EU & MEDIA Film News October 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 regional cinema clubs
Black History Month | Irish Film Institute October screenings
During October the IFI in collaboration with UMUTI:MA present a season of African cinema exploring resilience, integrity, and the cost of silence.
Mothers of Chibok: this documentary by Joel ‘Kachi Benson follows four Nigerian women rebuilding their lives after the 2014 Boko Haram kidnappings.
Over the Bridge: Tolu Ajayi's feature drama debut about corporate Nigeria explores how illegal kickbacks corrode personal integrity.
Cotton Queen: Suzannah Mirghani directs a story about teenager Nafisa who learned from her grandmother's battles against colonisers. Nafisa must fight her own battle when a businessman's development scheme threatens her Sudanese village's cotton fields.
Kikuyu Land: A docuementary directed by Andrew H. Brown & Bea Wangondu, this is the story of a Kenyan journalist who uncovers a battle over stolen ancestral tea land, a legacy of colonial theft and ongoing abuse.
Claude Chabrol: Elements of Crime | Triskel Cork, 12 - 14 October
A leading member of the French New Wave, who came to be regarded as the ‘French Hitchcock’, for many years Claude Chabrol’s classic thrillers have been missing from our screens. Triskel presents three Chabrol classics.
- LA FEMME INFIDÈLE, 12 October: Chabrol's mid-career bourgeois psychological thriller traces the fallout following a husband’s discovery of his wife’s affair and his unnerving and devastating act of revenge.
- LES BICHES, 13 October: A stylish, polarising work both lauded and loathed by queer audiences. The film is loosely based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, with the main characters' genders being switched. A beautiful wealthy heiress picks up a penniless woman and a tortured love triangle ensues.
- LE BOUCHER, 14 October: A schoolteacher and a butcher strike up a tender, tentative friendship in a small Périgord village, just as a series of murders unsettle the local community.
The Lost Children of Tuam | Lighthouse Dublin
Directed by Frank Berry and starring Monica Dolan, Andrew Bennett and P.J. Haverty. Drama about the harrowing true story of nearly 800 children buried at the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home and the survivors' struggle for justice.
Nino (2025) | IFI@Home
A sudden diagnosis leaves Nino (Théodore Pellerin), a quiet young man, facing mortality with grace, quiet humour, and the company of family and friends over the course of his birthday weekend. an introspective man in his late 20s, is blindsided by a medical diagnosis. Pauline Loquès’s debut feature echoes Agnes Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962).
European Film Academy Interview with Kamal Aljafari
'The life that you see in the film no longer exists.'
In collaboration with DAFilms, Kamal Aljafari, director of WITH HASAN IN GAZA, reflects on his documentary and what it means to capture a world that is no longer there. Nominated for European Film and European Documentary at the 38th European Film Awards.