Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema Club-THE QUIET GIRL/AN CAILIN CIUIN

12-year-old Kait recounts a summer memory in Ireland in 1981. The youngest daughter of a poor and large family, who finds it even more challenging to cope when the mother becomes pregnant again, is given away for the summer months of the school holidays and until the birth to a couple of distant relatives without children, and with a carefully hidden tragic secret.

In his first feature fiction effort, Irish director Colum Baird lends image and voice to Claire Keegan's novel "Foster". With a tenure in documentary and television series, he manages to captivate the viewer with a story that is not based on plot but on atmosphere and emotions. Using the "dead" Irish language, the natural Irish landscape, and the mesmerizing silence of his actors, he composed a modest film with a substantial emotional displacement, a film that the viewer thinks he will watch and will take him elsewhere. A bittersweet, idyllic in appearance and melancholic in mood coming-of-age period, which wins impressions with its pure, tender emotions that, with its straightforward narrative, redefines concepts such as "home", "family", "belong", and "care".
The film is Ireland's first historical nomination in its mother tongue for the Oscar for Best International Film. The film is prefaced by the very active Messenian Writers' Union.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28th
THE BUSY GIRL - AN CAILIN CIUIN
Drama | K-13 | 2022 | Ir| 95'
directed by Colm Bairéad
starring: Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch
21:00 |  Thod. Angelopoulos Amphitheatre, Kalamata Labour Centre

General admission is 5 euros. Admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, those with multiple children and students, and free admission is for young people under 18