Saturday 08th February 2025
Location: Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny. R95 D320
New Ross, 1985. Bill Furlong is a hard-working coal merchant, doing his best to support his family amid the challenging conditions of 1980s Ireland. In the lead-up to Christmas, Bill makes a morning delivery to the local convent. There, an encounter with one of the convent’s traumatised residents shakes him to his very core. It forces him to ask questions about the nuns’ conduct that nobody else dares say aloud.

Based on Claire Keegan’s novel, Small Things Like These explores one man’s efforts to confront the culture of silence and complicity in Catholic Ireland. Starring Cillian Murphy in his first leading role since his Oscar-winning turn in Oppenheimer, the film also features Emily Watson as the convent’s powerful Mother Superior.

Festivals:
Berlin Film Festival, 2024 (Opening Film)

Awards:
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance (Emily Watson) – Berlin Film Festival, 2024

Dir: Tim Mielants
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson
Film info: 96 mins. Ireland / Belgium. 2024. TBC (IFCO) / TBC (BBFC)
Cillian Murphy has brought to the screen a piercingly painful and sad story with a very literary intensity
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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