Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Writer, actor and activist John Connors has two directorial efforts in the festival

Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme

Donal Foreman’s film ‘The Image You Missed’ explores Arthur MacCaig's work filming the Troubles

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

In Conversation: Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove, co-artistic directors of Pan Pan Theatre

The avant garde chroniclers of outsider lives met in New York in the 1970s, and it was friends at first sight

Is selling Alec Soth’s ‘intangible’ photographs a cynical ploy to feed the First World’s need to need, or does it reveal something about the parts of us that only art can reach?

The golden age of this ancient enamelling technique is given an exceptional showcase

Its theme is the anxiety of life in the modern world, but the annual festival is rock steady

Film-maker Donal Foreman is hot property right now, thanks to the buzz surrounding his debut feature Out of Here - Irish cinema's first real grapple with post-boom youth culture

American football, medieval and matchmaking festivals taking place this weekend

The influential Irish film-maker brings her new film to the Darklight festival. She talks about her long career, and leaving Ireland for the buzz of the 1970s No Wave scene