Dingle Film Festival has announced the first details of its 2026 programme, with actor Timothy V. Murphy among the guests set to attend the three-day event in November.
The festival returns to venues across Dingle, Co Kerry, from 13 to 15 November, with organisers saying they received a record number of film submissions for its fourth edition.
The programme will include Irish, Irish-language and international features, documentaries and short films, alongside talks, workshops and masterclasses for filmmakers and actors.
Murphy, whose credits include Sons of Anarchy, True Detective and The Lone Ranger, will take part in an in-conversation event with RTÉ presenter Seán Mac an tSíthigh on Saturday 14 November.
The opening film will be Grant Gee's Everybody Digs Bill Evans, starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Barry Ward, Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf. The screening at An Díseart on Friday 13 November will be followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Mark O’Halloran.
Other films announced include Lance Daly’s Trad, starring Megan Nic Fhionnghaile, Aidan Gillen, Sarah Greene and Peter Coonan, and Frank Berry’s The Lost Children of Tuam, starring Monica Dolan, Andrew Bennett and Ian McElhinney.
Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers, featuring Michaela Coel, Ian McKellen, Jessica Gunning and James Corden, will also screen during the festival.
The documentary programme includes Garry Keane’s A Quiet Love, Ian Thuillier’s Guggi, featuring contributions from Bono, Gavin Friday and Jim Sheridan, and Gar O’Rourke’s The Siege of Paradise.
The festival’s industry programme will feature sessions with O’Halloran, screenwriter Ailbhe Keogan, filmmaker Maurice Sweeney and producer Ned Dowd, while a bilingual panel will examine funding and opportunities for Irish-language filmmaking.
Head of TG4 Deirdre Ní Chóistín, TG4 commissioning editor Máire Ní Chonlain, RTÉ Irish Language Group Head Niamh Ní Churnáin and Screen Ireland development executive Molly O’Driscoll are among those due to take part.
The family programme will also include Irish-language versions of The Highway Rat and Zog.
Further films are due to be announced ahead of the festival.
