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248 articles available in total starting from 30/12/2003. Last article published on 09/01/2026.

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

Interview: Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

"We wanted to make something that services us, our community and masculinity in general"

CANNES 2025: The British-Nigerian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a film that is set over the course of one day, in which he plays with the concept of time  

22/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: My Father's Shadow

Review: My Father's Shadow

CANNES 2025: Akinola Davies Jr impresses with this tale of two brothers reuniting with their estranged father for one day in Lagos, against the backdrop of the country’s 1993 election  

19/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Pillion

Review: Pillion

CANNES 2025: Harry Lighton has made a name for himself with his astonishing debut feature, a story of love and submission set in the world of bikers, with a wicked sense of humour  

18/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer

Interview: Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer

“The surfer’s psychological journey is also a bit like therapy for people struggling with having lost their childhood home”

The Irish filmmaker discusses his mystery-thriller, how he created the character with Nicolas Cage and his approach to the use of colours in the film  

22/04/2025 | BIFFF 2025

Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow lands at Cannes

Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow lands at Cannes

The semi-autobiographical tale stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as a father navigating Lagos with his two young sons amidst the country’s 1993 civil unrest  

15/04/2025 | Production | Funding | UK/Ireland/Nigeria

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling lead Harry Lighton’s Cannes-bound Pillion

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling lead Harry Lighton’s Cannes-bound Pillion

The two actors play gay bikers engaged in a dom/sub relationship in this UK-Irish co-production selected in Un Certain Regard  

14/04/2025 | Production | Funding | UK/Ireland

Review: Four Mothers

Review: Four Mothers

Darren Thornton reimagines Mid-August Lunch, in which a bumbling middle-aged man looks after four demanding old ladies, as a more sombre, serio-comic affair  

04/04/2025 | Films | Reviews | Ireland/UK

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception  

28/03/2025 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Stephen Bradley's fourth fiction feature Fran the Man to world premiere at Dublin

Stephen Bradley's fourth fiction feature Fran the Man to world premiere at Dublin

The sports comedy mockumentary sees an Irish football club embroiled in an international match-fixing scandal  

27/02/2025 | Production | Funding | Ireland/UK

Review: Christy

Review: Christy

BERLINALE 2025: Brendan Canty proves that it takes a village to raise a child and a whole community to fix a directionless young adult  

15/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

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