Films

February 2024

Irish-Australian Arts News
February 2024

Welcome to the first Arts Roundup of 2024, we hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s.

Hollywood’s awards season has started and Irish co-production ‘Poor Things’ has been receiving lots of attention, as well as ‘Oppenheimer’ star Cillian Murphy. Irish actors Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan have also shared attention. We have a collection of Irish films being released in 2024 and 2 more of our Q&As are on YouTube.

Save the date: Irish Film Festival are making a new doco about Irish music in Sydney. Come and see the Gaelic Club Céilí Band All-Stars play a live filmed performance at the Gasoline Pony on Friday, March 8th.

Irish TV/Movies to Stream

Many people ask us where they can see Irish content on Australian TV so we’ve put together a list of what’s on and where you can see it.
  • All of Us Strangers (cinemas)
    A film set in London about a relationship that develops after a chance encounter between neighbours Adam and Harry. Adam then finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died 30 years ago.
    starring Irish actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott
     
  • Best Interests (ABC iView)
    A family faces a choice no parent wants to make. When your child is desperately ill, who decides what happens next? Sharon Horgan switches from comedy and gives a tremendous performance as the mother who refuses to let go of her sick child.
    starring Irish actresses Alison Oliver, Niamh Moriarty and Sharon Horgan
     
  • Foe (Amazon Prime)
    Hen & Junior’s life is thrown into turmoil when a stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?
    starring Irish actor Paul Mescal and actress Saoirse Ronan
     
  • Masters of the Air (Apple TV)
    During WWII, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside a bomber known as a “Flying Fortress” battle unrelenting flocks of German fighters.
    starring Barry Keoghan, oscar-nominated for ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
     
  • The Doll Factory (SBS OnDemand)
    Iris paints dolls for a living, alongside her twin sister. When she meets Silas, and then Louis, she is offered an opportunity to escape and start a new life – but to do so, she must abandon her sister.
    starring Irish actor Éanna Hardwicke from IFF2023 film ‘Lakelands’
     
  • The Missing Children (ABC iView)
    Telling the extraordinary and moving stories of some of the children who survived life at the Tuam mother-and-baby home in Ireland, and the search for the truth about what happened to those who disappeared.
    doco about the Tuam mother and baby home in Ireland
     
  • The Tourist (Stan)
    When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
    starring Irish actor Jamie Dornan, season 2 also filmed in Dublin

 

2024 Irish Movie Releases

We can’t wait to see what films and tv shows Ireland shares with us this year. In anticipation Film Ireland have put together a list of films to look out for.
Featuring the current trending film Kneecap, a Cillian Murphy film Small Things Like These, Spilt Milk staring Danielle Galligan, The Days Of Trees directed by Alan Gilsenan, and Eanna Hardwicke film The Sparrow.
There are a variety of films on the list so there is something for everyone. 

See the full list: filmireland.net/2024/01/01/irish-films-to-look-out-for-in-2024/

 

Irish Highlights at Awards Shows

The Irish have been nominations happy at Hollywood’s top awards shows. Congratulations to everyone mentioned.

Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Andrew Scott (All Of Us Strangers) both received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, while Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Paul Mescal (All Of Us Strangers) received BAFTA nominations for Leading Actor and Supporting Actor respectively. 

Star of Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy has been doing very well getting Best Actor nominations at all the awards shows. Murphy won his first first Golden Globe in January beating Keoghan and Scott who were in the same category. He’s been nominated for a SAG award, Critics Choice Award and BAFTA, and has received his first Oscar nomination.

Element Pictures, an Irish production company co-produced Poor Things which has also been doing well. The film has received 11 BAFTA nominations, 11 Oscar nominations and won 2 Golden Globes including Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

See the full list of BAFTA nominations or Oscar nominations.

 

IFF Q&As on Youtube

2 new Q&As from last year’s festival are now on YouTube.

Check out our interview with Rachael Moriarty (director) & Bríd Ní Neachtain (Róise) from ‘Róise Agus Frank’ here.
Or watch our interview with ‘Ann’ director  Ciaran Creagh here.

You can also check out our 2023 Irish Film Festival Playlist which includes our festival trailer, director & actor shoutouts, and trailers for all the films shown in this year’s festival.

 

2024 EVENTS DIARY

Click on the link to see the list of music and film events coming up across Australia

Slán agus beannacht
Enda Murray
Director Irish Film Festival