A dynamic programme of contemporary Irish hip hop and R&B musicals is set to be one of the more enticing elements of this year’s Dublin International Film Festival. Playback x DIFF is a collabaration between musical and film talent, as some of Ireland’s biggest names in the music scene engage creatively with rising and risen directing talent, producing that mutual staple of behind the camera skill and alternative expression in rap and R&B: the music video.
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Announcements are still coming in for this year’s Dublin International Film Festival. New films, events and interviews are all on the way for the biggest festival in the fair city of film (and beyond for this year’s all-online edition), with one of Ireland’s biggest stars set to speak. The festival have announced that Colin Farrell, Amma Asante and Francis Lee will be among the guests at the 2021 festival this March.
- February 19, 2021
- Alternate Take, Amma Asante, Colin Farrell, DIFF, DIFF 2021, Film Posters, Francis Lee, Interviews, NCAD, Online, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, VMDIFF 2021
Over17 years, the Dublin International Film Festival has screened over over a thousand international films from countries all over the world as well as showcasing the work of Ireland’s very talented producers, directors, screenwriters and actors. The Festival has hosted over 600 major guests from the world of film, including Al Pacino, Angela Lansbury, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Danny DeVito, Ennio Morricone and more. This year’s festival has announced one of the biggest current names in film on this side of the water will be participating as director Steve McQueen set to make an appearance in conversation with one of Ireland’s own leading lights.
- January 29, 2021
- 2021, Dublin International Film Festival, Events, Film Festivals, Interview, March, Online, Steve McQueen, VMDIFF, VMDIFF21, Young People’s Short Programme
Time to prick up your ears and get ready to rock with The New Music – a foot-stomping Irish musical-drama with a big heart and a punk ethos – that has been making waves at festivals, winning the ‘Spirit of IndieCork’ Award for 2019. This heartwarming feature is now set for its full Irish and UK release on digital streaming services from 18 January 2021 courtesy of 101 Films
- January 18, 2021
- 2021, Chiara Viale, Cilléin McEvoy, Digital, Independent Film, Irish Film, On-Demand, The New Music
Dublin’s biggest film festival makes its return this March. Things will be different, but the biggest celebration of cinema in the fair city of film is scheduled to go ahead this Spring. The best of filmmaking from Ireland and around the world will be shared at VMDIFF 2021 in a new multi-platform programme to meet the challenges of our current times. The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2021 will be a varied selection of films available in cinemas, outdoors and at home.
- December 4, 2020
- 2021, Amma Asante, Angeline Ball, Castleknock, Deadly Cuts, DIFF, DIFF 2021, Drive Through, Dublin, Dublin International Film Festival, Film Festivals, Live Cinema, Maïmouna Doucouré, March, Online, Rachel Carey, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, What's On, Women In Film
Next year will see the release of a highly anticipated drama featuring rising acting talents and based on the work of Irish writer Rob Doyle.
- November 20, 2020
- 2021, Anya Taylor-Joy, Dean-Charles Chapman, Eoin Macken, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Finn Cole, Galway Film Fleadh, Here Are The Young Men, Rob Doyle, Travis Fimmel
From ‘what is Rosebud?’ to ‘what is the Matrix?’, film has a long tradition of using compelling questions to hook in audiences. An air of fascination and mystery, well harnessed, can be as strong a pull into theatre seats as any dazzling movie star or cutting-edge technology. But in our modern world, where more jaded viewers can have most of their questions answered at the press of a button – correctly or otherwise – and where the sheer saturation of information at all times means we are up to speed with all major media whether we ever intend to watch it or not, a new question is increasingly successful at hooking in potential movie viewers:
“What the fuck was that?”
- November 11, 2020
- 2020, Christopher Walken, Cursed Image, Emily Blunt, Features, Jamie Dornan, No, Trailers, Wild Mountain Thyme
The inaugural Dublin International Comedy Film Festival launches online in December 2020 and submissions are open now to filmmakers until this Saturday October 31st.
- October 28, 2020
- 2020, 2021, Comedy, December, Dublin International Comedy Film Festival, Generator Hostel, Irish Film, Maureen O'Connell, Short Film, Submissions
The Halloween season is usually a time we’re glued to the big screen here in the fair city of film. Unfortunately the current status of Covid-19 here in Ireland means that all cinemas are shut for the foreseeable future, but that doesn’t mean we can’t show some of our favourite cinemas some support. At the IFI, the online IFI@Home player is going strong, with the IFI Horrorthon currently in full swing on the online platform.
Meanwhile, Element Pictures have launched a new online shop, so that the adoring patrons of the Light House Cinema and the Pálás can acess some great new gifts and give the venues some much needed revenue. You can now buy Gift Vouchers for the cinemas, exclusive locally designed prints and greeting cards and more on the new Light House Shop.
- October 23, 2020
- 2020, Element Pictures, Light House Cinema, Online, Pálás
Last night the 2020 edition of the Irish Film and Television Awards took place. Some of the best Irish films in recent years and a number of exciting talents making waves at home and abroad were celebrated on an online evening affirming Ireland’s prominent place in the international film industry.
- October 19, 2020
- 2019, 2020, Awards, Black 47, IFTA, Irish Film and Television Awards, Jessie Buckley, Martin Scorsese, Paddy Breathnach, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
