Irish actors, directors and filmmakers feature prominently as the 70th BFI London Film Festival presents 251 titles from 88 countries.
The festival opens with Andrew Scott's Elsinore at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall and runs from October 7 to 18.
According to RTE, Scott plays Scottish actor Ian Charleson as he prepares to perform Hamlet at Britain's National Theatre while seriously ill with AIDS.
Simon Stone directs the film from a screenplay by Stephen Beresford.
Scott appears alongside Olivia Colman, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn and Luke Thompson, and is also scheduled to take part in a Screen Talk during the festival.
Animation, Documentary and Directorial Debuts
Irish talent extends across the program, including Barry Keoghan in Kim Bartley's Lemonade.
The film follows Danny, played by Lewis Brophy, as he reconnects with a social worker who previously tried to help him, and receives its UK premiere after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Cartoon Saloon, the Kilkenny-based animation studio, returns with Julián, directed by Louise Bagnall.
The feature follows a young boy spending the summer with his grandmother in Brooklyn and becoming fascinated by the city's Mermaid Parade.
Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's Act 3 is one of 10 films competing for the festival's Best Film Award.
According to RTE, the Irish-UK documentary examines ageing, family history and the filmmakers' decades-long personal and creative partnership.
Sinéad O'Shea's All About The Money focuses on Fergie Chambers, an heir to one of America's wealthiest families who rejects the values in which he was raised and finances an anti-capitalist collective.
The documentary The Slightest Touch follows the friendship between Colin Farrell and disability campaigner Emma Fogarty, who lives with Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Their journey includes the 2024 Dublin Marathon, where Farrell pushed Fogarty in her wheelchair for the final four kilometers.
Saoirse Ronan makes her directorial debut with Paper Plane, a short she also wrote.
The film centers on a defiant girl whose silent protest forces her mother to make a choice.
Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine is among the festival's gala presentations, starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits and Parker Posey.
The film is scheduled for a November 6 theatrical release, according to Irish News.
Patrick Hough's Landscapes of Shame is competing for the Short Film Award and appears in the Tracing Islands strand.
The festival describes films in the strand as works that "invite reflection on places that remember, histories that persist and cinema's role in unearthing hidden relationships between ecology, extractive capitalism and collective survival".
Irish News also reported that Mark Cousins is presenting The Story of Documentary Film, including a feature-length episode focused on the 1990s.
Its listed running time is 960 minutes, while two festival entries received support from Northern Ireland Screen.
