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Fionnuala Halligan

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  • The lowdown on all the Cannes Film Festival 2025 titles

    1 week ago | screendaily.com | Fionnuala Halligan

    What to expect when you’re expecting Cannes for the 78th time? This year’s suddenly sprightly looking festival seems to have cumulatively shaken off its legacy obligations and it’s a frisky bunch of hopefuls vying for the Palme d’Or and the Un Certain Regard grand prix (as well as the Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week participants down the Croisette who always feel slightly wild and untamed anyway).

  • Comment: industry desperate for Cannes Film Festival to keep its hot streak going

    1 month ago | screendaily.com | Fionnuala Halligan

    Source: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Even by the standards of Cannes, the figures reeled off by delegate general Thierry Fremaux at today’s line-up announcement were arresting. He reckons that one-third of the global industry’s output was submitted to the festival, at just under 3,000 titles (2,909). That’s a lot of selection power wielded by just one entity in a single sector, if you were to look at it purely in economic terms. Is it healthy? Cannes, of course, would say yes.

  • Asif Kapadia on the “dark, heavy” journey of getting dystopian doc ‘2073’ made - and seen

    1 month ago | screendaily.com | Fionnuala Halligan

    Source: Venice Film Festival Oscar-winning British director Asif Kapadia has spoken of the difficulties of both making and distributing his end-of-days doc/fiction feature 2073. Told from a future perspective after the collapse of society, it utilises real-life footage to point to global tragedy to come. But Kapadia says that the “tipping point into authoritarian rule” has already arrived.

  • ‘Hallow Road’ review: Babak Anvari drives dangerously with Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys

    2 months ago | screendaily.com | Fionnuala Halligan

    Close-quarters SXSW chiller is also a portrait of a marriage  Dir. Babak Anvari. Ireland/Czech Republic, 2025. 80mins Despite its vaguely-generic title, this well-crafted close-quarters suspense from British-Iranian director Babak Anvari is firmly-written, -shot and -acted.

  • ’​Beat The Lotto’: Gambling hijinks in entertaining Irish doc

    2 months ago | screendaily.com | Fionnuala Halligan

    Entertaining exploration of a syndicate’s attempts to game the Irish Lottery in 1992 Source: Dublin International Film Festival Dir. Ross Whitaker. Republic of Ireland. 2025.

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