Ulysses, Bloom // Vilnius, Lithuania
16th June // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Bloom // Paris, France
22nd June // Irish Film London ‘Irish Film Makers Meet Up’ // London, UK
22nd – 24th June // Contemporary Irish Film Festival // Yu Ming is Aimn Dom // Syracuse, New York, USA
26th June // John Boorman Season at Cinematheque Francais // The Making of Excalibut // Paris, France
4th May – 28th May // European Film Festival // History’s Future // Bucharest, Romania
8th May // Glasgow Film Theatre // Rocky Road to Dublin, Making of Rocky Road to Dublin, Philomena, I Could Read the Sky, Hubert Butler: Witness to the Future // Glasgow, Scotland
9th May // CCI, Paris // A Date for Mad Mary // Paris, France
10th May // Michael Smiley intros Adam and Paul at the BFI // Adam and Paul // London, UK
12th May // European Film Festival // 32A // Sierra Leone & Liberia,
15th – 19th May // Irish Film Week // Once, Sing Street, The Yellow Bittern, The Book of Kells, Song of the Sea, Good Vibrations // Zaghreb, Croatia
18th May – 1st July // European Film Festival // Pavee Lackeen // Brazil
19th – 20th May // European Film Festival // The Queen of Ireland // Vietnam
29th March – 5th April // Irish Film Festival, Australia // Sydney, Australia
30th March – 2nd April // Irish Film Festa // Rome, Italy
31st March – 2nd April // Irish Film Festival // Ottawa, Canada
7th April // Cinegael // Montreal, Canada
8th – 18th April // European Film Festival // Prague, Czech Republic
19th April – 15th May // Festival Eurocine // Bogota, Columbia
25th April // New York Irish Arts Centre // New York, USA
2nd – 5th March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Washington D.C., USA
2nd – 5th March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // Chicago, USA
3rd – 11th March // Animation Ireland // Hong Kong, China
3rd – 15th March // Irish Film Season at the Danish Film Institute // Copenhagen, Denmark
14th – 22nd March // Belgrade Irish Film Festival // Belgrade, Serbia
15th – 26th March // Moscow Irish Film Festival // Moscow, Russia
16th – 19th March // Shebeen Flick – Irish Film Festival // Berlin, Germany
16th – 22nd March // Irish Film Programme at the INCAA // Buenos Aires, Argentina
20th March // Shebeen Flick – Irish Film Festival // Düsseldorf, Germany
23rd – 26th March // Irish Film Festival, Boston // Boston, USA
3rd – 17th February // Cinégael Montreal // Bobby Sands: 66 Days, We are Moving: Memories of Miss Moriarty // Montréal, Canada
3rd – 12th February // Ciné Sans Frontières // You’re Ugly Too // La Teste-de-Buch, France
11th – 19th February // Festival Ciné O’Clock: Cinéma britannique & irlandais // One Millions Dubliners, Good Vibrations, Room, Sing Street // Lyon, France
21st February // Centre Culturel Irlandais // The Country Girls // Paris, France
17th January // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Thanks to Your Noble Shadow + Q&A with Director James Creedon // Paris, France.
20th January // Cinégael Montreal // The Young Offenders // Montreal, Canada.
21st January // Irish Language, A Day of Irish Literature, Film and Song // Irish Language Shorts – Bungalow Bliss, Cuilín Dualach, Rubaí // University of Liverpool in London, England.
26th – 29th January // Internationales Filmwochende 2017 // The Queen of Ireland // Würzburg, Germany
3rd – 26th November // Ireland and Britain, 1916-2016: A Centenary of Cinematic Conversation // co-presented by Irish Film Institute and Irish Film Festival London // London, U.K.
Details listed below:
At the Ritzy Picturehouse, 3rd – 22nd November:
3rd November, Guests of the Nation with live musical accompaniment by Josh Johnston
8th November, Let’s Be Famous
10th November, Daughter of Darkness
15th November, She Didn’t Say No
17th November, This Other Eden
22nd November, I Was Happy Here
At the Barbican Cinemas, 24th November:
Irish Film Institute 1916 Centenary Ciné-Concert with live musical accompaniment by Cormac de Barra, Colm Ó Snodaigh and Rossa Ó Snodaigh.
At Birkbeck University London Cinema, 26th November:
Maeve with director Pat Murphy, films by Vivienne Dick, Daisy Chain and Over Here, hosted Professor Lance Pettitt, Associate Tutor in English and Film at Birkbeck, University of London
5th November // IrishFest Atlanta // Short film programme Give Up Yer Aul Sins, Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom, Páistí Ag Obair, Irish Folk Furniture, Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion, The Herd, A Terrible Hullabaloo and Cuilín Dualach // Atlanta, U.S.
15th and 22nd November // EFACIS Irish Itinerary at the Apollo Cinema, Debrecen // Good Vibrations and Bobby Sands: 66 Days // Debrecen, Hungary
22nd November // Football as Never Before with live musical accompaniment // Home, Manchester, U.K.
23rd – 27th November // Irish Film Festival, London // Keep an eye on the website for programme announcements // London, U.K.
5th – 9th October // Irish Film Week // Mise Éire, 1916: The Irish Rebellion, Rebellion // Oulu, Finland.
7th – 9th October // The Irish Reels Film Festival // My Name is Emily, Mammal, You’re Ugly Too //Seattle, U.S.
22nd – 30th October // Molodist International Film Festival // Viva // Kiev, Ukraine.
27th – 28th October // Zilele Filmului Irlandez (Irish Film Days) // Sing Street, You’re Ugly Too, Stutterer and Love is a Sting // Bucharest, Romania.
16th-24th September // San Sebastian International Film Festival // Omagh, Bloody Sunday, Hunger as part of the ‘Act of Killing’ film strand // San Sebastian, Spain.
21st September – 1st October // British and Irish Film Season // Mammal, Atlantic, 1916:The Irish Rebellion, After ’16 Short films // Luxembourg.
22nd – 24th September // San Francisco Irish Film Festival // Sing Street, An Klondike, Mickybo and Me // San Francisco, USA.
22nd – 25th September // Irish Screen America – Los Angeles // Queen of Ireland, Twice Shy, // Los Angeles, USA.
28th September – 26th October // Irish in Film Series – Fairfield University // Pilgrim Hill, Michael Collins, August Rush, ’71, Brooklyn // Connecticut, USA.
28th September // Irish Film Evening – Slovenia Kinoteca // After ’16, Plough and The Stars // Ljubljana, Slovenia.
30th September – 1st October // Irish American Home Society Film Festival // Glastonbury, CT, USA.
30th September – 4th October // Irish Screen America – New York // Queen of Ireland, Can’t Cope Won’t Cope & more // New York, USA.
20th August // Lange Nacht der Filmfestivals // Bargaintown // Berlin, Germany.
19-29th August // Vama sub Lumini de Oscar, International Festival of Visual Arts // Dreamtime Revisited // Vama Veche, Romania.
31st July – 1st August // Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival // 1916:The Irish Rebellion, An Klondike, see website for full details // U.S.A.
5th June, 30th June // European Film Festival // Good Vibrations // Belem, Manaus, Brazil
11th – 19th June // Shanghai International Film Festival // Pursuit // Shanghai, China
14th June // New York Irish Arts Centre // A Doctor’s Sword // New York, U.S.A.
