Irish Film at the 2024 Berlinale and EFM
Posted: 12th February 2024
The 2024 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) will begin on 15th February, followed by the European Film Market (EFM) on 17th February. Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland will be attending this year’s event, promoting the Irish creative Screen industry, and will host a stand at EFM.
Stand Information
Join the Irish film industry at Berlinale and EFM 2023, at stand G7 in the Martin-Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin.
If you are a member of the Irish delegation and wish to book a meeting at the stand, please email marketing@screenireland.ie.
Official Selection at Berlinale
Tim Mielants' Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh, will be opening the festival on Wednesday, 15th February.
The film is based on the Claire Keegan novel of the same name, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. In a small Wexford town in 1984, during the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant, works hard to provide for his wife and five daughters. Early one morning, while delivering coal to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the Church.
The film will be screening at the following times:
- Thursday, 15th February, 19.30, Berlinale Palast (Invitation only)
- Thursday, 15th February, 19.30, Verti Music Hall
- Friday, 16th February, 15.00, Verti Music Hall
- Friday, 16th February, 18.00, Verti Music Hall
- Sunday, 18th February, 19.00, Colosseum 1
More information on tickets can be found here.
Shot on location in Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin last year, the film is produced by Alan Moloney and Cillian Murphy for Big Things Films, with support from Artists Equity and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
Screening at EFM
Kneecap
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap.
Screening Thursday, 15th February, 9.00, CinemaxX 4and Saturday, 17th February, 14.30, Gropius Bau Cinema.
- Director: Rich Peppiatt
- Irish Production Company: Wildcard
- Sales Agent: Charades
Woken
A woman who wakes up from an accident with no memory of who she is and the realisation that the human race is close to extinction.
Screening Saturday, 17th February, 13.25, CinemaxX 7.
- Director: Alan Friel
- Irish Production Company: Fantastic Films
- Sales Agent: Bankside Films
The Flats
For days, Jolene, Angie and other neighbours from New Lodge, Belfast, have visited Joe to take part in a strange process: as an extension of his therapy, Joe decided to reenact memories from his childhood during the “Troubles”.
Screening Sunday, 18th February, 9.00, CinemaxX 10.
- Director: Alessandra Celesia
- Irish Production Company: Planet Korda Pictures
- Sales Agent: The Party Film Sales
So This is Christmas
Shot on 35mm, director Ken Wardrop spends Christmas in a small village in Ireland. A heartwarming reminder that Christmas can feel different and still special to many.
Screening Sunday, 18th February, 16.40, dffb Cinema and Monday, 19th February, 11.30, Virtual Cinema 5.
- Director: Ken Wardrop
- Irish Production Company: Venom Films
- Sales Agent: Breakout Pictures, Autlook Film Sales
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
Five guests experience a crisis of love in an AirBnB in Vilnius; unaware of the stories that have transpired within the same walls and under the same bedsheets.
Screening Sunday, 18th February, 13.00, dffb Cinema (English).
- Director: Tomas Vengris
- Irish Production Company: Tiger Darling Productions
- Sales Agent: Alief
Selling at EFM
September Says
- Director: Ariane Labed
- Irish Production Company: Element Pictures
- Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Fréwaka
- Director: Aislinn Clarke
- Irish Production Company: Wildcard
- Sales Agent: New Europe Film Sales
Ready or Not
- Director: Claire Frances Byrne
- Irish Production Company: Gaze Pictures
- Sales Agent: Bankside
The Damned
- Director: Thordur Palsson
- Irish Production Company: Wild Atlantic Pictures
- Sales Agent: Protagonist Pictures
Four Mothers
- Director: Darren Thornton
- Irish Production Company: Port Pictures
- Sales Agent: MK2 sales
Twig
- Director: Marian Quinn
- Irish Production Company: Blue Ink Films, Janey Pictures
- Sales Agent: Wildcard Distribution
Bring Them Down
- Director: Christopher Andrews
- Irish Production Company: Tailored Films
- Sales Agent: MUBI
Freud’s Last Session
- Director: Matthew Brown
- Irish Production Company: Subotica Productions
- Sales Agent: WestEnd Films
The Wolf, The Fox and the Leopard
- Director: David Verbeek
- Irish Production Company: Feline Films
- Sales Agent: LevelK
Cry from the Sea
- Director: Vic Sarin
- Irish Production Company: ShinAwiL
- Sales Agent: Cinema Management Group
Hallow Road
- Director: Babak Anvari
- Irish Production Company: Hail Mary Pictures
- Sales Agent: XYZ
Four Letters of Love
- Director: Polly Steele
- Irish Production Company: Port Pictures
- Sales Agent: Cornerstone Films
The End
- Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
- Irish Production Company: Wild Atlantic Pictures
- Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Coming to Market
You can find details of all the films currently selling/coming to market in the 2024 Screen Ireland Production Catalogue.