PG / 72 mins / Documentary / Ireland / 2019

Dir: Aodh Ó Coileáin
Featuring: Tommy Tiernan, Mike McCormack, Rita Ann Higgins, Róisín Seoighe, Noeline Kavanagh, Pádraic Reaney, Máirtín O’Connor

Extra Features: director and contributor Q&A | pre-screening drinks reception

100 mins / Ireland
Extra Features: drinks reception

15 / 94 mins / Comedy, Fantasy, Horror / Ireland / 2019

Dir: Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman
Featuring: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte

Extra Features: director and cast Q&A

15 / 94 mins / Drama / Ireland / 2019

Dir: Karl Golden
Featuring: Diarmaid Murtagh, Woody Norman, Seun Shote, Scarlett Alice Johnson

Extra Features: director and cast Q&A

We are delighted to be joined, for the second time at our festival, by award-winning London-based Irish actor Andrew Scott for this session aimed at young or aspiring actors. We’ll be chatting to Andrew about his career, about acting and opening up the discussion to the audience. So have your questions ready!

PG / 105 mins / Animation, Comedy, Family / UK, Canada, USA / 2019

Dir: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
Featuring: Catherine O’Hara, Charlize Theron, Finn Wolfhard

Extra Features: Children’s Craft Workshop | short film

15 / 87 mins / Comedy, Drama / N. Ireland / 2019

Dir: Ian Fitzgibbon
Featuring: Peter Coonan, Pat Shortt, Moe Dunford, Charlie Murphy, Jana Moheiden

Extra Features: director and cast Q&A | short film

A collection of seven of the latest Irish short films from emerging and well-known filmmakers and animators, including Kev Cahill, Aidan McAteer, Emma Wall, Ryan Scura, Dylan Ladds, Robin Lochmann, Arjun Rose, Adam H Stewart, Laura Whitmore, and Irish Film London patron Moe Dunford.

We are running two free sessions aimed at aspiring and professional actors as part of the festival this year.

Our first is an advice session for actors and creative performers, with Equity and Spotlight.

A Bump Along the Way is a female-led feel good comedy drama set in Derry, Northern Ireland, about a middle-aged woman whose unexpected pregnancy after a one-night stand acts as the catalyst for her to finally take control of her life and become the role model her teenage daughter needs and craves.

We are delighted to welcome to the festival two of the UK’s most admired second-generation Irish creative minds: Roisin Conaty and Bridget Christie.

Mic Christopher and his music touched a generation of Irish talent before his sudden and untimely death. This is the story of how his love for life inspired his friends to follow their own dreams.

Every November, a week or so before the Festival officially kicks off, the Ambassador of Ireland to the United Kingdom kindly hosts us for the Irish Film London Awards in The Ballroom at the Embassy of Ireland.

As part of the Say What Happened - Nick Fraser Selects programme at Bertha Dochouse, Curzon Bloomsbury

We are delighted to partner with the London Comedy Film Festival (LOCO) on this screening of Hugh O’Conor’s Metal Heart.

Film screening plus Q&A with the film's producer John Flahive and award-winning Irish architect Angela Brady OBE

Our final selection of the finest new Irish short films. This year's theme is Diversity and Inclusivity, inspired by the London Is Open campaign.

Capturing the wonder of one man’s dreams, The Man Who Wanted To Fly tells the irresistible story of 80-something bachelor farmer Bobby Coote. He is determined to take flight. Even if it’s the last thing he does…

Intergenerational puppet creatures craft workshop with Kabutar Arts. Based on the characters from the film Zoo, we invite families to come together to create their own 3D animals from everyday objects!

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941. Based on a true story

From award-winning Irish director John Butler, comes Papi Chulo, starring Matt Bomer. Bomer plays a heartbroken Los Angeles weatherman trying to fill the void left by his Latino ex-boyfriend, in this cross-cultural comedy drama.

Our first selection of the finest new Irish short films. This year's theme is Diversity and Inclusivity, inspired by the London Is Open campaign. The line-up includes: Mother and Baby, Walls of Limerick, Sasha of the Sea, Gone, Wren Boys and The Overcoat.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

We were delighted to join our Irish partners in London to celebrate Irish women through film at part of this new festival!