The IRISHFILMFESTA opening night will kick off with The Guard, winner of the last Galway Film Fleadh and most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of box-office receipts.
Together with the lead actor Brendan Gleeson and the Afro-American actor Don Cheadle some of the most famous faces of Irish cinema (Fionnula Flanagan, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Gary Lydon, Pat Shortt, Lawrence Kinlan, Darren Healy) to create a ‘gangster-western’ full of black Irish humour and twists.