The Surfer (2025)
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Director: Lorcan Finnegan Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Alexander Bertrand, Julian McMahon, Justin Rosniak, Nicolas Cage, Rahel Romahn
Country: Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Language: English
About the film:
Official Selection, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is “don’t live here, don’t surf here.” Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point. Starring Nicolas Cage as The Surfer.
“the kind of trippy slapdash comic nightmare where the only way to watch it is to sit back and go with it”
About the filmmaker:
Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan originally studied graphic design before moving into filmmaking. He launched his career with supernatural short film Foxes (2011) which premiered at SXSW, in competition at Tribeca and London BFI and picked up an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Awards) for Best Short. His first feature film, existential folk horror Without Name (2016) starring Alan McKenna and Niamh Algar, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His second feature, sci-fi thriller Vivarium (2019), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Critic’s Week and won The Gan Foundation Award. His third film, Nocebo (2022), a psychological thriller starring Eva Green, Mark Strong and Chai Fonacier was a recent Netflix hit that premiered at Sitges Film Festival and played in competition at Gérardmer Film Festival. The Surfer (2025), starring Nicolas Cage is his fourth film and premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Official Selection.
As a photographer his work has been featured in many international exhibitions and publications including Mexico City, Paris and Berlin and featured as Time Magazine’s top 9 street photographers to follow. In 2014, he published GRANNYFASHION with StudioAad and in 2022, he published DUBLIN STREETS, a collection of candid portraits and scenes taken in Dublin City over a 10 year period, with accompanying solo show at Hangtough Contemporary Gallery.
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