Dublin International Film Festival

A building is set ablaze. A teenage boy, Minato (Soya Kurokawa) and his mother, Saori (Sakora Ando) watch as it is engulfed in flames. Saori excitedly watches fire trucks rush to its rescue, but Minato seems wholly disinterested. This…

Since its inception in 2003, the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) has endeavoured to bring the best of international cinema to Irish audiences, and the 2024 slate is no exception. With films from some of the most exciting…

On 3 November 1970, Salvador Allende, a Marxist physician, took office as the president of Chile. He would lead the Popular Unity coalition of Socialist, Communist, Radical and Social-Democratic parties with the support of other dissident…

Mark Cousins discovers History in The March on Rome. His most cited work concerns the ever-expanding chronology and development of cinema, but I seldom come away from his work with an improved understanding of the milieu from of which our…

Ciné-Guerrillas suffers from a dearth of guerrillas. Director Mila Turajlic presents, as the film’s subtitle indicates, Scenes from the Labudovic Reels. Stevan Labudovic was a newsreel cameraman for Filmske novosti (Yugoslav Newsreels),…

The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) is returning to the Irish capital from February 26 until March 8. Boasting a packed programme of 110 screenings and some amazing international special guests including Bill Nighy,…

On this episode of FNI Wrap Chat on the HeadStuff Podcast Network is Festival Manager of the Dublin Virgin Media Film Festival, Grainne Humphreys. ? Grainne Humphreys has worked in film programming for over twenty years, she started…

Throughout the week we are previewing all the screenings at Hong Kong Kicks - a series of films on the cinema of Hong Kong and martial arts, presented by the Dublin International Film Festival as part of their DIFF PIX programme. Hong Kong…

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