The Cannes Film Festival begins today, with 14 Irish films involved in different sections of the 12-day event.
The Ken Loach-directed Irish Civil War drama 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' is showing in the Official Competition at the festival, the first Irish film to do so since John Boorman's 'The General' in 1998.
Stars Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney and Orla Fitzgerald will join Loach at the film's world premiere in Cannes tomorrow night.
'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' is also available to industry buyers at the Cannes Film Market, along with Boorman's 'The Tiger's Tail', 'Studs', 'Pavee Lackeen', '48 Angels', 'Shrooms' and seven other Irish films.
Irish producer Julie Le Brocquy's film 'My Beautiful Rambutan Tree' is screening in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the festival, while Julian Hill's Irish short film 'Death's Mailing' is showing in the Short Film Corner.
'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' opens in Irish cinemas on 23 June.
