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Festival: October Bank Holiday Weekend (23rd - 26th) 2025

Winter Screening

Clones Film Festival is delighted to host a short season of Winter Screenings over the next few months, to ease us back out of the darkness.

"Rose"

 

If you were at the screening during Clones Film Festival 2024 and missed the ending of the film, this screening is free of charge for you, just let the staff at the door know as we are re-screening this wnderful film on Saturday 25th January in the courthouse. 

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Closing Night and ‘The Francies’ Awards

Closing Night and ‘The Francies’ Awards

The Courthouse | Sunday 27th | 8:30 pm | Sponsor: Clones Credit Union

Closing night at CFF has come to mean only one thing – ‘The Francies’. Named in honour of Francie Brady in Pat McCabe’s ‘The Butcher Boy’,

The awards have been designed by Clones native Jason Crowley.

Jason responded to the motif of the pig, which is central to ‘The Butcher Boy’, and fashioned these memorable awards in solid bronze.

So, who is going to win one of these gems this year...?

Awards are presented to the winners in the three categories of Best Fiction / Experimental, Best Documentary, and Best Animation from our short film programmes.


We will also present an audience award to the most popular film on the night, chosen by the viewers from the three aforementioned winners and our commissioned film. It is a gala night not to be missed and since its inception has been a booked-out affair. The awards ceremony will once again take place in the historic surroundings of Clones Courthouse.

This year will see the eighth (!) world premiere of a CFF-commissioned short film. Shot by writer/director Colin Peppard, producer Kate Gurren, and their team at the new marina, the Peace Link and various other locations around Clones and Monaghan, ‘Mile 24’ tells the story of Niall (Daniel Fee), a 16-year-old aspiring actor, who finds his passion at odds with his father Declan's (Tristan Heanue) obsession with running.

As Niall lands a role in a play, his commitment to acting disrupts their training routine. Declan's disappointment intensifies after a race mishap, driving a wedge between them. Their relationship teeters on the edge as both struggle to reconcile their conflicting dreams. Ultimately, a marathon and a play become the stage for a poignant reconciliation, where Niall and Declan realise that supporting each other is the most important race they’ll ever run.

After the show, make your way over to the Festival Club to see the festival out with us, singing (well, belting out) your favourite tunes with Aoife McElwain and the Sing Along Social in Adamson’s Bar.

Don’t say you haven’t been warned… book your seat early for the glitz and glamour of Clones’ very own Oscars night!

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  • WHAT WILL ‘SHARING’ DO FOR CLONES FILM FESTIVAL? Simply put, if we can keep our promotional cost to a minimum, this enables our team to bring our audiences more films. We hear you say "WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?" Well, we're glad you asked, as simply "LIKING" is not enough. Here's a list of things that you could do to help:
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We have added a ticket purchasing facility to our website.  This means that you will be able to "Share" a screening you would like to go to with a friend and they too can buy a ticket. Or if you see a listing for a film that a friend was talking about, then go ahead, SHARE it with them. We're guessing that if you've read this far, you realise that our general wish is that you "share" our stuff.

 

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