Stellar Selection of IFB-Funded Films at Dublin International Film Festival 2016
The programme for the 2016 Audi Dublin International Film Festival was announced today with a stellar selection of Irish film, including feature films, short films and a feature documentary funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB).
The festival will open with John Carney’s Sing Street, which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to a rapturous reception. The festival’s closing film is Viva directed by Paddy Breathnach (I Went Down), which was recently shortlisted for an Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Feature.
The world premiere will take place of the IFB’s once-off After ’16 short film initiative. Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, these shorts commemorate, celebrate and ruminate on 1916. The 9 shorts, spanning between drama, animation and documentary, will debut in the Light House Cinema on February 21st.
Other IFB-funded short films set to screen include Jack O’Shea’s animation A Coat Made Dark, which has been selected to screen at the prestigious Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Geist directed by Ben Harper, Sean Mullen and Alex Sherwood which won the Best Animated Sequence in a Short Film award at the Galway Film Fleadh, and How Was Your Day? directed by Damien O’Donnell which won the Best Irish Short award at the Foyle Film Festival.
Upcoming films at the festival include Rebecca Daly’s Mammal which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Peter Murphy and Rachel Moriarty’s Traders which will be released in cinemas on March 11th, The Truth Commissioner due for release on February 26th, Simon Fitzmaurice’s My Name is Emily and documentary Atlantic directed by Risteard Ó Domhnaill.
See below for the full list of IFB-funded features and shorts at ADIFF 2016.
Sing Street, Opening Gala, Savoy Screen 1, Thu Feb 18th 7:00pm
A Coat Made Dark (part of ADIFF Shorts 1), Light House Cinema Screen 1, Fri 19th Feb 6:15pm
Traders, Light House Cinema Screen 1, Sat Feb 20th 6:30pm
After ’16 Shorts, Light House Cinema Screen 1, Sun Feb 21st 3:30pm
The Truth Commissioner, Light House Cinema Screen 1, Sun Feb 21st 6:15pm
My Name is Emily, Movies @ Dundrum Screen 1, Wed Feb 24th 6:00pm
Mammal, Light House Cinema Screen 1, Wed Feb 24th 8:30pm
Atlantic, Cineworld Screen 9, Thu Feb 25th 8:30pm
Geist and How Was Your Day? (part of ADIFF Shorts 2), Light House Cinema Screen 1, Sat 27th Feb 2016 1:30PM
Viva, Closing Gala, Savoy, Screen 1 Sun Feb 28th 7:45pm
For details on ADIFF 2016, see here.