We’re in the forlorn housing estates of working-class Dublin. But something’s not right. Police checkpoints. Talk of gangland violence. A flash of murder within a family. Twig is off-kilter, both the movie and Twig herself; its young hero played with sly power by Sade Malone. It’s the story of petty antagonisms spun out of control, of gang allegiances and families divided, with Twig caught in the maelstrom, desperately trying to make things right, to move beyond two warring factions set against each other for reasons long forgotten. And this is what makes Twig so powerful. Yes it speaks to the utterly polarized state of contemporary discourse, but it’s also (somewhat secretly) a retelling of the myth of Antigone, where a woman risks all, defying her king in the name of family loyalty and righteousness… and comes to change the world. – Peter Wortmann