Details of the programme for next month's Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) have been announced with Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster, Fiona Shaw, Twiggy, Fionnula Flanagan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Amy Huberman, and John Connors among the stars set to walk the red carpet.
This year's festival from 20 February to 2 March features 80 films, including the world premieres of 10 Irish films. Fifty-five short films are also part of the festival programme.
Festival Director Gráinne Humphreys said: "Following the success of last year's festival, we are delighted to present what we believe is an equally exciting programme of films and guests to the audiences of Dublin and beyond."
Humphreys promised film fans "a superb line-up of international features and documentaries - many screenings will be accompanied by their creators - a packed industry programme, and, as ever, a line-up of world premieres of new Irish work".
"Our Volta Awards will be presented to two of my favourite actors, Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, while our country in focus will be Morocco, and we present a tribute to the 25th anniversary of Gilmore Girls," the festival director added. "What more can you ask for?"
The festival will open with Uberto Pasolini's Ralph Fiennes-starring The Return and close with Irish director Darren Thornton's Four Mothers - the Audience Award winner at the BFI London Film Festival in October.
Watch: A clip from Four Mothers.
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Among the other Irish films screening at the festival will be the world premiere of Stephen Bradley's football comedy Fran the Man starring Darragh Humphreys, Ardal O'Hanlon, and Amy Huberman; the world premiere of the Lynn Ruane-penned and Claire Frances Byrne-directed 90s coming-of-age and consent story Ready or Not; and the Irish premiere of Brian Durnin's debut feature Spilt Milk, set in Dublin's inner city in the 1980s.
BAFTA winner Fiona Shaw will bring her latest film, the Gaby Dellal-directed Park Avenue, to the festival and take part in a Q&A.
Irish documentaries screening at the festival will include Aoife Kelleher's Testimony, which is about the Justice for Magdalenes group; John Connors' Where the Road Meets the Sky, which is about the stories and lives of his family, and Éamon Little's Born That Way, which follows Patrick Lydon's move from rock journalist to working with the radically inclusive Camphilll Movement.
Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, receiving Volta Awards at the festival for their careers on screen, will attend the world premiere of director Jonathan Kent's Eugene O'Neill adaptation Long Day's Journey into Night.
Their co-star Ben Foster will attend the screening of his new thriller, the Jason Buxton-directed Sharp Corner, and director Sadie Frost will present her documentary Twiggy with both the iconic model and the filmmaker taking part in a Q&A.
Full programme and booking details can be found at diff.ie.
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