Belfast hip-hop posse’s rambunctious farce is first film in event’s history to take audience award, best Irish-language feature and best Irish film
that guests to this 36th edition included both Kneecap , the incorrigible Belfast hip-hop posse, and, a month or two after her 80th birthday, the reliably warm Mary Robinson, seventh president of Ireland.
The former Uachtarán na hÉireann made, as you might, expect an altogether less flamboyant appearance at the world premiere of Aoife Kelleher’s fine, respectful Mrs Robinson. The smoothly edited documentary, featuring an impressive amount of amateur film footage from before the time of home video, takes us from early days in Ballina to Trinity College Dublin to legal activism and on to the presidency.
As ever there was a close focus on new Irish features, with an abundance of horror, documentary, experiment and Irish-language features. Among the latter, Anne McCabe’s Fidil Ghorm made attractive use of the home landscapes in a sentimental piece about a young fiddle player processing stress after her father’s car crash. The film skirts the recent genre that has grumpy elder characters – often Jim Broadbent – recapture youthful energies while on the run from overprotective carers.
This writer was charmed by Nick Kelly’s The Song Cycle. Winner of the best-independent-film award, the documentary follows the film-maker and musician, former lead singer of The Fat Lady Sings, as, in sight of his 60th birthday, he elects to cycle from Dublin to Glastonbury with his old chum Seán Millar for a hilariously humble slot at the annual music festival.
Eva Birthistle, who has had a busy and buzzy career as an actor – most recently in Bad Sisters – breaks into feature directing with Kathleen Is Here, based on her earlier short, and duly picks up the Bingham Ray award for new talent. The film is a tense exercise in structured realism that allows Hazel Doupe another chance to shine. The Dubliner plays a young woman who forms an unhealthy attachment to a neighbour after being released to the family home from care.
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