Saturday, June 27, 2026

Steel Magnolias – a warm welcome and a listening ear for the regulars in Truvy’s salon sanctuary every Saturday morning (Lyric Theatre until Friday 10 July)

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Hair salons can be a bit of a go to setting in theatre for safe ‘third’ spaces where women can gather and support each other. They’re place...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

The Last Viking – Mads Mikkelsen delights in this brutal comedy Nordic noir (Queen’s Film Theatre from Friday 26 June)

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Part horror, part comedy, part Nordic noir, The Last Viking is a hard to pigeonhole film from Danish screenwriter and director Anders Thoma...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Heart of Hamelin – a well-told musical lesson about paying the piper or else he’ll call the tune (Market Place Theatre until Wednesday 24 June)

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The tale of the colourfully dressed piper who lures the rats away from an infested town and then takes revenge when the town renege on their...
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Monday, June 22, 2026

Cutting Through Rocks – an emancipating hustler who tries to push back against the stifling patriarchy (Docs Ireland at Queen’s Film Theatre)

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The village councillor elected with the most votes traditionally holds the official stamp to notarise paperwork. That’s the rule in this rur...

Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) – the story of how Maurice White steered the band (Docs Ireland at Queen’s Film Theatre)

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Maurice White was a kalimba-playing drummer, a lead singer, a songwriter, a producer, and the man who controlled the always vibrant yet quit...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Enough is Enough (Trop C’est Trop) – exposing the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo to global audiences (Docs Ireland at Queen’s Film Theatre)

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“A window on the world” was how a former radio editor used to describe the Sunday morning slots when I’d find a valid excuse to bring the si...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

American Doctor – three US medics expose the conditions inside and outside Gaza’s Nasser Hospital (Docs Ireland at Queen’s Film Theatre on 17 June and then UK/Ireland release from 25 September)

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Three American-born doctors travel to Gaza during a 2025 ceasefire to work in the Nasser Hospital hospital. This isn’t their first rodeo and...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Displace: The Battle For Dublin – a story of rebuilding community in the midst of precarity, planning and protest (Docs Ireland at An Cultúrlann on Thursday 18 June)

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Ireland’s housing crisis is multifaceted. Displace: The Battle For Dublin documents buildings lying derelict, landlords choosing to ‘no fau...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Previewing Docs Ireland 2026 - six days of documentary delicacies (16-21 June)

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Documentary film festival Docs Ireland is back for the eighth time with a smorgasbord of films. The majority of screenings are Pay What You ...

Lesbian Lines – the network of helplines that offered connection, protection and solidarity (Docs Ireland in the Queen’s Film Theatre on Friday 19 June)

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Quite a number of LGBT organisations across the island have recently been sifting through their archives and reflecting on many decades of s...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Bold Girls – facing up to the unpalatable whole truth and choosing how to move on (Centre Stage at the Lyric Theatre until Sunday 14 June)

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Bold Girls is located somewhere in and around the Falls Road/Anderstown Road in west Belfast in the late 1980s. Cassie lives with her mum N...

Desert Passages – brooding documentary about a disappearing water source (Docs Ireland in Queen’s Film Theatre on Saturday 20 June)

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Snow melting in the Rocky Mountains provides up to 90% of the water flowing down the 1,450-mile-long Colorado River. It’s all but dried up b...

Report on June 2026 PCI General Assembly #pciga26

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On top of the violence and disorder on the streets, there were three themes running through the four days of this year’s higgledy-piggledy G...
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