Horseshoe

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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Dir: Edwin Mullane/Adam O'Keeffe, Ireland, 2025, Drama/Comedy.
Carolyn Bracken, John Connors, Lalor Roddy.
Winner, Best Irish First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Sponsored by the Benevelolent Irish Society.
“The combustible set-up is familiar: a traumatised family, a contested inheritance and a house rattling with difficult history. But Horseshoe reinvents this dog-eared premise with dark humour and a keen understanding of the emotional complexities underpinning huge family rows. Jer and Evan have never left the outsize rural home that father Colm ruled with an iron fist. They are a study in arrested development... Meanwhile... Cass is close to losing her house; Niall, a yoga practitioner, is being drained financially and psychologically by a custody battle. Tension surges as soon as they’re all in the same room – and only escalates when a solicitor announces they have 24 hours to unanimously decide how to settle the estate or risk everything going to the State. The returnees are desperate to sell the house; the remainers will do anything to keep their home. Old alliances and grudges swiftly resurface. O’Keeffe’s well-observed script sketches a family who communicate through barbs, sullen silences and unwanted cups of tea... The film’s locations, notably the characterful, lonely house on the Sligo-Donegal border, are framed with grey, rough-hewn beauty... Horseshoe was a deserving winner of the award for best Irish first feature at Galway Film Fleadh and a fine opening gambit for the film-making duo.” - Tara Brady, The Irish Times

Runtime: 88 min

Rating: 14A