Get ready to laugh. This year’s Festival is serving up a handpicked selection of the funniest films from around the world, from sharp-witted comedies to heartwarming stories full of humour and charm. Below are just a few highlights and you can find more here.
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PEAK EVERYTHING (AMOUR APOCALYPSE)
Anne Émond | Canada | 2025 | 65 mins | Fiction
SUN 9 | ARC CINEMA | 20:00 with Q&A
THU 13 | ARC CINEMA | 15:15
Adam (45) is a kind-hearted kennel owner. Hypersensitive and borderline depressed, he struggles to hide his existential fears. To help combat his climate anxiety, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier’s technical support line, he meets Tina, a radiant woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries.
This film is eligible for the Audentia Award
This screening is supported by the Embassy of Canada in Ireland.
DEAD LOVER
Grace Glowicki | Canada | 2025 | 82 mins | Fiction
FRI 7 | TRISKEL | 20:30
MON 10 | TRISKEL | 14:45
A lonely gravedigger, reeking of the corpses she buries, finally meets the man of her dreams – a dandified poet who is excited and aroused by her foul odour. But when their romance is cut short by a tragic accident, the gravedigger will stop at nothing to bring her lover back. Reanimation has never been so hilariously inventive.
This film is eligible for the Lookout Award.
This screening is supported by the Embassy of Canada in Ireland.
MAG MAG
Yuriyan Retriever | Japan | 2025 | 113 mins | Subtitled | Fiction
WED 12 | ARC CINEMA | 15:00
SAT 15 | ARC CINEMA | 20:45
Local legend tells of a curse where a two-metre tall female ghost known as Mag Mag haunts the men she falls in love with, terrifying them to death. Japan’s comedy sensation Yuriyan Retriever takes the traditional J-horror tropes and gives then an invigorating shake in her surreal, hilarious debut.
This film is eligible for the Lookout Award.
A USEFUL GHOST
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany | 2025 | 130 mins | Subtitled | Fiction
SAT 8 | ARC CINEMA | 20:00
FRI 14 | ARC CINEMA | 18:00
March is mourning his wife Nat, who succumbed to dust pollution. But when Nat’s spirit is reincarnated in a vacuum cleaner, their relationship resumes, as passionate as ever. To show his disapproving family that she can be a useful ghost. Nat offers to rid them of useless ones.
This film is eligible for the Lookout Award.
This screening is supported by Goethe-Institut Irland.
RENTAL FAMILY
Hikari | United States | 2025 | 110 mins | Fiction
SAT 15 | ARC CINEMA | 17:30
Philip (Brendan Fraser), a lonely American actor living in Tokyo, starts working for a Japanese rental family service to play stand-in roles in other peoples lives. As he immerses himself in his clients worlds, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within these new families.
TONI ERDMANN
Maren Ade | Germany | 2016 | 162 mins | Subtitled | Fiction
SAT 8 | ARC CINEMA | 13:30
Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, practical joker Winfried shows up unannounced at her work place abroad, disguised as the flashy Toni Erdmann, a “life coach” with a particular taste for outrageous humour. Starring the great Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall).
This screening is supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Mary Bronstein | United States | 2025 | 113 mins | Fiction
WED 12 | ARC CINEMA | 20:15
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne in a towering – and awarded- performance) tires to navigate her daughters mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O’Brien).
For this career-defining performance, Rose Byrne won the Best leading Performance award at the Berlin international Film Festival where the film premiered.
Introduced by Clare Binns (Picturehouse Entertainment).
CLOSING GALA: IS THIS THING ON?
Bradley Cooper | United States | 2025 | 120 mins | Fiction
SUN 16 | EVERYMAN | 19:30
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and seeks new purpose in the New York stand-up comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family – forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.
Loosely inspired by the true story of comedian John Bishop’s personal journey into comedy, Bradley Cooper’s beautiful third film as a director is an incisive study of midlife discontent and a modern-day comedy of remarriage.
