For this year’s Bike Week, on Friday 16th May, Dublin City Council and the Office of the Night-Time Economy will present a special outdoor screening of The Song Cycle, right in the middle of the fair city of film, taking place at 9pm at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. Bike Week is a week dedicated…
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Ensnared in the scares at the root of Fréwaka
Director: Aislinn Clarke Starring: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya Running Time: 103 minutes With Irish horror going through its Golden Age, the current trend for horror to be up front about its metaphors for trauma (of which our island has plenty), and an increased experience on screen in tapping into our rich resources…
on the Rocky Road to Dublin in Sinners
This article contains spoilers for Sinners, in Irish cinemas now. A beloved Irish standard, ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’ describes the travails and troubles of a young man who leaves home to seek his fortune. Along the way he drinks, dances and tries to catch the eye of the lassies with his curious style, but he…
The Bloomsday Film Festival welcomes Writers’ Tears Irish Whiskey as sponsor in 2025
Ireland’s most literary film festival returns this summer, promising another celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s Father of modernism, James Joyce. The Bloomsday Film Festival is the cinematic branch of the wider celebrations every year of the iconic author. For 2025, they have a high profile…
The Muppets take the Light House in May
Finally, a screening at the Light House devoted entirely to your fella and his mates. No but it’s actually much better news than that for all the lovers, the dreamers, and me. The Smithfield cinema have announced that coming up in the month of May, they’re going to be screening five of the feature films…
Directing legend Werner Herzog in converation at the IFI
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog is set for a visit to the IFI for a special conversation taking place on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025 from 10:30 to 12:30. Tickets are free and flying out fast for this event, held by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland as part of Section 481 Skills Development Screen Talks. Herzog is currently in the fair city…
JFF arrives in Dublin
The Japanese Film Festival is bringing screenings of some of the best new films from Japan all across Ireland, and from today the Dublin leg of this year’s festival begins in Dublin. All through April JFF are screening feature films across Cork, Dundalk, Dublin, Bray, Waterford, Ballina, Galway, Wexford and Sligo. That includes fourteen new…
An evening of art and insight at the Film Ireland Cover Art Exhibition
If you’re up for a look through Irish cinema history, Film Ireland have you covered. They’re hosting an exhibition of 100 covers of the former Film Ireland magazine, covering decades of great Irish film to mark the ongoing development of their Film Ireland Digital Archive, in association with DBS School of Arts and the PARC25…
Iberscreen 2025 at the Irish Film Institute
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…
It’s Eggers over-easy at the Light House this Easter
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…