Frewaka

Hi all,
I’m setting up another Irish film for our next meetup, this time a folk horror film filmed in Irish. Please come along this Sunday, April 27th for the screening of Frewaka at 3.40pm.

Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker Shoo (Clare Monnelly) leaves her pregnant girlfriend to care for Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain), a cantankerous old woman who has incarcerated herself in a big house on the edge of a remote village.

Peig fears the neighbours as much as she fears na sídhe, sinister entities who she believes abducted her on her wedding night decades before. As the two develop a deep connection, Shoo is infected by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors of her own past.
Aislinn Clarke’s haunting folk horror is deftly woven through with contemporary concerns about mental health, inherited trauma, and the fraught realm of motherhood, as they impact upon the two fully-realised characters – brought to life with understated brilliance by Monnelly and Ní Neachtain.
I will be in the Foyer from around 3.20pm with a navy baseball hat.
Screening is taking place in screen 3. Plenty of seats left as of Wednesday pm but I would book in advance just to be sure.
See you all there
Martin