It’s been an iffy year for movies, but the year has been bookended by some true diamonds in the rough:

Ellie O’Byrne paid a visit to the Kabin in Knocknaheeny to see the supportive atmosphere that gave rise to the duo behind the ‘Yeah Boy’ hit.

Three Academy Awards qualifying places were up for grabs.

The staff of Cork Film Festival tell Richard Fitzpatrick about some of their personal recommendations on what to see

The Cork Film Festival is known for championing short films. We chat to six emerging film-makers who are showing their work over the next few days

Newsreels from the independence era, and various short films, give a glimpse of earlier eras on Leeside, writes Marjorie Brennan

All you need to know on theatre, TV, music and art this week.

For those involved in the film industry, November is the great “in-between” month — the annual period between possibility and promise.

Cork has, rightly, for many years styled itself as a City of Festivals. Many, many other cites; many, many other communities, host many and varied festivals but not that many do so with such natural, unfettered gusto and enthusiasm.

Everything entertainment you need to look out for

A screening of the long-awaited Frozen sequel is among the standout events of this year's Cork Film Festival.

Belinda Carlisle may have cancelled her Cork show on Wednesday due to a throat infection, but there are plenty more opportunities on the way for fans of 20th-century popular music.

Many of the locations in ‘Float Like A Butterfly’ were chosen when director Carmel Winters was out walking with her wife in West Cork, writes Esther McCarthy.

In an excerpt from his book on Cork in the 1980s, Michael Moynihan looks behind the scenes at the shenanigans that saved the city’s film festival.

Our Arts Editor selects his highlights of the year...

When the Cork Film Festival was established 63 years ago, it offered an annual window to an exotic world of minor starlets in never-seen-before ball gowns.

Films about guilt and redemption have taken the honours at this year's Cork Film Festival - with two of them now going on to be longlisted for the Oscars.

Oonagh Kearney is a film-maker from Ballintemple in Cork. A former pupil of the Ursuline Convent in Blackrock, she also studied at the National Film and Television School in London. Her latest short film, the 24-minute Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect my Brain, shows as part of the ‘Best of Cork’ presentation at Cork Film Festival on Sunday, Nov 18, at the Everyman.

Werner Herzog’s quirky take on Mikhail Gorbachev promises to be one of the best documentaries at Cork Film Festival, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

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The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.

His four-year stint on Vikings has just come to an end, but with six movie releases this year alone, an IFTA nomination and his latest role as Amy Huberman’s love interest in Striking Out, Moe Dunford is about to become a household name, writes Esther McCarthy

Meet the faces of 2018 — the emerging talents who’ll soon be seen on a screen or at a venue near you. From cinema and TV to music and fashion, we profile the new names reaching for success in 2018, writes Esther McCarthy.

The country’s oldest film festival came to a close last night with Irish short film ’Wave’ now in contention for an Oscar, after being selected as the Grand Prix Irish Short winner at the Cork Film Festival 2017 Awards Ceremony.

And after 115 features, 34 documentaries and 116 shorts, the panel of esteemed judges had their work cut out for them.

The Cork Film Festival is hosting the world premiere of a documentary on survivors of the Tuam Mother & Baby Home.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news

Arts editor Des O’Driscoll selects the must-see movies at the Cork Film Festival.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the world of entertainment.

American director Alex Gibney was stunned by what he found for his documentary on the Loughinisland killings. It will be shown at Cork Film Festival, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Esther McCarthy speaks to film director and producer Maurice Fitzpatrick about his documentary on Northern Ireland peace campaigner John Hume

Victoria Smurfit returned to Ireland from LA to take a starring role in twisty thriller about to be screened at the Cork Film Festival, writes Esther McCarthy

Sourcing his material from former prisoners, director Frank Berry wanted to get the experience of a first-time inmate on to the big screen, he tells Esther McCarthy

John Daly looks back at the halcyon days of the Cork Film Festival in the 1950s and ’60s when the Rebel City became a Technicolor wonderland of enchantment and exoticism.

A well-known Irish film-maker has died from complications of motor neurone disease, just weeks after his moving account of living with the disease opened in Irish cinemas.

Latest: Tributes are flooding in for Irish film director and author Simon Fitzmaurice who has died aged 43.

Music, comedy, drama and the annual Christmas panto will bring the Everyman Theatre’s 120th anniversary celebrations to a close, the venue’s autumn/winter programme launch has revealed.

Mark O’Halloran has taken on a role at UCC, but first he’s starring in his own film as Omar O’Meara, an Irish Muslim from Tuam, writes Esther McCarthy.

Ireland’s longest-running film festival has cleared all of its legacy debt a year on from an emergency €200,000 bailout.

One of Ireland’s great hotels has issued a public appeal for help to celebrate its 120th anniversary this summer.

He may have had a reputation as the coke-snorting bad boy of ballet, but Helen Barlow found there’s a lot more to Sergei Polunin. He talks about dancing to Hozier and how he came to possess Mickey Rourke’s bloody pants.

Killarney man Tom Cooper cast veterans of the War of Independence in Ireland’s first feature film. Its restoration means it can be screened again, writes Ellie O’Byrne

We look at some of the best offerings from the Cork Film Fesitval.

Buttevant director Billy O’Brien talks to Caroline Delaney about his film I am Not a Serial Killer

Des O’Driscoll rounds up five things going on around the country this week.