Fri, 29 May, 2020
It’s been an iffy year for movies, but the year has been bookended by some true diamonds in the rough:
Sun, 22 Dec, 2019
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.
Sun, 08 Dec, 2019
Three Academy Awards qualifying places were up for grabs.
Sun, 17 Nov, 2019
The staff of Cork Film Festival tell Richard Fitzpatrick about some of their personal recommendations on what to see
Wed, 13 Nov, 2019
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.
Sun, 10 Nov, 2019
For those involved in the film industry, November is the great “in-between” month — the annual period between possibility and promise.
Mon, 04 Nov, 2019
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.
Fri, 25 Oct, 2019
Everything entertainment you need to look out for
Fri, 18 Oct, 2019
A screening of the long-awaited Frozen sequel is among the standout events of this year's Cork Film Festival.
Tue, 15 Oct, 2019
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.
Thu, 10 Oct, 2019
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.
Wed, 08 May, 2019
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.
Wed, 06 Feb, 2019
Our Arts Editor selects his highlights of the year...
Mon, 24 Dec, 2018
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.
Mon, 19 Nov, 2018
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.
Sun, 18 Nov, 2018
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.
Thu, 08 Nov, 2018
Werner Herzog’s quirky take on Mikhail Gorbachev promises to be one of the best documentaries at Cork Film Festival, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.
Fri, 02 Nov, 2018
Here's your lunchtime bulletin.
Thu, 18 Oct, 2018
Here's your morning bulletin.
The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.
Wed, 17 Oct, 2018
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
Sat, 10 Feb, 2018
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.
Sat, 30 Dec, 2017
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.
Mon, 20 Nov, 2017
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.
Sat, 18 Nov, 2017
Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news
Fri, 17 Nov, 2017
Arts editor Des O’Driscoll selects the must-see movies at the Cork Film Festival.
Fri, 10 Nov, 2017
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
Sat, 04 Nov, 2017
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.
Sat, 28 Oct, 2017
Latest: Tributes are flooding in for Irish film director and author Simon Fitzmaurice who has died aged 43.
Fri, 27 Oct, 2017
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.
Thu, 14 Sep, 2017
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.
Tue, 27 Jun, 2017
Ireland’s longest-running film festival has cleared all of its legacy debt a year on from an emergency €200,000 bailout.
Wed, 14 Jun, 2017
One of Ireland’s great hotels has issued a public appeal for help to celebrate its 120th anniversary this summer.
Tue, 25 Apr, 2017
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.
Fri, 10 Mar, 2017
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
Thu, 08 Dec, 2016
Fri, 25 Nov, 2016
Mon, 21 Nov, 2016
We look at some of the best offerings from the Cork Film Fesitval.
Wed, 16 Nov, 2016
Buttevant director Billy O’Brien talks to Caroline Delaney about his film I am Not a Serial Killer
Tue, 15 Nov, 2016
Des O’Driscoll rounds up five things going on around the country this week.
Mon, 14 Nov, 2016
Sun, 13 Nov, 2016
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