Film Festivals 2016 – Here & Abroad

Film Festivals in Ireland

Film Devour Short Film Festival Belfast (6th January)

Subtitle European Film Festival Galway (29 – 31 January)

Audi Dublin International Film Festival (18 – 28 February)

Cork French Film Festival (6 – 13 March)

Fresh Film Festival Limerick (7 – 12 March)

Silk Road Film Festival Dublin (10 – 14 March)

Dingle International Film Festival (17 – 10 March)

Belfast Film Festival (14 – 23 April)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival (21 – 23 April)

Limerick Film Festival (21 – 23 April)

Dublin Greek Film Festival (21–24 April)

Japanese Film Festival Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Galway, Dundalk,  Waterford (3 – 21 April)

Deep Focus: Women In Film Festival Cork (6 – 8 May)

Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival Dublin (13 – 22 May)

Galway African Film Festival (27 – 29 May)

Cuban Film Festival Dublin (3 – 4 June)

March on Film Dublin (16th June)

Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival Cork (25 – 29 May)

IFI Family Festival Dublin Dublin (24 – 26 June)

Galway Film Fleadh (5 – 10 July)

GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin (28 July – 1 August)

Guth Gafa Meath (3 – 7 August)

Charlie Chaplin Comedy Festival Kerry  (25 – 28 August)

Clare Island Film Festival  (16 – 18 September)

Visegrad Film Festival Cork (19 – 26 September)

IFI Documentary Festival  Dublin (22 – 25 September)

Underground Cinema Festival Dublin  (9 – 11 September)

Indian Film Festival Dublin (30 September – 2 October)

Fingal Film Festival Dublin (30 September – 2 October)

Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival (6 – 8 October)

IndieCork (9 – 16 October)

OFFline Offaly (11 – 15 October)

Digital Biscuit Dublin (TBA)

Kerry Film Festival (19 – 23 October)

The Clones Film Festival (27 – 30 October)

Richard Harris International Film Festival Limerick (27 – 30 October)

IFI Horrorthon Dublin (27 – 31 October)

Waterford Film Festival (4 – 6 November)

Light Moves Festival   (3 – 6 November)

Dublin Arabic Film Festival (11 – 13 November)

Cork Film Festival (11 – 20 November)

Junior Galway Film Fleadh (9 – 12 November)

Dublin Arabic Film Festival (11 – 13 November)

Foyle Film Festival Derry (16 – 24 November 2016)

Feminist Film Festival Dublin (18 – 20 November)

DubWebFest (18 – 20 November)

Subtitle European Film Kilkenny (21 – 27 November)

VFX & Animation Summit  Dublin (TBA)

Subtitle European Film Festival Kilkenny (21 – 27 November)

IFI French Film Festival Dublin (16 – 27 November)

KINOPOLIS Polish Film Festival Dublin (8 – 11 December)

Irish Film Festivals Abroad

Irish Short Film Festival Malta Edition (30th January) 

Capital Irish Film Festival Washington (3 – 6 March)

Chicago Irish Film Festival (3 – 6 March)

Toronto Irish Film Festival (4 – 6 March)

Irish Film Festival Boston (11 – 14 March)

Irish Reels Film Festival Seattle (12 – 13 March)

Shebeen Flick 2016 Berlin (17 -20 March)

Irish Film Festival Sydney (7 -10 April)

Irish Film Festa Rome (7 – 10 April)

Celtic Media Festival Dungarvan (20 – 22 April)

Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival LA (29 July – 1 August)

San Francisco Irish Film Festival (TBA September)

British & Irish Film Festival  (20 September – 1 October 2016)

The Irish American Movie Hooley (25 – 27 September)

Irish Reels Film Festival Seattle (7 – 9 October)

Irish Screen America Los Angeles (22 – 25 September)

Irish Screen America (30 September – 2 November )

Irish Film Festival London (23 – 27 November)

This list will be updated throughout the year as festival dates are announced. If there’s a festival you are involved with or know of that we haven’t listed, please do let us know at filmireland@gmail.com