As she gets ready to present her film in Cork, Manal Issa is doing her best not to get swept up in the hype around her as one of French cinema’s brightest new stars, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

In the US, France and Britain, extremely rich, middle-aged and elderly men, in classically-cut, expensive suits, keep telling the ‘ordinary folk’ that we must attack Syria to punish the Al Assad regime for crimes against humanity.