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Olwen Fouéré, Clare Dunne and Hugh O'Connor announced for DIFF short film programme

The programme for the 2023 festival is beginning to be announced ahead of Christmas.

FILM-LOVERS WILL be excited to hear that the first announcements for the 2023 Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) programme are arriving this side of Christmas.

The festival has also put ticket packages for sale on its website, in time for Christmas present shopping.

The 2023 event, which is set to take place from 23 February – 4 March 2023, will be a multi-platform event, meaning that audiences can watch the selected films both on the big screen and at home.

The short films line-up has been announced today, and features works from well-known names like Clare Dunne, Mia Mullarkey, Olwen Foueré, Emma Martin and Hugh O’Connor. The shorts are a great way to take the temperature of filmmaking in Ireland, with both newcomers and more established names like Dunne and Fouéré taking on the format. In all, 25 shorts from Ireland and across the world will be shown at DIFF 2023.

“The short film format has always been a vital part of the festival, acting as both a showcase for future talent and as an exciting and dynamic art form,” said Gráinne Humphreys, Director of Dublin International Film Festival.

Throughout the festival there will be five presentations of shorts, including a selection from Screen Ireland’s funding scheme recipients and the return of the Glasgow Film Festival highlights. These will join three DIFF presentations across the event.

It includes a curated programme from Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann’s Focus, Framework and Short Stories funding schemes, which provide funding and support for filmmakers. 

The three DIFF shorts presentations were selected from over 750 submissions by programmers Aisha Bolaji and Mohamed Tarek, and include films from Ireland as well as from China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Lebanon, Norway, Iran and more.

Directorial debuts come in the form of Conor Bradley’s student short Sons of Roisin, Derek Ugochukwu You’re Not Home and Tania Notaro’s Glitterbug. In addition, the programme includes Irish language film Bean Feasa Winner of ‘Best Irish Short Film’ at Foyle Film Festival 2022 and the Irish premiere of award-winning directing duo Nathan Fagan and Luke Daly’s Mud Queen starring Clare Dunne, as well as Dunne’s own short One Good Conversation.

Also featured will be the Chinese film Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang, winner of Queer Palm Award at Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2022; the Iranian film Deer by Hadi Babaeifar winner of Best Short Film at GENERATION — KPLUS at Berlinale 2022; and Warsha by Dania Bdeir winner of Best International Short Film: Fiction at Sundance Film Festival 2022.

Bolaji and Tarek said of their selections: “Through fiction, documentary, animation and experimental works we are brought to an array of experiences that delve into the fantastical with films showcasing folktales and mythology as well as a look into contemporary issues concerning gender, the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights and more. We explore themes such as coming-of-age, alienation, grief, family and acceptance through genres such as comedy, horror, drama and fantasy.”

Sons of Roisin - Programme 2 Sons of Roisin

Here’s the full line-up of shorts:

DIFF Shorts 1

  • Dolorosa – Emma Martin/Hugh O’Connor, Ireland
  • Will You Look At Me? – Shuli Huang, China
  • Baths – Nell Hensey, Ireland
  • Deer – Hadi Babaeifar, Iran
  • The Small Makings of a Storm – Avery Angle, Ireland
  • Everything At Once – Henrik Dyb Zwart, Norway
  • Bean Feasa – Daniel Butler, Ireland
  • One Good Conversation – Clare Dunne, Ireland
  • Wednesday’s Child – Laura O’Shea, Ireland
  • Sons of the Crezent – Brendan Canty, New Zealand

DIFF Shorts 2

  • Mud Queen – Nathan Fagan/Luke Daly, Ireland
  • You’re Not Home – Derek Ugochukwu, Ireland
  • On Xerxex’s Throne – Evi Kalogiropoulou, Greece
  • My Girlfriend – Kawthar Younis, Egypt
  • Cracks Will Come – Daniel Mateo Vallejo, Colombia
  • Sons of Roisin – Conor Bradley, Ireland
  • Blind Spot – Lotfi Achour, Tunisia
  • People of the Plaza – Paul Gleeson, Ireland

