Programme

Dublin International Film Festival 2024 runs from 22 February – 2 March.

Browse our programme to find world-premiers, special screenings, Irish and International features, shorts, industry events, documentaries, Q&As, celebrations, and the highly anticipated DIFF Award ceremony.

NCAD Film Poster Exhibition: Alternate Take
/ The Lighthouse Cinema / / Thur 22 Feb - Sun Mar 2nd
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Opening Night Gala – TWIG
Thu 22 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 47min
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Opening Night Gala – TWIG
Thu 22 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 47
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Opening Night Gala – TWIG
Thu 22 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 21:00 / 1hr 47
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Tanqueray 0.0% Film Club: In Conversation with Hugo Weaving
Thu 22 Feb / The Complex / 16:00
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Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:30 / 2hr 9mins
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Stolen
Fri 23 Feb / 14:00 / 1hr 34mins
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The Teachers’ Lounge
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 34mins
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Posso Entrare? An Ode To Naples
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 34min
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Eat / Sleep / Cheer / Repeat
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 27min
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Banel & Adama
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 27min
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Baltimore
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:45 / 1hr 37min
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Toni
Fri 23 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:45 / 1hr 36min
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“TWIG” Cinematographer Declan Quinn ASC, ISC in Conversation with Tim Fleming ISC
Fri 23 Feb / The Complex / 12:00 / 60
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Tanqueray 0.0% Film Club – In Conversation with Trudie Styler
Fri 23 Feb / The Complex / 18:30 / 1hr 30min
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TWIG: A Casting Case Study
Fri 23 Feb / The Complex / 14:00 / 60 mins
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Mami Wata
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 47min
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The Informer
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 15:15 / 1hr 23min
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Evil Does Not Exist
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 10:30 / 1hr 46min
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Monster
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 12:45 / 2hr 6min
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Screen Ireland Shorts 1
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 1hr 14min
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Screen Ireland Shorts 2
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 18min
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Virgin Media Discovers
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 17:00 / 1hr 8min
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King Frankie
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 19:00 / 1hr 30min
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Reawakening
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 21:00 / 1hr 30min
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Red Rooms
Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 21:00 / 1hr 58min
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African Season: Crafting Authentic Narratives
Sat 24 Feb / The Complex / 16:00 / 1hr
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International Film Programmers Panel 1
Sat 24 Feb / The Complex / 10:30 / 1hr
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Family Gala: Oink
Sun 25 Feb / The Pavilion Theatre / 14:00 / 1hr 12min
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City of Wind
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 11:00 / 1hr 44min
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Housekeeping For Beginners
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 11:00 / 1hr 47min
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Perennial Light
Sun 25 Feb / Irish Film Institute / 13:30 / 1hr 21min
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Lord Mayor’s Gala: The Irish Question
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 1hr 30min
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The Featherweight
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:30 / 1hr 39min
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Archangel
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 15:30 / 1hr 17min
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Freud’s Last Session
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 17:00 / 1hr 48min
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Goodbye Julia
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 17:30 / 2hr
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High & Low: John Galliano
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 19:30 / 1hr 56min
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Sleep
Sun 25 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:15 / 1hr 35min
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Masterclass with Kevin Macdonald
Sun 25 Feb / The Complex / 15:00 / 1hr
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Tanqueray 0.0% Film Club – Amy Huberman In Conversation with DIFF Discovery Award Nominees
Sun 25 Feb / The Complex / 12:30
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In The Room: The Future of Documentary Cinema
Sun 25 Feb / The Complex / 16:30 / 60 mins
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DIFF Friends Gala: Àma Gloria
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 35min
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The Lynda Myles Project: A Manifesto
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:30 / 1hr 20min
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The Green Fog
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 1hr 3min
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DIFF Shorts 1
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 15:30 / 2hr 4min
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Shayda
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 57min
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The Line
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 40min
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Don’t Forget to Remember
Mon 26 Feb / Irish Film Institute / 18:30 / 1hr 17min
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:45 / 1hr 50min
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Swing Bout
Mon 26 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 21:00 / 1hr 30min
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Irish Film Programmers Network Event & Lunch
Mon 26 Feb / The Complex / 11:00
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IFCO Centenary Lecture Series
Mon 26 Feb / The Complex / 16:30
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Seanchoíche
Mon 26 Feb / The Complex / 19:00 / 60
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Dublin on Screen 1
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 12:00 / 45min
