In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Director Lorcan Finnegan & Writer Thomas Martin about their film The Surfer.

A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nicholas Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, and Alexander Bertrand.

The Surfer is up in Irish cinemas from 9th May 2025.

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