Dublin International Film Festival at the IFI
IFI & Dublin International Film Festival
For 11 unforgettable days in February 2025, Dublin will transform into a vibrant hub of cinematic excellence. DIFF brings the best of Irish and international cinema to the capital for a celebration of storytelling, including the below screenings at the Irish Film Institute.
From world premieres to intimate screenings, exclusive Q&As to parties and celebrations, DIFF offers a unique journey into the world of film, all set against the backdrop of buzz of the Irish capital.
Join us for DIFF 2025 and be part of a contemporary cinema experience that connects communities, ignites ideas, and inspires a love for cinema that lasts all year round. See the full programme here.
MON, FEB 24TH (18.30)
Dir. José Miguel Jiménez
Amanda has painted in isolation for years, using art as both expression and refuge. Institutionalised and labelled, she reclaims her narrative through her canvas. As she prepares for her first retrospective, her story reaches national newspapers, and she navigates the vulnerability of sharing her art and her truth. Will this confrontation lead to healing or a reopening of old wounds? Through immersive explorations of her luminous works, Jiménez’s documentary captures Amanda’s transformation of silence into radiance.
This film will be followed by a 20 minute Q&A.
TUES, FEB 25TH (18.30)
Dir. Adrian Duncan
An Irish geologist teaching in Italy gets a call from a Berlin hospital: her estranged father, whom she hasn’t seen for over 30 years, is unconscious after a fall. As his next of kin, she is asked to come to Berlin. Over the course of a night in her father’s Berlin apartment she learns from his diaries about a trip he took with a friend to Italy in the early 2000s to research fascist-era buildings and sculptures. It is a trip that ended in tragedy. Latina, Latina is a timely and moving hybrid-documentary that looks at a political ideology through the objects and buildings it left behind.
This film will be followed by a 20 minute Q&A.
WED, FEB 26TH (18.30)
Dir. John Connors
John Connors invites his grandmother Chrissy Donohue Ward into the frame to share the myths and oral traditions that shaped her and inspired him as a filmmaker. A lifelong Mincéir activist and poet, Chrissy blends enchanting fairytales with raw truths, celebrating the Irish Traveller community’s resilience. A powerful exploration of storytelling’s enduring magic, this documentary invites audiences to embrace the overlooked beauty of Mincéir culture and its rich legacy of connection and belonging.
This film will be followed by a 20 minute Q&A.
THUR, FEB 27TH (18.30)
Dir. Beatrice Minger, Christoph Schaub
In 1929, when the iconic Irish artist Eileen Gray designed a house for herself on the Riviera, the result was a modernist triumph. This docufiction tells the story of E.1027, a house-cum-work of art, and how it became an obsession for Swiss-French star architect Le Corbusier. Gray’s aesthetics not only drive the narrative but also the look of the film. Overlooking the sun-sparkled infinity of the Mediterranean, this is a woman’s desire to create a home where she is protected but free, a space that comes under threat of becoming a villa of violence and vandalism.
FRI, FEB 28TH (20.30)
Dir. Éamon Little
Over Patrick Lydon’s final year, he reflects on a life that took him from rock journalism in the US to driving the radically inclusive Camphill Movement in Ireland, sharing life with people of diverse needs and abilities. Patrick’s lens on the world raises searching questions about ideas of disability and inclusion and shines a special light on the otherness in our society.
This film will be followed by a 20 minute Q&A.
ELIA SULEIMAN RETROSPECTIVE
SAT, MAR 1st (14.00)
Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention, the acclaimed 2002 comedy that defies conventional filmmaking with its sharp wit, biting satire, and poetic visuals. A Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner, this film is a poignant and absurdly humorous exploration of life under occupation, blending the personal with the political in ways both surreal and strikingly human. Audiences will have the rare opportunity to engage with the filmmaker himself during the festival.
This film will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A
SAT, MAR 1ST (16.45)
Another step into the whimsical world of visionary Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven (2019) is a semi-autobiographical journey across cities of the world in search of a sense of ‘home’. Through absurd encounters and wry observations, Suleiman finds himself in scenarios both familiar and utterly alien to him, capturing a universal quest for meaning in a fractured world.
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