As the Irish industry continues to grow, it’s important to encourage and embolden the next generation of Irish filmmakers, creatives and industry professionals. This month, Galway’s premiere film event presents its youth oriented offshoot, as Generation Fleadh, the youth branch of the Galway Film Fleadh offers up screenings and events to entice younger audiences. From…
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. Spooky season has arrived and with it cinemas across the fair city of film have announced their…
KERRY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (KIFF) CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY. HIGHLIGHTS: OPENING FILM – HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR FESTIVAL ANNIVERSARY GALA – SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY, EMILY WATSON AND EILEEN WALSH REBECCA O’FLANAGAN IS THIS YEAR’S MAUREEN O’HARA AWARD RECIPIENT Today (September 24th, 2024) Kerry International Film Festival (KIFF) is…
Director: Ross Killeen Featuring: Asbestos Running Time: 77 minutes Terry Pratchett once wrote that the span of someone’s life is only the core of their existence, that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, a powerful and poignant sentiment that can guide us also while those people…
Indie cinema returns to Donabate this month as the latest edition of local film festival the Bleeding Pig Film Festival is back. This September 16-18, some of the best Irish shorts and features of 2024 will be making their way to the Dublin coast. Organised by Emma Fagan, for the last few years the Bleeding…
Independent films from around the world will be arriving in Smithfield this September. The Dublin Independent Film Festival will be host to a midweek celebration of features and shorts, held in the Light House Cinema this September 3-4. The Indie Film Festival aims to bring groundbreaking shorts and features by international and local filmmakers alike,…
GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival has begun for 2024, and over the next few days, it will deliver the usual mix of the essential and emotional, the taboo and transgressive in queer cinema. Taboo is a spicy but vital ingredient in any cinematic stew, a window into the parts of us that are certainly there…
Venue: Light House Cinema, Smithfield Date: 25th July, 6.30 CAST AND CREW GATHER FOR A CELEBRATION OF IRISH FILM AND A SPECIAL SCREENING OF JOHN BUTLER’S HIT FILM HANDSOME DEVIL Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) is hosting a special screening of John Butler’s ‘impossible to resist’ film Handsome Devil (2016) on Thursday 25th July, at Smithfield’s Light House Cinema. The one-off event…
In a Collective or as an individual, Aisha Bolaji is raising the bar for Irish film. From aiding festivals like DIFF or Catalyst in Limerick, to programming screenings with GALPAL Collective, to her own work behind the camera, she’s developed a powerful portfolio in recent years. This week at the 2024 Galway Film Fleadh, her…
Joyce fans rejoice. Ireland’s most literary film festival returns to the fair city of film next week. The festival aims to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature. They’ll…
