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just above the tear duct on each side

just above the tear duct on each side

Cáit McClay | Éiméar McClay | UK | 2025 | 20' |

| IFFR 2025

In the 1950s, Ireland had more people interned in psychiatric hospitals than anywhere else in the world. just above the tear duct on each side uses archival material from the last century to bring to the surface this dark and buried history, rife with class struggle, carceral logics, violent medical intervention and the lingering influence of colonial forces.

– Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss

Also in this combined programme

Abajo y a la izquierda

Insurgent found footage film resonating from the bottom left.
Short & Mid-length
Black Glass

Eadweard Muybridge’s early stereographs of the U.S. war against the Modoc Tribe are reframed.
Short & Mid-length
Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship

Gaddafi in Rome compels us to confront the West’s hypocritical double standards on colonialism and modern migration.
Short & Mid-length