A host of Irish feature films, documentaries, short films, and even a music video head to California in late April for the 18th Newport Beach Film Festival.
Three Irish films, Handsome Devil, Return to Montauk, and The Secret Scripture, will feature at the 36th Istanbul Film Festival, April 5-15.
Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane's In Loco Parentis will compete for the Golden Gate Awards at the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival.
Mark O'Connor's independent Irish drama Cardboard Gangsters won three awards at the 3rd Manchester International Film Festival.
Tom Ryan has won the award for Best Young Director at this year's Irish Film Festival Australia for his current feature film Twice Shy.
Irish co-produced horrors, Denis Bartok's Nails and Liam Gavin's A Dark Song will compete at the 35th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
To coincide with St Patrick’s Day events across the globe, IFI International programmes will visit a number of film festivals to screen homegrown hits.
Irish documentary In Loco Parentis (now School Life) has won the Jury Prize for the Best International Documentary at the Docville festival in Leuven.
The 60th San Francisco International Film Festival, which will run April 5th to 19th, has announced its full line-up which will feature four Irish films.
Irish Film Festival, Boston has announced the awardees for the 17th Annual BIFF awards and its line-up of over thirty Irish films to screen March 23-26.