These neighbours care about and watch over each other as best they can. She remembers how police wereĬonsequently, “no one’s touched her in months”, and Alice wonders if she ever will be touched again. She worries about being “caught” for the transgression of leaving her home and the moral judgements from her community should this happen. To escape her overwhelming feelings of despair and being trapped, Kate decides to take a late-night walk on the nearby fells. They have been unable to leave their house for the past ten days after she was exposed to a COVID case at work. One of the protagonists is Kate, a middle-aged woman living with her teenage son. Written from the perspective of four neighbours living in a village in the English Peak District, and set over a single winter’s night in 2020, The Fell presents a dark, claustrophobic portrayal of pandemic life. One of the first novels to explore life during the pandemic was The Fell by British author Sarah Moss, published in 2021. These stories operate as cautionary tales, holding humanity to account.ĬOVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11, 2020. It is not surprising, therefore, that since the days of medieval plague outbreaks, infectious diseases have attracted the imagination of novelists. Super more recently released Bianca Stigter’s critically acclaimed documentary Three Minutes – A Lengthening, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and went on to play at Telluride, TIFF and this year’s Sundance Film Festival.Pandemics force us to face our mortality, prompting profound questions about life’s meaning. The label’s principals Darcy Heusel and Dan O’Meara were the team behind Honeyland, which was the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year, and Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, which was also shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature. “As Ireland’s official entry for the 95th Academy Awards, we can’t wait to begin this new chapter and look forward to working with Darcy and Dan in connecting a whole new audience with our film.”Īn offshoot of Neon, Super earned its first Oscar nomination in 2021 for Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, which secured a slot in the category of Best International Feature Film. “We are thrilled to be partnering with SUPER in bringing The Quiet Girl to North America,” said Bairéad. Cleona Ní Chrualaoi produced for Inscéal, the production company she established alongside Bairéad in 2012. It was financed by Screen Ireland, the Irish-language broadcaster, TG4, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland through its Sound & Vision Funding Scheme, and Section 481 funding. Bairéad adapted the screenplay, with Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh rounding out the cast. The film was developed and produced as part of the Cine4 Irish-language feature film scheme. Pic has had a highly successful run in Irish and UK cinemas, via Break Out Pictures and Curzon respectively, recently passing €900k at the box office to become the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time, and one of the most critically and commercially successful Irish films of recent years. It then claimed the Audience Award and Best Irish Film award at the Dublin Film Festival and went on to garner seven Irish Film & Television Academy Awards including Best Film, Director and Lead Actress. The Quiet Girl premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film. Miles Warren-Directed 'Bruiser' Acquired By Disney's Onyx Collective Before TIFF Discovery Section Premiere
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