This year’s Schools Programme by the Irish Film Institute has been revealed. A key strand of the cinema’s aims to exhibit, archive and educate, the launch for this school year includes films from Ireland and abroad to interest and enthrall students from across the island. The Irish Film Institute (IFI) today launches its comprehensive 2023/2024 Schools…
The IFI Documentary Film Festival kicks off this week, with the city centre cinema offering five days of features and short films, ‘from personal stories beautifully told, to a shocking investigative exploration of mysterious disappearances, from a unique viewpoint of those experiencing life behind the headlines of war, to shining a light on untold histories and discovering ordinary…
National Cinema Day is back again, to the delight of cinema’s accountants everywhere and the resignation of their floor staff (please be kind this weekend). This Saturday 2nd September, cinemas across Ireland will have tickets reduced to just €4 (RSP) including Premium seats, screens and 3D screenings. This includes hits currently in cinemas like Barbie…
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…
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…
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…
EXHIBIT. EDUCATE. PRESERVE. POPCORN. The IFI announced yesterday a long awaited addition to the Institution. The Dublin cinema will now be offering popcorn and concessions at the box office. New visitors to the Temple Bar cinema have been surprised over the years at the lack of traditional concessions on offer, but now in addition to…
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…
The Irish Film Institute will be host to an event programmed by the Small Trans Film Club next Tuesday 27th June, as they explore the artistry and intimacy of trans sexuality on screen. The Small Trans Library, a community group for trans people with branches in both Dublin and Glasgow, have expanded into film on…
