Féile 2025, Derry’s largest community arts festival is back for the 33rd year with its biggest ever programme.
Féile 2025 is back with our biggest ever programme featuring over 150 events which will be held at over 60 venues across the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street, and Fountain neighbourhoods and the city centre from Wednesday 6 to Friday 15 August 2025.
Below are the events happening at Nerve Centre.
An Phalaistín — Disturbing The Silence
Thursday 7 August, 5.30pm
A trilingual documentary (English, Gaeilge and Arabic) filmed in 2004 by award-winning Donegal filmmaker Sonia Nic Giolla Easbuig.
GAZA
Thursday 7 August, 7.30pm – 9pm
Directed by award winning duo, Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell, Gaza, was five years in the making and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019. A portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict and going beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters.
Dancing Palestine
Friday 8 August, 7pm – 7.40pm
To dance is to remember, to dance is to remind. As the Palestinian identity continues to be threatened with erasure, Palestinians turn to their folk dance, the dabke, as an homage to their history and culture, and to assert their existence.
A Fidai Film
Friday 8 August, 7.45pm – 9pm
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film aims to create a counter-narrative to this loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history.
Hide & Seek
Monday 11 August, 7pm – 7.15pm
An animated short film that tells the story of a child and his fish as they embark on a journey into the unknown, following the raid on the child’s town during the ongoing war ravaging his country. The short film captures the steps of this journey and its transformations, concluding as the child reaches one of the coasts.
A State of Passion
Monday 11 August, 7.15pm – 8.45pm
After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.
Ireland's Far Right — Britain's Latest Export
Tuesday 12 August, 7pm – 8pm
Ireland's Far Right — Britain's Latest Export looks at the growth of the Irish Far-Right and the relationship with British fascists and international Zionists. How Elon Musk is amplifying far right talking points and interacting with the most racist elements of Irish society. A film by Sean Murray. The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sean Murray and Mark Malone from Hope and Courage Collective.
We Only Want the Earth: The Life & Ideas of James Connolly
Thursday 14 August, 7pm – 8.30pm
An iconic presence on the landscape of Irish socialism and republicanism, the name of James Connolly looms large in the trade union movement and wherever radical left-wing politics are espoused. The film places Connolly’s radical ideas and many political achievements against the landscape of the contemporary world, while documenting his role in the 1916 Easter Rising. The film also features songs and poems performed by a range of contemporary artists and musicians.
