Writer/director Aislinn Clarke’s Irish-language Fréwaka is a creeping, bone-deep horror film that burrows into the mind just as much as it chills the spine. Rooted in Irish folklore and the scars of generational trauma, this atmospheric nightmare follows Shoo (Clare Monnelly), a young caregiver still reeling from her mother’s death, as she’s sent to a remote village to tend to Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain), an agoraphobic woman convinced that she was once taken by Na Sídhe—elusive, malevolent fairy-like beings from Celtic myth. As Shoo becomes entangled in Peig’s sprawling paranoia, the lines between myth and memory, supernatural horror and trauma, irrevocably blur in ways neither woman can escape. – Nicole McControversy, BUFF

Double feature with WEAPONS