The Dublin International Film Festival are winding it back next month, looking back at some classics and deep cuts with Be Kind Rewind. From 27 – 29th September, the Light House Cinema will screen a selection of previously-seen cinema courtesy of the Irish Film Curators. From the aggresive aesthetic of Gregg Araki to the oddities…
A writer, actor and comedian, Dublin’s own Hannah Mamalis is no stranger to the festival circuit. On stage, she’s performed here at Dublin Fringe, First Fortnight. For film, her short film Baby Steps has taken off in recent months, showing in Sweden, in Belfast, across the Republic and now at home in the Dublin International…
A journalist and documentarian, Kathleen Harris captures both the informative and the human side of complex topics. Born and raised in the US, Harris has lived in Ireland since 2006, and her work as a video journalist for the Irish Times has covered a wide range of topics, including Ireland’s abortion and gay marriage referendums,…
Ireland excels at documentary filmmaking. The last decade in particular has seen a Golden Age in Irish Documentary, with filmmakers like Paul Duane, Sinéad O’Shea and more doing innovative, immersive and interesting work in capturing real stories from Ireland and abroad. Programming good homegrown docs has always been one of the strengths of the Dublin…
The 2024 Dublin International Film Festival begins this Thursday, and as the biggest festival in the fair city of film every year, its programme is filled with so much cinema even the film fans with the deepest pockets and the swiftest shoes to move from screen to screen can’t see them all. This is especially…
More announcements are coming out about the programme for the 2024 edition of the Dublin International Film Festival. The biggest festival in the fair city of film will provide a festival spotlight this year on African cinema, with award winning entries from across the continent. Over 40 short films are also set to screen during…
The biggest event in the calendar in the fair city of film, the Dublin International Film Festival will take place in 2024 from Thursday 22nd February to Saturday 2nd March. In advance of announcing the full programme in January, the Festival like to announce early programme highlights before Christmas, and today they have revealed that screen legend…
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…
Nell Hensey is one of Ireland’s young creatives on the rise, a director drawn to Irish stories that are diverse, resonant, and relevant. Her most recent short film Good Chips screened this year at the Dublin International Film Festival, as a winner of Virgin Media’s Discovers programme. The film takes us back to Dublin in…
As the Dublin International Film Festival rolls on, they have announced the winners of a number of their awards, as well as officially handed this year’s Volta recipient their dues. The 21st Dublin International Film Festival today announced the recipients of a selection of their awards: the 5 Lamps Discovery Award, Short Film and Documentary…
