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Fréwaka

6.7(67)20251h 43m2

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.

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Status
Released
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Box office
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Language
English
  • goat
  • agoraphobia
  • religion
  • death of mother
  • folklore
  • mysterious
  • traumatic childhood
  • folk horror
  • somber
  • irish folklore
  • supernatural horror
  • dreary

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Ireland, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereChicago International Film Festival18 Oct 2024
    • PremiereBoston Underground Film Festival20 Mar 2025
    • Digital / OTTShudder25 Apr 2025
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival11 Oct 2024
    • Theatrical (limited)152 May 2025
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereIrish Film Festival Australia10 Oct 2026
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereVancouver International Film Festival3 Oct 2024
  • BrazilBR

    • Digital / OTT166 Aug 2025
  • EstoniaEE

    • PremiereHaapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival2 May 2025
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereHARD:LINE Film Festival Regensburg12 Apr 2025
  • IrelandIE

    • PremiereCork International Film Festival 8 Nov 2024
    • Theatrical15A25 Apr 2025
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical154 Jul 2025
  • PolandPL

    • PremiereSplat!FilmFest International Fantastic Film Festival27 Oct 2024
  • PortugalPT

    • PremiereMOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival13 Sept 2024
  • South KoreaKR

    • Premiere12Jeonju International Film Festival4 May 2025

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Fréwaka was released on 25 April 2025.

Audience reviews

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    FolknHell

    8/25/2026

    4/10

    *Fréwaka* contains almost everything you might reasonably order from the folk-horror catalogue: an isolated Irish village, an old woman barricaded behind iron, a fairy tree hung with offerings, hostile locals, a goat, Catholic iconography, inherited trauma and something ancient waiting for a family debt to be settled. The problem is not that the film lacks ideas. It is that it keeps putting them somewhere we cannot q…

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