The Dublin International Film Festival 2024 began on Thursday night with the world premiere of TWIG, director Marian Quinn's crime drama that sees rising star Sade Malone in the title role.
Malone and her co-stars were among the guests at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield.
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 Imogen Poots and 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.
The festival runs until 2 March. For full details on all screenings and events, visit: diff.ie.