DIFF Shorts 3

  • Rosemay A.D. (After Dad) – Ethan Barrett, USA
  • Warsha – Dania Bdeir, France/Lebanon
  • Full Moon – Alexander Wilson-Flynn, Ireland
  • Tsutsué – Amartei Armar, France/Ghana
  • Glitterbug – Tania Notaro, Ireland
  • La Tumba – Natasha Waugh, Ireland
  • Far Calls – Olwen Fouéré/Tristan Heanue, Ireland

Screen Ireland Shorts

  • Safe as Houses – Mia Mullarkey, Ireland
  • Regular Rabbit – Eoin Duffy, Ireland
  • Shadow – Janna Kemperman, Ireland
  • Bad Boy Buck – James Fitzgerald, Ireland
  • Red Rabbit – Rory Kerr, Ireland
  • Hermit – Sarah Benson, Ireland
  • Lamb – Sinéad O’Loughlin, Ireland

Sons of the Crezent - Programme 1 Sons of the Crezent

Also announced for the festival on Saturday 4 March is a double bill of Four Seasons and La Nature by the Armenian director Artavazd Pelechian, with a Q&A hosted by Irish director Tadhg O’Sullivan (To The Moon).

In Four Seasons (1975), his last collaboration with cameraman Mikhail Vartanov, Pelechian captures a peasant community in its ongoing battle with the elements. On screen, they are accompanied by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, as they perform feats of survival.

La Nature (2019) was released more than 25 years after his previous film and is made up of found footage sequences of humans versus nature, with much of the footage taken from the internet.

Pelechian has been described as one of the most visionary artists to have emerged from the Soviet Union, with his films “ahead of their time in blending the reality levels of documentary archive and poetic fiction”, said DIFF. Though known in cinephile circles, the festival will offer broader Irish audiences the chance to experience the 84-year-old’s work on the big screen.

Tickets are now on sale at www.diff.ie for the events announced so far. If you have a film fan you need to buy a present for, you can also buy a festival season ticket for €220, which will give access to cinema screenings including one gala or special event, as well as priority booking.  Cinema bundles are also available with five tickets for €45 and 10 tickets for €85 on www.diff.ie

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:21 AM

    Just imagine if somehow the Dart could miraculously make it’s way Dublin Airport

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    Jul 25th 2022, 10:56 AM

    @Lisa Jones: this. I don’t understand why it hasn’t happened, when we’re virtually the only European capital without one.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 12:08 PM

    @Zack Twamley: No we’re not. Not even virtually.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 12:16 PM

    @Ajax Penumbra: well we are one of the few cities with an airport of (in normal times) such high demand without a rail connection.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:24 AM

    There are other counties outside of Dublin, that need an upgrade of Rail services… As we are being constantly told by the Green Party to leave our cars at home and take public transport as we seem most of the public transport is non-existent in the rural areas

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    Jul 25th 2022, 10:12 AM

    @Paul Maguire: yep, Dublin Dublin Dublin.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 10:23 AM

    @Paul Maguire: we need to start at the beginning. Electrifying the railway out to Maynooth and Dunboyne, big population centres, is a first step. It doesn’t preclude other developments.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:30 AM

    @Paul Maguire: They have opened the rail link from Cork to Midleton and I think more stations on the Cork network are in the pipeline but Limerick has huge potential for commuter rail, including a possible link to Shannon, Galway network should be extended to Tuam.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:58 AM

    @Ciaran O’Mara: Think Navan and Naas are much much larger population centres than Maynooth and Dunboyne.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 12:21 PM

    @Paul Maguire: this might shock you.

    For heavy rail infrastructure, Dublin has had nothing but piecemeal development for the last few decades. The last major change was the extension of the dart to Malahide and Greystones which only added a few extra miles. Same with Dunboyne. Other then that we’ve had the existing infrastructure with a few capacity enhancements.

    Outside of Dublin however there has been lots of development including the doubling of track on the cork line, extension of commuter services to Middleton, the western rail corridor and a significant upgrade to the intercity and regional rail stock serving communities throughout the country.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:10 AM

    Still nothing for Navan town?

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:46 AM

    @Séan Ó Nuanáin: and to be fair it wouldnt take that much to run it as far as Navan. Shoud be prioritised.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 12:58 PM

    @Séan Ó Nuanáin: I actually emailed the Department of Transport about getting the train station up and running and i was told that it was not financially viable.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 1:26 PM

    @Daniel Muldoon: fair play to you for being proactive at least!

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:22 AM

    What about a DART+ North West to Donegal

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    Jul 25th 2022, 1:01 PM

    @Diar O Doc: Anything north west of Dublin would be nice but i do agree they should be running a line all the way to Donegal. I live in Cavan and our only options are car or bus (If you can find one where you are going).

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    Jul 25th 2022, 2:47 PM

    @Diar O Doc: Unfortunately the population density outside of the greater Dublin area does not support a high capacity rail traffic network.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 10:08 AM

    Covering all the same stations that are already catered for (Maynooth line)..Struggling to see the huge advantages of this..

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:16 AM

    @James Heffernan: twice the number of trains, bigger trains, electric not diesel, no level crossings, much safer and more efficient signaling, inter-run wth existing dart.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:37 AM

    @Ciaran O’Mara: Sounds like a lot of nothing to me..When taking into account other services around the country the service what we have at the moment is grand..It’s not like we are going from a grand service to a state of the art service, we are going from a grand service to something a small bit better. Not something to get overly excited over..

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:38 AM

    @Ciaran O’Mara: Thanks for highlighting the changes though.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 1:02 PM

    @James Heffernan: Its just to give them good press to make it look like they are actually doing something.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:45 AM

    40km of electricity poles and one new station. They would call that a day’s work in China or Japan.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 10:14 AM

    “End to commuting and congestion”? Have you ever been on a Dart or train in the morning? Stacked tins of sardines have more personal space

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:48 AM

    Its about time they upgraded those lines. The only problem is they are talking about a depot west of Maynooth which means the depot itself will be in Kilcock. So the town of Kilcock will have to deal with all the negetives of a depot and receive none of the positives. I dont see why they cannot provide the service from Kilcock. The population of that town has doubled in the last 10 years and still there is nothing being built in the town only more housing estates. Theres no longer room in the schools there for kids. Why is Ireland so backwards.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 6:34 PM

    @Mark McCormack: then the depot would have to be other side of Kilcock and someone from Enfield would be saying what you’re saying now.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 10:57 AM

    So is navan getting left out again

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    Jul 26th 2022, 2:55 PM

    @Hugh Mc Donnell: and Wicklow/Arklow.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:24 AM

    There are other counties outside of Dublin, that need an upgrade of Rail services… As we are being constantly told by the Green Party to leave ourselves at home and take public transport as we seem most off the public transport is non-existent in the rural areas

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:30 AM

    Coolmine and Clonsilla stations are useless to a large section of D15 unless you have a car. Only bus that even goes near them is the 39 and that’s not a frequent service (and is not timed to work with the train timetable) I’m all for this, but would like to be able to actually get to a train station!

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:51 AM

    I’ll certainly be attending the next FFG golf day,best to get in early…..

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:35 AM

    What about the level crossings at Coolmine and Clonsilla to mention just two, are they going to close them off ???. Ashtown another one.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:51 AM

    @Alan Dignam: Ashton level crossing being replaced with tunnel … Coolmine level crossing being kept

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    Jul 25th 2022, 9:52 AM

    @Alan Dignam: Ashtown for sure is being re-done with new road layout and bridge so there won’t be a level crossing.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 1:44 PM

    @Alan Dignam: it says six level crossings to close so that would be all of them to maynooth. (Ashtown, coolmine, porterstown, clonsilla, barberstown and blakestown.)

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    Jul 25th 2022, 11:49 AM

    what about metro.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 6:36 PM

    @Susan O’flaherty: what about it? This is for the DART?

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    Jul 25th 2022, 3:52 PM

    Said the same thing 20 years ago about Drogheda an Dundalk, population of over 100,000 people still waiting.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 3:22 PM

    Luas to Tallaght spends miles running along the Grand Canal and the up the middle of the Naas Road and then skirts around Kingswood. So I wouldn’t necessarily assume the majority of people would live beside a new track anyway

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    Jul 25th 2022, 8:36 PM

    Might try sorting out what we have at present, packed rolling stock and cannot open the windows. Third World.

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    Jul 25th 2022, 8:34 PM

    There used to be a line from Tullow to Dublin that had a station at the end of the road. Incredible to think that you could live in the countryside and not need a car.

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