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Director
Joe Comerford
Credits
Producers: Joe Comerford, David Kelly. Writer: Joe Comerford
Principal Cast
Marc O'Shea, Frances Tomelty, Alan Devlin
Category
Feature
The challenge of maintaining neutrality when violence rages is put under scrutiny in this powerful feature from director, Joe Comerford. Benny (Marc O’Shea) is a teenage outsider sent to a school in the Republic to escape the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The school’s Matron (Frances Tomelty) is sympathetic towards Benny but cannot protect him when the IRA suspects him of being an informant after tensions are stoked by the murder of a real informer. Comerford utilises striking imagery to depict the horror of a seemingly interminable conflict, capturing the terrifying emotional realities of the Troubles.
82 minutes, Ireland, 1993, 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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