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Director
Maya Derrington
Credits
Producer: Nicky Gogan
Category
Documentary
Pyjama Girls principally focuses on the lives of two charismatic inner-city Dublin teens, Lauren and Tara, as they roam the streets, sporting nightwear for daywear; a curious cultural (and purely female) phenomenon currently spreading the globe. In a series of intimate vignettes, we gain a vivid insight into their daily lives: the girls' tenacity amidst the at times grim uncertainty that surrounds them and the oft-quotable bravado that rolls with it. Director Maya Derrington's emphatic feature debut is one of many inspired home-grown feature documentaries to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Crisply edited by Paul Rowley and featuring a delicious minimalist electronic score from Dennis McNulty, Derrington's triumph is to craft a keenly observed tour-de-force that, in the grand tradition of all great non-fiction cinema, challenges our way of seeing.
Notes by Derek O'Connor.
70 minutes, Ireland, 2010, Colour
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 13.10
BACKROOMS 16.00 18.20
FAIRYLAND 11.10, 20.20
HEN (2026) 11.00
MYSTERY MATINEE MAY 2026 13.00
OBSESSION 18.00
PARIS 75: THE EUROPEAN CUP FINAL FOOTBALL TRIED TO FORGET 13.45
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (4K RE-RELEASE) 15.30, 20.30
POWER BALLAD 15.45, 20.40
THE CHRISTOPHERS 10.50, 18.10
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