THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

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‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’

Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin will screen at France’s Dinard Festival Of British Film (September 28 - October 2), with Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande closing the event.

Both films will have their French premiere at the festival which is held on the coastal town of Dinard, France and celebrates independent cinema from the UK.

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McDonagh’s Ireland-set comedy drama recently premiered at Venice Film Festival and stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends hurtled into conflict when one of them decides to end the friendship. 

Hyde’s 2022 Sundance title sees Emma Thompson as a widower who hires a young male sex worker, played by Daryl McCormack, to help her explore her sexual desires. 

Hassan Nazer’s Winners, about two nine-year-olds in Iran who find a trophy and decide to find its owner, will screen in Dinard’s official competition selection. The film recently picked up the audience award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. 

Also screening in competition is Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut Emily which stars Sex Education’s Emma Mackey as Emily Bronte and will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival (TIFF, September 8-18). 

Celyn Jones and Tom Stern’s The Almond And The Seahorse is featured in the competition line-up. Rebel Wilson is among the cast of this drama about an archaeologist and an architect trying to recover from a traumatic brain injury.

Other competition titles include Jono McLeod’s documentary-drama My Old School; Reggie Yate’s garage music comedy Pirates and Andrew Gaynord’s horror-comedy All My Friends Hate Me. 

The jury will be presided over by Spanish actor and comedian José Garcia who is joined by Oulaya Amamra, George Blagden, Hugo Gélin, Adrian Lester and Alice Pol. 

The festival will also screen the entire series of BBC One’s This Is Going To Hurt which stars Ben Whishaw in Adam Kay’s adaptation of his own junior doctor memoir. 

Other notable titles not screening in competition include Will Sharpe’s The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy; Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday and Ireland’s recent Oscar submission The Quiet Girl from Colm Bairead.

Dinard line-up 2022

*competition title

Cinema Past Present & Future 

Lord Of The Flies 
Dir. Peter Brook 

Save The Cinema
Dir. Sarah Sugarman

The Gallery
Dir. Paul Raschid

Winners*
Dir. Hassen Nazer

Eccentric & Free Spirits 

Flux Gourmet
Dir. Peter Strickland

The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Dir. Will Sharpe

My Old School*
Dir. Jono McLeod

Tramps!
Dir. Kevin Hegge

True Things
Dir. Harry Wootliff

Culture Tribes - INA Programme
Dirs. various

Girl Power!

Emily*
Dir. Frances O’Connor

Enys Men
Dir. Mark Jenkin 

Mothering Sunday
Dir. Eva Husson

Quant
Dir. Sadie Frost

The Colour Room
Dir. Claire McCarthy

The Almond & The Seahorse*
Dirs. Celyn Jones and Tom Stern

Irish Eyes In Dinard

It Is In All Of Us
Dir. Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Nothing Compares
Dir. Kathryn Ferguson

The Quiet Girl
Dir. Colm Bairead

The Sparrow
Dir. Michael Kinirons

Young Plato
Dirs. Declan McGrath and Neasa Ní Chianáin

It’s Raining Men

Boxing Day
Dir. Ami Ameen

In From The Side
Dir. Matt Carter

Pirates*
Dir. Reggie Yates

The Other Fellow
Dir. Matthew Bauer

All My Friends Hate Me*
Dir. Andrew Gaynord

Specials

The Princess
Dir. Ed Perkins

This Is Going To Hurt (TV series)
Dirs. Lucy Forbes and Tom Kingsley

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande - closing night film
Dir. Sophie Hyde

The Banshees Of Inisherin
Dir. Martin McDonagh