Director: Ira Sachs Starring: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos Running Time: 92 minutes An emerging aversion to sex and sexuality on screen is one of those online trends it can be difficult to gauge for real life impact. There is always the question of how seriously to take something so un-serious, and the dismissal…
On Saturday, 2nd of September, cinemas across the Republic of Ireland will celebrate National Cinema Day with admission tickets at participating cinemas reduced to just €4 (RSP) including Premium seats, screens and 3D screenings. The 2023 initiative is supported by Screen Ireland. Last year’s National Cinema Day was a huge success in Ireland, with over 200,000 admissions for that single day,…
An eagerly anticipated Irish film that’s had success on the festival circuit is set for a wider release this autumn. Directed by Declan Recks, Tarrac premiered last year at the 2022 Galway Film Fleadh and later headlined the it’s home county festival, the Kerry International Film Festival. Set in the Kingdom itself, the film tells the story…
The Irish Film Institute’s annual Documentary Festival returns from 27th September – 1st October and the full programme is available now. Across the five days of the festival, 13 features and a variety of Irish-made short films will be seen, and you can read through the full programme now HERE. Today the Irish Film Institute…
Oscar Harding, director of upcoming doc A Life on the Farm, will be in attendance in the fair city of film early this September for a screening and Q&A for his new film at the Light House Cinema. On Saturday 9th September, fellow filmmaker Luke McManus, director of North Circular, will host a post-screening conversation…
The Achill Island Film Festival has for the last two years aimed to provide a showcase of Irish and international filmmakers off the west coast of Ireland. Recent social media posts from the festival’s official X (formerly Twitter) account have caused concern among the Irish filmmaking community however. Early in the morning of the 17th…
Stingy studios stiffing strikers, films written off for tax breaks, ‘cameos’ by actors that have been dead for decades, Mel Gibson still being cast in things – we’re living in a Golden Age of Bankruptcy not seen since the Recession. And why should ‘moral’ have all the fun, when ‘creative’ can get involved too? For…
In the time it takes you to read this sentence it will have rained the heaviest amount in recorded history and hit temperatures so high as to dry everything off again. Irish seasons are becoming even more unpredictable than ever, and August, a bewildering holiday limbo of summer/autumn indecisiveness remains a seasonal uncertainty, but at…
Featuring work from filmmakers including Mia Mullarkey, Hannah Mammalis, Derek Ugochukwu, Pollyanna McIntosh, Myles O’Reilly, Aaron Monaghan and Clare Monnelly amongst many others, the Boyne Valley International Film Festival (BVIFF) returns this August from the 11-13. After a hugely successful inaugural festival in 2022, co-directors, Collette Farrell and Frank W. Kelly are delighted to welcome both filmmakers…
