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The Irish thriller Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan has won Best Picture at the Texas film festival Fantastic Fest.

Described in the festival’s programme as a “beautifully crafted and assured character piece”, Bring Them Down won Best Picture in the main competition of the annual Austin-based Fantastic Fest.

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The debut feature of writer-director Christopher Andrews, Bring Them Down is billed as “a suspenseful thriller that observes the escalating tensions of two farming families in the west of Ireland, whose actions have increasingly devastating consequences”.

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.