'It brings the city alive': Memories of Cork Film Festival on its 70th anniversary

As Cork International Film Festival celebrates its 70th year,  filmmakers and actors reflect on their experiences at the country's oldest film festival 

The March 31, 1956 edition of the Cork Weekly Examiner - hiding a downpage headline on the first Cork Film Festival (centre), initially part of the Tóstal season.

Ed Guiney

Ed Guiney attends the UK Gala Screening of Searchlight Pictures' 'Poor Things' at the Barbican Centre in London, on December 14, 2023. (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK)