For much of the past century, the task of representing Ireland to the world’s cinemagoers lay in the hands of foreign filmmakers. Prettified images of thatched cottages and wayward village folk dominated the repertoire of cinematic Irishness and obscured the real Ireland from international audiences. In more recent years, indigenous Irish filmmakers have risen to the challenge of responding to those images, of creating new and more authentic representations of Ireland and the Irish on screen. Now in its fourth year the Boston Irish Film Festival showcases the very best of this new cinema, offering Boston-area audiences a unique opportunity to sample films they might not otherwise see.

For further details, please visit the festival website at www.irishfilmfestival.com.