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Rupert Everett has been named among the competition jury members at this year’s Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film.

Everett will be joined by Rachida Brakni, Claire Chazal, Reda Kateb, Molly Dineen, Jennifer Saunders, and Ruby Wax.

Titles playing in competition include My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies, Mr Burton by Marc Evans, The Damned by Thordur Palsson, The Thing with Feathers by Dylan Southern, and Dragonfly by Paul Andrew Williams.

The festival’s opening film will be Kristin Scott Thomas’s My Mother’s Wedding. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, and Emily Beecham. The film follows three sisters who return to their childhood home for a momentous weekend: the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana Frost. The three daughters are from very different walks of life: Georgina is a hospice nurse; Victoria is a Hollywood star; and Katherine is a Captain in the Royal Navy.

UK actors, filmmakers and writersRupert Everett, Jennifer Saunders and Ruby Wax will be among the jury members of theDinard Festival of British & Irish Film, which will take place from October 1-5 in Brittany, France.

They will be joined by UK documentary filmmaker Molly Dineen,French actors Rachida Brakni and Reda Kateb, and French journalist Claire Chazal.

Akinola Davies’ My Father’s Shadow and Dylan Southern’s The Thing With Feathers are among the five films playing in competition.

Davies’ My Father’s Shadow world premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and marks his feature debut. The semi-autobiographical tale set over...

Akinola Davies’ My Father’s Shadow and Dylan Southern’s The Thing With Feathers are among the five films playing in competition at the upcoming Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film, which runs from October 1-5 in Brittany, France.

Davies’ My Father’s Shadow world premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and marks his feature debut. The semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian capital Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, with Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù in the leading role. Mubi will release in UK-Ireland, North America and Turkey, and Le Pacte will release in France.

Brendan Canty’s Christy won the best Irish film prize at the Galway Film Fleadh, as the 37th edition of the Irish festival drew to a close yesterday (July 13).

Christy is based on Canty’s short film of the same name and follows a 17-year-old after he’s thrown out of his suburban foster home and moves in with his estranged older half-brother in Cork.

Danny Power, Emma Willis and Chris Walley star in the UK-Ireland co-production between Marina Brackenbury and Wayward Films’ Meredith Duff, with Rory Gilmartin of London and Dublin-based Sleeper Films.

BBC Film and Screen Ireland supported the project,...

All six of Connery’s ‘official’ 007 films will be screened in 4K restorations, with big names including Andrea Riseborough, Peter Dinklage and Renée Zellweger also on show

Andrea Riseborough, Peter Dinklage, Renée Zellweger and – inevitably – the late Sean Connery will be among the big names on show at the Edinburgh international film festival, which announced its programme today.

A clutch of world premieres at the festival includes a remake of trash classic The Toxic Avenger, starring Dinklage alongside Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood and Julia Davis, while Riseborough appears opposite Brenda Blethyn in Paul Andrew Williams’s Tribeca festival hit Dragonfly. Zellweger appears in a behind-the-scenes role, with the world premiere of her directorial debut, an animated short film called They. And in what appears something of a coup, the festival will screen 4K restorations of Connery’s six “official” James Bond films: Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball,...

It’s always risky to mix genres, but some movies pull off the trick with more skill than others. Dragonfly, which had its world premiere this week in Tribeca, starts as an intimate character drama, with two Oscar-nominated British actresses — Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough — at the top of their game. (They were given a joint acting award by one of the juries at the festival.) Paul Andrew Williams’ movie unfolds at a fairly leisurely but rewarding pace until an event occurs that unhinges one of the characters and turns the movie closer to the horror genre, with a blood-splattered finale. Reactions will surely be mixed about this surprise tonal shift, but there is no doubt that the film sticks in the memory.

Blethyn plays Elsie, an elderly woman living in a drab housing complex and tended to by caregivers who do the bare minimum to meet her needs. Her...

A challenging film to both review and market without spoiling, Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly largely succeeds because it never quite telegraphs where it’s going until its third act. My thoughts are with the distributor that eventually picks up this film and has to decide what kind of trailer to cut for a work that largely spends its runtime as a straightforward social-realist story centered on the loneliness of neighbors. Those familiar with the output of writer-director Williams (including Bull and London to Brighton) will know better than to expect a traditional drama about working-class England in the vein of contemporary Mike Leigh and Ken Loach––even if Williams certainly can pull it off as well as those masters for his first half.

Of course, excellent casting helps, and Dragonfly works well because of the sympathetic performance of its leads, including the great Brenda Blethyn (perhaps best-known stateside for her...

