EU & MEDIA Film News April 2025
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
- MyCinema.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.
LUX Audience Award 2025 | Free Screenings at IFI Dublin
The LUX Audience Award is a joint initiative of the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in collaboration with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. The LUX Audience Award fosters dialogue and engagement between politics and the public through the medium of film.
The nominated films address European values and raise awareness about some of today’s main social and political issues such as mental health, poverty, climate change, freedom of expression, gender equality, LGBTIQ+ rights.
During the competition, the European Parliament provides subtitles in the 24 EU languages, organises free screenings across the 27 Member States, and provides the winning film with subtitles for hearing impaired audiences.
The films nominated for LUX Audience Award 2025
- Animal by Sofia Exarchou (Greece, Austria, Romania,Cyprus, Bulgaria)
- Dahomey by Mati Diop (France, Senegal, Benin)
- Flow by Gints Zibalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)
- Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych (Canada, France, Ukraine)
- Julie Keeps Quiet by Leonardo van Dijl (Belgium, Sweden)
Watch and rate the films on the LUX Award website by 27th April 2025 and don't miss the chance to win a range of prizes including a trip to the European Parliament to attend the LUX Award Ceremony on 29th April 2025 and meet directors and film crews.
Free LUX Screenings at IFI in April
The IFI will screen films nominated for the LUX Audience Award. Tickets are free of charge and can be obtained in person at the IFI or by calling IFI Box Office at 01 679 3477. The LUX Audience Award is presented every year by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy, in Partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. The award celebrates European cinema and its aims to raise awareness of Europe’s social, political, and cultural issues. The screening schedule is:
Flow | Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 13th to 16th April | Lighthouse, Dublin
Flow by Gints Zibalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium) won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2025. The world seems to be coming to an end, teemingwith the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal but when his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. Flow is also one of the LUX Audience Award nominees this year.
Vermiglio | Irish Film Institute, Dublin
Vermiglio by Maura Delpero won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and was Italy’s Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards. Set in the mountain-side village of Vermiglio in Italy during the waning days of WWII. A series of dramatic events unfold after the arrival of a Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico) who hides out in town after deserting the army. Vermiglio shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era.
Baltic Film Festival | Triskel Arts Centre Cork, 4th & 5th April
Over the last few decades the film industry in the Baltic Region has grown into a dynamic, creative and artistic platform reflecting its complex history and rich culture in the cinema. Join Triskel Arts Centre in Cork for their second Baltic Film Festival which will feature films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The festival begins with a reception at 5.30pm on Friday 4th April followed by the film screening at 6.30pm.
IBERSCREEN Film Festival at Irish Film Institute, 24th to 27th April
From Thursday 24th April to Sunday 27th April, the Irish Film Institute hosts IBERSCREEN 2025, Ireland’s only Ibero-American Film Festival. Focusing on films with a socially relevant theme, IBERSCREEN aims to make connections, and start conversations between audiences and filmmakers.
Celebrating the rich and diverse cinematic voices of Ibero-America, the festival brings together the best films from countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Peru, and Colombia, showcasing stories that inspire, challenge, and captivate. From bold new voices to established auteurs, the programme highlights the depth of storytelling and the cultural vibrancy of the region.
Iberscreen Festival Programme
- IBERSCREEN: KILL THE JOCKEY Thursday 24th April, 18.30
- IBERSCREEN: RAMÓN Y RAMÓN Friday 25th April, 18.20
- IBERSCREEN: THE FRESHLY CUT GRASS Friday 25th April, 20.40
- IBERSCREEN: LA SUPREMA Saturday 26th April, 12.40
- IBERSCREEN: WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED Saturday 26th April, 14.40
- IBERSCREEN: RITA Saturday 26th April, 17.00
- IBERSCREEN: I AM NEVENKA Saturday 26th April, 19.50
- IBERSCREEN: TRASLADOS Sunday 27th April, 13.15
- IBERSCREEN: MANAS Sunday 27th April, 15.30
- IBERSCREEN: MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY Sunday 27th April, 18.00
- IBERSCREEN:PORTRAIT OF A CERTAIN ORIENT Sunday 27th April, 20.20
No Other Land | Stream on IFI@Home
Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films as his community of Masafer Yatta is gradually eradicated by the destruction and forced displacements of the Israeli occupation. Adra builds an unlikely alliance with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who reports on what his own government is doing to the West Bank communities. Substantially made before the Hamas attacks of October 2024, and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza, this extraordinary piece of reportage by a Palestinian-Israeli collective offers an insider view of a West Bank community resisting a programme of demolition by the Israeli army. Winner of the Best Documentary prize and Audience award in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section and a 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, No Other Land is an urgent plea for empathy and understanding.