Aoife O’Neill was at the 2020 Toronto Irish Film Festival and caught Tom Burke’s documentary about the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own Northern Irish towns.
June Butler reviews A Girl from Mogadishu, Mary McGuckian’s portrayal of Ifrah Ahmed’s campaign to end female genital mutilation after fleeing war-torn Somalia in 2006.
Sarah Cullen takes a look at Tomás Ó Súilleabháin’s Irish-language feature ‘Arracht’, which is Ireland’s entry for the 2021 Oscars’ best international feature film category.
Sandra Costello marvels at ‘Irish Destiny’ made soon after the events it depicted. The first fiction film dealing with the War of Independence in Ireland, a 35mm print of the film was restored and repatriated from the US by the IFI in the early 1990s.
Marija Laugalyte reflects on ‘The Castle’, Lina Lužytė’s psychological coming-of-age story which offers rare insights into the lives of economic migrants in Ireland.
Earlier this year Aoife O’Neill attended the Toronto Irish Film Festival and was kind enough to send us on a review of the second Shorts Programme.
Sandra Costello spent some time in a Cork City pub on Christmas eve, floating over Glengarriff, hanging over the Atlantic in Dursey and dropping into an 18th-century field in West Cork.
Daniel Kiniry joins the Peloton and says “chapeau” to ‘The Racer’ from Directeur sportif Kieron J. Walsh.
Sarah Cullen reviews Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s story of revenge centering on a young woman searching for her biological mother.
Seán Crosson reviews Philip Doherty’s biblical black comedy about a prodigal son returning to his hometown to seek salvation for his sins.