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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Where the Road Meets the Sky The night of the inaugural screening of Where the Road Meets the Sky was deeply chaotic. I had been introduced to the works of John Connors by a coworker and while familiar with the name of the documentary, its subject matter was still a mystery to me. Determined not…
Forever a hotbed for global cinema fans, a weekend of new and exciting films from East Asia will be making their way to the Temple Bar screens of the IFI at the end of the month thanks to the East Asia Film Festival’s 9th edition. With films that premiered in big festivals like Berlin, Cannes,…
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…
