LGBT Archives - Film In Dublin

Features,Interviews

In Depth In Orbit with Katie McNeice

The short film In Orbit is dedicated to “the daoine who loved and those who couldn’t”. It’s a sci-fi story, or at least, a story rooted in a future looking back, that provides an insightful perspective on recent events in Ireland’s changing society and the impact that has on the people who live in it.In Orbit former optician Maura recounts her life story in an interview with the Head Archivist of the Human Experience Records, going over her memories as she meets Amy, a bright academic with broken glasses. For the first time in forty years, Maura wants to share her life. The only catch is leaving behind the world as she knows it.

Following on from In Orbit winning Best Irish Short at the GAZE LGBT Film Festival for 2019, Film In Dublin spoke to writer and director Katie McNeice about her process in making the film, its focus and more.

August 16, 2019
2019, Directed by women, GAZE, Graham Cantwell, In Orbit, Irish Film, Katie McNeice, LGBT, Lily, Sci Fi, Short Film

Film Festivals,Reviews

VMDIFF 2019: Rafiki

Director: Wanuri Kahiu Starring: Samantha Mugatsia, Sheila Munyiva Running Time: 82 minutes

One of 2018’s more underseen and personable films in a collection of new romantic comedies was Love Simon , a queer teen romance that managed to jog where other films had once walked, allowing itself to focus funly, freely and matter-of-factly on the romance of its gay lead in a setting where other obstacles where pointedly settled. Wanuri Kahiu’s story of queer African adolescence deserves plenty of props for following in that vein as much as it can, focusing on the falling stage of two young Kenyan girls’ romance in spite of and beyond the very real national context. Rafiki is a delicate but vibrant love story, a smile that can’t help breaking out.

February 22, 2019
2019, African Cinema, Film Festivals, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ Films, Rafiki, Samantha Mugatsia, Sheila Munyiva, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, VMDIFF 2019, VMDIFF19, Wanuri Kahiu

News

An ode to 80s fantasy and Irish storytelling, TETHERED seeks support

A love letter to Irish mythology with a feminist twist, short film TETHERED is an intriguing project currently seeking crowdfunding. takes a look at two different women harshly punished for being young. TETHERED is a dark, bittersweet and supernatural Irish fantasy film that promises to explore the power of folklore, family and friendship. The short is inspired by Irish mythology and our nation’s traditions of storytelling, as well as serving as an homage to 1980s genre films like Poltergeist, Cocoon, Labyrinth and The Watcher in the Woods – but all with a stridently feminist twist.

November 27, 2018
1980s, 2018, Alessia Galatini, Crowdfunding, Fantasy Films, Film In Cork, Irish Film, LGBT, LGBTQ+ Cinema, Nicola Daley, Pin Cushion, Short Film, Siobhán Ní Chiobháin, Stephen T Lally, Susan McKeown, TETHERED, The Saviour, Venice Film Festival

News,What's On

No Mystery of Love as Call Me By Your Name leaves the Light House

After 30 weeks of tears both sad and joyful, through the seasons of Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer and Awards, Call Me By Your Name will screen at the Light House Cinema for the final time this evening.

May 31, 2018
2017, Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name, James Ivory, LGBT, LGBTQ+ Cinema, Light House Cinema, Luca Guadagnino, Michael Stuhlbarg, Smithfield, Timothée Chalamet, What's On

Reviews

Few coming of age stories shine so brightly as Moonlight

Director: Barry Jenkins Starring: Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Alex Hibbert, Naomie Harris, Mahershali Ali, Janelle Monàe, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome Running Time: 111 minutes

On a beautiful Miami beach, a father figure speaks to the young boy he’s decided to take responsibilty for. It’s a safe, calm place away from the oppressive inner city. In the moonlight, Mahershala Ali’s paternal drug-peddler Juan says to the silent and sad young Little, black boys look blue. Which is to say, how they’re seen changes depending on the world around them, and isn’t necessarily reflective of the truth. These words and the way in which they’re spoken reveal much about Moonlight, a poetic film that explores many issues about identity both racial and sexual, but does so in a deeply intimate and personal way.