24th – 26th June // Céad: A Weekend of Irish Arts // London Irish Centre, UK
3rd May // Ciné CCI at the Les Trois Luxembourg Cinema, presented by Centre Culturel Irlandais // You’re Ugly Too with guest Mark Noonan // Paris, France
5th – 29th May // European Film Festival // Glassland // Bucharest, Romania
10th – 22nd May // European Film Festival// Song of the Sea // Singapore
10th – 24th May // European Film Festival// His and Hers // Maputo, Mozambique
17th May // New York Irish Arts Centre // Fortune’s Wheel with guests Joe Lee and Lorraine Kennedy //New York, United States
18th – 24th May // European Film Festival at the Musée de la Civilisation // Noble // Quebec City, Canada
19th May // European Film Festival // What Richard Did // Freetown, Sierra Leone
26th – 28th May // European Short Film Festival, Canadian Film Institute // Stutterer // Ottawa, Canada
May // European Film Festival // Kings // Vietnam
28th May // Ireland 100: President Kennedy in Ireland, Irish Film Institute screenings, Kennedy Arts Centre // Dr. Harvey O’Brien presents several films from the IFI Irish Film Archive examining President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland in the summer of 1963. // Washington, United States.
1st – 3rd April // Ottawa Irish Film Festival // Glassland, Standby, Into the West, IFI Newsreel & Actuality Programme: Ireland 1916-1923 (see website for full programme) //Ottawa, Canada.
6th – 10th April // Film Ireland // Viva, Sing Street, The Lobster, Calvary, Michael Collins, Song of the Sea// Hong Kong, China.
5th – 27th April // Days of European Film Festival // You’re Ugly Too // Prague, Czech Republic.
7th – 16th April // Titanic International Film Festival // My Name is Emily //Budapest, Hungary.
7th – 10th April // Rome Irish Film Festa // See website for programme announcements / Italy.
7th – 10th April // Irish Film Festival // Glassland, After ’16, Pursuit, Older than Ireland, Song of the Sea (see website for full programme) // Sydney, Australia.
20th April // The Cohens and The Kellys, Cuala Irish Festival NYC // Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, USA
22nd – 30th April // Ireland 2016: Centenary Film Programme // IFI Newsreel Programme: Ireland 1916, Michael Collins, Ryan’s Daughter, Young Cassidy, Mise Éire (see website for full programme) // Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada.
24th April // Luxembourg Cinematheque // 1916:The Irish Rebellion // Luxembourg
24th April // New York Centenary Commemoration // Rebellion, Mise Éire, Selection of short films // New York, United States
24th April // Irish Film London at the Bertha Dochouse // 1916: The Irish Rebellion // London, United Kingdom
3rd – 6th March // Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington, USA.
3rd – 6th March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // An Klondike, The Survivalist, Traders, After ’16 plus shorts programme // Chicago, USA.
4th March // Cinegael Montreal at the Concordia University // Patrick’s Day // Montreal, Canada.
10th – 13th March // Irish Film Festival // Pat Shortt Focus, You’re Ugly Too, Older than Ireland, Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock Story plus shorts programme (see website for details) // Boston, USA.
13th March // Irish Film London, at the Mayor of London’s St. Patrick’s Festival // Sing Street //London, UK.
13th March // Irish Film London, at the Mayor of London’s St. Patrick’s Festival // Shorts Film Programme, (see website for details) // London, UK.
14th – 22nd March // Belgrade Irish Festival // Michael Collins, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Room, After ’16, The Stag, 1916: The Irish Rebellion, Hubert Butler:Witness to the Future (see website for full details) // Belgrade, Serbia.
15th – 19th March // Sarajevo Irish Festival // Michael Collins, The Crying Game, 1916: The Irish Rebellion // Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
16th – 27th March // Irish Film Week // Room, Glassland, You’re Ugly Too, Patrick’s Day, I Used to Live Here, My Name is Emily, Michael Collins, (see website for details) // Moscow, Russia.
16th March // Irish Film London at The Photographers Gallery // 1916: The Irish Rebellion // London, UK.
17th – 20th March // Shebeen Flick, Irish Film Festival // Bargaintown, I Used to Live Here, The Commitments, Older Than Ireland, Glassland, Lost in the Living // Berlin, Germany.
18th March // Embassy of Ireland // Kings // Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
19th March // Easter Rising: Artists Now, Whitechapel Gallery // Mise Éire, Talk with Desperate Optimists, Living in a Coded Land, (see website for details) // London, UK.
28th March // Aisling Society of Sydney // Irish Destiny //Australia
5th Feb // Cinegael Montreal at the Concordia University // The Stag // Montreal, Canada.
14th Feb // Cinema Britannique & Irlandais, Ciné O’Clock // Gold // Lyon, France.
17th Feb – 15th March // Irish Film Fortnight at the Cinema Odyssée // Good Vibrations, Gold, One Million Dubliners, Rocky Road to Dublin // Strasbourg, France.
19th Feb // Cinegael Montreal at the Concordia University // You’re Ugly Too // Montreal, Canada.
22nd Jan // Cinegael Montreal at the Concordia University // Noble // Montreal, Canada
30th Jan – 2nd Feb // Internationales Filmwochenende (International Film Weekend) // Gold // Wurzburg, Germany
18th – 22nd November
The 5th Irish Film Festival London takes place in venues throughout the city including Regent Street Cinema, Tricycle Cinema, Bertha Dochouse at Curzon Bloomsbury, the Prince Charles Cinema, Rio Cinema, Europe House and Grange Hotel. The programme features Room and An Klondike and further details will be announced here
18th – 29th November
The International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam presents Peter Lennon’s Rocky Road to Dublin as part of the “Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows” strand pairing Dutch films with international documentaries that influenced each other. Rocky Road to Dublin will be shown with Er Gaat Ledere Dag Een Boot (1969) by Hans Keller.
9th – 15th November
The Alvin Sherman Library and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences present an Irish Film Festival that allows a South Florida audience to see independent contemporary Irish films not widely released in the U.S. This year’s edition features Out of Here, Good Vibrations and Gold.
IFI and Cinanima Animation Festival present a programme of contemporary Irish short animation at the 30th edition of the festival, with film-makers Louise Bagnall and Eoghan Kidney in attendance. Director Tony Donoghue is a judge on the panel for best international feature.
Bomb • David O’Reilly
Somewhere Down the Line• Julien Regnard
On Departure • Eoin Duffy
Old Fangs • Adrien Merigeau, Alan Holly
Donkey • Louise Bagnall
Seed • Ashling Lindsay
Loose Ends • Louise Bagnall
Left • Eamon O’Neill
We, The Masses • Eoghan Kidney
Mirror • David O’Reilly
Irish Folk Furniture • Tony Donoghue
6th – 8th November
The Legend of Longwood features at the Boston International Kids Film Festival, the annual children’s film festival organised by the Filmmakers Collaborative.
5th – 8th November
Dawn Morrissey of Irish Film Festival Boston presents The Guarantee and Bugaloo and Graham at the annual Irish Network United States Conference 2015.
October 6th
Alan Gilsenan’s A Vision: A Life of WB Yeats preceded by a programme of archival shorts celebrating the 150th anniversary of W.B. Yeats’ birth, screens as part of the IFI @ IAC film strand.
October 2nd – 4th
Irish Screen America, formerly known as Irish Film New York, supports and guides Irish media-makers by showcasing their work and fostering partnerships in the two largest cities for the entertainment industry in the United States – New York and Los Angeles. In New York, director Cathy Brady gives a masterclass along side screenings of Traders, Glassland, After the Dance and I Used to Live Here.
