British actor Rupert Everett will chair the jury for the 36th edition of the Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film, which takes place this Autumn.

Everett is a BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated actor whose screen credits include The Madness of King George (1994), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Shrek 2 (2004) and Napoleon (2023). His onstage work includes The Judas Kiss on the West End in 2013, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the 2020 Broadway revival.

Everett's work as a writer includes his Sunday Times bestseller memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (2004), and its Sheridan Morley prize-winning sequel, Vanished Years (2012). He also wrote and directed The Happy Prince (2018), an account of author Oscar Wilde's later years.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous dévoiler la nouvelle affiche du Dinard Festival du Film Britannique & Irlandais pour la 36e édition ! 🎬

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— Dinard Festival du Film Britannique & Irlandais (@DinardFilm) July 2, 2025

The Dinard Festival will run from 1-5 October in the North-Western French town of Dinard. The festival has historically provided a platform for low-budget, independent British and Irish films. Previous winners at the festival have gone on to achieve international recognition, including Shallow Grave (1994), The Full Monty (1997) and Billy Elliot (2000).

Everett joins the ranks of international personalities from French and British cinema who have chaired the jury in the past. Previous jury chairs include Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Birkin.

It is expected that the festival will showcase approximately thirty feature films and twenty short films, from which the jury will select the winner of the festival's Golden Hitchcock award for best feature. Several audience awards will also be contested at the festival. The winners of these will be decided by the spectators at the festival. It is estimated that 30,000 people will visit Dinard for the event.

Dinard is a commune on the Côte d'Émeraude of Brittany in France. The film festival was founded by Thierry de la Fournière in 1989.