Queer stories in motion at the Queer Spectrum Film Festival 2025

Queer stories in motion at the Queer Spectrum Film Festival 2025

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…

Cult hits, Classics, Close & Conversations – film at the International Literature Festival Dublin

Cult hits, Classics, Close & Conversations – film at the International Literature Festival Dublin

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…

JFF arrives in Dublin

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…

Iberscreen 2025 at the Irish Film Institute

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…

A TITE programme – the Trans Image/Trans Experience Film Festival arrives in April

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…

DIFF 2025: Postcards from Happy Endings in Neo Sora and Radu Jude’s new films

DIFF 2025: Postcards from Happy Endings in Neo Sora and Radu Jude’s new films

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…