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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
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE 13.30
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 20:50
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 18.15
IRISH FOCUS: A GIRL CAN TOUCH THE SKY + Q&A 16.00
KIDNAPPED 14:10, 19:45
PERFECT DAYS 11:30, 17:00
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:20, 15:50 (OC), 18:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11:20
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