Keep an eye on film festivals here and Irish film festivals abroad
Film Festivals in Ireland:
Dublin Smartphone Film Festival (26th January 2019)
Subtitle European Film Festival (31st January – 3rd February 2019)
Psychoanalytic Film Festival (1 – 2 February 2019)
Silk Road Film FestivalDublin (5 – 9 February)
Rathmullan Film Fest Donegal (21 – 24 February 2019)
VM Dublin International Film Festival (20 February – 03 March 2019)
Cork French Film Festival (3 – 10 March 2019)
First Cut! Youth Film Festival (6 – 9 March 2019)
Killarney Mountain Festival (8 10 March 2019)
See You Next Thursday Festival (14th March onwards)
Dingle International Film Festival (21 24 March 2019)
Fresh Film Festival Limerick (25 30 March 2019)
Irish Adventure Film Festival Westport, Co. Mayo (29 – 31 March 2019)
International Student Documentary Festival Cork (2 – 5 April)
East Asia Film Festival Ireland Dublin (11 – 14 April 2019)
Belfast Film Festival (11 20 April 2019)
Japanese Film Festival (6th April onwards nationwide)
Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival Dublin (May – June)
Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival Cork (22 – 26 May 2019)
Korean Film Festival Ireland (13 – 15 June 2019)
China Ireland International Film Festival (24 – 29 June 2019)
Beara Film Fest (6th July 2019)
Galway Film Fleadh (9 – 14 July 2019)
IFI Family Festival Dublin (26 – 28 July 2019)
Radical Film Network Conference Dublin (TBA)
GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin (1 5 August 2019)
Still Voices Short Film Festival Longford (15 – 18 August 2019)
Dublin Feminist Film Festival Dublin (22 – 24 August 2019)
Charlie Chaplin Comedy Festival Kerry (23 – 25 August 2019)
Ireland Wildlife Film Festival Cork (14th September 2019)
Underground Cinema Festival Dublin (31st August – 2nd September 2019)
Clare Island Film Festival (5 – 8 September)
Guth Gafa Meath (20 – 22 September 2019)
IFI Documentary Festival Dublin (26 – 29 September 2019)
Disappear Here Film Festival Donegal (27 – 29 September 2019)
Spook Scene Cork (13 – 15 September 2019)
Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival Belfast (1st October – 3rd November 2019)
Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival (4 – 6 October 2019)
Kilkenny Animated (4 – 8 October 2019)
Dublin Arabic Film Festival (4 – 6 October)
IndieCork (6 – 13 October 2019)
OFFline Offaly (9 – 13 October 2019)
Dublin Greek Film Festival (TBA)
Dublin Animation Film Festival (18 – 19 October 2019)
Kerry Film Festival (17 – 21 October 2019)
The Clones Film Festival (25 – 28 October 2019)
Richard Harris International Film Festival Limerick (22 – 28 October 2019)
IFI Horrorthon Dublin (24 – 28 October 2019)
Light Moves Festival (Returns in 2020)
Dublin Independent Film Festival (5th November 2019)
Cork Film Festival (7 – 17 November 2019)
Junior Galway Film Fleadh (10 – 14 November)
IFI French Film Festival Dublin (13 – 24 November)
Carlow International Film Festival (15 – 16 November 2019)
Foyle Film Festival Derry (15 – 24 November)
Iffy Short Film Festival Dublin (6th July & 20th November 2019)
Waterford Film Festival (22 – 24 November 2019)
Vancouver Irish Film Festival (22nd November – 1st December)
Subtitle European Film Kilkenny (25th November – 1st December 2019)
Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival Cork (6 – 7 December 2019)
Global Migration Film Festival 18th December 2019
Irish Film Festivals Abroad:
Irish Film Festival New Jersey (8 – 9 February 2019)
Capital Irish Film Festival Washington (28th February – 3rd March 2019)
Chicago Irish Film Festival (28th February – 3rd March 2019)
Toronto Irish Film Festival (1 – 3 March 2019)
Irish Film Festival Boston (22 – 24 March 2019)
Irish Film Festa Rome (27 – 31 March 2019)
Irish Film Festival Ottawa (29 – 31 March 2019)
Irish Film Festival Sydney (1 – 5 May), Melbourne (9 – 12 May 2019)
Irish Reels Film Festival Seattle (16 – 17 March 2019)
Celtic Media Festival Isle Aviemore (4 – 6 June 2019)
Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival (26 – 27 July 2019)
British & Irish Film Festival (13-22 September 2019)
San Francisco Irish Film Festival (19 – 21 September)
Irish Screen America New York (25 – 27 October)
Irish Screen America Los Angeles(2nd November)
Syracuse Contemporary Irish Film Festival (13 – 16 November 2019)
Irish Film Festival London(20 – 24 November)
Festival of Irish Cinema Warsaw (TBA)
Vancouver Irish Film Festival (29th November – 1st December)
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
