Details of the fifth Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, the last to be programmed by our colleague Michael Dwyer, have begun to emerge.

Among the Irish features to be screened we find John Carney's Once, in which Glen Hansard plays a love-struck busker, Niall Heery's lavishly praised Small Engine Repair and Robert Quinn's Cré na Cille, the first Irish-language feature to screen at DIFF. Festival audiences will also be able to get a glance at some intriguing pictures that have yet to secure distribution in this territory.

These include Woody Allen's Scoop (is he slipping off the radar again?) and Colour Me Kubrick, in which John Malkovich plays an eccentric (Malkovich? surely not) impersonating the great director.

Just as intriguing as these is the prospect of a screening of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (above) accompanied by the innovative collective 3epkano. The festival runs from February 16th to February 25th. www.dubliniff.com