20 Cork Film Festival highlights: An impressive mix of Irish and international offerings   

Cork International Film Festival runs November 7-17. Esther McCarthy selects the best movies across the genres 

Some of the highlights of the Cork Film Festival this year.

Bird,  Arc Cinema, 2.30pm, November 8

British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) directs our own Barry Keoghan in a coming-of-age story set in a marginalised society. It tells of an adolescent who lives with her dad and brother in a squat, whose life becomes transformed when she meets a mysterious stranger. Arnold blends fantasy with social reality in the film, lensed by Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan.