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…
Irish artists association the GALPAL Collective continue their collaboration with the Irish Film Institute. Later this month, they’ll be curating this year’s short film documentary programme for the IFI Documentary Festival 2024. Now in its 23rd year, the IFI Documentary Festival is Ireland’s longest-running and most esteemed documentary festival. They’ve curated six shorts from around…
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…
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…
Fresh Film and Omniplex Cinema Group present an event encouraging the next set of Irish stars on screen, GENERATION FRESH. This unique film screening event takes place on Sunday, April 21, at selected Omniplex Cinemas across Ireland including Cork, Galway, Dublin and Limerick. Featuring a thoughtfully curated selection of 15 short films by 15 young filmmakers. Spanning various genres and themes, GENERATION FRESH…
A writer, actor and comedian, Dublin’s own Hannah Mamalis is no stranger to the festival circuit. On stage, she’s performed here at Dublin Fringe, First Fortnight. For film, her short film Baby Steps has taken off in recent months, showing in Sweden, in Belfast, across the Republic and now at home in the Dublin International…
The 2024 Dublin International Film Festival begins this Thursday, and as the biggest festival in the fair city of film every year, its programme is filled with so much cinema even the film fans with the deepest pockets and the swiftest shoes to move from screen to screen can’t see them all. This is especially…
Coming soon to Smithfield, the folks at Short Cuts Presents have programmed an evening of short films across various genres and themes, a taster selection of rising talents and their latest works. Taking place on Tuesday 13th February, nine short films will be showing at the Light House Cinema, with tickets now available for the…
One of the most recent and well-received additions to the festival calendar in the fair city of film is returning this winter and it’s getting bigger and better. Going into its 3rd year and its 4th festival, the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival promises some much needed winter levity with a packed programme of films,…
