On Saturday, 31st August, more cinemas than ever across the Republic of Ireland will mark the return of National Cinema Day with admission tickets at participating cinemas reduced to just €5 (RSP) including Premium seats, screens and 3D screenings. The 2024 initiative, designed to celebrate the experience of cinema-going, is again supported by Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland. Last year’s National Cinema…
Film festival fun comes to Louth this weekend at the Boyne Valley International Film Festival. Wildcat, directed by and starring father-daughter duo Ethan and Maya Hawke, will be an eye-catching feature alongside some of Ireland’s best local talent. Wildcat invites the audience to inhabit the mind of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor (played by…
The Irish Film Institute have announced the programme for this year’s Family Festival. Tickets are on sale now for the IFI Family Festival 2024, running in-cinema from Friday, August 23rd to Sunday, August 25th. This year the festival will include a special homegrown celebration, as Dublin’s own animators Brown Bag Films mark their 30th anniverary.…
There’s a bit of Kneecap fever across Irish film this summer as film fans get hyped for the release of the Belfast boys’ feature film. Ahead of the general release of KNEECAP on August 8th, the rap trio have programmed three films to screen at the Light House Cinema, an early-August insight into the cinematic…
The GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival is returning on the August Bank Holiday for its 32nd edition, showcasing the best in new Irish filmmaking and in queer international cinema. As always Ireland’s long standing queer film festival will cover a spectrum of eras and identities, from spotlighting new works by Elliot Page to celebrating the history of…
In the time it takes you to read this sentence it will have rained the heaviest amount in recorded history and hit temperatures so high as to dry everything off again. Irish seasons are becoming even more unpredictable than ever, and August, a bewildering holiday limbo of summer/autumn indecisiveness remains a seasonal uncertainty, but at…
Featuring work from filmmakers including Mia Mullarkey, Hannah Mammalis, Derek Ugochukwu, Pollyanna McIntosh, Myles O’Reilly, Aaron Monaghan and Clare Monnelly amongst many others, the Boyne Valley International Film Festival (BVIFF) returns this August from the 11-13. After a hugely successful inaugural festival in 2022, co-directors, Collette Farrell and Frank W. Kelly are delighted to welcome both filmmakers…
The Irish Film Institute’s annual all-ages festival is a great opportunity for parents to encourage their kids’ interest in arts, storytelling and animation, take in family films from other parts of the world, and get a few cinema screenings in at the tail end of the summer. The 2023 edition of the IFI Family Film…
KinoD are hosting an international filmmaking event across Dublin on August 11-20. With years of experience in bringing people together in a festival environment to make film, documentary, music, and art, they’ll be celebrating an anniversary edition at the end of the summer for their International Filmmaking Kabaret. KinoD expect up to 150 participants from…
The programme has been announced for the 2023 edition of the GAZE LGBTQIA International Film Festival. Ireland’s biggest queer film festival today unveiled an enormous programme of 115 films from 20+ countries, offering the insight, explorations and experiences of queer stories from all over the world and across history. GAZE 2023 will be taking place…
