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924 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2002. Last article published on 22/04/2025.

Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer

Interview: Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer

“The surfer’s psychological journey is also a bit like therapy for people struggling with having lost their childhood home”

The Irish filmmaker discusses his mystery-thriller, how he created the character with Nicolas Cage and his approach to the use of colours in the film  

22/04 | BIFFF 2025

Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow lands at Cannes

Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow lands at Cannes

The semi-autobiographical tale stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as a father navigating Lagos with his two young sons amidst the country’s 1993 civil unrest  

15/04 | Production | Funding | UK/Ireland/Nigeria

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling lead Harry Lighton’s Cannes-bound Pillion

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling lead Harry Lighton’s Cannes-bound Pillion

The two actors play gay bikers engaged in a dom/sub relationship in this UK-Irish co-production selected in Un Certain Regard  

14/04 | Production | Funding | UK/Ireland

Review: Four Mothers

Review: Four Mothers

Darren Thornton reimagines Mid-August Lunch, in which a bumbling middle-aged man looks after four demanding old ladies, as a more sombre, serio-comic affair  

04/04 | Films | Reviews | Ireland/UK

Surreal whodunit This Is Not a Murder Mystery in post-production

Surreal whodunit This Is Not a Murder Mystery in post-production

The six-part series set in the 1930s, directed by Hans Herbots and Matthias Lebeer, sees historical figures such as Salvador Dalí and René Magritte mingle with a mysterious serial killer  

04/04 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Ireland

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception  

28/03 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Gar O’Rourke • Director of Sanatorium

Interview: Gar O’Rourke • Director of Sanatorium

“I try to find humour and connection in unexpected places”

The Irish filmmaker’s first feature-length documentary follows the lives of staff and guests in a sanatorium in Odesa over the course of one summer  

21/03 | CPH:DOX 2025

Animated film Acquateam – La Grande Avventura in Mare hitting the big and small screens

Animated film Acquateam – La Grande Avventura in Mare hitting the big and small screens

Following a premiere in San Diego’s Blue Water Film Festival, Riccardo Mazzoli’s feature will be available on the RAI Yoyo channel as well as on the VoD RaiPlay platform  

11/03 | Production | Funding | Italy/India/Ireland

Laura Carreira’s On Falling crowned Best Film at the Dublin International Film Festival

Laura Carreira’s On Falling crowned Best Film at the Dublin International Film Festival

Other prominent winners include Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio and Ross Whitaker’s Beat the Lotto, in receipt of the prizes for Best Director and Best Irish Film, respectively  

03/03 | Dublin 2025

Stephen Bradley's fourth fiction feature Fran the Man to world premiere at Dublin

Stephen Bradley's fourth fiction feature Fran the Man to world premiere at Dublin

The sports comedy mockumentary sees an Irish football club embroiled in an international match-fixing scandal  

27/02 | Production | Funding | Ireland/UK

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