October 1st
The annual Cinegael Buffalo Festival returns to the Burchfield-Penney Arts Centre with a programme of film to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B. Yeats curated by the IFI, including Alan Gilsenan’s A Vision: A Life of W.B. Yeats, Coole Park and Ballylee (1976), and Yeats Country (1965).
September 30th – October 4th
Gold has been selected for the 26th Dinard British Film Festival with support from IFI, Centre Cultural Irlandais, and the Irish Film Board.
September 17th
We have teamed up with the Centre Cultural Irlandais, the cinema Les 3 Luxembourg and the Irish Film Board to promote contemporary Irish film and bring it to a wider audience in France. The first in the series is Good Vibrations with directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn in attendance.
September 21st to October 2nd
The British & Irish Film Season started in Luxembourg in 2010 to celebrate the rich array and diversification of film-making across the British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man), primarily from independent film production companies. The festival will showcase new Irish features, documentaries and shorts.
September 25th – 27th
Irish Screen America (formerly known as Irish Film New York) supports and guides Irish media-makers by showcasing their work and fostering partnerships in the two largest cities for the entertainment industry in the United States – New York and Los Angeles. Films screening include Traders, Glassland and I Used to Live Here. Directors Ciaran Foy, Ruairi Robinson, Gary Shore and screenwriter Naomi Sheridan will take part in industry seminars.
The Irish Reels Film Festival is dedicated to bringing the best of contemporary Irish film to US audiences, providing a platform for Irish filmmakers to showcase their independently-produced feature films, documentaries, short films and animation. The 2015 programme is to be announced.
September 17th – 19th
The San Francisco Irish Film Festival (SFIFF) was founded in 2003. The festival presents the very best in contemporary Irish cinema, celebrating everything from features to documentaries to Irish language films. The 2015 programme includes Patrick’s Day, Glassland, Gold and One Million Dubliners.
September
Following successful screenings at the European Film Festival in Vietnam, the Irish Embassy brings Once to the 24th European Film Festival in Yangon, Myanmar. Screening dates and times to be announced.
September 12th
Cartoon Saloons’ Academy Award nominated Song of the Sea screens as part of the Sunday Morning Cartoons series in the IFI @ IAC film strand.
August 12th
The Embassy of Ireland in Berlin present a host of celebrated shorts including Yu Ming is Ainm Dom, Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty and Rhinos.
July 31st – August 3rd
Founded by the The Baton Rouge Irish Club, the festival showcases Irish talent, promotes cultural diversity and encourages collaboration between individuals and businesses in Louisiana and Ireland. The 7th annual Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival returns with screenings of One Million Dubliners, Poison Pen, ’71, The Legend of Longwood and an evening of short films.
July 18th & 19th
Irish Film Festival London present UK Premieres of Patrick’s Day and One Million Dubliners at the Tricycle Theatre.
18th July Patrick’s Day with director Terry McMahon, producer Rachel Lysaght and actors Kerry Fox & Philip Jackson.
19th July One Million Dubliners with producer Rachel Lysaght and director Aoife Kelleher.
July 10th – 18th
The Odessa International Film Festival present a Jim Sheridan tribute in his presence featuring In America, In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot and The Field.
June 16th, 20th
In Hungary there is a literary link in the city of Szombathely (Leopold Bloom’s father’s fictional birthplace in Ulysses) and Bloomsday events centre around a statue of Joyce on 16th June there every year. This week long, Embassy-initiated festival will build on the efforts of the James Joyce Society on Ulysses and this year brings a film element to the programme, and are screening Pat Murphy’s Nora in Budapest.
June 12th – 16th
Bloomsday Montréal is primarily a celebration of Irish-Montréal heritage, culture and literature.The festival began in 2012, founded by the MCLL (McGill Community for Lifelong Learning), and in 2014, Festival Bloomsday Montréal became a non-profit organization. Festival Bloomsday Montréal not only boosts local pride and community spirit, but, as 40% of Quebecers have some Irish ancestry, builds awareness of diverse cultures and identities in the community.
Ballymun Lullaby opens the festival on the 12th June at the De Seve Cinema. De Sève Theatre at Concordia University
June 16th
The Slovenska Kinoteka / Slovenian Cinematheque celebrates Bloomsday with a screening of John Huston’s The Dead on the 16th June.
June 9th – 12th
The UCSI University host a film festival bringing international cinema to Malaysian audiences, including Pat Collins’ Silence, screening with the assistance of the Embassy of Ireland, Kuala Lumpur.
June 12th – Calvary
May 19th – What Richard Did
Presented in association with the Irish Intinerary, an initative of the EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies).
Calvary will screen in the Filmhaus in Saarbrucken, Germany on June 12th.
What Richard Did will screen in the Filmhaus in Saarbrucken, Germany on May 19th, with director Lenny Abrahamson will be in attendance for a Q&A.
May 13th – 24th
Calvary screens on the 22nd of May as part of the European Film Festival, supported by the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore. The European Union Film Festival is an annual event that showcases a selection of European films, giving local audiences a taste of Europe’s diversity and creativity. This film festival, now it its twenty fifth year, is a window into the intriguing world of European cinema but also an opportunity to improve exposure of local talents. It is the longest running foreign film festival in Singapore, and the second oldest film festival in Singapore.
May 28th, 29th
The Embassy of Ireland and the Norwegian Film Institute are delighted to invite you to a film masterclass and seminar on 28 and 29 May with Thaddeus O’Sullivan, an award winning Irish director and cinematographer. The film masterclass, which is free of charge, will commence on 28 May at 18hrs at Cinemateket, Dronningens gate 16, 0105 Oslo and will involve a technical discussion of his early experimental work by Thaddeus O’Sullivan himself and Professor Lance Pettitt, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. The masterclass will finish with an interactive discussion and a screening of the BAFTA nominated short film The Woman Who Married Clark Gable.
On 29 May at 18:00, O’Sullivan’s film Stella Days will be making its cinematic debut in Norway. Starring Martin Sheen as a cinema obsessed priest in 1950s rural Ireland who struggles to balance his pastoral duties with his love of cinema, this film is a Norwegian-Irish joint production. O’Sullivan will be joined in a bilingual Q+A session prior to the film by the Norwegian producer, Finn Gjerdrum, and cinematographer, John Christian Rosenlund.
O’Sullivan has worked in the British and Irish film and TV industries since the late-1970s as an accomplished cinematographer, with shorter periods in the USA. Many notable feature films followed, including December Bride (1989), Nothing Personal (1995), Witness to the Mob (1999), Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000), The Heart of Me (2003), Into the Storm (2008) and his latest feature Stella Days. He has been an award winner at the European Film Awards, the IFTAs and numerous film festivals and his works have also been nominated for a BAFTA and an Emmy.
This event was made possible by the Embassy of Ireland, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Irish Film Institute.
Registration for this event is free and can be done via our Contact Us page. Please specify your full name, which evening you wish to attend and if applicable what institute you are studying with.
May 20th
On May 20th IFI Irish Film Programmer Sunniva O’Flynn will be a guest of Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia at the Canadian Association for Irish Studies / Association canadienne d’études irlandaises Conference 2015.
She will introduce an evening programme of Irish sound and silent films (accompanied by local fiddler) and also present an illustrated lecture, titled Tracing the Canadian connection : A new history of Irish film. This history as evidenced through material preserved at the IFI Irish Film Archive will tell the story of the evolution of the collection through extracts from a range of film types (amateur, professional, sound, silent, colour black and white, etc.), each of which have a distinct Canadian connection.
