Irish Film Institute -KATHLEEN IS HERE

KATHLEEN IS HERE

Director: EVA BIRTHISTLE

94 mins, Ireland, 2024, Digital, F-Rated

Kathleen (Hazel Doupe) is 18 and fresh out of foster care. She returns to her hometown to take ownership of her late mother’s house. Though she gets a job in the local shop and establishes a friendship of convenience with a co-worker, she soon realises that the emptiness of her life cannot be filled by social media and occasional boozy nights in the pub. But a chance encounter with Dee (Clare Dunne), a warm-hearted, happily married, young mother across the road, sends Kathleen on a destructive path of obsession and delusion.

In this impressive feature debut, featuring powerfully understated performances from both Doupe and Dunne, writer/director Eva Birthistle delivers a sensitive character study of a wounded young woman in this emphatically riveting tale.

There will be Open Captioned screenings at 18.30 on Monday 21st, and 14.00 on Wednesday 23rd.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.

Book Tickets

Thursday 31st

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