Jaws

When Jaws first surfaced in cinemas, it didn’t just terrify audiences, it changed the face of film forever. The original summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s shark tale embedded itself deep in the cultural imagination. To mark its 50th anniversary, Film Ireland’s Conor Bryce asks his fellow contributors to to wade back into the cinematic waters that first turned blood-red in 1975.

Shannon Cotter reports from Cannes, where Mascha Schilinski’s German epic ‘Sound of Falling’ premiered in the Official Selection. Spanning four generations of a single household, this film steers the director into a whole new league.