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The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
This documentary observes what it says is a small but growing global pro-nuclear movement that advocates argue could help mitigate the climate crisis.
“Dance Till Dán” offers a portrait of the Rialto-Kilmainham area, delving into personal histories, and impressions of isolation, mortality and self-expression.
The streets of Dublin are overrun with vampires in this horror-comedy that favours big laughs over big scares.
“A plan coming together makes for great cinema,” writes our reviewer, but this crime caper “appeals to that greater pleasure of seeing something come undone”.
This second feature film by Robert Manson is “a fascinating, willfully obtuse story of two travellers on a layover between life and The Great Beyond”.
It’s “the intertwining of humour and heart that makes for such a successful and charming film”.
The headliner film sets the tone for the festival and its overall theme of climate justice, says Sean McCabe. Plus, it’s hugely entertaining, he says.
This documentary following the North Circular Road from Phoenix Park to the Docks is “a remarkable contemporary document of places, people, lives and times”.
“This is the finest Irish language film in recent memory,” writes our reviewer. “Truly, an exceptional and resonant gem.”
Jesse Jones’ film and sculpture installation “The Tower” is due to run this summer at Rua Red, as part of its Magdalene Series.
“Why shouldn’t we be able to bring a story about romance, dramas, thrillers? Why does it always have to be violence?”
This Irish-language drama, the heartbreaking story of one man’s isolation and desolation in rural Ireland, is Ireland’s submission for Best International Feature Film to the 94th Academy Awards.
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