This May marks a landmark moment in Ireland’s LGBTQ+ history, with the 10-year anniversary of the YES vote for marriage equality. What better way to celebrate a landmark in May than with a movie? Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre is partnering with the Irish Film Institute (IFI) to host a special screening of the documentary The 34th: The…
The Bleeding Pig Film Festival has spent the last few years bringing independent Irish film to the local community of Donabate. The festival returns this year on Monday 19th May through to Wednesday 21st May 2025, and their programme this year includes plenty of short films, as well as a fantastic Irish feature in Darren…
For this year’s Bike Week, on Friday 16th May, Dublin City Council and the Office of the Night-Time Economy will present a special outdoor screening of The Song Cycle, right in the middle of the fair city of film, taking place at 9pm at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. Bike Week is a week dedicated…
Brief Encounter, In Which We Serve, Great Expectations are among the 8 classic titles to be screened at the Irish Film Institute starting from this April, all in 35mm, as part of their latest series. A screening Kicks off a 2-month, 16-film extended encounter with David Lean, one of the most influential filmmakers in Western cinema…
Director: George Miller Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne Running Time: 148 minutes We are told that Hope and Hate live in separate places. That the Fury Road can’t possibly lead to reconciliation. I say ‘we’, but women are told this most of all, the bad faith argument that emancipation from the…
The impact of former journalist and campaigner Charlie Bird remains celebrated today, after his passing earlier this year aged 74 following a long and high profile battle with Motor Neurone Disease. A new documentary from Mattress Men director Colm Quinn aims to show us what we’ve lost, charting the journo’s final investigation. Break Out Pictures…
IFI Local Films for Local People is an Irish Film Institute initiative bringing films from the IFI Irish Film Archive back to the communities they came from . From Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls in Co Clare, to capturing a beauty competition in Roscommon, a wet fair day in Borrisoleigh, Radharc’s wry film of holidays in Ballybunion in…
Video Vista digs into the archive of VHS, Blurays and DVDs, looking at cult classic deep cuts. They’re returning for monthly screenings from next month, from a new venue in the fair city of film. Camden Steet pub Anseo are the new venue for Video Vista, which will be hosting film screenings from the first…
The National Film School, IADT is showcasing the talents of the class of 2023 at the Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield on Tuesday, 30th of May from 10am to 1pm. The screening includes seven graduate short films, a graduate multicam lifestyle television production and a Kino Eyes masters short film. After the event there will be drinks…
Directors: Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney Starring: Éanna Hardwicke, Danielle Galligan, Gary Lydon, Dafhyd Flynn, Lorcan Cranitch Running Time: 100 minutes “How are things?” “Ah grand, you know yourself”. It is reflexively ingrained in the Irish psyche to answer this way, to parry enquiries after us with airy, empty assurances. It’s not even a question…
