Cork International Film Festival offers diverse programme this weekend

The Cork International Film Festival presents a varied line‑up of films and events for the weekend, ranging from short‑film competitions to culinary documentaries.

Key screenings and talks

At 1 pm in Arc Cinema, Glanmire actor Éanna Hardwicke, recipient of the festival’s Honorary Puttnam Award, will be interviewed by Aoife Barry about his career and his new film Ancestors. The talk, originally slated for Saturday, has been moved to Sunday.

Food lovers can attend “A Sip of Irish” at the Ballymaloe Grainstore at 6 pm, a documentary hosted by the county’s well‑known foodie family, with tastings of Murphy’s stout, gin and tonic, soda bread, stew and apple pie.

The Irish Shorts programme at Triskel begins at 8.15 pm, featuring Saoirse Ronan’s directorial debut Paper Plane, a 15‑minute short on a mother‑daughter relationship, alongside five other Irish and international shorts.

Other notable screenings include the Australian film The Fox (8.15 pm, Arc Cinema), the family‑friendly short collection (11.30 am, Arc Cinema), and the Iranian graphic‑novel adaptation Persepolis (11.45 am, Arc Cinema). Documentary Tin Castle (5.15 pm, Triskel) and Russian drama Minotaur (5.15 pm, Arc Cinema) also feature, as does the Cannes‑prized Nepalese film Elephants in the Fog (8.15 pm, Arc Cinema).

Source: Irish Examiner. Photo: cottonbro studio / Pexels.