Best New Irish Film award at Cork Film Festival: Six nominees profiled
September Says, a documentary on Edna O'Brien, and The Damned are among the nominees for the Best New Irish Film award at Cork International Film Festival.
Aislinn Clarke’s folk-horror features a home care worker who forms a bond with an agoraphobic older woman. As well as the dementia-sufferer’s superstitions and fears about the supernatural world, the film also touches on Ireland’s Church-dominated past.
Barry Keoghan and Colm Meaney are among the familiar faces in this thriller set in rural Ireland. A dispute between two neighbouring farming families escalates with devastating results.
A documentary on Dzogchen Beara, the Buddhist retreat centre near Castletownbere established in 1974 by English couple Peter and Harriet Cornish. A West Cork curiosity for many years, the beautifully-set facility also became a respected centre of Tibetan Buddhist practice. Woven into the story is the unfortunately-familiar tale of the revered spiritual leader who is dogged by accusations of abuse - Tibetan holyman Sogyal Rinpoche was described as “disgraced” by the Dalai Llama before his death in 2019.
Director Sinead O'Shea will introduce the screening of her documentary on the late Irish writer. The film includes an interview filmed with the Country Girls writer shortly before her death in July at the age of 93. Kerry actress Jessie Buckley reads some of O’Brien’s journals, while other contributors include Gabriel Byrne and Doireann Ní Ghríofa.
Adapted from Daisy Johnson’s gothic novel Sisters, the drama revolves around two siblings with a strange dynamic. September Says had its premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
A drama set in 19th-century Ireland when an impoverished village faces the tough choice of rescuing shipwrecked sailors who will undoubtedly make their lives even more difficult. The cast includes British actor Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders, Gangs of London, etc).
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