In Horseshoe, four estranged siblings return to their crumbling family home in the west of Ireland after the death of their father. As they attempt to navigate inheritance, grief, and long-buried grudges, their time together unearths far more than expected – including secrets that just might shatter what little bond remains between them. Horseshoe won the Best Irish First Feature …
Salem Irish Film Festival: Dead Man’s Money
There is a lot of skullduggery and plotting in Dead Man’s Money, a wonderful reworking of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The dastardly deeds are set in motion when Young Henry and his wife Pauline discover that Young Henry’s uncle, Old Henry has fallen for Widow Tweed. They worry their inheritance earned over years running the old man’s bar will now go to …
Salem Irish Film Festival: A Want in Her
When her mother Nuala goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. A Want In Her is a powerful, award winning documentary that will stay with you.
Salem Irish Film Festival: Kneecap
The Troubles meets Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting in Kneecap, a riotous Belfast-set comedy tracking the fictional rise of a real-life hip-hop trio whose music harks back to the glory days of gangsta rap. Rich Peppiatt’s film excels as a love letter to the Irish language and a raucous portrait of the lost generation growing up in post-ceasefire Northern Ireland. But these …
Salem Irish Film Festival: Four Letters of Love
This soulful romantic drama based on Niall Williams’ bestseller follows two winning young strangers fated to be brought together. As the father of the presumptive groom, Pierce Brosnan embodies the film’s deeper meaning: What drives people to create? An unfulfilled civil servant, he experiences an almost religious epiphany to paint. Gabriel Byrne, playing the young woman’s dad, struggles with a …






