Full Moon Film Festival 2024
12th - 17th November 2024
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Sunday 17th November, 1.30pm
Man of Arran
Sunday 17th November, 12pm
Mrs Robinson
Sunday 17th November, 3.30pm
Mickybo & Me
Sunday 17th November, 8pm
Gama-Bomb: Survival of the Fastest
Thursday 14th November, 8pm
Welcome
Hard to believe that 2024 marks a full decade of the NCC Full Moon Film Festival! Our Tin anniversary!
A dream project initially, the first Full Moon was a much more restrained affair, featuring just a handful of movies across the weekend. But it has grown each November to be the home of some of our most exciting, edgy, leftfield screenings, giving our festy audiences an embarrassment of cinematic riches over one long autumn weekend every year.
Mickybo & Me with Q&A
This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Napoleon Dynamite
A listless and alienated teenager helps his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while dealing with his bizarre family life back home.
Mrs Robinson
Unfolding a story about female leadership, human rights activism and climate action, MRS ROBINSON tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President, a pioneering UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Young Michael, shipwrecked on a remote island, must adapt to life alone. Over time, he feels another presence, learning that this world is home to both unimaginable danger and beauty.
Wild Swimming Sunday - Short films including Man of Arran
This programme of short films about sea swimming includes the salty documentary from director Paul McCambridge about the beauty of Ireland's coastline juxtaposed with the inner strength of 83-year-old Paddy Conaghan, a man who refuses to let age define him.
Claymation Workshop
Anyone aged 10 or over including adults are invited to roll up their sleeves and learn the art of breathing life into clay characters using stop-motion techniques.. Booking essential.
North Circular with Director Q&A
This multi-award winning documentary journeys the length of Dublin’s famous North Circular road, giving the audience a rich, character-filled travelogue, whilst exploring themes such as the threatened working class community, age old tensions, & of course the wonderful, ever mutating musical culture.
Hundreds of Beavers
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
The Irish Question + Q&A
A provocative, poetic and cinematic meditation on the prospect of a united Ireland from acclaimed filmmaker Alan Gilsenan
Notes from Sheepland
Orla's preparation for a breeding competition and her struggle to reconcile her creative exuberance with her daily rural responsibilities.
Samsara (2023)
In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.
Lego Animation Workshop
This mini animation master class by Can Do Academy is a great introduction for anyone aged 6 and above to the colourful world of lego animation. Booking essential.
Greyhound of a Girl
A perfectly-pitched, funny and tender tale about four generations of an Irish family, and the special bonds between mothers and daughters.
PLANKTON / Creatures From The Abyss
To celebrate our 10th FMFF, we’ve dug deep, deeeep into the stench ridden sewers of cinema to bring you something utterly atrocious for our Midnight Screening slot.
An Taibhse (The Ghost)
An Taibhse is the first Irish Language Horror film ever made. A bone-chilling tale set against the haunting backdrop of Ireland's famine era of 1852…
Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscapes of 1970s Northern Ireland
In this illustrated film lecture, filmmaker Simon Aeppli will share his recent PHD research on haunting and folk horror theories to excavate marginal and forgotten stories from our country’s past, and how they continue to affect the present.
Frida Kahlo
This Frida Kahlo biography brings to light a lesser-known element of her artistic genius, namely the white-hot brilliance of her writing.
Gama Bomb - Survival of the Fastest with Q&A
Gama Bomb - Survival of the Fastest, a compelling documentary directed by local filmmaker Kiran Acharya.
My Fair Lady with Afternoon Tea
Audrey Hepburn’s unforgettable tour de force performance as Eliza Dolittle in the musical cinematic version of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion celebrates its 60th birthday this year.
GOLDEN TICKET - All Access Film Festival Pass
Dive into a world of cinematic wonder with the all-access 'Golden Ticket' at this year's Full Moon Film Festival!
Film Festival Schools Programme
We are thrilled to celebrate a decade of inspiring young minds through film as we partner once again with 'Into Film' for this year’s Full Moon Film Festival.
Under The Volcano
As is customary, we love to finish a Full Moon with a music movie, and this time we’ve got a real zinger of a doc for you to conclude things - the story of the greatest music studio of the 80s: George Martin’s legendary AIR studios in beautiful Montserrat.
Apocalypse Clown
Gloriously gag-filled clowning caper starring NCC favourite David Earl of “Brian & Charles” fame. Set in a post-apocalypse Ireland where a mysterious technological blackout has plunged Ireland into anarchy and chaos, a band of wash-up clowns traverse the country in a wind-up car picking up journalist Jenny (Amy De Bhrún) on a mission to prove her theory of the cause of the blackout. Add in a gang of ravers, some living statues and a big top’s worth of gags, and you get the idea of this mayhem madness of an absurdist farce
Tarrac (Pull)
The landscape of Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry provides the breathtaking backdrop to this Irish-language drama about a grieving woman drawn back to her old rowing team.
2D Animation Workshop
In this workshop, children learn how to make a full 2D animated film, using iPads with digital styluses. The workshop also comprises advice on how to draw better, more defined characters, and how to achieve convincing movements - all taught by a professional animator. An ideal session for those who want to experience the wonderful and rewarding world of cartoon animation for the very first time. Booking essential.
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Bring out your dead! Join us for a rare Big Screen, quote-friendly screening of one of the best comedies ever made. The Python troupe’s silly take on Arthurian legend is held in extremely high esteem amongst the comedy connoisseurs, and it’s easy to see why; script, performances, setpieces - all are Python performing at the very height of their comedic powers. So come along and shout at the screen with us all - no fear of quotophobia here.
Wolfwalkers - Sói Lang Thang
Oscar nominated back in 2021, the dazzling & beguiling Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the embarrassingly talented Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon that also gave us The Secret Of Kells and Song Of The Sea. The third in their “Irish Folklore Trilogy,” this richly textured and beautifully drawn, at times Ghibli-inspired animation is hauntingly good.
Lego Animation Workshop
This mini animation master class by Can Do Academy is a great introduction for anyone aged 6 and above to the colourful world of lego animation. Using Lego to animate is a big hit with young participants as it delivers quick results and allows their imagination to run wild as they construct and animate worlds using an iPad. Each participant will receive a copy of their film at the end of the workshop. Also suitable for teens and adults with an interest in filmmaking. Booking essential.
Puffin Rock and the New Friends - In English
From the famous TV series, we follow young puffin Oona, baby brother Baba, and their animal pals, as they explore and learn more about their wild Irish island home.
This screening is in English
Joy Ride
Serious “Bridesmaids” vibes going on here, but in a very fun, and funny way. Adele Lim’s directorial debut sees four Asian-American friends undertake a once-in-a-lifetime trip through China in a quest to find one of their birth mothers. Throw into the mix some super gross-out gags, very raunchy humour, and a wealth of hyper-cringe setpieces, and you have a high-octane comedy full of heart that has won audiences over worldwide.