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.
Emily Watson won best supportingperformer at Berlin International Film Festival 2024
Seaforth/Sìophort
Director: JM MacAulay, Producer:Sorcha GroundsellExec Producer: Douglas Mackinnon,Duration: 15:30, Country of origin: Scotland, Language/s: Gaelic: English translation, Classification: 12
Thèid fear leis an dà-shealladh air atharraing dhan sìreadh bean-uasailairson an duine aice a tha air call, achcuiridh an fhìrinn a tha e a’ sealltainndàn brònach ann an gnìomh.Suidhichte an aghaidh an àrrainneachdgarbh nan Innse Gall, leanidhSìophort Coinneach Odhar, aonragandìomhaireach leis an dà-shealladh achaidh a shumanachadh le Bean-uasalShìophort gus an lorg an duine air callaice. Na thachair le iarraidh simplidhag atharrachadh gu lìn làn farmad,brathadh agus measadh spioradail,fhad ’s a tha na lèirsinneachdanChoinnich a’ sealltainn tuilleadh ‘s achòrr na tha duine sam bith deaseil a’seasamh ris. A man with second sight is drawn intoa noblewoman’s search for her missinghusband, but the truth he reveals sets atragic fate in motion.Set against the rugged backdrop ofthe Hebrides, Seaforth follows theBrahan Seer, a solitary mystic giftedwith second sight, who is summonedby Lady Seaforth to locate hermissing husband. What begins as asimple request unravels into a webof jealousy, betrayal, and spiritualreckoning, as Coinneach’s visionsreveal more than anyone is prepared toconfront.
Awards: Rhode Island InternationalFilm Festival (Selection)
