The annual festival rolls out the red carpet for a slew of Irish and international releases. As always,
it’s a category mixture of first glimpse and overlooked, yet worthy of attention. It opens with John
Butler’s well received Papi Chulo which pivots around an unexpected friendship between an
alienated weatherman and a middle-aged Latino migrant worker in LA. Others worth catching
include Bo Burham’s Eight Grade which will see him in attendance also. Greta, Neil Jordan’s latest
thriller starring an ever dependable Isabelle Hupert, hopefully marks a long overdue return to form
for the auteur. Fresh from Sundance is Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s while Alice
Rohrwacher’s Happy As Lazzaro is a charming Italian comedy/drama and winner of best
screenplay at Cannes. Gaza, Land Without God (on Mannix Flynn) and What Time is Death? (on
the KLF) spearhead the Irish documentary programme.
Wednesday February 20 to Sunday March 3
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