A Coffee in Berlin

A Coffee in Berlin

A directionless young dropout, Niko, drifts through Berlin over one eventful day, encountering old acquaintances, awkward conversations and an elusive cup of coffee.

Presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Irland

Dir. Jan Ole Gerster
Casting Dir. Jan-Ole Gerster
Cast includes: Tom Schilling, Friederike Kempter

Germany | 1h 28m | 2012 | Comedy, Drama

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A Man of His Time

A Man of His Time
In Vichy in 1940, a penniless engineer seeks a place in the new regime, driven by conviction, ambition and personal desperation.

Dir. Emmanuel Marre
Casting Dir. Julie Sokolowski, Julie Lecoustre
Cast includes: Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke

France, Belgium | 2h 35m | 2026 | Drama, War

A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair
In eighteenth-century Denmark, a young queen and the king's idealistic physician are drawn into a forbidden romance amid struggles over political reform.

Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Casting Dir. Leo Davis, Tanja Grunwald
Cast includes: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen

Denmark, Sweden | 2h 17m | 2012 | Drama, Romance

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Adam's Sake

Adam's Sake
A paediatric head nurse finds herself caught between hospital rules and a mother desperate to remain at her young son's bedside

Dir. Laura Wandel
Casting Dir. Dorian Flamand
Cast includes: Léa Drucker, Anamaria Vartolomei

Belgium, France | 1h 18m | 2025 | Drama

Apples

Apples
During an epidemic of sudden amnesia, a man enters a recovery programme that uses everyday tasks and photographs to build a new identity.

Dir. Christos Nikou
Casting Dir. Stavros Raptis
Cast includes: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili

Greece, Poland | 1h 31m | 2020 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Beginnings

Beginnings
A couple on the brink of divorce find their lives unexpectedly bound together when a sudden stroke changes everything.

Dir. Jeanette Nordahl
Casting Dir. Anja Philip
Cast includes: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik

Denmark, Sweden | 1h 36m | 2025 | Drama

Irish Premiere TrineSpotting

Bitter Christmas

Bitter Christmas
A woman's personal crisis and a filmmaker's creative struggles intertwine in a story about the uneasy boundary between life and fiction.

Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Casting Dir. Eva Leira; Yolanda Serrano
Cast includes: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia

Spain | 1h 51m | 2026 | Comedy, Drama

Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso
In a Sicilian village, a boy's fascination with the local cinema sparks a friendship with its projectionist and a lifelong love of film.

Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Casting Dir. Umberto Castagna
Cast includes: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio

Italy, France | 2h 4m | 1988 | Drama

Cleere’s Classic Corner

Delicatessen

Delicatessen
In a world of food shortages, a former circus clown takes the job of a handyman in an apartment building above a deeply suspicious butcher's shop.

Dir. Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Casting Dir. Pierre-Jacques Bénichou
Cast includes: Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon

France | 1h 39m | 1991 | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Cleere’s Classic Corner

Diamanti

Diamanti
In 1970s Rome, two sisters and their dressmakers balance personal troubles with the demands of a busy film-costume workshop.

Dir. Ferzan Özpetek
Casting Dir. Davide Zurolo
Cast includes: Luisa Ranieri, Jasmine Trinca

Italy | 2h 15m | 2024 | Comedy, Drama

Dust

Dust
Belgian entrepreneurs Luc and Gert, face a weekend of reckoning as their business empire teeters on the brink of collapse.

Dir. Anke Blondé
Casting Dir. Sien Josephine Teijssen
Cast includes: Arieh Worthalter, Jan Hammenecker

Belgium, United Kingdom | 1h 49m | 2026 | Drama

Irish Premiere

Four Minus Three

Four Minus Three
A professional clown faces devastating loss, putting her belief in humour, hope and the healing power of laughter to the test.

Dir. Adrian Goiginger
Casting Dir. Angelika Kropej
Cast includes: Valerie Pachner, Robert Stadlober

Austria, Germany | 2h 1m | 2026 | Drama

Irish Premiere

Good Bye, Lenin!