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Cannes Uncut
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:30 / 1hr 25min
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Samuel and the Light
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 1hr 10min
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Time Out
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 15:30 / 1hr 58min
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The Beast
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 2hr 26min
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La Chimera
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:00 / 2hr 10min
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Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works
Tue 27 Feb / Irish Film Institute / 18:30 / 1hr 7min
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The Universal Theory
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:30 / 1hr 58min
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Drive-Away Dolls
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 21:00 / 1hr 58min
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Documentary Shorts
Tue 27 Feb / The Circular / 18:30 / 1hr 4min
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ReFraming Irish Film
Tue 27 Feb / The Complex / 14:00 / 1hr
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“Dear Jassi” Cinematographer Brendan Galvin ISC in Conversation with Tim Fleming ISC
Tue 27 Feb / The Complex / 16:00 / 1hr 30min
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International Film Programmers Panel 2
Tue 27 Feb / The Complex / 10:30 / 1hr
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King Frankie
Tue 27 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 19:00 / 1hr35
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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 12:00 / 2hr 43min
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Dublin on Screen 2
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 12:00 / 1hr 1min
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DIFF Shorts 2
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:30 / 1hr 59min
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Gone With The Boat
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 15:30 / 1hr 39min
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Orlando, My Political Biography
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 38min
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Memory
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:00 / 1hr 42min
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Hounds
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 34min
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The Swimming Diaries
Wed 28 Feb / Irish Film Institute / 18:30 / 1hr 40min
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Sidonie in Japan
Wed 28 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:00 / 1hr 35min
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Wed 28 Feb / 20:30 / 1hr 32min
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Ireland-France Co-Production Day
Wed 28 Feb / The Complex / 10:00 / 10:00-21:00
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Tanqueray 0.0% Film Club – In Conversation with Steve McQueen
Wed 28 Feb / The Complex / 18:00 / 2hr
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Scoring the Story – a focus on Composing for Documentary
Wed 28 Feb / The Complex / 14:30 / 60mins
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About Dry Grasses
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 3hr 10min
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Bill Douglas My Best Friend
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 1hr 18min
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DIFF Shorts 3
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 2hr 3min
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Dublin Double Bill
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 11min
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Omen
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 27min
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Dear Jassi
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:00 / 2hr 12min
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Birdsong
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:30 / 50min
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Volta Award Presentation and Q&A: Isabelle Huppert
Thu 29 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 12:00
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Embedding Sustainable Practices: How to promote sustainability on any budget level
Thu 29 Feb / Goethe Institute / 16:30
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Bye Bye Tiberias
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 11:00 / 1hr 22min
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Close Your Eyes
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 12:00 / 2hr 49min
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Fresh Film HOTHOUSE
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:30 / 1hr 20min
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Emerging Limerick Filmmakers Scenario X
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 15:00 / 30min
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Suddenly
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 53min
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Green Border
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 17:00 / 2hr 32min
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Four Daughters
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 18:30 / 1hr 48min
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Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s
Fri 1 Mar / Irish Film Institute / 18:30 / 1hr
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Woken
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 20:15 / 1hr 30min
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The Swallow
Fri 1 Mar / Irish Film Institute / 20:30 / 1hr 11min
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The Summer with Carmen
Fri 1 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 21:00 / 1hr 46min
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International Sales Agent Event
Fri 1 Mar / Goethe Institute / 14:00 / 1hr 30min
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The Delinquents
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 11:00 / 3hr 9min
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Surprise Film
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 17:00
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Brand Upon the Brain!
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:00 / 1hr 39min
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My Winnipeg
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 14:30 / 1hr 20min
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Four Little Adults
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 2hr 2min
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Closing Night Gala: That They May Face The Rising Sun
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 19:30 / 1hr 47min
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Mad & Wild & Bold: Guy Maddin Masterclass
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 10:00
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DFCC Awards
Sat 2 Mar / The Lighthouse Cinema / 13:00
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View the DIFF 2024 Catalogue