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FRÉWAKA

• Director: Aislinn Clarke
• IRELAND  / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 103’ / Irish, English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Aislinn Clarke
• Director of Photography: Narayan Van Maele
• Editing: John Murphy
• Music: Die Hexen
• Cast: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya
• Producer: Diarmuid Lavery
• Production Co.: DoubleBand Films
• World Sales: New Europe Film Sales

2024 Sitges Best Music

Generational trauma, social history, and folk horror intertwine like deep-set roots in Fréwaka, the first ever Irish-language horror. The film follows Shoo, a social worker, who is sent to care for an agoraphobic woman who lives in a remote village deep in the woods, ’past the fairy tree.’ The old woman fears the ’Na Sídhe’ – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before and have come back to collect a promise. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions. In Fréwaka, the follow up to 2018 found footage horror The Devil’s Doorway, director Aislinn Clarke’s masterfully achieves to captivate the audience through mood horror and icy silences. Fréwaka had its premiere in Locarno.

*Scenes of violence/sex might disturb some viewers.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.