The Irish Film Institute’s Bigger Picture is a must-see event every month in the fair city of film. They pick some of the island’s best and brightest (and me), so that they can pick out some of their favourite films to screen and celebrate. Through these selections, and the introductions from their guests, the IFI…
The Bloomsday Film Festival, the most literary film festival in Ireland, announces its programme of events from Wednesday 11th to Sunday 16th June. Highlights this year include a magical pre-cinematic wonder ‘Ulysses: A Magic Lantern Show’ with live music, Eanna Hardwicke and Olwyn Fouré as part of a special poetry showcase, a live performance from…
The summer is starting but the IFI is keeping you inside with another great season of classic cinema scheduled. The second half of their David Lean season is winding down, and coming up next two of cinema’s all-time great divas get their turn in the spotlight. This June, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo are coming…
This June will see the second edition of the Queer Spectrum Film Festival, as they make their way to the Irish Film Institute on the 13th-14th June. A celebration of queer stories in motion, Ireland’s first film festival especially dedicated to LGBTQIA+ people of colour and immigrant voices, QSFF aims to highlight powerful narratives shaped by…
The 2025 International Literature Festival Dublin is soon taking place, and in this year’s packed programme there’s a number of interesting screenings for film fans to explore. Since 1998, the festival has celebrated the best of Irish and international fiction, and non-fiction authors, poets, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters through a myriad of exciting events. This…
This May marks a landmark moment in Ireland’s LGBTQ+ history, with the 10-year anniversary of the YES vote for marriage equality. What better way to celebrate a landmark in May than with a movie? Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre is partnering with the Irish Film Institute (IFI) to host a special screening of the documentary The 34th: The…
The Bleeding Pig Film Festival has spent the last few years bringing independent Irish film to the local community of Donabate. The festival returns this year on Monday 19th May through to Wednesday 21st May 2025, and their programme this year includes plenty of short films, as well as a fantastic Irish feature in Darren…
There are many cultural touchstones to be found in Phibsborough – popular pubs, a hopping flea market, a clothing line for influencers that occasionally poses as a football club – and these hotspots and more will be showcased during the latest Phizzfest, the D7 celebration. The Phibsborough Community and Arts Festival returns across the neighbourhood…
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…
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…
