Launch Week

15 Sep 2025

IFI@BrieryGap | Christy | Q&A Panel

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When

15 Sep 2025

Time

8pm start time | doors open from 7.30pm

15A

As part of launch week programming, Briery Gap is excited to confirm that we will be hosting a Q&A Panel as part of this screening. Director Brendan Canty & cast members Danny Power & Ian Tabone will be in attendance.

Film Synopsis | Seventeen-year-old CHRISTY is at a crossroads.  Kicked out of his suburban foster home, Christy moves in with his estranged older brother Shane and his young family.  As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork's working-class northside. As he makes friends and begins to let the community in, he also reconnects with his past through his seemingly more corrupting extended family, despite Shane’s efforts to protect him. Shane wants something better for Christy at any cost – even if it means he has to push him away.  As the brothers look to reconcile their turbulent past, their family and the community around them offer hope for Christy’s future.

When vulnerable 17-year-old Christy (Danny Power) is thrown out of foster care, he moves in with his estranged older brother Shane (Diarmuid Noyes), once troubled but now gainfully employed, with a loving partner (Emma Willis) and a new baby. Christy begins to feel at home in Knocknaheeny, reconnecting with reprobate cousins, making new friends, and finding a surprising niche for himself within the community. But the brothers must come to terms with the past before forging a bright future. This perfect gem of a film is funny, uplifting and so authentic in tone that it feels as if it has been co-authored by the community it represents (not least the rapping kids of the Kabin Crew).Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

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Brendan Canty proves that it takes a village to raise a child and a whole community to fix a directionless young adult

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Marta Bałaga | Cineuropa

Credits

Director | Brendan Canty

Writer | Alan O'Gorman

Cast | Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis

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