Irish Film at Berlinale and EFM 2022
Posted: 8th February 2022
The 2020 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) runs from 10 - 20 February, with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland attending the festival and hosting the Irish stand at the European Film Market (EFM).
The European Film Market (EFM) will take place online from 10 - 17 February.
Virtual Stand Information
Through the virtual stand at Berlinale and EFM, Screen Ireland continues its commitment to promoting Irish films selling in the market, new Irish titles coming to market, Ireland as a film location and the Section 481 tax incentive.
For those with EFM market accreditation:
For information about filming in Ireland, financial incentives and co-production:
- For information on filming in Ireland, our locations brochure is available for download here.
- To find out about the Irish tax credit, Section 481, click here.
- You can find more information about official European co-production here.
Official Selection at Berlinale
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and TG4 production An Cailín Ciúin will receive its World Premiere on Friday, 11th February 2022 at 14:00 at the Berlin Film Festival.
- Fri 11 Feb, 14:00, HKW (World Premiere)
- Fri 11 Feb, 13:50, Cubix 4 (Industry Screening)
- Sat 12 Feb, 14:30, Cubix 8
- Sun 13 Feb, 09:30, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
- Fri 18 Feb, 11:00, Urania
- Fri 19 Feb, 17:00, Cubix 8
A moving coming-of-age story. A girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents. She blossoms, but in a house where there were meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
- Writer/Director: Colm Bairéad
- Irish Production Company Inscéal
- Sales Agent Rosa Bosch
French/German/Irish co-production About Joan will receive its World Premiere in a Berlinale Special Gala on Tuesday, 15th February 2022 at 21:45 at the Berlin Film Festival.
- Tues 15 Feb, 21:45, Berlinale Palast (World Premiere, Berlinale)
- Wed 16 Feb, 11:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast
- Wed 16 Feb, 16:00, CinemaxX 9
- Thur 17 Feb, 21:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast
- Sat 19 Feb, 17:30, Berlinale Palast
- Sun 20 Feb, 15:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast
In Paris, Joan runs into her first love, a once young Irishman. Overwhelmed, she leaves the city and revisits the last 40 years with her son Nathan. A liberating journey about coming to terms with the stories we tell ourselves.
- Writer/Director: Laurent Larivière
- Irish Production Company Blinder Films
- Sales Agent Playtime
Screening at EFM
Foscadh (Shelter)
When naïve recluse John's over-protective parents pass away, he inherits land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate romance, trust and vengeance for the first time.
- Thurs 10 Feb, 16:30, Virtual Cinema 6
- Mon 14 Feb, 13:30, Virtual Cinema 2
- Director Seán Breathnach
- Production Company Tua Films
- Sales Agent Memento Films International
Let the Wrong One In
Matt may be a sucker, but when his brother becomes a vampire, he's faced with the dilemma of whether to save him or slay him.
- Sun 13 Feb, 15:00, Virtual Cinema 20
- Director Conor McMahon
- Production Company Tailored Films
- Sales Agent MPI Media Group
Selling at EFM
Nothing Compares
- Director Kathryn Ferguson
- Production Company Ard Mhacha Productions
- Sales Agent Submarine Entertainment
It Is In Us All
- Director Antonia Campbell-Hughes
- Production Company Pale Rebel Productions, Savage Productions
- Sales Agent WaZabi Films
The Cellar
- Director Brendan Muldowney
- Production Company Savage Productions, Hail Mary Pictures
- Sales Agent Epic Pictures
You Are Not My Mother
- Director Kate Dolan
- Production Company Fantastic Films
- Sales Agent Bankside
Wolf
- Director Nathalie Biancheri
- Production Company Feline Films
- Sales Agent Bankside
All the Numbers
- Director Ross Whitaker
- Production Company
- Sales Agent Cinetic Media
Children of Beirut
- Director Stephen Gerard Kelly, Garry Keane
- Production Company Cyprus Avenue Films
Atomic Hope
- Director Frankie Fenton
- Production Company Kennedy Films
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby
- Director Seamus Murphy
- Production Company Broadstone Films
Young Plato
- Director Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath
- Production Company Soilsiú Films