Screen Ireland is hosting the launch of its annual slate of film, television and animation productions in Dublin today, outlining projects that will reach audiences across 2026. The event brings together industry professionals from across the Irish screen sector and follows a period of strong international visibility for Irish film and television, with recent releases such as Hamnet and Saipan attracting attention at home and abroad.
Screen Ireland,also known as Fís Éireann,is the national development agency for the Irish film,television and animation industry. The launch is expected to include previews of upcoming productions and to highlight the continued recognition of Irish talent both on screen and behind the scenes. Many of those attending are IFTA nominees,and the event follows last week’s Academy Award nominations,which included ten nominations for Irish creatives and irish-produced films.
A total of 87 projects are scheduled for release in 2026. These include 22 feature films, 17 documentaries, 13 TV dramas and animated series, and over 30 short films.
Among the productions announced is Once and Sing Street director John Carney’s latest film, power Ballad, a music-led film starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. The Lost Children of Tuam is a dramatisation of Catherine Corless’s campaign to uncover the history of the Tuam mother-and-baby home.
Documentary projects being unveiled include The Slightest Touch, which examines the friendship between actor Colin Farrell and Emma Fogarty, who lives with epidermolysis bullosa (EB). Danny Dyer features in a new movie called One Last Deal, which was filmed in Dublin.
The slate also includes several major international television productions filmed in ireland. One of the projects highlighted is the Netflix action thriller mercenary: An extraction Series, which was filmed in the country last year. The TV series Wednesday, produced by MGM Amazon for Netflix, is also the largest production to have ever filmed in Ireland in recent years.
Screen Ireland is also publishing its annual industry figures as part of the launch. The organisation says 2025 was another record-breaking year, with the film, television, documentary and animation sectors contributing €544 million to the Irish economy. This represents a 26% increase from 2024.
Over the past ten years, marking a decade since Screen ireland started investing in TV, figures today state that the agency has invested €29.5 million in television drama. The agency says growth has continued despite challenges across the international screen industry, citing increased inward investment, strong domestic production and improvements to tax incentives across large-scale productions, independent film, visual effects, unscripted content and digital games.
Chief Executive of Fís Éireann/screen Ireland, Désirée Finnegan, said they were launching Screen Ireland’s 2026 Production Slate, with 87 projects across feature film, television, animation, documentary and short film and that the slate “showcases a diverse range of bold, creative and original stories produced by world-class filmmakers and creative talent.”
chair of Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Ray Harman, said that “despite challenging industry conditions internationally”, production figures in Ireland are at an “all-time high,” and the positive impact of that is being “felt by people working in the industry and beyond.”
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