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Quick summary
- Price
- £4 full price | £3.50 Nifties
- Audience type
- 12+
- Running time
- 1 hour 39 minutes
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Event description
Taking place over Christmas in 1985, devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his small Irish town, along with some shocking truths of his own.
Adapted from Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated book, the film reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.”
Wednesday Matinees
This screening is part of our Wednesday Matinees programme – monthly Wednesday afternoon film screenings.
Art Centre Washington’s film programme is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
