The 50th Cork Film Festival is into its closing weekend, but the guests are still arriving.

The subject of the retrospective programme at Cork this year, prolific producer Steve Woolley will be at Cork Opera House tonight to introduce his first film as a director, Stoned, dealing with the life and death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones. Woolley will participate in a public interview, which I will conduct at noon tomorrow in the Crawford gallery.

Meanwhile, Irish director Billy O'Brien will introduce his eerie rural horror movie, Isolation, which has its world premiere at the Gate cinema tonight. From Mexico, director Carlos Reygadas and actress Anapola Mushkafi will be present for tomorrow's screening of Battle in Heaven, and British director Julian Jarrold will introduce his movie Kinky Boots later tomorrow night.

On Sunday night director John Hillcoat, who made Ghosts of the Civil Dead, will be at Cork Opera House for the closing gala screening of The Proposition. The Australian western, scripted by Nick Cave and starring Guy Pearce, will be shown after the festival awards ceremony.