Keep an eye on film festivals here and Irish film festivals abroad.
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
Film Festivals in Ireland:
Dublin Smartphone Film Festival (25 January 2020)
Silk Road Film Festival Dublin ( 21 – 25 January 2020)
Psychoanalytic Film Festival (31 January – 1 February 2020)
Rathmullan Film Fest Donegal (20 – 23 February 2020)
Dublin International Film Festival (26 February– 8 March 2020)
Irish Adventure Film Festival Westport, Co. Mayo (29th February 2020)
Cork French Film Festival (TBA)
First Cut! Youth Film Festival (11 – 14 March 2020)
The Catalyst Film Festival Limerick (20 – 21 March 2020)
Animation Dingle (20 – 21 March 2020)
Ireland Wildlife Film Festival Galway, Dublin, Westport (23 – 26 March 2020)
Fresh Film Festival Limerick (23 28 March 2020)
International Student Documentary Festival Cork (23 – 24 April 2020)
East Asia Film Festival Ireland Dublin (30th July – 5th August))
Belfast Film Festival (1 – 9 April 2020)
Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival Cork (20 – 24 May 2020)
Galway Film Fleadh (7 – 12 July 2020)
Still Voices Short Film Festival Longford (13 – 16 August 2020)
IFI Documentary Festival Dublin (21– 27 September 2020)
GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin (30th September – 4th October)
Wexford Documentary Film Festival (October 2020)
Disappear Here Film Festival Donegal (25 – 27 September)
Spook Scene Cork (29th October – 1st November)
Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival Belfast (1 – 31 October 2020)
Kilkenny Animated (2 – 4 October)
OFFline Offaly (3 – 11 October)
IndieCork (4 -11 October 2020)
Her International Film Festival (10 – 14 October)
Dublin Animation Film Festival (18 -19 October)
Kerry Film Festival (15 – 18 October 2020)
Richard Harris International Film Festival Limerick (20 – 26 October)
IFI Horrorthon Dublin (22 – 26 October 2020)
Dublin Independent Film Festival (4th November)
Science on Screen Film Festival (5 – 8 November)
Cork Film Festival (8 – 15 November 2020)
Carlow International Film Festival (14 – 17 November 2020)
Iffy Short Film Festival Dublin (November 2020 TBC)
Waterford Film Festival (20 – 22 November)
Subtitle European Film Festival (23 – 29 Nov 2020)
Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival Cork (TBA)
Junior Galway Film Fleadh (10 – 14 November 2020)
IFI French Film Festival Dublin (11 – 22 November 2020)
Dublin International Comedy Film Festival (3rd December 2020)
Foyle Film Festival Derry (26–28 November.)
Dublin Arabic Film Festival (11 – 13 December 2020)
Irish Film Festivals Abroad:
Irish Film Festival New Jersey (1st February 2020)
Capital Irish Film Festival Washington (27th February – 1st March 2020)
Chicago Irish Film Festival (27th February – 1st March 2020)
Toronto Irish Film Festival (28th February – 1st March 2020)
Irish Film Festival Boston (22 – 24 March 2020)
Irish Film Festa Rome (March 2020)
Irish Film Festival Ottawa (3 – 5 April 2020)
Irish Film Festival Sydney (13 – 17 May), Melbourne (21 – 24 May 2020)
Celtic Media Festival Quimper (2 – 4 June 2020)
British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg (18 – 26 September 2020)
Irish Film Festival Austrailia (28 – 29 November 2020)
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
