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Báite
(The Drowned)
Dir. Ruán Magan, 94mins
Irish language cinema is experiencing a renaissance since An CailÃn Cuain broke internationally. This new film from Ruán Magan, a long time collaborator with his brother Manchán, maintains the standard.
In a Gaeltacht village proprietor Peggy Casey (Eleanor O’Brien) prepares for a busy weekend in the pub. But when a body is found in the receding waters of the lake, the community is deeply unsettled. Dublin Detective Sergeant Frank Ryan (Moe Dunford) arrives to investigate and uncovers disturbing truths.
"There is much to enjoy in this wry murder mystery set in Ireland of the 1970s".
Sunniva O'Flynn Irish Film Institute"An absorbing, visually handsome murder mystery"
Irish TimesSanatorium
Dir: Gar O'Rourke, Documentary, 90mins
Amidst the ongoing war, the guests and staff of a Soviet health resort in Odessa, Ukraine, seek solace. Irish filmmaker Gar O'Rourke had begun to make the film before the war started and decided to keep filming. The conflict remains off-screen as visitors to the wellness retreat seek treatments for everything from fertility issues to psoriasis. One guest arrives with her bachelor thirtysomething son, in the hope of finding him a wife. Its mostly Russian-speaking clientele leave behind Russian literature, which is shelved and hidden because of Ukraine’s prohibition on the material.
"The film combines a mixture of Irish and Ukrainian perspectives. "
Irish TimesCOMING SOON!!
Spilt Milk
Dir. Brian Durnin 91mins
This will be another chance to see Irish rising star Danielle Galligan (House of Guinness, Lakelands, The Walsh Sisters)
Bobby (Cillian Sullivan) is obsessed with the tv detective Kojak. In his 11-year-old worldview, the iconic TV detective is a hero worth emulating amid the drab world of 1980s Dublin.
At home, things are less rosy. His combustible dad (Laurence O’Fuarain) is clashing hard with Bobby’s rebellious older brother OisÃn (Lewis Brophy), much to the misery of mum Maura (Danielle Galligan) and his nan (Pom Boyd).
When OisÃn storms out and subsequently disappears, Bobby sets out to investigate, "the story turning into a Roddy Doyle-ish sweet-and-salty setup, to a Âgrittier loss-of-innocence drama, as OisÃn’s fate is revealed to be tied up with the drugs crisis ravaging Dublin at the time" (Irish Independent).
"Marks a new generation in front and behind the lens"
Screen International