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Covid announced itself here just as last year's Virgin Dublin International Film Festival (VDIFF) was drawing to a close. That instalment of our capital's annual cinema carnival came away more or less unscathed, and given what would happen to the arts world in the aftermath, there must surely have been a sigh of relief from festival linchpin Gráinne Humphreys. Plans for this year's VDIFF were dependent on restriction levels, and prospects of a mooted "hybrid festival" had to be scrapped for an exclusively online format (via Eventive). The good news is that we are now well used to such thing...

(The article continues below - Commercial information) The upcoming film, penned by the director himself, has been described as “a bold and unnerving character-driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, The Babadook”. In detail, we will follow Laura ( Andi Matichak), a mother who, after escaping from a cult as a child, must face her past when its sinister members break into her home and attempt to steal her eight-year-old son, David ( Luke David Blumm). Now the two are on the run, pursued by Paul ( Emile Hirsch), a detective determined to save them both. Since his aborted kidn...

In the run-up to Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, we speak to Rachel Carey, AnneMarie Naughton and Eva Birthistle about releasing films in 2021.

SON Trailer (2021) Psychological Horror PLOT: After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura’s home and attempts to steal…

DIR: David Burke, Seán Ó Cualáin A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post, Kennedy became known as ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’. Travelling to South America in 2014, he made further headlines when tiny electrodes were implanted inside his brain in order to continue his research. This film examines the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where technology and hum...