A film by Brendan Canty
Ireland/UK 2025, 94 min
NRW-Premiere
Followed by a film talk with actor Diarmuid Noyes.
17-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. He has just been kicked out of his foster home in the quiet suburbs and moved in with his older brother Shane, who lives in the working-class neighbourhood in the north of the Irish city of Cork. This is only a temporary solution for Shane, but Christy begins to feel at home with him, gets involved with the local people and makes friends. Through the extended family – as bad as their reputation is – he is even able to reconnect with his past. However, Shane tries to keep him away from his relatives. He wants a better life for Christy at all costs, even if it means pushing him away. After many years apart, the brothers are faced with the task of reconciling their turbulent pasts and deciding what the future should look like.
Director: Brendan Canty – Screenplay: Alan O’Gorman – Director of Photography: Colm Hogan – Editing: Allyn Quigley – Music: Daithí – With Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis, Chris Walley, Lewis Brophy and others. – World Sales: Charades, charades.eu
Brendan Canty
Brendan Canty is an Irish director. He gained international recognition with Hozier’s Take Me to Church video, which has surpassed a billion views and received two MTV VMA nominations. Since then, he has directed music videos for top artists like Dermot Kennedy and Talos. His award-winning short films include For You (2017), starring Barry Keoghan, and Christy (2019), which has since been developed into his debut feature. His latest experimental short, Atali’i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent), won the Audience Award and Best Director at Show Me Shorts, Best in Cork and the Cork Film Festival and Best Irish Short at Still Voices.
