Ondine is Neil Jordan’s first movie since 2002 and will be the centrepiece of the Jameson Dublin Film Festival.

Colin Farrell won an IFTA for Actor in a Lead Role in Ondine.

It will get its European premiere at the gala in Dublin’s Savoy cinema at the festival’s gala opening on February 18th with the director and star Colin Farrell attending.

The film is set in Cork and centres on the relationship between a fisherman, played by Farrell who nets a beautiful sea nymph who changes lives in his Irish town. Ondine is released in Ireland on March 26 and also stars Stephen Rea, Tony Curran and Alicja Bachleda.

Watch the trailer and listen out for Farrell’s country accent!

What Neil Jordan said:

“During the writers’ strike a Hollywood project fell through. I went back to Ireland, where I have a house in West Cork and wrote this fairy-tale, which could be shot entirely within a radius of five miles from where I live.

“About a fisherman, who pulled up a living girl in his net.

“His disabled daughter, who invented stories about her. These stories feed on local legends – sea creatures, seal creatures, selkies. How they only have a certain time on land. How they fall in love with their rescuer. How they can make a wish come true.

“how the sea always calls them back. Much of what the girl invents turns out to be true, but never in ways she expected. Ths love story, in which real human beings insist on turning their lives into a fairy tale. Because reality is too hard, maybe. Because that is what we love to do, have to do, maybe...