Throughout the month of May we are pleased to present, in collaboration with the Embassy of Ireland in Madrid, a series of contemporary Irish film, ‘Ciné Irlandais‘ at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malága.
5th May His and Hers
12th May Natural Grace
19th May Snap
26th May Eden
May 8th -17th
Parked screens on the 11th & 16th May at the Instituto Italiano de Cultura and Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires as part of the European Film Festival, supported by the Embassy of Ireland, Argentina.
May 16th – 20th
The annual European Film Festival brings European cinema to Vietnam. We are pleased to present Once with the support of the Irish Embassy, screening details are as follows:
Hanoi – 16th & 20th May
Da Nang – 18th May
Ho Chi Min City 18th & 19th May
May 7th – 18th
The annual European Film Festival brings European cinema to Brazilian audiences.
We are pleased to present Once with the support of the Irish Embassy, screening at the following venues at the dates below:
Brasilia – CineBrasilia – 19 MayCuritiba – Cinemateca de Curitiba – 7 MayRio de Janeiro – Instituto Cervantes – 6 JuneVitoria – Cine Metropolis – 25 June 07 – 18 May
May 8th – 15th
The 19th European Film Festival takes place at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest. The film critic Irina Margareta Nistor will introduce Calvary on the 8th of May, at Cinema Studio, 8pm. The second screening will be in Craiova, on the 15th of May, at 9 pm.
For more on the Festival, watch the trailer here
April 10th – 19th
The Sarasota Film Festival presents the best in international independent cinema. We are pleased to support Out of Here screening on the 13th & 15th April.
April 17th – 29th
This year’s programme highlights different dimensions of the European Year for Development 2015. The Week comprises of 23 films on themes such as immigration, education, the situation of women and girls as well as peace and security. Along these big themes we see stories about growing, love and the strive for a better future. These films bring their stories from different parts of the world close to the viewer by means of drama, documentary, music and humour. Their aim is to impact and engage. After all, it is about our World, our Dignity and our Future, as the motto for the European Year for Development reads. The event is organized by the European Commission Representation in Finland and the European Parliament Information Office in Finland, in cooperation with Embassies and cultural institutes of EU member states and candidate countries. Blood Fruit screens on the 28th April.
April 16th – May 17th
Eurocine brings new European cinema to Columbian audiences and this year, we present What Richard Did in collaboration with the festival.
Screening times and dates are as follows:
Cine Colombia Bogotá April 16th 4:15 PM
Cine Colombia Bogotá April 18th 3:15 PM
Cinemanía Bogotá April 22th 3:00 PM
Cine Tonalá (K) Bogotá April 26th 7:00 PM
Colombo Americano May 6th 6:00 PM
April 29th – May 7th
The European Film Festival in Québec is programmed by the Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec. The Festival will include Good Vibrations, presented together with the Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa, screening at the Museum of Civilisation.
April 21st – 26th
The Cellu L’Art Kurtsfilm Festival present a host of Irish short film programmes, with an Irish Focus as their Länderschwerpunkt (Country Focus). The full programme will be announced here.
April 9th – 27th
The Days of European Film will take place in Prague in the Světozor and Lucerna cinemas from April 9th to 16th, and in the Scala cinema in Brno from April 17th to 20th. The Echoes of DEF will be held in the following towns: Plzeň, Boskovice, Jablonec and Nisou, Havířov and Hradec Králové from April 23rd to 27th. The festival will feature one Irish film this year – Calvary directed by John Michael McDonagh (10 April at 18:45 p.m., Lucerna cinema, April 14th at 20.30 p.m., Světozor cinema and April 17th at 20.30 p.m., Scala cinema), courtesy of the Irish Film Institute and Culture Ireland. The festival is a joint initiative by the European Commission and Member State Embassies in Prague.
March 15th
The Irish Film London Festival present Irish Film and Animation screenings at the Lord Mayor’s St. Patrick’s Festival London, in collaboration with the Greater London Authority. This will take place at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square on Sunday 15th March, 2015. For more details on the line-up, check out the Programme Section.
March 9th
The Irish Pub screens as part of the St. Patrick’s festivities in Glasgow.
March 19th – 22nd
The first Australian Irish Film Festival presents seven Irish features and documentaries at the Chauvel Cinema Broken Song, Living in a Coded Land, An Dhubh ina Gheal, The Sea, Out of Here, Good Vibrations and The Stag.
March 27th – 29th
The inaugral Irish Film Festival takes place in Ottawa bringing Irish cinema to new audiences. Screenings will include The Stag/Bachelor, Song of the Sea, Good Vibrations, The Pipe (in Irish), Kisses, Pilgrim Hill and Gold.
The Embassy of Ireland, Madrid present a day of festivites for St. Patrick’s Day including a screening of Cartoon Saloon and Sónta’s short animated musicals, Anam an Amhráin.
March 5th – 15th
The Danish Film Institute, with the IFI and Embassy of Ireland in Denmark present a selection of Irish films during the St. Patrick’s Day season. Screenings include Rocky Road to Dublin, Making of Rocky Road to Dublin, The Pipe, Good Vibrations, Calvary and The Pipe.
March 12th – 19th
The IFI, the Embassy of Ireland, Mexico and the Cineteca Nacional present a major retrospective of Irish cinema. Screenings will include Natural Grace, His and Hers, Good Vibrations, Song for a Raggy Boy, Frank, Secret of Kells, Calvary, Song of the Sea, In the Name of the Father, and Price of Desire.
March 11th – Uppsala, Sweden: An Bronntanas
March 18th – Uppsala, Sweden: Calvary
March 18th – Leuven, Belgium: Calvary
March 20th – Stockholm, Sweden: Calvary
The Irish Itinerary is an Irish cultural tour of Europe. This initiative of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) started in 2013 with the first Irish Itinerary.
The Embassy of Ireland will host the screening of Calvary in Stockholm.
The University of Upsalla present An Bronntanas and Calvary at the Slottsbiografen
March 14th – 24th
The Belgrade Irish Film Festival grows from strength to strength and is now in its 3rd year, introducing recent Irish cinema to new audiences.
Screenings include Frank, Short Order, The Irish Pub, Angel, Once, Broken Song and Love Eternal
The Irish Film Festival, Boston, returns once again providing valuable exhibition and distribution opportunities for Irish filmmakers, screening films at the Somerville Theatre .
The Festival has already announced their awards for 2015:
Best Feature, Gold Directed by Niall Heery Best Short, Boogaloo and Graham Directed by Michael Lennox Director’s Choice Feature, One Million Dubliners Directed by Aoife Kelleher Director’s Choice Short, The Weather Report Directed by Paul Murphy Special Jury Prize, An Bronntanas Directed by Tom Collins
Guests will include
Director Niall Heery in attendance for the screening of Gold which will open this year’s festival
Rachel Lysaght, producer and Aoife Kelleher, director of One Million Dubliners
Director Paul Murphy
March 11th – 17th
Shebeen Flick is back in Kino Moviemento with a star-studded programme of loved and unseen Irish films as part of the St. Patrick’s celebrations in Berlin.
The screenings will showcase a selection of feature length films that have not yet been distributed in Germany alongside some favourite Irish classics.
Some of the unseen films include the romantic comedy Standby starring Jessica Paré (Mad Men) and Irish shooting star Brian Gleeson and Pilgrim Hill, the debut feature from Ireland’s raising star director Gerard Barrett.
