Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan lead an exquisite line-up of Irish and International film talent coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2018
Also featured on the line-up is Bill Pullman, Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Schrader, Lance Daly, Nora Twomey, Paddy Considine, Sandy Powell, and Lynne Ramsay.
The Audi Dublin International Film Festival brings the world’s best films to Dublin in its spectacular 16th edition that includes seven World Premieres and a total of over 100 features, nearly all receiving their Irish Premiere.
Featuring an extraordinary red carpet line-up of on-screen talent and guest filmmakers, ADIFF is Ireland’s most prestigious film festival and sets the agenda for the year in film.
The Opening Gala of ADIFF 2018 will be the Irish Premiere of Black 47, the most hotly-anticipated Irish film of the year.
Lance Daly directed this gripping, pulsating thriller, set during Ireland’s Great Famine, featuring an all-star cast.
Lance Daly and a selection of the cast including James Frecheville, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford and Stephen Rea will attend the premiere.
One of Hollywood’s finest, Bill Pullman, will attend the festival for the Irish Premiere of his new Western The Ballad of Lefty Brown, a superb addition to his distinguished body of cinematic work stretching back three decades.
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Amongst cinema’s most distinctive and admired filmmakers, Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, Morvern Callar) will visit the festival for the Special Presentation of her Cannes prize-winning thriller You Were Never Really Here.
Irish director Nora Twomey will attend the long-awaited Irish Premiere Special Presentation of her animated drama The Breadwinner, which has been Oscar-nominated in the Best Animated Feature category for 2018.
From Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, this is a powerful story of an Afghan girl passing as a boy to work to help her family survive.
Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave will receive one of the two 2018 ADIFF Volta Awards, the festival’s most prestigious award, for her lifetime of achievement in cinema at the Irish Premiere of her passionate new documentary on the refugee crisis, Sea Sorrow.
Paul Schrader will also receive a Volta Award and is honoured for his extensive work as a director and screenwriter.
Schrader’s acclaimed new film First Reformed starring Ethan Hawke will receive its Gala Irish Premiere at the festival. Schrader will also give an in-depth Public Talk and, as this year’s Guest Curator, will introduce three classic films that have inspired his work.
The Opening Film of the Fantastic Flix programme for young people, supported by Cheestrings, is Andrew Haigh’s Lean On Pete (15A), a moving drama featuring Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny and an award-winning performance from Charlie Plummer.
Rounding off the festival with the ultimate in escapist cinema, ADIFF 2018’s Closing Gala is C’est La Vie. This funny, irreverent and charming French film is Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s follow-up to their box-office sensation The Intouchables and will leave festival audiences smiling until 2019.
Tickets will be on sale at diff.ie from 7pm on January 24, and the Box Office will be open at 12 East Essex Street (01 6877974) from 10am January 25.
