Writer/director Liam O Mochain's feature film WC follows a day in the life of two toilet attendants . . . an Irish man who has just been released from prison and a Russian girl who has come to Ireland to find a better life.

"I was delighted. Montreal is a great festival with a particularly strong emphasis on world cinema. It will be a great international platform for the film, " said O Mochain. It will be shown in the worldcinema section of the festival, which runs for two weeks from 23 August.

WC premiered at the 2007 Dublin International Film Festival in February where it sold out. It was also shown at the Galway Film Fleadh in July.

Described by O Mochain as a social drama, the film looks at issues such as lowpaid workers, racism, trafficking for the sex trade and social integration, through the interaction between the toilet attendants and the customers they have to deal with.

The film stars O Mochain and Julia Wakeham, from American TV drama The Tudors, as the attendants. A number of other Irish-based actors also star, including Karl Shiels from the film Intermission, Daniel Wu from the short feature Yu Ming is Ainm Dom and Adam Goodwin from The Tudors.

The film was shot over 18 days in 2005, before going in to post-production in 2006 and finally being completed in January 2007. WC is O Mochain's second feature film; his 1999 debut The Book That Wrote Itself featured cameos from George Clooney and Kenneth Branagh and was shown at 20 international film festivals.