Quiet Girl, The

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An Cailín Ciúin

Directors' Debuts Competition

Cinematographer: Kate McCullough

Director: Colm Bairéad

Producer: Cleona Ní Chrualaoi

Writer: Colm Bairéad

Production designer: Emma Lowney

Editor: John Murphy

Cast: Catherine Clinch

Production Company: Inscéal

Distribution company (world): Break Out Pictures

Distribution company: Break Out Pictures

Year: 2021

Country: Ireland

Time: 94

Date and place:

2022.11.16, 17:30Cinema City - Screening Room No. 09

2022.11.16, 15:45Cinema City - Screening Room No. 09

Cáit is a nine-year-old girl from an overcrowded, dysfunctional and impoverished family. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learnt to hide in plain sight from those around her. As summer arrives and her pregnant mother’s due date approaches, Cáit is sent to live with distant relatives. Without knowing when she will return home, she is left at the strangers’ house with only the clothes she is wearing. The Kinsellas, a middle-aged couple she has never met, dress the girl in whatever clothes they have. They are farming people, like her own, but hard-working and wanting for nothing, it seems. Despite awarm reception from the woman, Eibhlín, the man of the house, Seán, keeps his distance from Cáit and she from him, but over time, their strained relationship begins to deepen. Slowly, in the care of the Kinsellas, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living. But in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.

Directors' Debuts Competition