The 2018 festival programme cover has a green and blue colour scheme with an emerald-green stripe along the book spine. To the right of the green stripe, there is a blue-themed lightly pixelated image of a partially visible face with just the right…
The 2019 festival programme cover has an orange and purple colour scheme with a purple stripe along the book spine. To the right of the purple stripe there is an image of a young man caught mid-flight in dance on an orange background; he is wearing…
The 1997 festival programme cover depicts a hyper-realised image of a large butterfly, with red and yellow wings, at the centre of the page. White spots edge the wings and black lines are traced through the wingspan. Two white lights are projected…
The 2002 festival programme cover is a green-themed montage of film stills and festival information. The montage depicts twelve film stills from films being shown that year at the festival; they include Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, 2002), A Man…
The front cover image on the 2007 festival programme is by Patrick Morrison, who was an LA-based Cork-born artist (1945-2013). It is a detail from The Golden Gate Bridge and depicts a couple on, or near, the red-orange steel struts of the bridge.…
The 1960 festival programme cover is off-white, with vertical lines in the background dotted with small light stars. In the foreground is a Celtic-stylised image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand. The image is flanked by two emblems – one…
The 1961 festival programme cover is cream-coloured with a Celtic-stylised faded image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand - probably St Finbarr of Cork. The image is flanked by two emblems – one of the harp and one of the coat of arms of…
The 1965 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of text decorated film negative winding around itself on a black background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Cork Dry Gin’ showing the…
The 1966 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of a stylised logo of the CIFF letters arranged against a cream coloured background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Nordoff Vodka’ in the…
The 1967 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of violet coloured text and graphics against a cream-coloured background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Hewitt’s Whisky’ stretching…