Review: Forever Is Now
Rachel Walshe finds a revealing portrait of political compromise and climate inaction in a documentary that captures a pivotal moment in Irish and European politics.
Neasa Ní Chianáin is an award-winning Irish documentary director who began her career as an art director before moving into documentary filmmaking in 2001. Her acclaimed films include Fairytale of Kathmandu, The Stranger, In Loco Parentis (School Life) and Young Plato, which explores education and social change in Belfast. Her latest feature documentary, Forever Is Now, screens for Climate week.
Rachel Walshe finds a revealing portrait of political compromise and climate inaction in a documentary that captures a pivotal moment in Irish and European politics.
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Declan McGrath & Neasa Ní Chianáin about their documentary Young Plato.
Larissa Brigatti was anseo for Neasa Ni Chianain and Declan McGrath's documentary about implementing philosophy in schools.
Maria Flood looks back on a busy Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival.
Gemma Creagh goes back to school for Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane's observational documentary that follows a year in the lives of two inspirational teachers in the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland.
In conversation with Film Ireland, filmmaker Neasa Ní Chianáin reflects on solitude, memory and the conflicting stories we leave behind, exploring what draws us away from the world and what we might find there.