The 16th Dinard Film Festival, the most well known and popular British Film Festival in France, finished on the 9th of October.

X-Mass the short film directed by Scott Flockhart won the British Council Entente Cordiale Award for best short film in a competition of films from the National Film and Television School in England and and France's FEMIS.

Also picking up awards were Brad McGann's In My Fathers Den, which won the jury prize, the audience prize and the Prix Kodak award for cinematography, Festival written and directed by Annie Griffin won best screenplay and Charles Dance's Ladies in Lavender won the Coup de Coeur an award which comes with the promise of distribution for his film in 40 French cinemas.

Still from Stoned, directed by Stephen Woolley

Films screened in Dinard included:

In competition
Colour me Kubrick, Dir: Brian Cook (France/UK)
Gypo, Dir: Jan Dunn
Opal Dreams, Dir: Peter Cattaneo
Stoned, Dir: Stephen Woolley
Festival, Dir: Anne Griffin
In My Father’s Den, Dir: Brad McGann

Previews
Bye Bye Blackbird, Dir: Robinson Savary
The Descent, Dir: Neil Marshall
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, Dir: Thomas Clay
Ladies in Lavender, Dir: Charles Dance
Love and Hate, Dir: Dominic Savage
On a Clear Day, Dir: Gaby Dellal
Shooting Dogs, Dir: Michael Caton-Jones
Short Order, Dir: Anthony Byrne
Wah Wah, Dir: Richard E. Grant (UK/Fr/S Africa)
Yes, Dir: Sally Potter (opening film)

The festival prgramme also included tributes to Neil Jordan and Nicolas Roeg.