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Dublin International Film Festival early programme announcement

DIFF 2024 is only 6 weeks away and we know that you are all patiently waiting for our programme to be revealed. Well we have a treat in store, with an early programme announcement. Drumroll, please...

Introducing our brand-new African Season, a magnificent line-up of films from emerging film talent across Africa. We also are delighted to announce our series of 6 Shorts Programmes alongside the DIFF Film Tour films and venues.

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Featuring a magnificent line-up of films from emerging film talent from a number of countries including Sudan, Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia, among the highly anticipated titles making their Irish premieres are the hotly tipped for Oscar glory

Four Daughters, the box office success Goodbye Julia and the Sundance winning Mami Wata.

Other highlights include rapper Baloji’s directorial debut Omen; Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner Hounds; Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s beautiful and rich fable Banel & Adama and the deeply moving coming of age drama Àma Gloria.

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From the African season, Mama Wati will feature as one of the three film programmes of Festival titles in the annual DIFF Film Tour, alongside French comedy drama Toni, en famille starring Camille Cottin (Call My Agent), and a season of DIFF 2024 curated international short films. The tour will visit the film societies and arts venues nationwide with as ever many of the screenings being accompanied by their filmmakers.

The tour will travel to Club Scannán Sailearna, Inverin, Co Galway; Galway Film Society @ Palas, Galway City; Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford; Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow; Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge and Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.

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One of the most popular Festival events, the diverse and captivating season of Shorts will again showcase the best of international and Irish emerging talent with six curated screening programmes of Short Films being shown during the Festival – three curated by DIFF programmers from submisssions; two curated from Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann’s Focus, Framework and Short Stories funding schemes, and the winners of the Virgin Media Discovers Short Film competition.

The three DIFF curated screenings of 24 short films were selected from 756 submissions from 16 countries stretching from Japan in the east to the USA in the west, and from the northernmost reaches of Norway to the southernmost point in Uruguay.