
Welcome to Film & Screen Media
Film and Screen Media at University College Cork is a vibrant community of lecturers, researchers and graduate students. Led by internationally recognised experts, and with a thriving visiting speakers and guest practitioners component, our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees explore the history of filmmaking through the study of films from around the world, from the birth of cinema to the age of the Internet.
News and Events

26 Mar 2025
Three Sisters in a Sketchbook: Film screening and discussion with director and scholar Dr Romana Turina, 1st April @4-6 pm
Three Sisters in a Sketchbook (Romana Turina, 2024, 45’) won Best Biographical Film at the Toronto International Women Film Festival 2025 and Best Short Documentary at the LA Independent Film Channel Festival.
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24 Mar 2025
Puttnam Scholarship Recipients 2024 - 2025
Eight UCC students have been awarded the prestigious title of Puttnam Scholar.
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10 Mar 2025
SPOTLIGHT ON OUR QUERCUS SCHOLARS!
The Department of Film and Screen Media is delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to Laura Fioretti (BAFX2) and Sean Leahy (BAFX3), who were awarded prestigious Quercus College scholarships for the academic year 2024-5.
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26 Feb 2025
Mediating the Colonial Archive: Lecture and Screening of Unsettling Genealogies. 4th March @4-6 pm, FSM Auditorium, Kane Building B10B
When does the (colonial) past become the past? And how do we interpret its legacies in postcolonial societies? What is the role of colonial archives in keeping the memory of the past alive?
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