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the winners of its audience and jury prizes for the 24th installment. Charliebird, the story of a bond between a music therapist at a children's hospital and one of her patients from director Libby Ewing, took the top honor in the U.S. Narrative Feature competition.

Also taking top prizes were the winner of Best International Narrative Feature, Happy Birthday, from Egypt, and winner of Best Documentary Feature, Natchez, from director Suzannah Herbert.

Natchez focuses on the American South and the region's relationship to its Antebellum history through the lens of one town in Mississippi.

An examination of childhood and class in Egypt, Happy Birthday follows an 8-year-old maid as she tries to ensure that her employer's daughter has a perfect birthday celebration.

You can find a complete list of the winners from the 24th Tribeca Film Festival below.

U.S. Narrative Competition

Founders Award for Best U.

Charliebird, Happy Birthday and Natchez took top honors Thursday in the U.S. Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary competitions, respectively, at the 24th annual Tribeca Festival.

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the Performance Award for international narrative feature Dragonfly, leading a strong showing by women across the majority of categories at the ceremony held today at Racket NYC. Winners also highlighted first-time feature directors and a notable presence of Latin American cinema throughout the competition.

The festival wraps on June 15 in NYC.

“Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” said fest director and SVP Programming Cara Cusumano. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

All winning films in the U.S. Narrative category are first-time directors including Libby Ewing for Charliebird; Cristian Carretero...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival has announced this year’s award winners.

Charliebird, Happy Birthday and Natchez took the top awards in the U.S. narrative, international narrative and documentary competitions, respectively.

Happy Birthday won three awards in total including best screenplay in an international narrative feature and the Nora Ephron award for first-time director Sara Goher.

Natchez also received special jury mentions for cinematography and editing. And Esta Isla won two awards — best new narrative director for Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina and best cinematography in a U.S. narrative feature — and received a special jury mention for best U.S. narrative feature.

In addition to the Founders Award for best U.S. narrative feature, Charliebird‘s Gabriela Ochoa Perez won best performance in a U.S. narrative feature.

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the performance award for Dragonfly. All winning films in the U.S. narrative category were from first-time directors,...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival has announced its jury winners. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” leads the awards, taking the top honor in the U.S. Narrative section. “Happy Birthday” and “Natchez” were both recognized in the respective International Narrative and Documentary competitions, with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn sharing the Performance Award for “Dragonfly.”

“Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” Tribeca Festival director and SVP of programming Cara Cusumano said. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

The Tribeca 2025 awards championed first-time directors such as Ewing (“Charliebird”), Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (“Esta Isla”) with the Best New Narrative Director Award, Isabel Hagen (“On a String”) with the Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature award, Walter Thompson-Hernandez (“Kites”) with the Viewpoints Award,...

The Tribeca Festival 2025 has announced the complete list of winners for each of its competition categories. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” won the Founders Award for Best U.S. narrative feature, Sarah Goher’s “Happy Birthday” won best international narrative feature and Suzannah Herbert’s “Natchez” won for best documentary feature.

Awards were given out for the following categories: U.S. narrative, international narrative, documentary, viewpoints, the Albery Maysles award, the Nora Ephron award, short film, best new directors, storytelling, games, AT&T untold stories and Tribeca X.

“Every year at Tribeca, we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” Cara Cusumano, Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming said in a statement. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

The winners of the audience award, which are determined by audience votes throughout the festival,...

The 24th annual Tribeca Film Festival 2025 kicked off Wednesday, June 4, with the world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Screening at the Beacon Theatre, the HBO original two-part documentary offers an expansive look into the legendary artist’s life, tracing the love, loss, and personal struggles that profoundly influenced his songwriting.

The opening night of the fest was attended by the film’s producer Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Mariska Hargitay, Whoopi Goldberg, Mira Sorvino, Gary Goetzman, Steve Zahn, Rick Gomez, and many more. Joel, who is recovering from an illness, did not attend tonight.

The festival’s feature film slate includes Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer starring in Tow; The Best You Can starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick marking their first co-starring roles in 20 years; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going to be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

Tribeca Festival 2025 is out with the slate of documentary, narrative and animated features for its 24th edition, a intriguing lineup showcasing music legends, key cultural figures and stories from emerging and established voices. The fest runs June 4-15 in New York City.

Films includes Rose Byrne, Demi Lovato and Octavia Spencer in Tow; The Best You Can with Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going To Be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

The world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes will open the festival, which again leans into music documentaries and live acts, including the world premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album Something Beautiful, followed by a sit-down with Cyrus. Counting Crows and Culture Club, Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will perform after their films world premiere. Members of Metallica, Depeche Mode,...