Acclaimed poet and essayist, Doireann Ní Ghríofa was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2020 with the publication of her debut novel A Ghost in the Throat. Lauded by critics from the New York Times to the Guardian, it went on to win the Irish Book of the Year.
Based on Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Living stars Bill Nighy as a man determined in the time he has left to wake from his slumber and make a mark on the world.
Directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Alison Millar, Lyra is a beautiful and heartfelt film about the life and death of the internationally renowned Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee.
Iranian maestro Jafar Panahi (Taxi Tehran) once again defies the forces of oppression, playing a filmmaker whose latest production mirrors his own reality.
Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, is an unpredictable and refreshingly authentic story of a young woman’s search for identity, and of the ever-shifting relationships that shape it.
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) returns with this jewel of a tragicomedy, a shimmering tale of friendship, feuds and Irish identity.
Ever-unpredictable, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio ventures to 19th-century Ireland for this domestic psychodrama, which sees religious faith battle against scientific reason. Starring Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, and Kila Lord Cassidy.
It's a funny place to find liberation: a cramped apartment in Tbilisi, shared with a prickly stranger during a pandemic.
Presented alongside the Channel 4 Northern Ireland and the Long 1980s (Symposium). Director Anne Crilly will introduce the screening.