EU and MEDIA Film News March 2026
News about European films supported by the EU funding and highlighting independent cinemas and cinema clubs that are part of the Europa Cinemas network in Ireland. Includes films made thanks to EU initiatives such as Eurimages Cinema Fund, European Film Promotion as well as events such as the European Film Awards, European Cinema Month, A Season of Classic Films, and the LUX Audience Award.
- IFI, Dublin and IFI@Home
- Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
- Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
- Access Cinema Network of regional cinema clubs
- yCinema.ie is an EU-supported platform, operated by access>CINEMA Ireland, on which you can you can rent a curated selection of the best world cinema.
The Voice of Hind Rajab | Lighthouse Cinema, 8 March
The Voice of Hind Rajib (Tunisia, France, United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus). Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania and starring Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, and Clara Khoury.29 January, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. Told from the point of view of the Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who took Hind's call, the film incorporates actual recordings of Hind’s voice. Nominated for Best European Film Award 2026.
Sirāt (Spain, France) | Triskel Arts Centre, 22 to 25 March 2026 | IFI Dublin | Lighthouse Dublin
Directed by Oliver Laxe. A father (Sergi López) and son go to a dance rave in the mountains Morocco in search of Mar who vanished months ago at one of these parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits. Supported by Eurimages and winner of five European Film Awards 2026.
East Asia Film Festival Ireland, 19 - 22 March IFI Dublin | 24 - 26 March Triskel Cork, Eye Cinema Galway
The East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) brings innovative, independent and inspiring cinema from East Asia to audiences in Ireland. The festival presents works from prominent and emerging writers and directors from diverse cultural and social backgrounds across East Asian cinema that might not otherwise be seen in Ireland.
EAFFI runs an annual festival hosted by the Irish Film Institute in Dublin’s Temple Bar, and a special on tour programme in venues in Galway, Limerick and Cork, together with EAFFI Discoveries, a strand of regular film screenings throughout the year of the East Asia Film Festival Ireland.
The films reflect on individual and communal experiences and dynamics in insightful and human ways. Inspiring fiction, documentary, classic and self-reflexive film essays to explore and expose the world around them in vivid ways, asking questions about society, culture, politics, personal and collective history in our ever more challenging times.
- East Asia Film Festival Ireland Main Programme, IFI, 19 - 22 March
- On Tour Programme Cork and Galway, 24 - 26 March
Opening Film: Shanghai Daughter (2026)
Shanghai Daughter (China, 2026) directed by Agnis Shen Zhongmin. A woman from Shanghai travels alone to a rubber tree plantation in Xishuangbanna, China’s southwestern border, where she searches for a mystery person along the way, only to encounter some unexpected people who share untold stories. Official Selection, Panorama Section, Berlin International Film Festival 2026
The screening on Thursday 19 March in the IFI will be followed by a Q&A with Agnis Shen Zhongmin hosted by Irish writer, filmmaker, and theatre director, Alan Gilsenan.
My Father's Shadow (UK, Nigeria, 2025) | Lighthouse Dublin from 5 March
The award-winning debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr., Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home. Starring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and introducing Godwin Egbo and Chibuike Marvellous Egbo.
The UK’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® and recipient of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes
Souleymane’s Story (France, 2024) | IFI@Home
Set over a tense 48 hours, Abou Sangare plays a Guinean asylum seeker who races through the streets of Paris delivering food as he awaits his asylum interview which will decide whether or not he will be granted residency. Souleymane (Abou Sangare), a bike courier navigating deliveries through Paris traffic, is two days away from the interview that will determine whether his asylum application will be approved. Souleymane must somehow complete his punishing workload between the strict opening hours of the homeless shelter he stays at with other immigrants. Tutored by a fellow Guinean, Souleymane anxiously rehearses the spiel he’s been given to relate to the interviewer, while trying to figure out how to find the money to pay for the necessary documents that go with the interview.
Winner 2024 Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard); Winner 2024 European Film Awards for Best Actor, Best Sound.