The Fingal Film Festival was launched in September of 2012 and has run every year since. The festival endeavours to place a spotlight on local independent filmmaking by screening locally produced films, running workshops with some industry bigshots and celebrating the diversity of cinema by screening some national and foreign films. The schedule for this Year’s festival has just been announced, check it out below.
Friday 30th September
| 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (9:30 registration) | Animation Workshop: Stephen Fagan –Treehouse Republic Animation. | ||||||||
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6:00 pm Screening (139 mins) |
A Beautiful Death – Irish Documentary | Fumes – UK Short Film | Who doesn’t have a dark side? – French Short Film | Cousins – Irish Student Film (DIT) | Risky Game – German Short | Murphy’s law – Canadian Feature Documentary directed by Megan Murphy | |||
| Opening Night
Premiere Screening 9:00 pm (115 mins) |
Eye for an Eye – German Animation |
Deirdre – Irish Short Film |
Cardboard Gangsters – Irish Feature Film directed by Mark O’Connor | ||||||
Saturday 1st October
| 10:00 am – 1:00pm (9:30 am registration) | Sound Design Workshop: Room Multi-Oscar winning Feature Film case study
Speakers: Screenscene’s Niall Brady and Steve Flanagan of Ardmore |
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| Special 1916 Screening 5:00 pm | Summon Her Children – Short | A Soldier Rising – Short | Proclaim – Short | The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Feature Film directed by Ken Loach | |||||||
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9:00 pm Screening (113 mins) |
The Sweetest Thing – Irish Student Film | Tandem – Spanish Short Film | Little Flower – Irish Student Animation (Coláiste Dhulaigh) | Maidhm – Irish Scannáin na hÉireann Short | Smoke City – Irish Animation Short | South – Irish Feature Film directed by Gerard Walsh | |||||
Sunday 2nd October
| 3:00 pm Screening (128 mins) | Family Portrait – Irish Student Short (DKIT) | Russian Roulette – UK Short | Kukuschka – Russian Animation Short | Astrid – Spanish Short | More than a Barber Shop –Irish Short | In Dialogue – Irish Feature Documentary directed by Xuban Intxausti |
| 6:00 pm Screening (138 mins) | Junk Girl – Iranian Animation Short | Wojtek – Polish Short | Tearmann – Scannáin na hÉireann (Irish) | Mama Ler I Skuffen – German Short | Rapto – Irish Student Short (ITB) | Atlantic – Irish Feature Documentary directed by Risteard O’Domhnaill |
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9:00 pm Screening (147 mins) |
11 Years – German Student Short (Ohm University) | The Shed – Irish Documentary Short | The Cabinet Decision – German Animation | Coming to Terms – Spanish Student Short (NYFA) | Hamburgo – German Short | Where to Miss? – German Feature Film directed by Blanca Laschalt |