Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2007

A world of movies returns to Dublin for the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The event will present new feature films from all continents, along with retrospectives and special seasons making it the biggest film event in Ireland with 100 feature films, shorts, discussions, special guests, events and the odd surprise!

Once again, the festival will be running films at all four cinema sites in Dublin city centre: the Screen, Savoy, Cineworld and the IFI as well as a special screening of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece METROPOLIS which will be accompanied by 3epkano with a special orchestral arrnagement at the National Gallery. For the second year, the festival will also play host to an International film industry Conference sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Some early highlights include:

ONCE
Selected for the Sundance Film Festival, John Carney’s ONCE is a modern-day musical set on the streets of Dublin, starring Glenn Hansard which tells the story of a busker and an immigrant who fall in love over an eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record a number of songs.

CRÉ NA CILLE
CRÉ NA CILLE is the first ever Irish language feature film in JDIFF. It is directed by Robert Quinn whose Dead Bodies was the closing film of the first JDIFF in 2003.

SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
Nominated for five categories including Best Film at the IFTA’s and starring Iain Glen, SMALL ENGINE REPAIR is a comedy drama about a man who goes from small town zero to country and western musical hero. Doug, an aspiring country singer, has spent his life as a loser in a small town with nobody taking his heartbreaking voice and talent as a musician seriously. His wife has left him and only his best friend believes in him. But Doug has one last chance to make it…

Films without distribution that will have their only Irish cinema screening at JDIFF include Woody Allen’s SCOOP which stars Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson; COLOUR ME KUBRICK starring John Malkovich is an insider look at the making of the great director’s last film Eyes Wide Shut and another iconoclast of the cinema, Lars Von Trier has granted a rare screening of his latest work and a return to the black humour of his earlier work with THE BOSS OF IT ALL. New documentaries on show will include French director Philippe Pilard's film, NEIL JORDAN, PORTRAIT.

Some titles that reflect the best available from the current awards season include Zhang Yimou’s epic CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER – a front runner for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and HALF NELSON which stars Ryan Gosling who has received several awards already and may well get an Oscar nomination.

The 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is programmed by Michael Dwyer and marks the last of Dwyer’s programmes for the festival. It is grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Media Sponsors for the festival are The Irish Times, FM104 and Entertainment.ie. The festival is also funded by Dublin City Council and The French Embassy. Brook’s Hotel is the festival hotel.

The complete festival programme will be available from February 1st. Tickets will be avaialble online at dubliniff.com and from the Box Office from February 1st. The Box-office is located at Filmbase in Temple Bar.

5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival February 16-25, 2007.

Web: dubliniff.com