Programme Announced for Dingle International Film Festival 2019

The 13th Dingle International Film Festival will take place from March 21 to March 24 this year, and promises an impressive line-up.

Opening this year’s festival is WILD ROSE, set to premiere on Thursday, March 21. Directed by Tom Harper, the film features Ireland’s very own Jessie Buckley, who plays the role of Rose-Lynn, a mother of two who wants to leave Glasgow to pursue a career as a country singer in Nashville.

Other feature films at Dingle IFF include:

THE SISTERS BROTHERS

Brothers by Blood. Sisters by Name.

Director: Jacques Audiard

Starring: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed

Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, The Sisters Brothers revolves around the colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who are being pursued across 1000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.

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DARK LIES THE ISLAND

Director: Ian FitzGibbon

Starring: Pat Shortt, Charlie Murphy, Peter Coonan, Moe Dunford, Tommy Tiernan, Jana Mohieden, Eoin Geoghan, Charlie Kelly, Aisling O’Sullivan

DARK LIES THE ISLAND is a dark comic melodrama about a family spinning out of control in a small Irish town. In this rural gothic western, two brothers try to crawl out from the shadow of their domineering father while his young wife is trapped in a whirlpool of sexual jealousy. As the story unfolds, over the course of a week, a long-standing family feud comes to a head, forcing all participants to face up to the truth.

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FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY

She is the Greatest. She said it before she knew she was

Director/Writer: Carmel Winters

Starring: Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Coillins, Hilda Fay, Lalor Roddy

From the producers of Once and Sing Street, FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY is a powerful and timely story of a girl’s fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of the classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances has to fight for the right to fight back. Raised in roadside camps in rural Ireland, Frances wants to champion her people inside the boxing ring and out, like her idol Muhammad Ali.

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THE PUSH

Directed by Grant Korgan, Geoff Callan

Closing the Festival is the European Premiere of the incredible film ‘The Push’. This film is an inspirational documentary about the power of never giving up. Grant Korgan burst-fractured his L1 vertebrae and became the first spinal-cord injured athlete to literally PUSH himself - nearly 100 miles - to the geographic South Pole.

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Dingle IFF is also set to premiere four Shorts Programmes running all day on Friday. Early Creatives Shorts, Documentary Shorts, A Journey of Shorts, and  our 5 Out of 5 Shorts as well as our Screen Ireland Shorts - all can be found in the iconic St James' church; along with our Kingdom Shorts Programme on Sunday.

For the first time ever, Dingle IFF will premiere a series of Shorts in their new programme, ADULTS ONLY Shorts 1 and ADULTS ONLY SHORTS 2, running by night in their new Festival Hub at McCarthys Bar on Goats Street.