Irish Film Festival
The Irish Film Festival is Australia’s finest source of innovative, quality film that showcases the culture, traditions, history and character of Ireland and the Irish people. Since 2015 IFF has gone from strength to strength and now partners with Cinema Nova to premiere moving dramas, inspiring documentaries, eerie horror, darkly funny comedies and captivating family films.
IRFF: That They May Face the Rising Sun
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024
An adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned ... more
IRFF: All You Need is Death
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
Anna and Aleks are song collectors–tracking down and recording obscure Irish folksongs to sell them to a network of rich ... more
IRFF: Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
To some it was an unassuming pub on a side street in Dublin’s city centre. To musicians, dancers, singers and ... more
IRFF: Dance First
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering ... more
IRFF: The Guards
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
In this groundbreaking episode, the harrowing realities of domestic violence and coercive control are unveiled through the eyes of the ... more
IRFF: A Greyhound of a Girl
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Oct 2024
Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny ... more
IRFF: Stolen
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Oct 2024
STOLEN reveals how women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ were treated in an Ireland that ... more
IRFF: Verdigris
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Oct 2024
A powerful story about Marian and Jewel, two very different women who form an unlikely bond. Shabby and unfulfilled, middle-aged ... more
IRFF: Lie of the Land
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
About to lose everything, the Wards prepare to escape crippling debts for a new life via a mysterious stranger, with ... more
IRFF: Ó Bhéal
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
Ó Bhéal is a cinematic exploration of the rise of Hip Hop and Electronic artists in Ireland embracing oral traditions of ... more
IRFF: Sunlight
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
Former addict Leon loves his best friend Iver more than anything else in the world. Iver’s the reason he’s clean ... more
IRFF: Tarrac
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
Aoife Ní Bhraoin returns home to help her father, Breandán ‘The Bear’ Ó Braoin, recover from a heart attack. Day ... more
