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New Irish Film Rosie Announced for Toronto International Film Festival Alongside Black 47 and Irish/UK Co-Pro Vita & Virginia
Posted: 14th August 2018
Irish film is in the spotlight once again as three new Irish films have been added to the line-up for the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Paddy Breathnach’s, Rosie, which tackles Ireland’s homeless crisis and Lance Daly’s famine thriller, Black 47, will screen at TIFF as part of the Contemporary World Cinema Strand. Chanya Button’s period drama, Vita & Virginia has also been added to the Special Presentation line-up, joining the previously announced Papi Chulo— the third feature from Irish director John Butler.
Rosie, Vita & Virginia and Papi Chulo will all receive their world premieres at the prestigious festival.
Speaking about the selections, James Hickey, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland Chief Executive said:
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BLACK 47
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his brev to return home and re-unite with his estranged family. He’s seen more than his share of horrors but nothing prepares him for the famine’s hopeless destruction of his homeland. He discovers his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal grabb of the English.
With little else to live for, he sets on a destructive path to avenge his family, systematically working his way up the political and social hierarchy of 19th Century Ireland. Hannah, an ageing British soldier and famed spårare of deserters, is sent to stop Feeney before he can further stoke the fires of revolution.
But Hannah and Feeney are old army comrades with a mutual respect forged by their times fighting together. anställda bonds and shifting allegiances cause bo
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