The programme also includes celebratory screenings of the 18th anniversary of the Irish cult I Went Down and the 25th anniversary of the German release of Jim Sheridan’s award-winning My Left Foot starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Come on Over will also screening at the Stummfilmkino Delphi as part of the festival.
March 11th – 22nd
The Irish Film Festival in Moscow is a key element of Irish Week in Moscow. The festival showcases Ireland’s leading filmmaking talent, with an extensive programme of recent features.
The Russian premiere of Song of the Sea, Jimmy’s Hall with actress Aisling Franciosi in attendance and a screening of Broken Song with guest rapper Costello who will also perform two concerts during the festival. The festival will also feature a documentary strand with classics such as Waveriders, Rocky Road to Dublin and the recent hit One Million Dubliners.
March 26th – 29th
The Irish Film Festa, Rome was founded in 2007 and continues to present new and classic Irish cinema with guests and panel discussions on Irish film.
Screenings at this year’s festival include Gold, Song of the Sea, Adam and Paul, Frank, Patrick’s Day, Poison Pen, A City Dreaming, An Bronntanas, and Brendan Behan, The Roaring Boy.
Now in its 23rd year, Ciné Gael Montréal organizes the largest annual Irish film series in North America. The series is held each Spring at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, with the collaboration of Concordia’s School of Irish Studies.
Friday, Jan 23rd: Gold
Friday, Feb 6th: Standby
Saturday, Feb 21st: Song of the Sea
Thursday, Feb 26th: Broken Song
Saturday, Mar 7th: Miss Julie
Saturday, Apr 11th: Evening of Short Films
with Guest Speakers Scott MacLeod and Mike Burns
The Irishman – Child of the Gael (20 mins, animation) Dir: G. Scott MacLeod
Rúbaí (12 mins, Irish language with English subtitles) Dir: Louise Ní Fhiannachta
Shoot (4 mins, animation) Dir: Rory Conway
The Last Days of Peter Bergmann (19 mins, documentary) Dir: Ciaran Cassidy
Our Unfenced Country (18 mins, live action) Dir: Niamh Heery
Friday, Apr 24th: Pilgrim Hill
7th of February & 17th of February
We continue our film collaboration with the New York Irish Arts Centre in 2015 with an evening of love-themed shorts from Ireland and New York on the 17th February, and Saturday Morning Cartoons on the 4th February.
7th February
The Edinburgh Filmhouse Cinema and University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology present an Irish History Season. Secret Histories explores the dark and troubling aspects of Irish life. From institutional abuse in Magdalene homes to the forced deportation of the revolutionary Jimmy Gralton in 1933, this series reveals Irish history in imaginative, provocative and controversial ways. The series includes John Ford’s 1935 classic The Informer, and the Scottish premiere of A Terrible Beauty, about the 1916 Rising. Each of the four films will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers, critics and experts. The titles are The Magadelene Sisters (35mm print on loan from the IFI Irish Film Archive), Jimmy’s Hall, The Informer and A Terrible Beauty.
28th of February – 7th of March
The Chicago Irish Film Festival is dedicated to presenting the works of Irish filmmakers to the Chicago film community. Since 1999 the festival has screened over 500 features, documentaries and short films by many of Ireland’s most talented and award-winning filmmakers. Each year the festival strives to include a broad representation of current Irish cinema and encourages submissions that highlight the extraordinary diversity and creativity that is the mark of Irish film making wherever in the world it may occur. 2014 marked the festival’s 15th year and it was a stellar year indeed with new partnerships and audience members that culminated in sold out screenings and new found fans of Irish film. To that end the CIFF is committed to expanding its programming throughout the year and broadening its commitment and support to Irish filmmakers through marketing and social media in the Chicago area .
15th of February
‘Absences and (Im)possibilites’, programme of Experimental Irish Film, partnered with Lux and curated by the Experimental Film Club continues to tour, screening at the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain. You can read more information about the films in this programme on the Irish Film Directory here (include link to experimental section.)
January – May
Gold – 23rd January. Standby – 6th February. Song of the Sea – 21st February
Now it’s 23rd year, Ciné Gael Montréal organizes the largest annual Irish film series in North America. The series is held each Spring at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, with the collaboration of Concordia’s School of Irish Studies.
February 2nd – 8th
The ninth Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF) brings some of the best of contemporary Irish film to Washington D.C. This year we have an exciting selection of shorts, narrative features, documentaries and even a special program of beautiful music and multimedia works. Highlights include Niall Heery’s offbeat comedy Gold, Tom Collins’ edgy thriller An Bronntanas (The Gift) and Lenny Abrahamson’s quirky and endearing Frank starring Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson and Maggie Gyllenhaal. This year’s films shed a new light on many aspects of Irish life, history and identity that will surprise, entertain and fascinate.
December 13th – 20th
We are pleased to support the Irish Film Board as Ireland is the guest of honour at the 6th Festival of European Cinema in Les Arcs, France. A retrospective of classic film titles such as Michael Collins, In the Name of the Father and Bloody Sunday screen alongside more recent and brand new titles Song of the Sea, St. Patrick’s Day, Good Vibrations and others.
November 19th – 23rd
The annual London Irish Film Festival returns with a fantatic line-up including the UK premiere of Gold, An Bronntanas, Poison Pen, Broken Song, Standby and shorts Breakfast Wine, Volkswagen Joe, How’s About Ye? and Deadly. We are delighted to announce that the IFI commisioned, Experimental Film Club curated programme Absenses and (Im)possibilities will launch at the Hackney Picturehouse in partnership with Lux, Artist Moving Image Distribution.
November 28th – 29th
The Embassy of Ireland, Tanzania, present The Wind that Shakes the Barley in the European Film Festival, screening in the Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institute and British Council.
November 10th – 14th
The Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida present documentaries Ballymun Lullaby, Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey and feature film King of the Travellers at their annual Irish film festival.
November 7th – 14th
The Alcine International Film Festival to present an Irish shorts programme, Debris, The Missing Scarf, Small Change, The Boy in the Bubble, Moore Street Masala and Blinky at the Teatro Salón Cervantes.
The Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa present Ballymun Lullaby, at the touring European Film Festival.
Library & Archives, Ottawa (13-30th November)
Cinematheque, Vancouver (21st November – 4th December)
The Royal, Toronto (15th – 30th November)
November 15th – 30th
The European Commission Representation in the capital, Valletta, present Run and Jump as the Irish film in the European Film Festival.
November 18th
We continue our partnership with the Irish Arts Centre, New York (IFI @ IAC) with a screening of a selection of short films in the Irish language.
November 8th
Natural Grace screens at the Irish Cultural Week along side talks and a performance by the Irish musician Mick Moloney and performances by the Cuban uileann pipers.
Oslo: 15th and 26th November
Bergen: 3rd and 4th December.
The Norwegian Film Institute and the Embassy of Ireland, Norway present The Other Side of Sleep as part of the ‘Her take on it’ season of films by european female directors.
November 8th-9th
The Celtic Cultural Center of Madison in collaboration with the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and the UW-Madison Celtic Studies Program presents the 2014 Celtic Film Festival. Irish titles screening include What Richard Did, Broken Song, Good Vibrations and a shorts programme.
October 23rd to November 2nd
The annual festival that celebrates the culture and history linking Liverpool and Ireland present 32A and What Richard Did, along with a shorts programme from Indie Cork.
