See the Darklight

Darklight Film Festival returns for its 15th year next week, and like a true teenager it has moved out of home and is heading for new digs in venues around Smithfield, Dublin 1, with a weekend of screenings, art, debates, live music, parties, workshops and street games.

This year's festival is focussing on forward-thinking film, including Joshua Oppenheimer's disturbing Oscar-nominated and Bafta-winning documentary The Art of Killing (pictured), which shines a light on military mass murder in Indonesia in the 1960s. This will be followed by a Q&A session with Oppenheimer.

Other events include the wonderful Future Shorts' selection of international shorts; the Darklight symposium featuring director Lenny Abrahamson and Anna Higgs of Film 4; an interactive game of chase with theatre company Make and Do, and Cinemobile will create an outdoor cinema in Smithfield Square to show game-changing movies such as Goodfellas . There's also a one-off chance for an Irish audience to watch David Wnendt's Wetlands .
Darklight runs from April 24th to 27th, see darklight.ie. Rachel Collins