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We are over the moon to bring you our annual lunar film festival over the weekend of 23-25 May 2025. Named Half Moon Film Festival - it's slightly shorter than the usual Full Moon - it features Cathy Jordan's Crankie Island Song Project and two days of back-to-back movies and special extras.
Mixing music, illustration and story-telling, Cathy Jordan and her ensemble of musicians will perform their highly original take on Ireland's rich musical tradition as they accompany films of hand-crafted crankie-boxes - a scrolling device that reveals an illustrated song.
Then Saturday and Sunday are packed with movies carefully curated to inspire, delight and thrill you. Top picks include documentaries about life on the island of Ireland (Birdsong, Housewife of the Year and An Irish Wedding), a Gene Hackman tribute (The Conversation) and recent gong-winners (On Becoming A Guinea Fowl and The Brutalist) to name but a few.
Half Moon Film Festival has been made possible through generous support for which we are eternally grateful to:
Radius, Ark, Clanmil and Arbour Housing Associations which are supported by the Department for Communities and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive's 'Housing for All' Shared Housing Programme;
Newry Mourne and Down District Council;
our friends, supporters, local businesses and magnificent volunteers.
This small but carefully curated festival of film, music and sound has something for everyone, so come on down and support your local community cinema.
