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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  Irish History,  Irish Language,  Music,  Online,  Online Only,  Travel

    TRAVELLING BACK (‘Ag Taisteal Siar’)

    Explores the rich musical heritage of Ireland’s Traveller community and its contribution to Irish music today.

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Irish Language,  Music

    TRAD

    Gifted Irish musician Shóna rebels against her mum and her culture until a bunch of wandering young musos take her on a life adventure.

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Irish Language,  Online

    BÁITE (‘The Drowned’)

    Peggy is fighting to save her family pub in Connemara when a woman’s body is found in the nearby lake.

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Irish Language,  Online

    Froggie

    Brothers Fiachra and Tadgh peaked at the age of seven, when they appeared on national TV singing with their homemade puppet, ‘Froggie’. 25 years later, they’re still singing the same ol’ song when their show is cancelled. The world is pulling the brothers apart. Tadgh plans to marry his rich…

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Online

    Dead Man’s Money

    When Young Henry’s wealthy uncle starts courting ‘The Widow’ Maureen Tweed, he starts to fear that he’ll be written out of Old Henry’s will. Conspiring with his wife, Pauline and a chauffeur with a chequered past known as Gerry the Wheels, Young Henry puts a plan in motion to make…

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  • Housewife of the Year - Ann McStay and family
    Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Online,  Women's Voices

    Housewife of the Year

    An utterly intriguing documentary about one of Ireland’s most unique cultural events – the competition which saw women from around Ireland compete on primetime TV for the title of ‘Housewife of the Year’ and the prize of a luxury gas cooker. HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR tells the story of Ireland’s…

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Online

    Kathleen is Here

    What does the future hold when the past is all you’ve got? Kathleen, played by rising star Hazel Doupe (Say Nothing, Calm With Horses, You Are Not My Mother) is 18 and fresh out of foster care. Her departure coincides with the death of her biological mother and so she…

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Irish Language,  Music,  Online

    Fidil Ghorm

    A beautiful, contemporary Irish-language movie, FIDIL GHORM is one for all of the family; bringing together traditional Irish music and culture and the innocence and resilience of 10-year-old Molly, who’s on a heartfelt mission to bring her father out of a coma. Believing that winning the All-Ireland Fiddle Competition might wake…

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  • Australian Premiere,  Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Music

    Christy

    17-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. Kicked out of his suburban foster home, he moves in with his estranged older brother Shane and his young family. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork’s working-class Northside. As he…

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    Family Ties,  In Cinemas,  Online,  Women's Voices

    A Want in Her

    When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. A WANT IN HER is an immersive, first person account…

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In the spirit of reconciliation, the Irish Film Festival acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which it operates and we pay respect to their elders - past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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