Defying prejudices about disabilities, he grows up to be one of Italy's most gifted sound engineers.

Two of Ireland's greatest international stars, Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, go head to head in Seraphim Falls, which closes the Fleadh next Sunday. It's a primal revenge thriller set against a spectacular Wild West landscape of snow-swept mountains and vast sweltering desert, with Neeson as a humourless and unforgiving colonel in relentless pursuit of a maverick loner, played with roguish charm by Brosnan.

Lenny Abrahamson's Garage, acclaimed at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, with Pat Shortt giving a wonderful Beckett-like performance as a childlike smalltown misfit, heads a promising line-up of Irish premieres that also includes Marian Quinn's 32a, Tom Collins's bilingual Kings, Robert Quinn's Irish-language Clay, Brendan Grant's Tonight Is Cancelled, Ross Whitaker and Liam Nolan's Saviours and Brian Launder's Bitterness.

Michael Winterbottom confronts disturbing moral dilemmas raised by the so-called war on terror in A Mighty Heart, with Angelina Jolie as the widow of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and decapitated on video in Pakistan.

War Tapes, showing the war in Iraq through film shot by US soldiers, heads a challenging documentary section while Volker Schlondorff, a German director whose movies unflinchingly dissect the post-Nazi Germany that emerged from the second world war, is honoured with a retrospective.

There are also special tribute programmes featuring the work of Fionnuala Flanagan, Terry George and Jeremy Irons.

IRELAND: TOP FIVE MOVIES (29 June - 1 July)
1 (1) Shrek 3 (Chris Miller/Raman Hui) 2,076,711 ( 3,174,494 to date)
2 (3) Ocean's 13 (Steven Soderbergh) 160,229 ( 2,291,104 )
3 (2) Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Tim Story) 143,182 ( 1,425,135)
4 (-) Hostel 2 (Eli Roth) 112,233 (-)
5(4) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski) 55,844 ( 4,363,664)

Compiled from Sunday Tribune industry sources

US: TOP FIVE MOVIES (29 June - 1 July)

1 (-) Ratatouille (Brad Bird) $47.2m (-)
2(-) Live Free Or Die Hard (Len Wiseman) $33.2m (�48.2m)
3(1) Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac) $15.1m ($60.6m to date)
4(2) 1408 (Mikael Hafstrom) $10.6m ($40.4m)
5(3) Fantastic Four: Rise Of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story) $9m (�114.8m)