DIFF 2025: Postcards from Happy Endings in Neo Sora and Radu Jude’s new films

Happyend Director: Neo Sora Starring: Kurihara Hayato, Hidaka Yukito, Ayumu Nakajima, Makiko Watanabe, Shirō Sano. Running Time: 113 minutes The senior prank, one of the great fascinations of American cinema. It feels rare to see these burning displays of late adolescence in other realms of global cinema, but Neo Sora’s (Ryuichi Sakamoto:Opus) debut retools those well worn senioritis japes for…

Run Silent, Run Deep: DIFF’s Silent Shorts Gala Demonstrates How A Festival Can Effectively Bring Classic Cinema to a New Audience

The 2025 Dublin International Film Festival has gotten off to a roaring start. Thursday’s Opening Night Gala saw Light House Cinema’s Screen 1 hosting everyone’s favourite ‘King of the Conclave’, Ralph Fiennes, in attendance for the Irish premiere of his new film, The Return, alongside the film’s director, Uberto Pasolini. Friday saw a fantastic celebration…

Fiona Shaw and more among the early announcements for DIFF 2025

The Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) returns from February 20th to March 2nd, 2025, and they’re promising eleven days of cinematic excellence, global stories, and unforgettable experiences. The biggest festival in the fair city of film plans next year to continue celebrating world-class filmmaking, amplify diverse voices, and attract new audiences, and they’ve made some advance announcements to…

Discover Irish docs at DIFF 2024

Ireland excels at documentary filmmaking. The last decade in particular has seen a Golden Age in Irish Documentary, with filmmakers like Paul Duane, Sinéad O’Shea and more doing innovative, immersive and interesting work in capturing real stories from Ireland and abroad. Programming good homegrown docs has always been one of the strengths of the Dublin…