Salem Irish Film Festival: Horseshoe

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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: Kneecap

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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

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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 …