Emma Kiely

Emma Kiely

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Emma is originally from Co Kilkenny, Ireland and is now living in Dublin where she is completing a master's degree. Her undergraduate was in English with Film. She enjoys horror cinema, crime novels and contributing to The Upcoming's culture section. Follow her on Twitter @emmak151 and Instagram @emmakielyyy.

Published articles

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Where Is Anne Frank

“People will always find a minority to blame for the bad things that happen to them”, an animated…

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Everything Went Fine

French director François Ozon’s latest work Everything Went Fine stars Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Géraldine Pailhas and Charlotte…

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Bergman Island

Mia Hansen-Løve brings an ode to love and artistry with Bergman Island (12 years after Father of My Children won…

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The Innocents

The Innocents is not for the fainthearted. The audience meets Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), a nine-year-old Norwegian girl…

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Firebird

Peeter Rebane's Firebird premiered last year at the BFI Flare Film Festival, which celebrates the best of LGBTQI+…

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Compartment No 6

From the director behind 2016 Cannes Prize-winning The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Juho Kuosmanen, comes…

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Three Floors

From the director of Palme d’Or-winning The Son’s Room, Nanni Moretti, comes Three Floors, a film about the…

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Paris, 13th District

Jacques Audiard, whose film Dheepan won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2015, this year releases Paris, 13th…

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Petrov’s Flu

Petrov’s Flu is the latest feature by Kirill Serebrennikov (of Uchenik, 2016, and Leto, 2018). On a cold…

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The Souvenir: Part II

Joanna Hoggs’s Souvenir: Part II is the follow-up to her 2019 semi-autobiographical feature of the same name. Some of…

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