The red umbrella has been a global symbol of sex workers’ solidarity since being used for the first time in 2001 in Venice during the 49th Art Biennale. This autumn, the fair city of film will host its own platform for sex worker solidarity, drawing from that same symbol. Across Dublin, a series of features, shorts, workshops and…
The Irish Film Institute’s annual Documentary Festival returns from 27th September – 1st October and the full programme is available now. Across the five days of the festival, 13 features and a variety of Irish-made short films will be seen, and you can read through the full programme now HERE. Today the Irish Film Institute…
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…
This October will see Red Umbrella Film Festival take place as Ireland’s first-ever sex worker film festival. Taking place 19th – 22nd October 2023 in Dublin, RUFF is organised by a collective of current and former sex workers and aims to be a celebratory as well as informative festival, with films, workshops, panel discussions, and…
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…
The Bloomsday Film Festival wrapped last Sunday after a jam packed programme of eclectic literary film events around Dublin City. After a hugely successful week of sold out events the Bloomsday Film Festival, born during the Covid pandemic, and only in its third year, has firmly cemented its place in Dublin’s Summer festival calendar. Highlights…
Now in its 6th year, The Dublin Smartphone Film Festival returns to the Capital for another weekend of mobile movie brilliance. Taking place on June 3rd -DubSmartFF has the usual exciting mix of shorts, features and workshops, but this time at the beautiful Mart Gallery and Rathmines Ominplex in Dublin 6. This year’s festival is…
Ireland’s national film festival, the Japanese Film Festival expands Japanese culture across the island through the Asian country’s best cinema. In April 2023,the Embassy of Japan in Ireland and access>CINEMA are presenting the Japanese Film Festival for its 14th edition. The festival includes screenings of powerful drama A Man, which recently won eight awards –…
Playing at this year’s EAFFI, Absence tells a story of an unspoken past against a backdrop of contemporary urban disarray.
Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, Hong Sang-hoo’s The Novelist’s Film makes its way into Irish cinemas as part of this year’s East Asia Film Festival (EAFFI) at the Irish Film Institute (IFI). A modern classic dressed in black and white, this is a considered and…
