One of the biggest film festivals on the island returns for its 37th edition. The 2025 Galway Film Fleadh has begun this evening in Town Hall Theatre with Recreation, the first of many feature premieres out west this week. Hotly anticipated Irish films like Christy, Trad and Báite are all set to screen over the…
Two sides of Dublin life collide in Love Lane United, as a motley crew of sesh gremlins take up soccer. The film follows Benny who, spurred by the emigration of his best friend, and the loss of his job, throws together a drink-fuelled Sunday league football team as a means of holding onto his friends…
“As a director I am very drawn to realism, I feel that reality is often your best friend and I love to dive deep into the core of a historical movement or take inspiration from real life events to shape my characters and narrative.” It’s those interests and inclinations that brought Michael Antonio Keane to…
One of Ireland’s top performers of stage and screen will be awarded this autumn at KIFF, joining the ranks of stars including Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, Eileen Walsh and more. Kerry International Film Festival announced this afternoon that award-winning actress Fiona Shaw is the recipient of this year’s Maureen O’Hara Award ahead of the 26th…
‘75 / ‘25 is a bi-monthly series whose goal is to analyse some of 1975’s great films in the context of the world in which they were birthed, and seek to find analogues within the 2025 slate of films in an effort to compare and contrast our current moment to fifty years ago. Warning: This…
The GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival has today announced the new full festival programme of Irish and international films, as they’ll be showcasing a spectacular 7 day schedule of Irish and international queer cinema in its full splendour at the Light House Cinema and Irish Film Institute (IFI) from 29th July to 4th August 2025. In the 33rd edition of one of Dublin’s biggest festivals,…
Wildcard and Vertigo Releasing have today released the teaser trailer for Saipan, the eagerly awaited new film about the infamous confrontation between iconic Republic of Ireland football captain Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) and his national team manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) during the team’s preparations for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Due to arrive in…
Director: Danny Boyle Starring: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell Running Time: 115 minutes There are few more defining images of popular cinema in the new millennium than that of Cillian Murphy’s Jim, freshly out of a month-long coma, wandering the vacant streets of a London ravaged by disaster as the…
The IFI are promising a sizzling summer (we are very cool and will not mention shrimps or barbies) next month with a proramme of classic Australian cinema. From the grizzled Ozploitation action of Mad Max, to early films from masters like Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong and Nicolas Roeg, and trailblazing Indigenous entries into the Australian…
With Sian Conway introducing the film Big Night for the IFI’s Bigger Picture this week, the food writer, film lover and regular consumer and admirer of Italian cuisine has written and narrates a video essay for Film In Dublin, about the film’s sumptuous story, it’s unforgettable dishes, and the themes about food, finance and identity…
