Dublin City Council, again, bans poster to spare US president's feelings
Even a version which made no direct reference to Trump and removed his image, and simply read: “No welcome for warmongers” was turned down.
Director Hugh O’Conor’s debut feature film, Metal Heart, is not based on a comic series or graphic novel, but it feels like it could be, writes our reviewer.
John Butler “manages to balance the schmaltz and cheese inherent to this format with a heartwarming, and heartbreaking, truthfulness”.
Chris Hansen and Thomas Mozdzeń set up Do Nothing Watch Films promising escape from the Dublin rat race with a regular series of shorts and features about lives of leisure.
“This is a spirited, important, knockout of a picture,” writes our reviewer. “Hazel Doupe is simply fantastic, she’s destined for great things.”
A murderer joins his victim’s father in the search for her body. It’s a film with powerful performances let down slightly by ropey plotting, writes our reviewer.
In a small studio off Dorset Street, the team behind Paper Panther Productions work on their stop-gap animated stories.
This is actually the story of two men. One of them has his head in the clouds and the other has his feet planted firmly on the ground.
The next Kino get together is this weekend in Blackpitts. People can come from all over Europe for the gatherings.
It’s a coming-of-age story set in Dublin: north, south, and centre. “I was trying to look for new locations that haven’t been on camera before,” he said.
A young woman searches for her missing son through a miasma of her memories and dreams in director Viko Nikci’s surreal feature film debut, writes Luke Maxwell.
The Firehouse Film Contest’s organisers want to help filmmakers get over first-time jitters, inhibitions and procrastination – and share their movies with an audience.
Generally the audience either “detests it or loves it”, says Rouzbeh Rashidi. That’s a point of pride for him. They react.