An Irish Atlantic Rainforest
Dir. Gary Lennon, 2026, 91mins
Anyone interested in solving Leitrim’s forestry problem will be inspired by this film adaptation of the celebrated book of the same title by Eoghan Daltun.
“Here is a strikingly beautiful Irish documentary that looks to be taking us to an alien world within the nation’s terrestrial borders. For the past several years, Eoghan Daltun, sculptor, author and ecological preservationist, has been working at rewilding a patch of the Beara Peninsula, in west Co Cork. Daltun explains that, thoughcovered with deciduous trees and blasted by winter winds, the area can be described as a class of rainforest. Sure enough, when Ross Bartley and Brian O’Leary’s cameras get down close among the flapped fungi and the green-eyed insects, one really could believe oneself in an exotic elsewhere.” Donald Clarke Irish Times