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…
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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…
New Italian Cinema Events across Ireland for NICE 2025
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.…
How much is Irish Independent Cinema thriving?
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…
A TITE programme – the Trans Image/Trans Experience Film Festival arrives in April
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…
Lean, Mean Filmmaking Machine – see the classics of David Lean at IFI
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…
FLINTA Films at Directed By Her 2025
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…