Cork Film Festival programme unveiled as event marks 70 years 

The programme of the 2025 Cork International Film Festival mixes old classics with some impressive contemporary offerings, and will have several celebrity guests visiting Leeside 

Gabriel Byrne will be in Cork next month for the city's film festival. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer /Getty)

As the programme for the 70th Cork International Film Festival was launched on Wednesday evening, event patron David Puttnam underlined the achievement of reaching such a milestone. The first incarnation of the festival occurred in 1956, as the famed West Cork-based producer mentions in his programme notes, “five years before the launch of RTÉ television, 20 years before the launch of the VHS machine, and 51 years before Steve Jobs presented the iPhone to the world”.

At the programme launch for the Cork  International Film Festival at the Atrium, City Hall, were Cormac Ó Súilleabhain, festival CEO Fiona Clark, and president of Cork Chamber Rob Horgan. Picture: David Creedon