October 10th – 12th
The third annual New Orleans Irish Film Festival will take place in the Prytania Theatre. Films include a gala screening of My Left Foot along with Good Vibrations and Animated Ireland, an animation programme curated by Steve Woods.
October 15th – 16th
The Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest presents the annual Irish Film Days festival in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute and French Cultural Institute at the Elvire Popesco Cinema. Films include What Richard Did, and animated shorts Left and Coda.
October 24th – 26th
The seventeeth annual Irish Reels Film Festival presents feature The Good Man, and documentaries Natural Grace, The Irish Pub and Living in a Coded Land.
October 5th – 22nd
The Fairfield University Irish Studies Program will host a special Irish Filmmaker Festival in October 2014, bringing several noted Irish producers, directors and writers to campus to introduce and discuss their films. The films will be shown at 7 p.m. on four successive Wednesdays in October in the University’s DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room. They are free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.“We are excited to bring such a talented and heralded line-up of producers and directors from Ireland to Fairfield,” said Nels Pearson, Ph.D., director of the Irish Studies Program. “Gilsenan, Doolan, McCann and Montague represent some of the finest work in contemporary Irish cinema and television. For students, faculty, staff, and community members, this will be a rare opportunity: not only do we get to attend exclusive screenings of recent films and pilots by these artists, but we can also join them in discussions of their works, Irish cinema and television, and Irish history, society, and politics.”
The scheduled is as follows:• October 1: Kevin McCann’s “The Boys of St. Columb’s”• October 8: Lelia Doolan’s “Bernadette: A Political Journey”• October 15: Connor Montague’s “Who Needs Enemies”• October 22: Alan Gilsenan’s “Eliza Lynch: The Queen of Paraguay”
October 3rd – 10th
An Bhean A Shúil Trasna Mheiriceá will screen at the annual Deireadh Seachtaine event in October for students of Irish. Brian Ó Broin, will present the film.
September 25th – October 5th
Now in it’s 9th year, the Oulu Irish Film Week presents a total of 8 features including Aisling Gheal, Good Vibrations and the Last of the High Kings at the Oulu Film Centre.
October 16th – 26th
As part of the Tyneside Irish Festival, we are presenting four films at the Star and Shadow Cinema , Broken Song, Adam and Paul, Bernadatte: Notes on a Politcal Journey and The Secret of Kells.
October 2nd
After a very successful run in Vietnam and Cambodia, the Embassy of Ireland, Vietnam bring Ondine to new audiences in Myanmar.
October 2nd – 5th
We are delighted to support the annual New York Irish Film Festival at the Cantor Centre. Jim Sheridan will be in attendance, and we are supporting a retrospective of his work screening In America, My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. The opening film is Niall Heery’s Gold, and other recent titles are Broken Song, Out of Here, Love Eternal and Poison Pen.
September 20th & 21st
We are pleased to support the screening of two documentaries, A Song for Ireland and A Patriot Game, by Irish-American Arthur MacCaig (1948-2008) at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.
September 2nd – 12th
In partnership with the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Jerry White from Irish Studies in Dalhousie University Department of English & Regina Ui Chollatain from the Celtic Studies department in UCD) the Irish Film Institute are presenting a selection of titles in the Irish language (Kings, Poitín, Mise Eire, Ocras and The Pipe/An Píopa), with subtitles in Catalan.
September 18th – 20th
The San Francisco Irish Film Festival was founded in 2003 by Niall McKay with the support of the Irish Film Institute and continues to present contemporary Irish cinema (features, documentary and shorts) annually at the Delancey Street Theater.
September 9th
Presented in association with the Irish Intinerary, an initative of the EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) What Richard Did will screen at the Cinematek in Adger, Norway.
September 10th
Presented in association with the Irish Intinerary, an initative of the EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) What Richard Did will screen in the University in Goteborg, Sweden.
September 24th – October 7th
Growing on the success of last year, the fifth British and Irish Film Festival in Luxemborg, takes place in the Utopolis Cinema in September 2014. Programme will be announced in early September.
September 20th
The Conradh Na Gaelige, Glaschu are screening the documentary The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile in St. Helen’s Hall as part of a night of traditional Irish music & entertainment.
September 28th
After a very successful run in Vietnam and Cambodia, the Irish Consulate to Vietnam bring Ondine to new audiences in Myanmar.
July 11th, 16.15
IFI International returns to the Galway Film Fleadh to discuss distribution of Irish cinema through international cultural channels and to create a space for festival programmers, filmmakers, and funders to meet. The session will include presentations from exhibitors in English and non-English speaking territories and will identify funding and other resources available to international exhibitors of Irish film. Chaired by Sunniva O’Flynn (IFI Head of Irish Film Programming).
Panellists include Caitriona Ryan (Culture Ireland), Niall McKay (Director, Irish Film New York), Susanna Pelis (Director, Rome Irish Film Festa), Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh (IFI International Co-ordinator), Gerry Shirren (Managing Director, Cartoon Saloon).
If you would like to attend please contact Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh
July 28th
Solus Nua continues its successful programme (Jan – Dec) with a screening of Good Vibrations.
July 18th – 20th
The annual Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival presents a series of Irish features and shorts in Louisiana at the Manship Theatre. The short film programme include recent titles: Scratch; The Missing Scarf; Mechanic; and old favourites, Granny O’Grimm and Free Chips Forever.
July 4th
The Solus Film Collective are screening a selection of films from the Absences and (Im)possibilities programme that traces a traditional of Irish experimental film, commisioned by IFI International and curated by the Experimental Film Club, Dublin.
Programme: Sackville Street (1897, 50 secs, B&W, 35mm) from Alexandre Promio, Lumière Brothers; By Accident (Extract) (1930, 3mins 40 secs, B&W, 16mm), Norris Davidson; Guerrillére Talks (1978, 24 mins 29 secs, Colour, Super 8), Vivienne Dick; Here After (2004, 13mins, B&W, 16mm), Paddy Jolley, Rebecca Trost/Inger Lise Hansen; Late Arrival (2006, 2 mins 10 secs, Colour, MiniDV), Barry Ronan; With Wind and White Cloud (2005, 3 mins 43 secs, B&W, Super8), Dónal Ó Céilleachair and The Predicament of Man (3 mins, 16mm and Digital Mixed Media, 2010), Jesse Jones.
June 6th – 16th
What Richard Did screening: Wednesday 11th June, 8.30 pm, Cinema Lumière, Sala Scorsese with Lenny Abrahamson in attendance.
Adam & Paul screening: Thursday 12th June, 7 pm, Cinema Lumière, Sala Scorsese with Lenny Abrahamson in attendance.
June 6th
‘Brightly Smile and Sweetly Sing’ is a collection of one-off documentaries on the history, culture and poetry of Ireland. They include a look at the extraordinary work of The Book of Kells from the middle ages as well as a film on the unknown story of African American slave Frederick Douglass and his escape to Ireland in 1840 that fortified his spirit in his fight to end slavery.
Also a work on contemporary poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill who writes her haunting and other-worldly poems in Irish.
Each film segment is introduced by a special guest and presenter who will give a short but informative background talk into that part of Irish history and culture.
June 10th
A diverse film programme celebrating the best of Irish film, including U.S. premieres and screenings of independent, contemporary and retrospective films. Includes Aisling Gheal.
June 1st – 12th
The Secret of Kells is the 2014 Irish film in the annual EU Film Festival in Ethiopia, screening in Addis Ababa, Mekelle Adama and DireDawa.
