FRÉWAKA

Directed by Aislinn Clarke
Ireland | 90 min | 2024 | English, Irish

Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker, Shoo, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbours as much as she fears the Na Sídhe – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.

Credits

Director: Aislinn Clarke
Screenplay: Aislinn Clarke
Cinematography: Narayan Van Maele
Editing: John Murphy
Production Design:Nicola Moroney
Sound Design:
Cast: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Brennan, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya
Production Company: Doubleband Films, Wildcard
With support of: Screen Ireland, TG4, Coimisiun na Mean

Aislinn Clarke

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Aislinn Clarke

Aislinn Clarke is an Irish Writer/Director. She holds the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesGold Fellowship for Women 2020. She is also the first Irish woman to have made a horror feature film.

Her debut feature film THE DEVIL’S DOORWAY was released in the USA by IFC Midnight in 2018. It has also been released in Brazil, Japan, the Middle East, Germany, Canada, the U.K. and Ireland. The film premiered in the Official Competition at the Seattle International Film Festival and had itsEuropean premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh, where Aislinn was nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.

The film played at many of the premiere horror film festivals worldwide (Frightfest, Sitges etc). Shewas nominated for Screen International’s Rising Genre Star Award at Frightfest. She has beendescribed as a “real genre talent” by noted British genre critic Kim Newman and as “one of the mostbrilliant directors ever” by Oscar nominated director Lexi Alexander (The Punisher and Green Room)

FILMOGRAPHY:

TITLE	YEAR	SHORT / FEATURE / DOCUMENTARY
The Devil’s Doorway	2018	Feature
Childer	2016	Short
Short Sharp Shocks	2015	Short
In The Darkroom	2013	Short
The Lighthouse Keepers	2012	Short