Dublin International Film Festival launches 2025 programme
Posted: 28th January 2025
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to welcome the launch of the programme for this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF). Running from 20th February to 2nd March, the festival will screen 80 films across 11 days. Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is proud to support the festival as its official Industry Partner.
Gráinne Humphreys, DIFF Festival Director, said:
Following the success of last year’s festival, we are delighted to present what we believe is an equally exciting programme of films and guests to the audiences of Dublin and beyond.”
The festival will once again present a wide variety of new Irish and international features for Dublin audiences, including Claire Frances Byrne's coming-of-age story with a twist Ready or Not, Brian Durnin's debut feature Spilt Milk, Stephen Bradley's football mockumentary Fran the Man, Jason Buxton's thriller Sharp Corner and Polly Steele's romance Four Letters of Love. Documentary fans will also be able to discover new stories from Irish filmmakers, including Aoife Kelleher's Testimony, charting the key legal and political battles the Justice for Magdalenes group has undertaken, Éamon Little's Born That Way, where Patrick Lydon reflects on a life that took him from rock journalism in the US to driving the radically inclusive Camphill Movement in Ireland, Ross Whitaker's Beat the Lotto, which tells the story of Stefan, the man who tried to beat the Lotto system with an act that divided a whole nation, and Myrid Carten's A Want in Her, fresh from its World Premiere at IDFA last year. Darren Thornton's Four Mothers, winner of the BFI London Film Festival's Audience Award in 2024, will be this year's Closing Gala.
Several short film programmes supported by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland will screen over the course of the Festival, including a National Talent Academy Shorts programme, presenting the World Premiere of live-action and animation works produced under the First Credit Short Film Scheme and the NTA Short Film Fund, the World Premiere of the latest films produced through the Virgin Media Discovers scheme, and two screenings presenting recent films produced under the agency's flagship Focus Shorts and Frameworks (co-funded with RTÉ) schemes.
As DIFF 2025's official Industry Partner, Screen Ireland will present a wide variety of industry events taking place over the course of the festival. Early highlights include an International Film Programmers panel, an International Sales Agents Event and an X-POLLINATOR / DIFF Producers Networking Event.
Tickets for all films on the programme are now available to book on diff.ie.