Cian Geoghegan is a writer and director from Maynooth, Ireland. His latest short, Childhood, follows the story of a former child soldier who has to deal with his trauma as his son reaches the age at which he was captured. The film was made with the support of Kildare County Council's Short Grass Film Bursary, and won VOID Magazine's Visual Storytelling of the Year Award in 2025.
Cian Geoghegan delves into Steven Spielberg's personal drama. The new film from Steven Spielberg, inarguably the most populist, mainstream filmmaker in the history of the medium, occupies a bizarre middle-space in the public sphere. Its autobiographical content, sure to be misconstrued as navel-gazing by cynical punters, locks it...
Cian Geoghegan tells Film Ireland about his short film System, which screens at this year' Galway Film Fleadh. When Direct Provision was first introduced in Ireland, the time an asylum seeker was to spend awaiting approval of their claim was said to be a period of no more than six months. Jerome liv
Cian Geoghegan finds everywhere the same.
Cian Geoghegan gets under the cheap laughs.
Cian Geoghegan checks out Bryan Fogel's documentary that follows the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's effort to control international dissent.
Cian Geoghegan puts on his Apollo 11 jumper for Gregory Monro's documentary about the film director Stanley Kubrick. The life of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was once shrouded in mystery. Tabloid journalists characterised him as a reclusive hermit, to little response from the man himself. Film audiences only caught...