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Director
Macdara Vallely
Credits
Producers: Sarah Perry, Chris Martin. Writer: Macdara Vallely
Principal Cast
John Travers, Gerard Jordan, Sean Roberts, Conor MacNeill
Category
Feature
Winner of the Best First Feature award at the Galway Film Fleadh 2008, Peacefire, the feature debut of writer-director Macdara Vallely, is a gritty, moving and bitterly funny account of one young man’s experience of crime and punishment on a housing estate in 1990s Northern Ireland. A young working class, joy-riding hoodlum has a chance encounter with a ruthless detective who turns him into an informer for the so-called forces of law and order and a target for retribution by his father’s old acquaintances in the IRA. In the violent upheaval that follows, he must struggle with the intense loyalty he feels for his friends; the need to protect his mother from her tragic past; and the political ideals of a dead father.
Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn
87 minutes, Ireland, 2008, Colour
BLUE MOON 16.00
BUGONIA 20.40 (Digital)
DIE MY LOVE 16.00
DOG DAY AFTERNOON 20.30
HORSESHOE 18.30
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 13.45
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 18.10
PILLION 20.50
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 15.40
THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY) 13.00
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN 13.00, 18.00
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY 11.00
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