The 71st Festival is just a couple of days away, and we have picked out a few more programme highlights to whet your appetite, from fascinating conversations on the future of our moving-image heritage to exciting showcases of Irish and international artist film. Don’t forget to explore our CIFF2026 Festival Passes – the perfect way to see more, discover new favourites and make the most of every moment.
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SYMPOSIUM: THE FUTURE OF HERITAGE
WED 18 | UCC FSM AUDITORIUM | 10:00 – 17:00
How do we preserve our moving-image heritage in an age of misinformation and disinformation?
In an time of increasing uncertainty around the information we receive, how do reputable news gathering agencies respond?
Join Cork International Film Festival and University College Cork for a day of screenings and discussions exploring the moving image as both a cultural treasure and a fragile historical record.
Highlights include:
- Remixing the Archive – a showcase of student archive film works from UCC, Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast.
- A screening of What Remains (2013), followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Pat Collins (above right).
- A keynote from Helen Walker, Archive Manager at Reuters Connect (above left), exploring the preservation, digitisation and creative potential of one of the world’s most significant news archives.
- A roundtable discussion, The Future of Broadcasting on a Shared Island, with representatives from Cork Community Media Hub, Dublin Community Television and Northern Ireland Screen.
Tickets are Pay What You Can. Every contribution helps keep events like this accessible to all.
In partnership with University College Cork.
AEMI PRESENTS: ROLL CALL
PARALLAX
FRI 13 | GRANARY THEATRE | 15:45 | 77 mins
‘Roll Call’ is a programme celebrating the nine artists from the 2025-’26 edition of aemi’s Film Artist Development Programme.
Featuring work by Thomas Bennett, Aoife Carolan, Michael Dignam, Laura Fitzgerald, Uma Magal, Olivia Normile, Erik Nuding, Richie Price and Dawn Richardson, the films explore technology, transformation, nostalgia and superstition to offer new perspectives on rurality, migration and memory.
- Westlink, Thomas Bennett, 2026, Ireland, 9 minutes
- Lighted Ways (aemi Rough Cut), Aoife Carolan, 2026, Ireland, 10 minutes
- The Ladder (Work in Progress), Dawn Austin, 2026, Ireland, 8 minutes
- Country Life, Laura Fitzgerald, 2026, Ireland, 12 minutes
- Blink, Olivia Normile, 2026, Ireland, 3 minutes
- Sui Generis, Richie Price, 2026, Ireland, 3 minutes (pictured above)
- Ny Moana (The Mute), Erik Nuding, 2025, USA, Madagascar, France, 15 minutes
- Treading Softly in Dublin, Uma Magal, 2026, Ireland, 7 minutes
- Homelands (aemi Rough Cut), Michael Dignam, 2026, Ireland, 10 minutes
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers featured in the programme.
aemi is an Arts Council funded organisation dedicated to the support and exhibition of artist and experimental film.
AEMI PRESENTS: HARD CURRENCY
PARALLAX
FRI 13 | GRANARY THEATRE | 17:45 | 80 mins
aemi’s second programme for Cork International Film Festival is ‘Hard Currency’, a mixed shorts programme of international work building out from Tuva Björk’s Fear Fokol, a dark journey into the world of private security in South Africa.
- Fear Fokol, Tuva Björk, Sweden, Ireland, 2025, 15 minutes (pictured above)
- We’ll find you when the sun goes black, Anouk De Clercq, Belgium, Norway, 2021, 5 minutes
- Leaving Light, Viktoria Schmid, Austria, 2026, 3 minutes
- Title, Laida Lertxundi, France, Spain, United Kingdom, 2026, 19 minutes
- A Proposal to project in Scope, Viktoria Schmid, Austria, 2020, 8 minutes
- Maman, Niko Wei, Belgium, 2025, 15 minutes
- Cultuur, Fairuz Ghammam, Belgium, 2022, 14 minutes
Produced by Dennis Harvey, co-director of Celtic Utopia (CIFF 2025).
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers featured in the programme.
aemi is an Arts Council funded organisation dedicated to the support and exhibition of artist and experimental film.
