Film

The closing weekend of this year's Cork Film Festival offers an attractive bill of international and Irish fare. In the former category are films as diverse as the latest Ron Howard comedy, EdTV, with Matthew McConaughey as a slacker who finds himself the subject and star of America's favourite TV programme, and The Cup, a Bhutan-Australia co-production telling the story of a 14-year-old Tibetan monk determined to see the World Cup football semi-final. Films of Irish interest include Flick, Fintan Connolly's low-budget debut feature about a twentysomething drifter faced with some hard choices; Luke, Sinead O'Brien's documentary portrait of musician Luke Kelly (right), and the latest round of short films produced under the Film Board/RTE Short Cuts scheme. There's a local connection to the British film Janice Beard: 45 wpm, which stars Cork actress Eileen Walsh as a female Walter Mitty working as an office temp in London, and the festival closes tomorrow evening with the rock 'n' roll comedy Sugar Town, the latest film from director Allison Anders, who is the subject of this year's festival retrospective.