There are many cultural touchstones to be found in Phibsborough – popular pubs, a hopping flea market, a clothing line for influencers that occasionally poses as a football club – and these hotspots and more will be showcased during the latest Phizzfest, the D7 celebration. The Phibsborough Community and Arts Festival returns across the neighbourhood…
Director: Lorcan Finnegan Starring: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little Running Time: 103 minutes ‘Cage Rage’ flicks have become a sub-genre of their own in recent years. The star’s manic, erratic line delivery coupled with some truly unhinged facial expressions have elevated middling films in the past, carved ‘Nic was here’ into the annals of…
Director: Aislinn Clarke Starring: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya Running Time: 103 minutes With Irish horror going through its Golden Age, the current trend for horror to be up front about its metaphors for trauma (of which our island has plenty), and an increased experience on screen in tapping into our rich resources…
It’s no secret that Irish audiences love the cinema. Our figures for cinema admissions per head have consistently been among the highest in Europe since the mid-90s, and have been steadily increasing again since the full closure era of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is part thanks to having plenty of multiscreen sites across the island…
The latest edition of GALPAL Collective‘s short film showcase Directed By Her takes place next week. See 12 films created and curated by FLINTA creatives on Wednesday 26th March at the Irish Film Institute. FLINTA brings together the Female, Lesbian, Intersex/Intergender, Non-Binary, Trans and Agender, and the Directed By Her programme brings together shorts as…
Director: Ross Whittaker Featuring: Stefan Klincewicz, Paddy Kehoe, Pat Kenny, Running Time: 86 minutes Early on in Ross Whittaker’s documentary about an infamous Irish syndicate stitch-up in the early 90s, we see an appearance from stat-man Stefan Klincewicz on Pat Kenny Live, promoting his book of tips on how to increase your chances winning the…
‘An excommunicated priest returns to his remote island community in a documentary, previously lost to time’ – that’s the synopsis of In Wake of John Doyle, one of the shorts screening this week at DIFF, but there’s more to this disarming doc than meets the eye. For one thing, it’s a found footage piece, a…
The 2025 Dublin International Film Festival begins this week, and for Irish filmmakers it’s a huge platform to share their work, and in the festival’s expansive offering of shorts there is an impressive variety of filmmaking approaches and outlooks from across the island. No more is that more on display than in the immersive, intelligent…
Director: Sinead O’Shea Featuring: Edna O’Brien Running Time: 99 minutes Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story is a moving documentary about the life and works of one of Ireland most talented writers. Directed by Sinead O’Shea, the documentary highlights how Edna O’Brien defied censorship, challenged societal norms, and redefined a woman’s place in literature with…
Gabriel Adewusi is taking up room in our heads at the moment and deservedly so. The actor is one of the leads of the short film Room Taken, a darling of the festival circuit since its debut in late 2023 at the Cork International Film Festival. Since then its screened from DIFF to KIFF, been…
