Small Things Like These / Rudan Beaga Mar Sin
Dir: Tim Meilants 2024 Ireland / Belgium /United States. 1hr 38min, Language: English and Irish Gaelic with English subtitles BBFC:12
Small Things Like These takes placeover Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong(Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in histown, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries --horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women. Tha Rudan Beaga Mar Sin a’ gabhail àite aig àm na Nollaig 1985, nuair a tha Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) fear a tha dìleas dha chlann mar phàrant, a’ faighinn a-mach gu bheil dìomhaireachd mu rudan cianail borb, air cùl dhorsan ionad nam ban-chràbhaidh sa bhaile. Tha cuid dhiubh a’ bualadh air fhèin gu pearsanta. Tha am film ag innse na fìrinn mu àite obrach nam Magdalene an Èirinn -àitichean sgriosail a bha aig an Eaglais Chaitligeach eadar 1820-1996 airson boireannaich a bha air “tuiteam le leanabh” a threòrachadh air an t-slighe mhoralta.
Headland / Rubha
Dir: Mariana Duarte, Scottish Doc Institute, 2024 13min
A nature reserve on the English Channel is a place of wonder and solace, shaped and haunted by violence. A sensitive look at life on a pebble beach reclaimed from the ocean, HEADLAND interweaves the age-old tradition of sea rescues with contemporary migrant crossings, as witnessed by the last of the Dungeness fishermen. The film is a camera-on-land perspective on migratory movements, as opposed to the water, where people seeking safety face life-altering journeys. ‘S e àite làn iontais agus sòlais a th’ ann an tèarmain nàdair air Caolas na Frainge. Tha e air a chruthachad agus a’ tathachadh le ainneartas. Tha HEADLAND a’ fighe an seann traidisean de teasargainnean mara cuide ri croisean imrich an latha an-diugh. ‘S e beatha air mol air a thoirt air ais on chuan, mar a chunnaic am fear mu dheireadh de na h-iasgairean à Dungeness, a tha an sealladh mothachail seo. ‘S e prospaig càmara-air-tìr air gluasadan imrich a tha am film, an aghaidh uisge, anns a bheil daoine a’ sireadh sàbhailteachd a’ dèiligeadh ri tursan a dh’atharraicheas am beatha.
