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"We have a duty to use the time and safety that we have to do everything we can."
Filmmaker Daniele Rugo reflects on the responsibility of documentary filmmaking in the face of genocide & the importance of preserving a record of Gaza.
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What happens when a group of YouTubers go searching for ghosts and find something far worse?
Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror explores South Korean horror with Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) with guest contributor Thomas Caffrey.
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Irish writer Adam Cullen's Echo Chamber is an anime-inspired psychological horror feature in the inaugural Nordic Genre Lab at Finnish Film Affair. Blending prestige drama & hand-drawn body horror, it sees 2 estranged sisters navigating grief.
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All About The Money is an investigative journey into the power and peril of extreme wealth — and what happens when one man decides to turn his privilege into revolution.
Sinéad O'Shea's latest Documentary is in cinemas 30th October with Q&As at @LightHouseD7 30th & 31st.
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Recorded live at Dinard British & Irish Film Festival, in this podcast we chat to ERIC LAGESSE, CEO of PYRAMIDE Films about his passion for storytelling, financing, the French film industry & bringing Irish films to international audiences.
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A savage beast, sinister secrets & martial arts in powdered wigs? Only one film could bring that together.
Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror ventures into Christophe Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), a gloriously over-the-top Gothic horror.
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Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror dives into Michael Anderson’s Orca (1977), a wonderfully strange aquatic thriller that takes the Jaws formula in a much more tragic direction.
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"This is a heady trip, mixing laugh-out-loud comedy with some truly moving moments of cinema."
Set against the backdrop of 1994 Northern Ireland, Kieron J. Walsh's Skintown won the Hitchcock Audience Award for Best Feature at Dinard.
Mick Jordan reviews.
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Think children’s films can’t be properly terrifying? Today’s pick for Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror proves otherwise, as Nicolas Roeg’s The Witches (1990) unleashes one of cinema’s most unforgettable nightmares.
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"What makes the brief running time so capacious is that much of the storytelling is visual, an exercise in show-don’t-tell."
Peter Lonsdale explores how Dolores Rice crafts a haunting portrait of trauma, shame and resilience in her short film Fat.
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The vampires are back, and they’ve brought even better wardrobes. Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror turns to Tommy Lee Wallace’s Fright Night Part II (1988), a stylish, blood-soaked sequel that knows exactly how much fun the undead can be.
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“You keep going, and you have to be stubbornly in favour.”
Dami Akinniranye speaks with Eamon Ryan and filmmaker Neasa Ní Chianáin about the challenges of climate politics and bringing Forever Is Now to the screen.
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Beneath the streets of Paris lies a labyrinth of bones, ancient secrets and something far more sinister. Guest contributor Carmen Bryce takes us underground for Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror with John Erick Dowdle’s As Above, So Below (2014).
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"It serves as a call to action rather than resignation."
Rachel Walshe chats with director Ronan O’Leary and writer and star Gerard Daly about the origins of A Sunken Place & the challenges of bringing such a complex story to the screen.
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Guest contributor Oscar Meagher brings gloriously bonkers creature-feature chaos to Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror with TerrorVision (1986), in which an intergalactic monster is accidentally beamed into a family home via satellite dish.
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"The narrative itself is as well stocked as a bank vault with £26 million inside."
Niall McCloskey cashes in for Stephen Burke's latest feature.
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Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween Horror turns to Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun (2024).
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the film follows Magpie, a young woman trapped in an abusive marriage within an isolated religious community.
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"An intriguing look behind the curtain of global politics."
Rachel Walshe gets political in her review of Forever is Now, Neasa Ní Chianáin’s latest documentary.
In cinemas this weekend for Climate Action Week.
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31 Days of Halloween Horror: guest writer Éabha Leech turns her attention to Goran Stolevski’s haunting folk-horror You Won’t Be Alone (2022).
In 19th-century Macedonia, young Nevena is transformed into a witch & left to discover humanity for herself.
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"We hear about the fierceness of spirit it takes to persevere when you grow up on the sidelines, excluded from the games everyone else gets to play."
Judy Goulet joins the scrum for her review of TRY!
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