Rupert Everett Among Jury Members

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. Over the weekend, the family gathers to celebrate the new marriage, but mother and daughters alike are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, all with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.

The festival will close with The Penguin Lessons by Peter Cattaneo. Based on the true story of Tom Michell and his memoir of the same name, the film follows Tom, a disillusioned Englishman who heads to Argentina to work for a prestigious boarding school as an English teacher. In light of the political turmoil taking place around and his classroom of unteachable adolescents, Tom expects that his life cannot get any more hectic – that is, until he takes a trip to neighboring Uruguay and is unintentionally roped into caring for a penguin he rescues from an oil-slicked beach.

The festival’s gala screening will be Urchin by Harris Dickinson. Scroll down for the full festival lineup. 

Sections :  

Stand by Me  

Grow, John McPhail 

Lollipop, Daisy-May Hudson 

My Father’s shadow, Akinola Davies Jr 

Testimony, Aoife Kelleher Urchin, Harris Dickinson