KATHLEEN IS HERE, Eva Birthistle’s debut feature, is now available on Amazon & Fandango at Home in the US 🎉, as well as on the RTÉ Player in Ireland and on Apple TV in the UK. 📺. Starring Hazel Doupe, Clare Dunne, Peter Coonan, Aaron Monaghan, and Liadán Dunlea, the film follows a damaged teen ages out of foster care. Alone and desperate for a mother figure, she sets out on a destructive path to find one. A powerful story about identity, grief and the search for a family.  Watch it here: 🇺🇸 United States: Amazon & Fandango at Home 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Apple TV 🇮🇪 Ireland: RTÉ @screenireland @rteplayer @buffalo8pro @appletv @primevideouk #irishfilm #treasureentertainment #hazeldoupe #evabirthistle
Power Ballad IN CINEMAS NOW. Just in time for the Bank Holiday, get your tickets now from the link in bio. @powerballadfilm @lionsgateuk @30west @screenireland #Powerballad #paulrudd #nickjonas #johncarney #irishfilm
Throwback to the North American Premiere of Power Ballad at the SXSW Film Festival in March 🎬✨ Massive thank you to @cultureireland for supporting this very special screening event! #cultureireland #irishonscreen #paulrudd #nickjonas #powerballad
These Sacred Vows, the first Irish TV series ever to be selected for International Panorama Competition at Series Mania! ✨🇫🇷 Thank you so much to the festival for an incredible experience, and to the brilliant audience for your warmth, energy, and support. It was brilliant to share this with you 💚 @seriesmania @screenireland @banijayuk @rteone @adamjohnr_
John Butler’s These Sacred Vows screens tonight at 20:45 in the International Panorama at Series Mania, Europe’s largest TV showcase! @seriesmania @screenireland @banijayuk
Official trailer for John Carney’s #Powerballad premiering in North America at @sxsw this Saturday!🎤
Put your shirt on, Aaron! The last episode of #TheseSacredVows airs this Sunday at 9:30pm on @rteone Catch up on @rteplayer now ahead of the final episode!
Power Ballad’s World Premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival ✨ What an unforgettable night! Huge thank you to @dublinfilmfestival and @lionsgateuk for making it so special. We were absolutely thrilled to share the film with such a fantastic audience at the beautiful Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. We are grateful for the love, the energy, and the celebration of film. 💛🎬 @screenireland @30west @wme @likelystoryfilms
Get Ready to Rock! Power Ballad is having its World Premiere this Sunday, at the DIFF Closing Night Gala in the iconic Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. #PowerBallad #Lionsgate #ScreenIreland #PaulRudd #NickJonas
A little something for the weekend? What’s on YOUR shopping list?💅🏻🛒 #thesesacredvows continues this Sunday at 9:30pm on RTÉ One and on @rteplayer
Who do you think Felix will be supporting this Saturday; England OR Ireland…? 🏉🧐 #thesesacredvows continues this Sunday at 9:30pm on RTÉ One and on @rteplayer
Catch up on episode 3 SANDRA of These Sacred Vows! Now streaming on @rteplayer ☀️🕶️💒 #thesesacredvows
IT’S COMING HOME!! Power Ballad is having its World Premiere at @dublinfilmfestival at their Closing Night Gala from Dublin’s iconic Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on Sunday 1st of March. Tickets on sale this Friday at 9am #DIFF2026 #Screenireland #Lionsgate
We are so excited to invite you to save the date. From the inimitable #JohnButler #TheseSacredVows 💒 💊👙💚 Starting on the 1st of February!
We are excited to announce that the short film ‘Seahorse’ directed by Rory Keenan will have its North American Premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2025. Starring Brían F. O’Byrne and Lewis Brophy, ‘Seahorse’ is written and directed by Rory Keenan and produced by Rob Walpole, Rebecca O’Flanagan and Arianna Owens. The film will premiere on Saturday 18th of October at 13:30 at The LOT, Screen 3 #newportbeach #rorykeenan #bríanf.o’byrne #lewisbrophy #treasureentertainment #irishfilms
We are excited to announce that the short film ‘Seahorse’ directed by Rory Keenan will have its World Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival London 2025. Starring Brían F. O’Byrne and Lewis Brophy, ‘Seahorse’ is written and directed by Rory Keenan and produced by Rob Walpole, Rebecca O’Flanagan and Arianna Owens. The film will premiere on Saturday 21st of June at 6:45pm at Vue Piccadilly and again on the 22nd of June at 12:45pm. #raindancefilmfestival #rorykeenan #bríanf.o’byrne #lewisbrophy #treasureentertainment #irishfilms
The news is out! Stay tuned for our upcoming TV series “These Sacred Vows”, coming in 2026.
Kathleen Is Here won the Critics Award at the British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg @bifflux ! Thank you very much to the Festival for hosting a lovely screening and Q&A in Luxembourg with Eva Birthistle and Hazel Doupe.
Thank you so much to @solasnua_ for inviting the team to attend the Kathleen Is Here screening at The Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington this month. We were delighted to screen as the Closing Night Film of such a fantastic festival!
We are thrilled to share that Kathleen Is Here will be screened at Solas Nua’s 19th Capital Irish Film Festival, taking place February 27 - March 2, 2025 at the American Film Institute’s AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Washington D.C.’s metro area. Ticket are now on sale on the festival’s website @solasnua_ ! #kathleenishere #irishfilm #screenireland #evabirthistle #clairemccaughley #claredunne #hazeldoupe #petercoonan #liadandunlea #aaronmonaghan #treasureentertainment #cultureireland #solasnuafilm #ciff2025 #capitalirishfilmfestival
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Review: In ‘Viva,’ a Star Is Waiting to Be Born

An exhilarating hybrid of Social Realism and feel-good aspirational entertainment, Paddy Breathnach’s “Viva” is an oddity by its very pedigree: an Irish movie set in Havana, where it was filmed with a keen eye to that city’s dinginess in tropical light. It infuses a too-familiar story with so much heart that you surrender to its charm and forgive it for being unabashedly formulaic. Even its one big plot twist is hardly a surprise. At the same time, its portrait of Havana, an impoverished city of crumbling architecture, has a gritty neorealist pungency.

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