It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
After an absence of two years, access>CINEMA members in all parts of Ireland are celebrating the festive season throughout the month of December, with a range of Christmas film screenings. From family favourites including The Muppet Christmas Carol and Elf, Christmas Christmas classics It’s A Wonderful Life, White Christmas and The Bishop’s Wife, as well as special sing-along screenings of The Greatest Showman and Frozen, there […]
Month of European Film comes to access CINEMA sites
Members across access>CINEMA’s network will participate in the Month of European Film between November 13 and December 10. access>CINEMA is one of the partner cinemas that has been invited to participate in the Month of European Film, which has been launched by the European Film Academy to celebrate the diversity of European Film Culture. Starting […]
access>CINEMA launches new digital cinema platform MyCinema
access>CINEMA is delighted to announce the launch of MyCinema – a new digital platform aimed at supporting independent cinemas and art centres. The platform – which is now live at MyCinema.ie – will enable local cinemas to complement the theatrical experience with a range of new digital audience engagement and content features. MyCinema is designed to reconnect audiences with […]
Cultural Cinema Partnership Announced
A Cultural Cinema Partnership has been announced as 5 key film organisations join forces to consider new opportunities for the sector. Today, September 15, five Arts Council funded film organisations announced plans to officially develop a Cultural Cinema Partnership in order to respond to challenges facing the film sector in a world emerging from COVID-19. […]
Róise & Frank: Introducing access>CINEMA’s second New Audiences Initiative film
access>CINEMA is happy to announce the charming new Irish-language film Róise & Frank will be the next film supported under our New Audiences Initiative. The New Audiences Initiative is a scheme aimed at offering our network cinemas and clubs extra marketing & promotional support for one new cinema release per quarter. It could be a challenging film that’s outside the […]
LAIKA: access>CINEMA screens Asif Kapadia’s VR film at Galway Film Fleadh
access>CINEMA was delighted to present the virtual reality short film LAIKA at the Galway Film Fleadh 2022. LAIKA, directed by Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy), gives audiences the chance to be immersed in the moving and tragic real-life story of the first dog in space. Set in 1957 against the backdrop of the Soviet Union / USA space […]
Leave No Traces: access CINEMA releasing powerful Polish drama in cinemas from June 10th
Leave No Traces, which was Poland’s submission for Best International Feature for this year’s Oscars, recounts a notorious chapter in modern Polish history. access>CINEMA is releasing Polish political thriller Leave No Traces in Irish cinemas from June 10th. Directed by Jan P. Matuszynski, Leave No Traces begins in May 1983. High school student Grzegorz Przemyk and his older friend […]
The May Film Tour to celebrate the Bealtaine Festival is back!
The May Film Tour is back for 2022 and will take place at locations nationally throughout the month of May to celebrate the annual Bealtaine Festival. After a 3 year hiatus the May Film Tour will return for 2022. The May Film Tour is organised jointly by access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute to co-incide with the annual Bealtaine Festival, […]
Charity Preview Screenings of Olga in Support of Ukraine at Irish Cinemas
Cinemas across Ireland, including access>CINEMA sites, have united in support of Ukraine with a series of preview charity screenings of Olga, a new film about a young female Ukrainian gymnast forced to train in exile. The preview screenings will be taking place in Irish cinemas and venues nationwide, including ODEON, VUE, Cineworld, Gate Cinemas, ARC Cinemas, […]
Film Tour of Oscar-contender Hive in partnership with the 2022 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival
During the 2022 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, access>CINEMA will tour the highly-acclaimed Kosovan film Hive to eight locations with support from the Arts Council. The first film ever to win all of the three big awards in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival (the Audience Award, Directing Award, and Grand […]
