FESTIVALS:
* UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival
* CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark)
* European Film festival in Romania (Romania)
* Sydney Film Festival (The Rocks, NSW, Australia)
* New Zealand Film Festival Trust (Wellington , New Zealand)
* Bergen International Film Festival (Norway)
* Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
* FIFDH-Lugano (Switzerland)
* Festival Protesta (Barcelona, Spain)
* This Human World (Vienna, Austria)
* Watch Docs Festival (Warsaw, Poland)
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A Mother Brings her Son to be Shot
| Category | | Conflicts, Current Affairs, Ethnography, Human Interest, Human Rights, Investigative, Justice, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Women | | Year | | 2017 | | Country | | Ireland | | Running time | | 82’ | | Format | | HD | | Production | | Blinder Films Limited, Spring Films, SOS Productions | | Director | | Sinead O'Shea |
Filmed over five years, this unflinching darkly humorous documentary examines violence committed by groups opposed to the peace process in Northern Ireland, long after the Troubles came to an end. The title is no exaggeration.
This tenacious investigation focuses on a Derry mother subjecting her own drug-addicted teenage son to the punishment of dissident Republican paramilitaries, who respond to so-called antisocial behaviour with kneecap shootings and banishment.
Award-winning journalist Sinéad O’Shea gains access to a former IRA member-turned-community mediator to learn about everyday realities behind the headlines, asking: ‘What does it take for a war to really end?’.
The result is a finely balanced example of documentary filmmaking, featuring extraordinary moments such as a choreographed street display by masked gunmen. A compelling film, it gains resonance given the uncertain future of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing agreement – you have to keep reminding yourself that this is happening in the UK
REVIEWS:
"Paramilitary punishment shootings and beatings are rising. I found out what happened when a mother took her son to be kneecapped in Northern Ireland."
- by Sinéad O'Shea - The Guardian
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