2025 Red Umbrella Film Festival

PROGRAMME: https://www.redumbrellaeireann.com/programme

Scroll down for information on our venues, COVID safety, getting around, and more. Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

FESTIVAL PASSE PARTOUT 25-40 euro: Four features, three short film programmes, three panel discussions

DAY PASSES 10-15 euro

Because any funds raised above cost will go to our decriminalisation campaign, we ask that you give at the solidarity tier if you're able.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds, and we have stipends available for sex workers to help cover costs including travel, childcare, and more. Please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line "Stipends" for more.

THURSDAY

LIGHT HOUSE CINEMA — Opening reception: Irish Premiere Film Screening: Fucktoys (English, Closed Captions) + Drinks + Tarot Readings + a message from filmmaker Annapurna Sriram

* Tickets for the opening reception and screening should be purchased via the Light House:

FRIDAY

UNIT 44 — Workshop: Creative Writing with Frankie Miren (Sex worker only) + Porn Feature: Solo (Spanish, English subtitles) + Porn Shorts: Prima Vista (No dialogue); Crash Pad series J. London and Johnny Castro (English, Subtitled); A Quick Fix (English, Subtitled); Genderfluid (French, English subtitles); Festín (Spanish, English subtitles)

SATURDAY

UNIT 44 — Sex Worker Brunch (Sex worker only) + Workshop: BDSM (OTA)

UNITE THE UNION — Workshop: Graphic Design for Activists (OTA) + Film-on-Loop: Long Vie Aux Putes (French, English Subtitles) + Stall: Cash Zine + Saturday Shorts Programme: Crossings (Multiple, English Subtitles); A Place to Belong (Burmese, English Subtitles); Being a Refugee (English without Subtitles); Celebrating Life (Spanish, English Subtitles); Boy (Spanish, English Subtitles); Mommy (English, Subtitled) + Feature Film: Womxn: Working (English, Closed Captions) + Panel ‘Care and Resistance’ + Feature Film: The Stroll (English, Subtitled)

DV8 — Stripper Bingo + After Party with performances, pole dance, sex worker fashion show & DJs

SUNDAY

UNITE THE UNION — Workshop: Stripper Style Floorwork (OTA) + Workshop: Boxing for Beginners (OTA) + Film-on-Loop: Decriminalisation of Sex Work in New Zealand (English) + Stall: Cash Zine + Feature Film: Mala Reputación (Spanish with English Subtitles) + Panel ‘Organise, Unionise!’ + Sunday Shorts Programme: Dyson (French with English subtitles); Fuck You Pay Me (English, Subtitled); Fuck a Fan (English, Subtitled); Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie (English); Bianca (Portuguese with English subtitles); St. Pancras Sunrise (English, subtitled) + Panel ‘Decriminalisation(s): Sex work, Drugs, and Abortion’ + Happy Ending: Laura Lee Award & closing speech

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ABOUT

RED UMBRELLA FILM FESTIVAL is Ireland's sex worker film festival, organised by Red Umbrella Éireann, a collective of current and former sex workers campaigning for decriminalisation.

The festival will include four days of films, panel discussions, workshops, stripper bingo and a Saturday night party with pole dance, performances, DJs, and a sex worker fashion show. Red Umbrella Film Festival will take place across four Dublin venues: the Light House cinema, Unite the Union on Abbey Street, Unit 44, and DV8.

By creating space for sex workers’ stories, we hope to challenge stigma and shame, fight for our safety and self-determination, and build towards a decriminalised future.

All funds raised by the festival will go to sex worker organising.

RED UMBRELLA FILM FESTIVAL — 16-19 OCTOBER — DUBLIN, IRELAND

redumbrellaeireann.com/filmfestival

We are proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, EdgeFund, and Amnesty Ireland. We are grateful to Unite the Union for supporting us by hosting the film festival.

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GENERAL ACCESS INFO

If you have questions around access not addressed here, or need more information, please contact [email protected] with the subject line "Access."

Our venues are all in Dublin city centre. Unite the Union (Abbey St.) and Unit 44 (Little Green St.) are about a 10min walking/rolling distance away from each other. The DV8 venue (James's St.) will be hosting us on Saturday evening only, and is 5 stops away on the Luas or 30mins walking/rolling distance away. The Light House will be hosting our opening screening on Thursday evening (which is the only event happening that night) and is a 5min walking/rolling distance away from the Smithfield Luas stop or from several bus stops (Arran Quay, Blackhall Place, Mary's Lane).

We are working to have captions or subtitles on as many of our films as possible (please see film list above for updated info). Speakers at our panels, Stripper Bingo, and the afterparty will use microphones. Our panels will have live captions with seating nearby to the screen. The Light House cinema has a loop system in every screen. If you would like to request ISL interpretation for any event, please contact us as soon as you're able.

We apologise that we are not able to provide audio descriptions for our films.

We encourage all attendees to test for COVID before joining our events, and we ask that you stay home if you are feeling unwell and might be contagious. We will have free masks available.

Due to concerns around protecting the privacy of attendees, we will not livestream this year or hold events online. Please email us with any questions.

BY VENUE

Light House

Masks are not required to enter the Light House. The theatre has a vent that will be on and that refreshes air within the cinema with air from outside. We will have free masks available.

Our screening will be in Theatre Two, which is on the bottom floor of the cinema (two below the ground floor) and accessible by lift. There are three spaces for wheelchairs at the front of the theatre. To book accessible seating, including wheelchair accessible seats, please contact the Light House's Box Office (phone: 018728006; email: [email protected]).

There is an accessible toilet on the second floor, which can be reached from the bottom floor by lift. The toilet has a code and Light House staff will be available to provide it.

The accessible toilet on the second floor is gender neutral, and on the top floor (where you enter the cinema) there is an additional gender neutral bathroom with three stalls, one of which is wheelchair accessible.

There is a Loop system in every screen at the Light House, and the film will have closed captions.

Unite the Union

Masks are not required to enter Unite. The building has a high quality air filtration system, and we will have masks available.

Events will take place on the ground floor (no steps), with a ramp leading to the space.

There is a wheelchair accessible toilet on the same floor as the event space.

Toilets will be marked as single stall and urinal.

There is a Loop system in Unite, and we will have live captions with seating nearby to the screen for all of our panels. Speakers will also use microphones.

Unit 44

Masks are not required to enter Unit 44. We will have free masks available during our events.

Our events will take place on the first floor, which has no steps to enter. The door is too narrow for wheelchair access; to arrange alternate entry, please contact us in advance.

There are no steps to the toilet. The door is too narrow for wheelchair access. An accessible toilet is available to use across the street.

Toilets will be marked as single stall and urinal.

DV8

Masks are not required to enter DV8. We will have free masks available during our event.

Our party will take place on the entry level floor. There are no steps to the event space.

There is an accessible toilet on the entry level floor.

Toilets in the event space will be marked as single stall and urinal.

Speakers and performers will use microphones.

Event Venue

Light House Cinema, Unite the Union, Unit 44, DV8, Abbey street, Dublin 1, Ireland