It’s Mother’s Day in Ireland tomorrow – we know you didn’t forget – and it’s an opportunity to celebrate the matriarchal figures in your life, whether it’s taking your real-life mammy out for tea or putting on your Aliens DVD and insisting that the Alien Queen did nothing wrong, in the dark, to yourself. Mothers…
The Irish Film Institute is your best bet in Dublin for seeing collated and curated international cinema, whether that’s in their ongoing programming or in their dedicated seasons like the French Film Festival, or Kinopolis. This spring they’re adding a new festival to their calendar to share the best of contemporary South American and Spanish…
All four films by director Robert Eggers will be screening in Smithfield this April as the Light House have announced that they’ll be hosting ‘Easter Eggers’, a marathon session of the horror fiend’s filmography. This Easter Sunday they’ll be giving thanks and praise to the new king of folklore, mythology and horror, with tickets to…
Italian cinema will be celebrated across Ireland in the coming weeks as NICE kicks off a series of festival events in Limerick, Dublin, Cork and Galway. The 4th edition of the NICE Italian Film Festival comes to Limerick for the first time today as these screenings start off, running from 27th March to 6th April.…
It’s no secret that Irish audiences love the cinema. Our figures for cinema admissions per head have consistently been among the highest in Europe since the mid-90s, and have been steadily increasing again since the full closure era of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is part thanks to having plenty of multiscreen sites across the island…
The TRANS IMAGE/TRANS EXPERIENCE (TITE) Film Festival is Ireland’s first festival entirely focused on trans and non-binary cinema. Screening a wide range of shorts from Ireland and abroad, 8 feature films, plenty of Q&As and a special workshop, TITE aims to shift the focus of trans filmmaking from representation to craft, championing trans and non-binary filmmakers…
Brief Encounter, In Which We Serve, Great Expectations are among the 8 classic titles to be screened at the Irish Film Institute starting from this April, all in 35mm, as part of their latest series. A screening Kicks off a 2-month, 16-film extended encounter with David Lean, one of the most influential filmmakers in Western cinema…
The latest edition of GALPAL Collective‘s short film showcase Directed By Her takes place next week. See 12 films created and curated by FLINTA creatives on Wednesday 26th March at the Irish Film Institute. FLINTA brings together the Female, Lesbian, Intersex/Intergender, Non-Binary, Trans and Agender, and the Directed By Her programme brings together shorts as…
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Starring: Menagerie Running Time: 85 minutes With its stunning landscapes, thoughtful sound design and memorable characters it’s unsurprising that Flow has become the most viewed film in Latvian cinema history. Flow tells its story almost as a collection of vignettes, we follow a cat as he meanders through his life in a forest punctuated with statues…
Director: Mark Anthony Green Starring: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Amber Midthunder, Murray Bartlett Running Time: 104 minutes The latest cinematic offering from A24, Opus, teeters between horror, satire and a bizarre love letter to the most eccentric corners of celebrity culture. It stars Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Bottoms) as Ariel Ecton, a journalist…
