CHRISTY
Feature Film Selection 2026
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1h 35m
Ireland, United Kingdom
Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. He's just been thrown out of his pleasant suburban foster home and moved in with his estranged older brother Shane. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork's working-class north side. 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 steer him away from this crowd. Shane wants something better for Christy at any cost – even if it means he has to push him away. After so many years apart, the brothers need to now reconcile their turbulent past whilst deciding what the future looks like.
Directed by: Brendan Canty
Written by: Alan O'Gorman
Produced by: Marina Brackenbury, Meredith Duff, Rory Gilmartin
Cinematography: Colm Hogan
Editing: Allyn Quigley
Production Design: Martin Goulding
Costume Design: Hannah Bury
Make-Up & Hair: Jennie Readman, Edwina Kelly
Original Score: Daithí O'Dronai
Sound: Bob Brennan
Casting: Amy Rowan
Cast: Danny Power (Christy), Diarmuid Noyes (Shane), Emma Willis (Stacey)
Production:
Sleeper Films
World Sales:
Charades
https://www.charades.eu
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