Brendan Gleeson, Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson, Steve McQueen, Isabelle Huppert, and Maxine Peake are among the guests confirmed for the Dublin International Film Festival, which runs from 22 February to 2 March.
The full programme was launched in Dublin on Monday by festival director Gráinne Humphreys.
The festival opens with director Marian Quinn's crime drama TWIG, with rising star Sade Malone in the title role.
Among this year's highlights are the many Irish films premiering at the festival including Dermot Malone's King Frankie starring Peter Coonan; Maurice O'Carroll's crime thriller Swing Bout; Danny McCafferty's The Line, which explores immigration in Ireland; Colin Hickey's drama Perennial Light; Alan Friel's sci-fi thriller Woken; and Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's Baltimore, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.
The Ciarán Ó Maonaigh-directed music documentary Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's and Ross Killeen's Alzheimer's study Don't Forget to Remember are among the many Irish documentaries at this year's festival.
The Festival Closing Gala will be That They May Face the Rising Sun, director Pat Collins's adaptation of the late John McGahern's final novel, which stars Barry Ward and Anna Bederke.
12 Years a Slave and Hunger director Steve McQueen will be honoured with the festival's Volta award for career achievement, as will French screen legend Isabelle Huppert.
For full details on all screenings and events, visit: diff.ie.
