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Untold Secrets

    • Director

      Teresa Lavina

    • Credits

      Producer:
      Teresa Lavina

    • Principal Cast

      Anne Silke

  • Category

    Documentary

Untold Secrets voices the experiences of survivors of Ireland's Mother & Baby Homes, and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke, who was fostered out of the Bon Secours Mother & Baby Home in Tuam. A harrowing account of the appalling conditions and experiences of survivors and their families, and their reaction to the recently-published report following an inquiry commissioned by the Irish government.

Warning: This documentary contains graphic images and content references of suicide, sexual and physical abuse.

84 minutes, Ireland, 2021, Colour


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