"As you can imagine, you've got 20 parking spaces, and we come along and say we're going to take out two of them or something like that to give spaces for people on bikes, it doesn't go down particularly well."
A Girl from Mogadishu is an earnest championing of an inspirational and courageous activist. The film works best as an overview of, or a jumping-off point into, Ifrah Ahmed’s life and work.
The Castle follows a three-generation Lithuanian household in Dublin, worn down by Ireland’s carelessness and hostility to the hopes and dreams of immigrants.
An unfulfilled family man finds some solace in the company of a male prostitute in the new feature film from director Peter Mackie Burns and writer Mark O’Halloran.
Director Daniel F. Holmes follows Irish footballers at the Homeless World Cup, showing how sport can give a sense of purpose to those who’ve suffered hardship and misfortune.
“For me, the double act managed to win me over, I believed in the cousins and rooted for them because they believed in one another,” writes Luke Maxwell.
“The scope of the action feels like Slattery is manipulating clockwork miniatures in a grey diorama of Dublin, winding up a situation and letting it go off.”
