About Cork International Film Festival
Ireland’s first and largest film festival and one of Cork’s most significant and popular annual cultural events
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CIFF welcomes submissions of features and shorts, and all forms of film production – fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, etc. We champion new voices and celebrate excellence in filmmaking throughout our programme. We also recognise filmmakers’ achievements through our 14 Awards, three of which are Academy Award® qualifying.
In 2025, the Festival is honoured to have been selected for the presentation of the prestigious Audentia Award, in partnership with the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund, which includes a prize of €30,000 for a female filmmaker to invest in their next film project.
Discover film, reimagine the world.
Cork International Film Festival is a local, national and international celebration of cinema. CIFF’s mission is to present Ireland’s most exciting, diverse, and ambitious annual film festival, connecting and stimulating audiences and artists through a carefully curated selection of the best films, to create a unique shared cultural experience, rooted in Cork, open to the world.
The 70th Festival edition will take place Thursday 6th – Sunday 16th November 2025.
In order to present our annual Festival, offer a year-round programme of events, support and promote local and national talent, and enable our Schools and Intinn film and mental health programmes to reach over 3,000 young people a year, we need support.
Find out how you can help the Festival and play a role in enabling film to push boundaries and make a real impact through philanthropic support, partnerships, sponsorships and donations.
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion
Cork International Film Festival is committed to ensuring the Festival is accessible and inclusive for all by providing detailed access information for our Festival goers.
As a local festival with a global focus, CIFF has celebrated and promoted diversity and inclusion for 70 years. We welcome all visitors to screenings and events and are committed to ensuring that the Festival, its venues and activities, are accessible and inclusive.
“Film festivals matter. Their purpose is to introduce new and unexpected work to each successive generation of filmgoers. Every 15 to 20 years cinema needs to find ‘new voices’, ones that speak to and illuminate the experience of a new generation of cinemagoers. And that voice needs not just to be discovered but encouraged and supported, ” Oscar®-winning film producer, educator and CIFF Patron David Puttnam.
David Puttnam spent 30 years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and Local Hero. He is the Chair of Atticus Education, an online education company founded in 2012 that delivers audio-visual seminars to students all over the world.
