The festival is now in its sixteenth year, and the organisers are telling the truth when they describe the line up as “tantalising” with its mix of new international cinema and documentaries, features and shorts from local filmmakers, with post-screening discussions and talks all over the city.
While Oscar-nominated Mustang opens the festival in the Dublin Road Moviehouse this evening, I’ll be over at the Better World Film Fringe in the MAC hosting a panel discussion after the screening of District Zero (filmed in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan).
Some picks from the bulging programme:
Parisienne – from Beirut to Paris – QFT at 6.30pm
When Marnie Was There – childlike friendship anime – QFT at 9pm
Blade Runner Night – dressing up encouraged – Black Box at 9pm
Open Fest – twenty minute short celebrating the brand new Open House Festival choir as over ten weeks they go from nothing to supporting Duke Special in Bangor Abbey – QFT at 12.15pm
Virgin Mountain – you can’t go wrong with Icelandic cinema and deadpan humour – QFT at 6.30pm
The Conversation at SARC – delve into the audio-driven world of a surveillance expert who may or may not have recorded two people discussing a murder plot – SARC at 7pm
Land of Mine – surrendered German soldiers order by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark – QFT at 8.30pm
Sunday 17 April
Das Boot at SARC – hear the expanding and contracting metal of the submarine and the sonar pings with SARC’s immersive sound system – SARC at 3pm
Monday 18 April
Schneider vs Bax – surreal and delightfully dark comedy as a contract killer’s birthday party is disrupted when he’s sent to dispatch a drunken writer – QFT at 6.40pm
Film Devour – short film festival where you score a dozen or more fabulous sub-15 minute films, each with a local connection – Black Box at 7pm
Internet Cat Video Festival – over 100 videos, from Vines to short films, all adorable – Black Box at 7pm
This Changes Everything – seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of climate change – part of the Better World Film Fringe – The MAC at 7pm
Light Years – what happens when someone is physically present but no longer ‘there’? – QFT at 8.30pm
Thursday 21 April
Vessel – the story of Women on Waves, challenging anti-abortion laws around the world with a floating advice centre – The MAC at 4pm
As I Open My Eyes – on the eve of the Arab Spring, a Tunisian student passes her exams but is drawn to her passion for music rather than medicine – QFT at 6.30pm
Traders – recession hit Ireland and the brutal lengths people will go to to hang onto wealth – QFT at 6.40pm
Bruce Bickford Films – catch the stream of animated consciousness from this inspirational and cult animator – Beanbag Cinema at 9pm
Friday 22 April
Embers – science fiction in a post-event world: everyone who remains has chronic amnesia – Beanbag Cinema at 9pm
Easter 2016 – Graham Reid’s 1982 science fiction episode for the BBC’s “Play For Tomorrow” set in the days leading up to the Easter Rising – Black Box at 2pm
Sunday 24 April
Arabian Nights trilogy – 6 hour screening – QFT at 11.30am
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