It’s here and it’s perfect. This ain’t your grandad’s Irish Film Institute anymore. They serve popcorn. They serve style. This week the IFI have launched a new tote bag. Just in time for Christmas, they have a perfect gift all set up for the film fan in your life (which, if you’re reading this, is…
6 films across 3 days will showcase Hong Kong cinema in the fair city of film this December. DIFF and the Hong Kong International Film Festival are collab’ing to curate contemporary Hong Kong films. Covering a wide breadth of themes from youth culture and censorship to action-packed futurism, these films are both a meditation and…
The Light House Cinema’s Christmas selection of cinema is here. Their Naughty or Nice Season is always one of the highlights of the year for Dublin film fans, allowing the opportunity to meet up with friends and family and revisit classics in between getting sorted for the Christmas. This November 25th to December 31st, you…
The Kinopolis is a great part of the Irish Film Institute’s programming, sharing some of the best films from Poland to audiences in Ireland, a great feature also for Ireland’s Polish community. The programme for this year’s Polish Film Festival has arrived this afternoon, and this year with it running at the IFI from December…
Director: Marie Kreutzer Starring: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Jeanne Werner Running Time: 112 minutes Most of us know well enough on this side of the Irish Sea that there’s something mortifying about monarchy, a stifling drag performance of power. Corsage literally opens with a royal struggling to breath under the weight of it all, Vicky…
Directors: Michelle Lesh & Trevor Frost Featuring: Harry Turner, Samantha Zwicker, Keanu the Ocelot Running Time: 105 minutes An always enticing, potentially volatile feature of documentary filmmaking is the way that the story can run away from both the director and the subject. An elevator premise pitch never stays static when faced with the changeable…
Director: Anna Rodgers and Shaun Dunne Starring: Shaun Dunne, Robbie Lawlor, Lady Veda, Jade Jordan, Eva-Jane Gaffney, Lauren Larkin Running Time: 101 minutes Breaking a stigma is about removing walls. In How To Tell A Secret, performance and interview are interwoven. Stories of living with HIV pass through acting, re-enacting and interview, from performance to…
The third iteration of the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival is coming soon to Smithfield. The Generator Hostel will be host to a fully live edition of DICFF, bringing short and feature films and live comedy performances to patrons over three days from Dec 2 – 4th. The brainchild of writer and director Maureen ‘Mo’…
The final issue of the year for Film In Dublin’s Pretty Deadly Films zine will be released in early December and we have submissions open now for articles and artwork. PDF Issue 12 will be all about the best of food and drink on film. Each issue of PDF looks at film through the lens of a particular theme,…
One of the most stirring Irish documentaries this year will be getting a wide cinema release across the island early next month. Innovative and illiuminating, How to Tell A Secret has shown throughout the year at the Galway Film Fleadh, GAZE and more, and on 1st December, even more audiences can see its vital message…
