Filmmaker Keira Greene attempts to trace her matrilineal lines back to her unknown grandmother who travelled alone from Ireland to England to give birth and leave her baby, Greene’s mother, for adoption. But this personal investigation and deep mining of the archive bears larger histories of obfuscation and systemic oppression.
– Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss
Also in this combined programme
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Vultosos cumes
A young Portuguese migrant worker travels through the night to richly hued and distant mountains. -
Shavi Kvebi
A realistic and allegorical story about aimless people who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
Film details
- Countries of production
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