May 30th – June 8th
The 13th Transilvania International Film Festival presents an Irish Focus, screening Calvary; Cal; What Richard Did; Love Eternal; Good Vibrations; Men at Lunch; and The Stag.
May 22nd
What Richard Did continues to tour as part of the Irish Itinerary, organised by the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies, screening in the Auditorium of Biblioteca Lucio Craveiro da Silva in the centre of Braga.
May 29th
The Secret of Kells will screen as part of the ‘Festival de Niños’ festival of European Culture for Children at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City.
May 11th
Never before screened in Australia, ‘Brightly Smile and Sweetly Sing’ is a collection of one-off documentaries on the history, culture and poetry of Ireland. They include a look at the extraordinary work of The Book of Kells from the middle ages as well as a film on the unknown story of African American slave Frederick Douglass and his escape to Ireland in 1840 that fortified his spirit in his fight to end slavery.
Touring Blue Mountains, Central West, Newcastle.
May 9th – 15th
This is the 18th edition of the European Film Festival in Bucharest. Cartoon Saloon and Sónta’s co-production of Anam an Amhráin, 10 short animations will represent Ireland film at the festival, screening in Cinema Studio and Cinema Elvira Popescu.
May 2nd – 9th
His and Hers will screen in Montevideo in Uruguay as part of the annual European Film Festival.
May 8th – mid June
His and Hers will screen in the touring EU Film Festival in Chile, opening in Santiago de Chile and travelling to 4 cities in the provinces.
May 21st – mid June
His and Hers will tour Argentina beginning in Buenos Aires and then touring the EU Film Festival circuit to Tucumán (June 3rd – 15th), Salta (June 25th – July 5th), San Juan (July 11th – 20th) , Mendoza (July 23rd – August 1st) , Ushuaia (August 8th – 17th) , Rosario (August 26th – September 4th) and Bahía Blanca (September 10th -26th).
May 14th – 25th
Grabbers is this year’s Irish film in the annual EU Film Festival.
What Richard Did will close the EU Film Festival on May 25th in Singapore.
May 5th
Neil Jordan’s Ondine is this year’s Irish film at the EU Film Festival in Cambodia, screening in Phnom Pen and Siem Reap.
May 16th
Neil Jordan’s Ondine is this year’s Irish film at the EU Film Festival in Vietnam, with 14 cultural institutes showing films from 14 countries, screening in the National Cinema Center in Hanoi & BHD cinema in Ho Chi Minh city.
Presented in association with the Irish Intinerary, an initative of the EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies), What Richard Did will screen in the Lux Cinema in Nijmegen. Director Lenny Abrahamson will be in attendance and will participate in a Q&A.
May 21st
Presented in association with the Irish Intinerary, an initative of the EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies), What Richard Did will screen in the Cinemaxx in Wuppertal, Germany. Director Lenny Abrahamson will be in attendance and will participate in a Q&A.
Presented in association with the Irish Intinerary, an initative of the EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies), What Richard Did will screen in the Filmhaus in Saarbrucken, Germany. Lenny Abrahamson will be in attendance for a Q&A.
May 16th – 21st
The European Info Centre presents two Irish features: Black Ice and Silence at the EU Film Week celebrating European film culture in Belgrade, Serbia.
mid May
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is this year’s Irish film at the EU Film Festival in Maputo, Mozambique.
The European Film Festival in Brazil will present screenings of Once in Rio and Brasilia.
May 8th – 9th
The EU Short Film Festival will present three Irish shorts: Cuílin Duálach, Irish Folk Furniture and The Missing Scarf in Ottawa, Canada
May 6th
A screening of Skin in the Game, Donald Taylor Black’s documentary examining the current financial crisis through responses of a number of artists who are using it as subject matter for their work.
late April
Screening of ‘Green Fields of France’ to mark Europe Day, in the annual EU Film Festival. This year’s theme is “Events That Shaped Europe: On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Beginning of WWI”.
April 3rd to 4th
Hardy Bucks The Movie will screen as part of the Eszterhazy Károly College International Days Festival. There will be a Q&A with director Mike Cockayne after the screening.
April 25th
‘Irishmen Impressions of Exile’ will be shown as part of the Sean Lynch exhibition in the Modern Art Oxford Gallery.
April 20th – 30th
Once will screen in both Jeddah and Riyadh in Suadi Arabia as part of the 8th EU Film Festival.
April 10th – 17th
The Sea is this year’s Irish film at the Days of European Film Festival, Prague and director Stephen Brown will be in attendance to present the film.
April 10th – 13th
Now in it’s 20th year, The Bradford International Film Festival is one of the UK’s most respected and eclectic celebrations of cinema. Widescreen Weekend will feature short film Lotus by Glenn Marshall.
April 7th to 9th
What Richard Did and Aisling Gheal will screen in the Debrecen Spring Cultural Festival, a highlight in the cultural calender of Hungary’s second largest city. This is through the Irish Itinerary, which is a touring programme of Irish arts throughout Europe co-ordinated by the EFAIS (European Federation and Centres of Irish Studies).
April 3rd
Present Music engages artists and audiences in imaginative and provocative experiences with new music through ensemble performance, education and commissioning. This April, Present Music will feature performances from Irish artists sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lianáird and Donncha Dennehy (founder of Crash Ensemble), and the IFI are pleased to support a pre concert screening of Aisling Gheal.
April 4th to 12th
Following on from the success of the Irish Film season in 2013, the Titanic International Film Festival will present two new Irish films: Calvary, which will open the festival and Mister John.
27th March to 10th April
IFI International is delighted to screen Good Vibrations as part of the EU Film festival
Irish film-maker and curator Moira Tierney presents a programme of recent Irish and international films by Solus Collective members at the Zeitgesit Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans.
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March 26th – April 1st
We are delighted to assist with a major retrospective of Irish cinema featuring 25 titles at the 13th ‘Les Recontres du cinema europeen’, an annual showcase of European cinema held in Vannes, France.
Guests include:
Director and producer of Goldfish Memory Liz Gill; Breda Walsh and Director of Adam and Paul, What Richard Did and Frank, Lenny Abrahamson.
March 17th – 19th
The Berlin St. Patrick’s Festival opens on March 17th and will see the launch of Irish Film on Tour, presented in collaboration with the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, showcasing the work of Irish filmmakers with the aim of creating future distribution and work opportunities. Films include What Richard Did, The Summit & Jump.
On March 16th, in collaboration with Saint Patrick’s Day London, we present a day of Irish shorts at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square.
March 27th – 30th
The Irish Film Festa Rome. opens its 7th edition with The Stag and presents 15 new short films in competition.
Guests Confirmed:
Lelia Doolan (Director of Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey), Bob Quinn (Director of Atlantean), Kate O’Toole (Chairperson of Galway Film Fleadh), Ciaran McMenamin (Actor, Made in Belfast), Graham Cantwell (Director, The Callback Queen), Amy Joyce Hastings (Actress The Callback Queen), Stuart Graham (Actor, Volkswagon Joe).
March 20th – 23rd
The Irish Film Festival, Boston, returns for its 14th year, once again providing valuable exhibition and distribution opportunities for Irish filmmakers.
