DIFF & BEYOND

2. Sphere17 & Creative Places, Kilbarrack & Bonnybrook

A first-time initiative of DIFF, the Young Programmers team from Sphere 17 viewed a number of films and have devised a programme to be screened during the festival in their own communities.

Programmers team: Sophie Ellis, Abbie Powney, Kaylei Kelly, Mia Croker, Nikola Nowakowska, Gemma Agemoh, Irma Ramanauskaite. Staff: Gary Mullen, Lee Cummins, Graham O’Neill, Kim Malone, Shaday Blake and Ashley White.

Creative Europe

3. The Circular, Rialto Screening of Desperate Souls, Dark City & the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

INFO: Thursday 2 March/ The Documentary Room: The Circular, Rialto / 19:30

4. TU Dublin

Short Circuit presents The Sharp Shorts funded films – a selection of 7 of Glasgow International Film Festival’s best Shorts.

INFO: Fri 24 Feb / TU Grangegorman / 14:00

5. UCD Film Society

Freedom on Fire – Ukraine's Fight For Freedom + Q&A

INFO: Thurs 2 Mar / UCD Student Centre Cinema / 18:00

Evgine Afineevsky’s eye-opening documentary which first premiered at the Venice Film Festival depicts the horrible realities of the unprovoked war instigated by Vladimir Putin. Picking up after the events of Maidan, Afineevsky unravels the politics and movements in central Europe over the last eight years, mapping out the events leading up to the invasion. Afineevsky’s latest work is a companion piece to Oscar and Emmy nominated 2015 movie Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s fight for freedom.

Ciné-Guerillas

INFO: Fri 24 Feb / Light House 1 / 13:00 / 94 mins

DIRECTOR: Mila Turajlic

WRITER: Mila Turajlic

COUNTRY: Serbia