2015 Feature Films

Amazing, Award Winning and Awe-Inspiring:

Irish Cinema!

The Chicago Irish Film Festival returns for its 16^th year, February 28 –

March 7, 2015 with three very different feature films.

POISON PEN, will have its Midwest premier on Saturday, February 28^th at the Music Box Theater. The film co-stars Lochlainn O’Mearain as a celebrated author that’s blackmailed into writing for a weekly gossip magazine with Aoibhinn McGinnity as his new boss. The comedy is the first screenplay written by international best seller Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series and was directed by Lorna Fitzsimmons, Jennifer Shortall and Steven Benedict through Filmbase…..watch trailer

Also making their Midwest premiers are:

Patrick Ryan’s DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN about a troubled teenage sharpshooter who avenges her estranged sister’s death after she is found murdered in a public bathroom.  Turning to her only friend for help she begins her quest to kill the murderer: just one problem, the killer’s her friend.  Darkness On The Edge of Town premiered at Slamdance 2015 …..watch  trailer

Tom Collin’s AN BRONNTANAS is a contemporary thriller that revolves around a failing family fish business, a million euros worth of weed and a recent immigrant from Poland. A slick, fast-paced and gripping slice of Connemara noir  the film has everything an  audience could want: murder, mystery, betrayal, corruption, guns, drugs, double-crosses, plenty of  local Irish flavor and, of course, subtitles: its in Gaeilge, English and Polish. An Bronntanas was Ireland’s submission to the 2015 Academy Awards…..watch trailer