This year’s programme travels from Luxembourg to Bangladesh, from Mexico to China, and back home to Ireland.

At Trinity College Dublin

• Mon 9 Nov, 19:00: Opening night with the Irish premiere of CHILD by Cyrus Neshvad, Luxembourg’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards
• Tue 10 Nov, 19:00: About My Mom by Soner Sert (Irish premiere)
• Wed 11 Nov, 19:00: Authentic Worlds, a free production design masterclass with BAFTA and IFTA-winning production designer Anna Rackard
• Thu 12 Nov, 19:00: Glorious Summer by Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak (Irish premiere, shot on 16mm)
• Fri 13 Nov, 19:00: International Shorts, seven films from Japan, China, the USA, Poland, the Netherlands and Canada
• Sat 14 Nov, 09:00: New Irish Shorts, thirteen new Irish films, seven of them by student filmmakers

Online, 9 to 15 November

Most of this year’s films stream on Silk Road ON DEMAND, including features and documentaries you can only see online: The Blind Girl and an Elephant, winner of a Golden Goblet at the Shanghai International Film Festival; Those Who Whistle After Dark, winner of Best Actress at the Istanbul Film Festival; A Bigger Place; Budapest Diaries; and Texas Ollie. Available to watch in Ireland.

See the full programme and book tickets

The masterclass is supported by Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland. Screenings hosted at Trinity College Dublin. Festival poster by João Fonseca.