Ciara Creedon reviews an Irish-Belgian co-production adaptation of fantasy author Catherine S McMullen’s haunting, visionary drama.
Loretta Goff was at the Cork Film Festival’s screening of short films produced under Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland’s Focus Shorts and Real Shorts schemes.
Emma Keyes checks out a programme of Cork-themed films from collections at the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Emma Keyes takes in Colin Hickey’s dialogue-free, poetic feature.
Emma Keyes takes a look at Adrian Duncan and Feargal Ward’s ‘Floating Structures’, a flâneur-like quest to consider the gravity-defying mysteries of structural engineering.
Emma Keyes was at the Cork Film Festival to see ‘Lost Lives’, Dermot Lavery and Michael Hewitt’s film adapted from the book that aims to document the stories of the men, women and children who have died as a result of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Julie Crowley was at the Cork Film Festival to see Alan Gilsenan’s documentary biopic of Liam Clancy, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.
Kimberly Reyes checks in on new Irish comedy-drama ‘The Last Right’, Aoife Crehan’s feature debut, which premiered at the Cork Film Festival.
Aoife O’Ceallachain went along to the Irish Shorts 4: Finding Their Place to find some great filmmakers and films with characters seeking acceptance, vindication, assurance or literally accommodation.
Caleb Cotter checks out Sweetness in the Belly, a Canadian-Irish co-production of an adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s bestseller, directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.