SILVER

Still reeling from the death of her mother, Shoo (Clare Monnelly, DOINEANN) is assigned to be the live-in caregiver for recent stroke survivor Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN). Shoo moves into Peig’s remote village home expecting to care for an ailing woman but instead finds one profoundly troubled by the supposed demonic forces in her basement. But what at first seems to be the ravings of a superstitious old woman soon prove prescient as Shoo starts to lose her grip on reality and give in to Peig’s paranoid delusions. Filmmaker Aislinn Clarke’s (THE DEVIL’S DOORWAY) Irish-language sophomore feature firmly establishes her as a master of horror, as she deftly mines Irish history and folklore to craft a deeply unsettling and utterly terrifying story of generational trauma. (Note courtesy AFI European Union Film Showcase.) Official Selection, 2024 AFI European Union Film Showcase, Locarno and London film festivals. DIR/SCR Aislinn Clarke; PROD Diarmuid Lavery. Ireland, 2024, color, 103 min. In English and Irish with English subtitles. NOT RATED