Dublin Film Critics Circle has presented its awards for 2025 at Dublin International Film Festival. Best film went to Laura Carreira’s On Falling, the ground-breaking, ecstatically praised study of a Portuguese immigrant’s travails working in a Scottish warehouse. Ross Whitaker’s Beat the Lotto, a documentary about a much-misunderstood legend of the 1990s, won best Irish film. The Michael Dwyer discovery award, named for this newspaper’s late film correspondent, went to the three young stars of Ready or Not, Claire Frances Byrne’s gritty social-realist drama. [ Film-maker Laura Carreira: ‘It is a universal sentiment, not feeling correctly rewarded for your hard...