Jury Winners and guests include:
Best Breakthrough Feature: Run and Jump, Director: Steph Green, Producer: Tamara Anghie, and Actress: Ruth McCabe
Most Inspiring Best Short: Volkswagen Joe, Director: Brian Deane, Editor: Eamonn Cleary
Director’s Choice Feature: Life’s a Breeze, Actress: Kelly Thornton
Director’s Choice Short: Breakfast Wine, Director: Ian Fitzgibbon, Actor: Dylan Moran
Global Vision Best Documentary: Skin in the Game, Director: Donald Taylor Black
Special Jury Prize: NOBLE, Director: Stephen Bradley, Actress: Deirdre O’Kane
March 13th – 18th
We are pleased to support the second annual Belgrade Irish Film Festival, introducing to Serbian audiences the best of recent Irish cinema. Guest will include Johnny Gogan, director of Black Ice.
March 12th – 23rd
The IFI continues to support the Irish Film Festival, Moscow, a key element of Irish Week in Moscow. The festival showcases Ireland’s leading filmmaking talent, with an extensive programme of recent features, including Calvary, Mister John and Run and Jump. Guests include: David McSavage, (Savage Eye) Hugh O’Conor (actor, The Stag), Mark O’Connor (Director, King of the Travellers), and comedian Aiden Bishop.
16.00, March 16th
A screening of silent film from the archive, Come on Over, with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney in the Barbican Cinema and presented by Head of Irish Film Programming at the IFI, Sunniva O’Flynn
A special screening to mark St. Patrick’s Day, the Barbican presents Alfred E. Green’s story of the feisty Moyna Killilea (Colleeen Moore), who travels across the sea from Lisdoonvarna to follow her sweetheart (Ralph Graves) to a New York boarding house. A series of misunderstandings and adventures ensue, featuring high society dames, a formidable landlady, Irish cops and drunken layabouts, all climaxing at a ceilidh.
With a cast full of lively characters, this riotous comedy Irish gem has not been seen before in U.K. cinemas.
(March 1st – 31st)
There will be screenings of Tim Robinson: Connemara and Silence by Pat Collins in the AV Festival, International Festival of Art, Music and Film on March 22nd, 2014. Filmmaker Pat Collins will be present for a Q&A with one of the film’s soundtrack artists Susan Stenger. The event is part of the Digging for Sound weekends of new commissions, concerts, films, and walks focusing on geology, topography, landscape and sound.
Ongoing programme – March, May, June 2014.
IFI @ IAC programme: See Details
Screening of Moon Man on the 22nd March: See Details
A diverse film programme celebrating the the best of Irish film, including U.S. premieres and screenings of independent, contemporary and retrospective films.
March 17th:
Irish Popcorn Series at Solas Nua, in Washington screening of Cartoon Saloon and Sónta’s animated series of Irish Lullabies Anam An Amhráin.
December 5th – 8th
The Capital Irish Film Festival is run by Solas Nua in Washington and they are screening a range of Irish documentaries, shorts and feature films.
IFI and EFC present the launch of Absences and (Im)Possibilities a programme of Irish Experimental Film works commissioned by IFI International, and curated by Esperanza Collado, Aoife Desmond, Donal Foreman and Alan Lambert.
The programme features a selection of films from 1897 to 2013, chosen for their relation to the possibility of an Irish experimental cinema. Filmmakers include the Lumière brothers, Samuel Beckett, Vivienne Dick, Clare Langan, Maximillian Le Cain and Dónal Ó Céilleachair.
Full programme:
Sackville Street (Lumière Brothers, 1897, 00:50)Youghal Clock Tower (James Horgan, 1910, 00:30)Film (Samuel Beckett, 1964, 21:00)Guerrillere Talks (Vivienne Dick, 1978 ,24:00)Glass Hour (Clare Langan, 2002, 08:00)St. Francis Didn’t Run Numbers (Chris O’Neill, 2009, 02:00)Late Arrival (Barry Ronan, 2006, 03:00)Mongolian Barbeque (Maximilian Le Cain, 2009, 11:00)With Wind & White Cloud (Dónal Ó Céilleachair, 2005, 05:00)Homo Sapiens Project (93) (Rouzbeh Rashidi, 2013, 12:47)
IFI International is the Irish film programming service for international exhibitors, funded by Culture Ireland. Absences and (Im)Possibilities will screen internationally through this initiative (which will also include this month’s Archive at Lunchtime films).
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
November’s programme complements the IFI and Experimental Film Club programme which attempts to trace an Irish experimental tradition.
PROGRAMME 1: By Accident (+ Screening in the Rain)
This early avant-garde work, much admired by Jack B. Yeats who attended several screenings in the Peacock Theatre in 1930, is an elliptical tale of a young man’s sombre reflections on his life filmed from the top of Nelson’s Pillar.
DIRECTOR: J.N.G. Davidson
FILM INFO: 20 minutes, 1930, Black and White
PROGRAMME 2: Self Portrait with Red Car
Bob Quinn’s clever little film is about the degree to which sound controls our perception of reality. Artist Brian Bourke is the human being in the film. His performance is brilliant, and very funny.
DIRECTOR: Bob Quinn
FILM INFO: 20 minutes, 1977, Colour
These screenings take place at lunchtime on Mondays and Wednesdays, with a double bill on Saturdays. Please check at the IFI Box Office or here for times. Simply book your FREE seat by contacting the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie (given that events can sell out, please note that your emailed booking requests must be confirmed by reply email from the Box Office in order to be considered valid).
December 3rd – 4th
Annual Irish Days Film festival screening Ballymun Lullaby, Milo and a programme of four short films. Screenings will take place in the Elvira Popescu Cinema of the French Institute.
November
Annual EU Film Festival held in two cultural centres in Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, the Alliance Francaise and Nafasi Art Space. This year’s Irish film is Kings.
The fourth annual EU Film festival in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. This year’s Irish title is Natural Grace.
Ottawa – November 26th
Toronto – November 27th
Vancouver – December 1st
November 20th – 24th
Annual Irish Film festival established in 2011, bringing the latest Irish Film & Animation to a London audience. Festival programme includes screenings, director Q&A sessions, related workshops, exhibitions and performances. IFI International will continue to provide support to the festival for their 2013 programme.
November 16th – 23rd
The 21st annual cinematography festival are honouring Slawomir Idziak with a lifetime achievement award and have selected Love and Rage by Cathal Black to screen as part of the film selection.
They will also screen My Left Foot and honour Jim Sheridan who will be in attendance.
November and December
Buenos Aires Irish Film festival and the Montevideo Film Festival will be a week-long event at the end of November/first week in December. Martin Hayes and Art O’Briain will be in attendance.
El Mundo en Tu Barrio’ in Buenos Aires will take place on November 4th, 11th and 18th. Monday, 25th is a feriado so we will not show a movie this day. It will take place from 7pm to 9pm in ‘Espacio Cultural Julian Centeya’
• Dreamtime Revisited
• Kings
• What Richard Did
In Montevideo (starting Friday, November 29th for one week)
• DreamTime Revisited
• The Other Side of Sleep
• Natural Grace
Opening ceremony and screening on November 1st
Annual EU Film Festival held in Beijing and travels to three other cities. This year’s film is Pilgrim Hill and director Gerard Barrett will be in attendance.
November 11th -17th
Annual Irish Film Festival held in the Nova Southeastern University, Florida will be screening three films What Richard Did, His and Hers and Silence from November 11th to 17th 2013.
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 13:50, 20:30
ANORA 20:25
CONCLAVE 13:20 (OC), 15:50, 18:10, 20:40
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 14:00, 18:30
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 16:00, 18:20
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 16:10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE BIG HEAT 11.00
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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