Dublin Film Festival

Galway Film Fleadh

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film (BAFICI)

IRISH THEATRICAL RELEASE:
Irish Film Institute (IFI) from September 2nd
Triskel Arts Centre in Cork from September 4th
Eye Cinema in Galway from September 9th

IRISH FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA TOUR:
Sydney@ The Chauvel, August 28th
Melbourne@ The Kino, September 4th
Brisbane @ Palace Barracks, September 11th
Perth@ Palace Raine, September 17th
Canberra@ Palace Electric Cinema, September 25th

Belfast Film Festival

Foyle Film Festival

Porto/Post/Doc

Irish Film Festival London

ACCESS CINEMAS TOUR:
Greystones Film Club, Co. Wicklow, January 26th
Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare, February 15th
Visual Carlow, March 3rd
Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, April 4th
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, April 11th

EUROCINE @ BOGOTA, COLOMBIA:
Cinema Founders, May 5th
American-Colombian Center, May 6th
Cinemania, May 9th
Bogota Cinematheque, May 11th

European Film Series, Paraguay

American Film Institute, Washington D.C.

Montana International Film Festival

Achill Island Film Festival

Clare Island Film Festival

Day of Grace, Achill Island

Roxy Cinema, New York City

Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles

"Shot on 16 mm and drenched in aquamarine hues, the new film by Donal Foreman is a lovely and unclassifiable thing. For Maire, the story of Granuaile becomes a canvas to imagine a different kind of life, whereas the sensible-to-a-fault Cait resists the nostalgic pull of an incomplete history whose gaps have been filled with hopes and fantasies. Throughout, Foreman weaves excerpts and findings from his own research into the legend of Granuaile, so that we too are drawn into the film’s central tension — between yearning and knowing."
(Devika Girish, The New York Times)

"With three features to his credit ... Donal Foreman is establishing himself as one of Ireland’s most imaginative cinematic talents. ... The Cry of Granuaile is an entirely unique addition to the burgeoning Grace canon."
(Tara Brady, The Irish Times)

"Sailing into town on a wave of rave reviews, The Cry Of Granuaile is just the type of offering film lovers worry aren’t been made anymore. That Ireland should be producing films such as this and the superlative The Quiet Girl reiterates Martin Scorsese’s Marvel-mauling belief that bigger is rarely better."
(Paul Byrne, Greystones Guide)

"There's no real Ireland. It can only be imagined, over and over. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, or sense. Amen."
(Ruairí McCann, Mubi Notebook)

INTERVIEWS:
FilminDublin
Film Ireland
Filmmakers Network Podcast
Irish Film London

"Captivating and haunting"
(Laura Cannon, Film Ireland)

"The director follows up his innovative drama Out of Here and his powerful documentary The Image You Missed with an intellectually knotty piece entitled The Cry of Granuaile... Foreman ingeniously works left-field techniques in with more conventional drama as he takes us towards an encounter with sometimes puzzled locals in Granuaile’s native Mayo."
(Donald Clarke, The Irish Times)

“A witty, personal, and sometimes meta subversion of the ‘American in Ireland’ story.”
(William Fitzgerald, Galway Film Fleadh)

"Hypnotic... [Foreman's] expressive skill in the script and the camerawork illuminates the interiority of each and relates it not only to the figure of O'Malley, but to present-day debates ... Foreman ... presents in The Cry of Granuaile much of what is needed to make cinema: empathy, historical perspective, depth of feeling and interpretation; as well as a dark visual sense typical of cloudy Irish days."
(Pedro Fernández Mouján and Agustín Argento, Télam)

"Foreman displays a wild freedom of expression ... The Cry of Granuaile revels in a halo of mystery...that flaunts its (healthy) freedom and, like all stories open to both thematic and formal experimentation, takes the risk of falling apart. In its collage of moments, perhaps the best emerges: that which is felt and not said."
(Guillermo Colantonio, Cineramaplus)

"A truly unclassifiable film whose shooting in 16mm...once again demonstrates the poetic superiority of the analog image ... Like a folk horror story but without elements of terror, although it is full of mysteries (the mist, the legends of women suddenly transformed into stones, the genes of Granuaile running through the bodies of the inhabitants of County Mayo), the course of Maire and Cáit intertwines the pains of the past with the personal traumas of the present..."
(Diego Brodersen, Pagina 12)

"Its radical narrative shifts are ripe for interpretation. It offers a multi-layered puzzle that could repel viewers or captivate them, precisely because of its "confusion" of emotional and historical demands. ... Dale Dickey & Judith Roddy put their talents at the disposal of the two main characters, whom they endow with sensitivity and common sense. ... Demanding as well as poetic, The Cry of Granuaile will not go unnoticed by admirers or detractors... Dónal Foreman likes to walk winding roads, which is to be applauded and respected."
(Daniel Gagine, El Caleidoscopio de Lucy)

"The result of this audacious bet ... is fascinating and intoxicating in its evocation of a past that even today, five centuries later, continues to mark new Irish generations."
(Diego Batlle, Ostrocine)

"The Cry of Granuaile proposes a classic overlapping of reality and fiction, in an environment of hallucination and creative possession. A bit like the Herzog of the '70s with Kinski, or the experiments of Peter Watkins in the UK."
(Sergio Monsalve, Perro Blanco)

"The Cry of Granuaile ... will certainly part the waters."
(Matias Frega, Cine Argentino Hoy)

Dublin Film Festival:
History, Memory and The Cry of Granuaile
(RTE.ie)

The Cry of Granuaile will have its world premiere at
the Dublin International Film Festival
(Screen Daily)

"50 FILMS TO SEE IN 2022"
(The Irish Times)