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film · Monday 7 September 2026 · 6:00pm 
Christy - Irish Film - Triskel Cinema Cork
At Triskel Christchurch · Tobin Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
At Triskel Christchurch · Tobin Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
Ireland’s most decorated film of the year comes home to Cork for a four-night run at one of the country’s finest art-house venues. Christy, directed by Brendan Canty and written by Alan O’Gorman, is a Cork-made drama that won Best Film at the Irish Film and Television Awards 2026 and is Ireland’s Official Entry for the 2026 Academy Awards. Set and filmed in Knocknaheeny and Cork city centre, it is the kind of film that feels genuinely local and genuinely universal at the same time - the sort of thing you will talk about on the drive home. If you have any interest in Irish cinema, this is the one to catch in the cinema rather than on a screen at home.
The film follows Christy (Danny Power), a young man who has been kicked out of his foster home and moves in with his estranged older brother Shane (Diarmuid Noyes) and Shane’s young family. Their mother died years before and the grief between the brothers has never been properly settled. As they try to find their footing together, the community around them - shot on the real streets of Knocknaheeny - becomes a kind of third character. Emma Willis plays Shane’s partner Stacey, and the wider cast includes Alison Oliver and Chris Walley.
The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025, where it won the Grand Prix in the Generation 14plus section, and went on to win Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh and Best Film at the Dublin Film Critics’ Circle before sweeping the IFTAs. At 95 minutes it is tightly built - not a scene wasted. It is rated 15A.
Triskel Christchurch is an ideal home for it. The cinema occupies a restored neoclassical Georgian church on Tobin Street and has been Cork City’s leading art-house screen since 2011. The room itself is worth the trip - good acoustics, a dedicated audience, and a programming style that takes Irish film seriously.
Triskel Christchurch is on Tobin Street in Cork City centre, a short walk from Patrick Street and the Grand Parade. The venue is very accessible on foot from the city’s main bus stops, and Cork Kent railway station is about a 20-minute walk or a quick taxi ride away. If you are driving, there is pay-and-display parking at Merchant’s Quay and along the South Mall, both within a few minutes on foot.
The area around Triskel sits between the English Market and the South Mall, so there is plenty to do before or after the screening - a coffee at the Paperboys Café inside Triskel itself, or dinner in the lanes nearby. There is more to see in Cork and across Co. Cork.
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