19/01/2017 - John Butler’s Handsome Devil to close festival while Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture will have gala screenings

Aisling Walsh’s Maudie [+see also:
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film profile] (Ireland), Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire [+see also:
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film profile] (UK/France), Dennis Bartok’s Nails (Ireland), Emer Reynolds’ The Farthest (Ireland), Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane’s In Loco Parentis [+see also:
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The festival’s Irish selections also include Ken Wardrop’s The Piano Lesson, Juanita Wilson’s Tomato Red, Paddy Cahill’s Amanda Coogan: Long Now, Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name [+see also:
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European programme highlights include Juho Kuosmanen’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki [+see also:
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interview: Juho Kuosmanen
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interview: William Oldroyd
film profile] (UK), Stuart A Staples’ Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (UK), Paolo Virzi’s Like Crazy [+see also:
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Q&A: Paolo Virzì
film profile] (Italy/France), Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper [+see also:
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interview: Artemio Benki
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film profile] (France/Germany), Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us [+see also:
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interview: Adam Smith
film profile] (UK), Frédéric Mermoud’s Moka [+see also:
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film profile] (France/Switzerland), Claude Barras’ My Life as a Courgette [+see also:
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interview: Claude Barras
film profile] (Switzerland/France), Rasmus Heisterberg’s In the Blood [+see also:
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interview: Elliott Crosset Hove
interview: Rasmus Heisterberg
film profile] (Denmark), Vincent Perez’s Alone in Berlin [+see also:
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film profile] (UK/France/Germany), Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Student (Russia), Michal Marczak’s All These Sleepless Nights [+see also:
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film profile] (UK/Poland), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Glory [+see also:
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film profile] (Bulgaria/Greece) and Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise [+see also:
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film profile], (Russia/Germany) amongst many others.

British thespian Vanessa Redgrave will receive the festival’s Volta award for significant contribution to cinema. Wheatley will deliver a directors’ masterclass while BAFTA and Oscar winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) will deliver a costume designers’ masterclass. 

Grainne Humphreys, Festival Director, said, “I’m thrilled with the selection of films that we are bringing to Dublin for the Dublin International Film Festival 2017 that not only showcases some of the biggest names in world cinema but features a selection of first time directors from across the globe who will make a serious impression with our audience in this and in coming years. To be able to include new Irish films from Aisling Walsh, Jim Sheridan, Emer Reynolds, Aiden Gillen, John Butler, Neasa Ní Chianán, Juanita Wilson and Ken Wardrop as just some of the Irish filmmakers in the festival is an extraordinary testament to the current strength and depth of the Irish film industry.”