Good Bye, Lenin!
After his mum wakes from a coma, a young Berliner tries to protect her fragile health by concealing the collapse of East Germany.

Dir. Wolfgang Becker
Casting Dir. Simone Bär
Cast includes: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß

Germany | 2h 1m | 2003 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Heysel 85

Heysel 85
During the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, a mayor's daughter and a journalist face conflicting demands of duty, loyalty and conscience.

Dir. Teodora Ana Mihai
Casting Dir. Michaël Bier; Elien Van Aerschot
Cast includes: Violet Braeckman, Matteo Simoni

Belgium, Netherlands | 1h 31m | 2026 | Drama, Sport

I Understand Your Displeasure

I Understand Your Displeasure
A cleaning-company supervisor is caught between her workers' needs and relentless demands from clients, management and subcontractors.

Dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich
Casting Dir. Daya Sieber
Cast includes: Sabine Thalau, Nada Kosturin

Germany | 1h 33m | 2026 | Drama

Irish Premiere

In A Better World

In A Better World
In a small Danish town, a friendship between two troubled boys draws their families into a conflict that tests the boundaries between revenge and forgiveness.

Dir. Susanne Bier
Casting Dir. Lene Seested
Cast includes: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm

Denmark, Sweden | 1h 53m | 2010 | Drama

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Köln 75

Köln 75
Lying about her age, teenage promoter Vera Brandes battles the odds to bring jazz legend Keith Jarrett to Cologne for an extraordinary concert.

Dir. Ido Fluk
Casting Dir. Emrah Ertem
Cast includes: Mala Emde, John Magaro

Germany, Poland | 1h 56m | 2025 | Biography, Drama, Music

La Belle Époque

La Belle Époque
Disillusioned with his life, Victor hires an elaborate historical re-creation service to revisit the week when he first fell in love.

Dir. Nicolas Bedos
Casting Dir. Emmanuelle Prévost
Cast includes: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet

France, Belgium | 1h 55m | 2019 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Le Città di Pianura

Le Città di Pianura
Two cash-strapped drinking companions take a shy architecture student under their wing on a rambling, booze-filled journey across the plains of northeastern Italy.

Dir. Francesco Sossai
Casting Dir. Adriano Candiago
Cast includes: Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano

Italy, Germany | 1h 40m | 2025 | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Loss of Balance

Loss of Balance
A disillusioned drama student falls under the influence of a charismatic director when she is cast as Lady Macbeth in her graduation production.

Dir. Korek Bojanowski
Casting Dir. Ewa Łepecka-Krzyżanowska
Cast includes: Nel Kaczmarek, Tomasz Schuchardt

Poland | 1h 37m | 2024 | Drama

Irish Premiere

Love Is All You Need

Love Is All You Need
Travelling to Italy for their children's wedding, a Danish hairdresser, Ida and a widowed businessman, Philip find their different lives unexpectedly intertwined.

Dir. Susanne Bier
Casting Dir. Lene Seested
Cast includes: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm

Denmark, Sweden | 1h 56m | 2012 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Memory Lane

Memory Lane
An elderly Dutch couple embark on a road trip to Spain, where old habits, stubborn personalities and a lifetime together make for an unexpectedly eventful journey.

Dir. Jelle de Jonge
Casting Dir. Susanne Groen, Ann Willems, Belén Calafell
Cast includes: Leny Breederveld, Martin van Waardenberg

Netherlands, Belgium | 1h 38m | 2024 | Comedy, Drama

Irish Premiere

Minotaur

Minotaur
In Russia in 2022, successful company director Gleb finds his carefully ordered life beginning to unravel as pressures at work and home mount.

Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Casting Dir. Anastasia Smekalova
Cast includes: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva

France, Latvia | 2h 22m | 2026 | Crime, Thriller

No Rest for the Wicked

No Rest for the Wicked
In the nineteenth-century Faroe Islands, a young fisherman's encounter with a mysterious whaler awakens desires forbidden by his isolated community

Dir. Kasper Kalle
Casting Dir. Andrés Cuenca; Tonucha
Cast includes: Egor Venned, Pilou Asbæk

Denmark, Faroe Islands | 1h 43m | 2026 | Drama, Romance

Irish Premiere

Redoubt

Redoubt
During the Cold War, a Swedish farm worker, Karl, fortifies his home with scrap metal to protect himself and his neighbours.

Dir. John Skoog
Casting Dir. Balder Ljunggren (Casting Coordinator)
Cast includes: Denis Lavant, Agnieszka Podsiadlik

Sweden, Denmark | 1h 25m | 2025 | Drama

Irish Premiere

Renovation

Renovation
When renovation work disrupts her new flat, Ilona's encounter with a Ukrainian builder leads her to question the settled future she's planned with her boyfriend.

Dir. Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Casting Dir. Marija Kavtaradze; Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė
Cast includes: Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė, Roman Lutskyi

Lithuania, Latvia | 1h 30m | 2025 | Drama

Irish Premiere

Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run
With her boyfriend's life at risk, Lola races through Berlin with twenty minutes to find 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Dir. Tom Tykwer
Casting Dir. An Dorthe Braker
Cast includes: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu

Germany | 1h 21m | 1998 | Action, Crime, Thriller

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Second Victims

Second Victims
During a hectic shift in an understaffed hospital, a neurologist faces a series of difficult decisions that threaten to unravel her professional confidence.

Dir. Zinnini Elkington
Casting Dir. Greta Staahl
Cast includes: Özlem Saglanmak, Trine Dyrholm

Denmark | 1h 32m | 2025 | Drama

Irish Premiere TrineSpotting

Sound of Falling

Sound of Falling
Across a century, four girls growing up on the same German farm share echoes of longing, fear and family memory.

Dir. Mascha Schilinski
Casting Dir. Karimah El-Giamal; Jacqueline Rietz
Cast includes: Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky

Germany | 2h 35m | 2025 | Drama, War

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
On his hundredth birthday, a restless nursing-home resident climbs out of a window and wanders into an unlikely adventure.

Dir. Felix Herngren
Casting Dir. Shakyra Dowling, Kristina Erdely, Siri Hjorton Wagner, Claes Stenmark
Cast includes: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander

Sweden, Croatia | 1h 54m | 2013 | Adventure, Comedy

The Angela Awards

The Angela Awards

The Intouchables

The Intouchables
A wealthy man paralysed in an accident hires an inexperienced young carer, sparking an unlikely friendship between two men from very different worlds.

Dir. Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Casting Dir. Gigi Akoka, Marie-France Michel
Cast includes: François Cluzet, Omar Sy

France | 1h 52m | 2011 | Comedy, Drama

Three Days of Fish

Three Days of Fish
During his father's brief return to Rotterdam for medical check-ups, a middle-aged son struggles to reconnect with him in this quietly funny, bittersweet story of family ties.

Dir. Peter Hoogendoorn
Casting Dir. Fay Muller, Sven van den Berg
Cast includes: Ton Kas, Guido Pollemans

Netherlands, Belgium | 1h 25m | 2024 | Comedy, Drama

Irish Premiere

Ulya

Ulya
Ulya, an exceptionally tall teenager leaves her remote Latvian farm for an elite basketball team, searching for a place to belong.

Dir. Viesturs Kairišs
Casting Dir. Gunita Grosa
Cast includes: Karlis Arnolds Avots, Chulpan Khamatova

Latvia, Poland | 1h 42m | 2026 | Drama, Sport

Irish Premiere

Unraveled

Unraveled
Maria, a former elite swimmer questions her marriage and her past when allegations of sexual misconduct emerge against her husband and former coach.

Dir. Pernille Fischer Christensen
Casting Dir. Djamila Hansen
Cast includes: Danica Ćurčić, Lars Ranthe

Denmark | 1h 48m | 2026 | Drama

Irish Premiere

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