Dublin festival offers cinema paradise
The festival will screen 97 feature films from 35 countries between February 12 and 22 at the Screen Cinema, Savoy Cinema, UGC and the Irish Film Institute.
"This is a festival for the people of Dublin and for all those cinema-goers from all parts of Ireland or abroad who have the time and the inclination to immerse themselves in the event," said festival founder and director Michael Dwyer.
A raft of Irish and international talent is expected, including Sunday's Golden Globe winner, Julie le Brocquy, with her film, Osama.
New Irish offering Timbuktu, from one of our most original filmmaking talents, Alan Gilsenan, will open the festival in its world premiere gala screening.
The centrepiece gala, Blind Flight, welcomes stars Ian Hart and Linus Roache along with the subjects of the film, Brian Keenan and John McCarthy survivors of a Beirut kidnap hell.
Another Irish world premiere, The Halo Effect, starring Stephen Rea and Kerry Condon, will close the festival. The festival is awash with Oscar-nominated films, including The House of Sand and Fog, Monster, 21 Grams, The Cooler, The Barbarian Invasions, The Last Samurai, Evil, Capturing The Friedmans, The Fog of War and My Architect.
* The festival box office opens this morning at 33 Eden Quay (phone 01 - 872 1122) and the programme is available online at www.dubliniff.com
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