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Sunday December 9^th at 5.30pm, Volonté screening room, special screening of Keys to the City, original version without subtitles. The actress Una Kavanagh will be at the screening.

Set in full recession Dublin, the film confronts the subject of desperation, touching the stories of three different groups of people, cut to shreds by the current economic situation, and their forlorn choices in trying to find redemption.

Keys to the City, shot with a Red camera, a small crew of 16 and a reduced budget, assumes an innovative approach to tell its tale – 3 writers, 3 directors, 3 intertwining stories, 3 weeks in shooting.

This is the first feature produced under the auspices of the MSc Digital Feature Film Production, film course born out of the collaboration between Dublin Filmbase and the Staffordshire University in the UK.

The students worked together with renown Irish directors Conor Horgan (One Hundred Mornings), Conor McDermottroe (SwanSong) and James Fair (The Ballad of Des&Mo) for the drafting of the story, and producer John Wallace (Dollhouse, Rewind) helped out with production issues.

The MSc course has been developed last year to answer the emerging need to train young film makers to the challenge of producing features through new digital formats.

The festival will feature a competitive section fully dedicated to short films this year as well. Ten short films in various genres and of various length will take part in the competition.

The jury assessing the short films will include film critics Boris Sollazzo and Daniela Catelli, script analyst Matteo D’Arienzo and Leonardo Paulillo, a lawyer specialized in IP and copyrights.

During the event a short will be screened before every film,  following last year’s successful display. The winner will be announced on the Festival’s closing evening. The director of the best short film will be awarded with a week end in Rome offered by the hotel  Romanico Palace, sponsor  of  IRISHFILMFESTA.

The audience will also be able to choose their favourite short after the screening of all competing shorts, which will take place on Friday 2nd of December at 5.30 p.m.

The IRISHFILMFESTA opening night will kick off with The Guard, winner of the last Galway Film Fleadh and most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of box-office receipts.

Together with the lead actor Brendan Gleeson and the Afro-American actor Don Cheadle some of the most famous faces of Irish cinema (Fionnula Flanagan, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Gary Lydon, Pat Shortt, Lawrence Kinlan, Darren Healy) to create a ‘gangster-western’ full of black Irish humour and twists.

Speaker: Andrea Binelli.
Carlo Cosolo, translator, dialogue adaptation and dubbing director, will attend the conference.

Friday 26th November at 6 pm., Andrea Binelli, lecturer in English and Translation at the University of Trent, will give a talk on Italian dubbing of Irish films.

Professor Binelli will illustrate how the Italian film industry, because it underrates Italian audiences, often omits important meaningful elements during the translation and adaptation work carried out prior to dubbing. He will also point out how, thanks to the omission of similar elements, the overall impact of a film can be irremediably weakened.

Entrance free.