The 24th edition of the festival kicks off on a spooky note on Halloween with Aislinn Clarke’s Irish horror, Fréwaka.
With 25 premieres and three world premieres the programme also features a mix of classics including The French Connection as part of the Art of Action strand. One of many eagerly anticipated films includes Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain, Rumours and the latest from legendary director Mike Leigh, Hard Truths.
As part of the festival will be a special 40th Anniversary screening of Anne Devlin after which a Q&A with director Pat Murphy and star Brid Brennan. The festival will close with Sam O’Mahony’s The Wise Guy.
In Conversation event this year will see BFF curator Jessica Kiang chat with Radu Jude, Golden Bear winning director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.
With an exciting and varied programme, festival director Michele Devlin said: “This year’s programme showcases some of the best of new international film alongside gorgeous new work from Irish filmmakers. We have a special 40th anniversary event for the groundbreaking feature Anne Devlin bringing the creative team Pat Murphy, Thaddeus O’Suillivan and Brid Brennan together for the first time in many years. We are proud to be partnering once again with our friends in FilmLab, Palestine, to present Naila and The Uprising directed by Julia Bacha which is one of hundreds international solidarity screenings taking place across the world on November 2nd.”
Tickets and more on the programme can be found here
