17-26 Oct 2025
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A want in her
Myrid Carten / Irlanda / 2024 / 81 minute
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A want in her
What is it like to grow up with an alcoholic mother? The film invites us into the most intimate details of a family living under the weight of this burden. The most unexpected turning point comes when the daughter realizes that, in trying to save her mother, she risks losing herself.
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18 OCT, 17:30 – 18:51

AstraFilm Cinema
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25 OCT, 11:00 – 12:21

AstraFilm Cinema
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Film Details

Set between the ruins of the childhood home and intimate archives, the film paints a visceral portrait of the director’s mother, marked by 28 years of alcoholism, and unfolds as a personal meditation on the cultural roots of addiction in Ireland. When the father’s illness leaves the mother in the care of her daughter and son, their attempt to save her gradually spirals into self-destruction, until the siblings make the painful decision to let go. Through an expressive visual language — fish-eye lenses, ghostly sequences, self-reflexivity on TV screens — and unexpected performative moments, the film becomes a shared act of therapy, where love, guilt, and release intertwine in a symbolic gesture of liberation through the demolition of the family home.
Producer
Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisín Geraghty, Kat Mansoor
Production House
Editor
Sound
Morgan Muse
Cinematographer
Donna Wade, Sean Mullan
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