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Director
Frank Berry
Credits
Producers: Donna Eperon Tristan Orpen Lynch Aoife O'Sullivan
Cinematography: Tom Comerford
Principal Cast
Dafhyd Flynn Moe Dunford Lalor Roddy
Category
Feature
Dafhyd Flynn plays Michael McCrea, an impressionable 18-year-old living with his grandfather Francis (Lalor Roddy) in a Dublin housing estate. His life is derailed when he is caught holding a bag of drugs for a friend’s older brother and sentenced to three months in prison. Director Frank Berry (I Used to Live Here) workshopped the film with former prisoners from the Irish Prison Service's Pathways Programme, creating a harrowing picture of young people caught up, with bleak inevitability, in a cycle of crime and incarceration. The film is distinguished by the authenticity of the characterisations and by an extraordinary, understated performance by Flynn who embodies heart-wrenching vulnerability and quiet despair. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Classification: 15A Awards Best Feature Film, Balinale, Bali International Film Festival 2018 Best Director, Best Cinematography, Newport Beach Film Festival 2018 Best Film, Best Screenplay, Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) 2018 Best Feature Film Script, Writer's Guild of Ireland Zebbie Awards 2018 Audience Award, Cork International Film Festival 2017 Best Irish Feature Film, Galway Film Fleadh 2017 Bingham Ray New Talent Award, Dafhyd Flynn, Galway Film Fleadh 2017
96 minutes, Ireland, 2017, Colour
ANORA 15:30
BIRD 11:10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – IFI FAMILY: SAUVAGES 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AGATHA AND THE LIMITLESS READINGS 14.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BEING MARIA 15.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JIM’S STORY 17.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MARCELLO MIO 19.50
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCÉNARIOS + EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM ‘SCÉNARIO’ 12.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOULEYMANE’S STORY 13.00
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 13:40, 18:20
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 16:20, 18:30
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT 20:10
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 20:40
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