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Film Festivals,Reviews

Planting seeds, finding growth in Minari

Director: Lee Isaac Chung Starring: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung Run Time: 115 minutes

The story of the immigrant experience is one that is very familiar to Irish audiences, all of whom know someone who has taken up and gone away, or who they themselves have been and gone, maybe coming back, maybe not. It’s challenging enough even when, very often for our own diaspora, you’re arriving in a place where a large amount of people are still like you, culturally speaking. To move from Korean to the United States, as the central Yi family has done in the events preceding Minari, is a significant shift itself. But to move from the city, with young kids and a tense marriage, all to try to make it on temperamental Arkansas farmland is an even tricker business altogether.

March 14, 2021
2021, Alan Kim, DIFF, Han Ye-ri, Lee Isaac Chung, March, Minari, Noel Kate Cho, Reviews, Steven Yeun, VMDIFF21, Will Patton, Youn Yuh-jung

Features,Film Festivals,Interviews

Direct Line with Róisín Kearney

In Direct Line, Film In Dublin cuts to the chase, asking quickfire questions of Ireland’s directors to get a brief look into their outlooks, influences and inspirations.

With a storied career in theatre, television and film, writer, director, producer and performer Róisín Kearney is no stranger to those familiar with the Irish film scene. Her latest short film is Paddy, a story of identity soaked in 70s London Punk scene sweat. Funded by Creative Ireland and Clare Co Co, the short premiered last year at the Galway Film Fleadh and is one of the home-grown films currently available as part of this year’s Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.

During DIFF, Film In Dublin got onto Róisín for a quick chat about her latest film, how her background in theatre has helped her in film and more.
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March 12, 2021
DIFF, Direct Line, Directed by women, Interviews, Irish Film, Music, Paddy, Short Film, VMDIFF21

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Some of the best of Irish film at the St. Patrick’s Film Festival with Volta

This St. Patrick’s week, the Irish online streaming platform Volta will be celebrating some of the best of our local cinema. See hits from the fair city of film and beyond on the isle, all for free from this March 15th – 21st.

Film Festivals,News,Trailers

Irish doc Father of the Cyborgs gets official trailer ahead of premiere

A fascinating new Irish film has released a trailer ahead of its showing at this year’s Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. This doc casts an exciting eye on scientific advances in neurology, a link between Irish innovation in both the cinematic and scientific worlds. You can check out the trailer for David Burke’s Father of the Cyborgs now.

March 9, 2021
David Burke, DIFF, Documentary, Father of the Cyborg, Irish Film, Premiere, Screen Ireland, Trailers, VMDIFF21, Wildcard Distribution

Film Festivals,Reviews

Another Round is a Dark but Welcome Tonic

Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang Running Time: 115 minutes

Thomas Vinterberg has a curious habit of going to the very darkest corners of humanity and somehow using these dark corners to showcase the most enduring aspects of humanity. A decade ago, Submarino explored the lives of drug addicted and prison bound brothers at the bottom of the Danish socio-economic ladder. More recently, The Hunt took a look at how horrifying but false allegations could implode the lives of even the most innocent of protagonists. What these two films in particular had in common is the desire of the human spirit to survive in the direst of circumstances. Arguably, it could be said that Vinterberg’s films are as much about the power of lasting human connection as the drudgery of human suffering. With Another Round, he again focuses on problematic and dark aspects of Danish society, while injecting a refreshing sense of humor that gives an otherwise gut wrenching story a surprisingly positive hoppy lift.

March 7, 2021
Another Round, DIFF, International Cinema, Mads Mikkelsen, Surprise Film, Thomas Vinterberg, VMDIFF21

Film Festivals,Reviews

Ammonite could dig deeper

Director: Francis Lee Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan Runtime: 120 mins

Francis Lee has a deep understanding of how to use harsh landscapes and natural sound in a beautiful way. Fans of Lee’s debut God’s Own Country will recognise his interest and talent in portraying working class queer stories in this new film. With Ammonite, Lee has created a relationship between palaeontologist Mary Anning (played by Kate Winslet) and Charlotte (played by Saoirse Ronan), a young woman whose husband has asked Mary to look after while he is travelling as they recently lost a baby and she is struggling.

March 6, 2021
Ammonite, Fiona Shaw, Francis Lee, Gemma Jones, God's Own Country, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan

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See electronic music’s female pioneers in Sisters with Transistors

A film exploring the unsung heroines of electronic music will receive a spotlight this International Women’s Day, thanks to the Irish Film Institute, AEMI and the folks at the Dublin Feminist Film Festival. Writer-director Lisa Rovner’s film Sisters with Transistors combines archive footage, interviews with experts and the stories of women creating in the world of electronic music themselves to reexamine the underplayed innovations by women in electronica.

March 5, 2021
2021, AEMI, Directed by women, Dublin Feminist Film Festival, IFI, IFI@Home, International Women's Day, Lisa Rovner, March, Online, Q&A, Sisters with Transistors, What's On

Film Festivals,Reviews

Shining stars in Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth powers Supernova

Gazing up at the stars, a man shares his expertise in finding constellations with his partner, one of a lifetime of small moments as bright and dazzling as anything in the night sky. Unfortunately, he for all his intelligence, he cannot recall the word ‘triangle’, and as time goes on, his memory of more and more things, big and small, fades into the void. Supernova is a story built around early onset dementia, but more than a shallow wallow in the sad nature of the disease, Harry Macqueen’s sensitive and measured approach uses the condition to explore the difficulty in saying goodbye, both to those you love and to yourself.

March 4, 2021
2021, Colin Firth, DIFF, Drama, Harry Macqueen, LGBTQ+ Cinema, March, Stanley Tucci, VMDIFF21

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Short Cuts tonight with the Rialto Cinema Club

Last February, the Circular Bar & Grill on the South Circular Road launched the Rialto Cinema Club. These nights aimed to bring cult cinema, homegrown movies and more to Dublin 8, fitting a few screenings in before lockdown descended upon us all. This Saturday, 27th February, the cinema club returns with a selection of short films.

February 27, 2021
2021, Documentary, February, Irish Film, Online, Rialto, Rialto Cinema Club, Short Cuts, Short Film

Film Festivals,News

Playback X DIFF brings homegrown hip hop and R&B to your screen

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.

February 25, 2021
2021, DIFF, Hip Hop, March, Music, Playback, VMDIFF

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