Ireland, Northern Ireland, 2025
Running time: 91’
Director: Damian McCann; writers: Sarah Gordon, Damian McCann; cinematography: Damien Elliott; editing: Sorcha Nic Giolla Mhuire; production design: Patrick Creighton; music: Daithí; casting: Sarah Jones; producers: Órfhlaith Ní Chearnaigh, Christopher Myers; production company: Puca Pictures. Irish location: Glenarm, Co. Antrim
With Carrie Crowley, Bríd Brennan, Eva-Jane Gaffney, Seán T Ó Meallaigh, Marcus Lamb, Art Parkinson, Frankie McCafferty
SYNOPSIS
Three unlikely thieves, led by a woman on the verge of a breakdown, rob a rural IrishCredit Union. Opening in the tragic aftermath of the heist-gone-wrong, the story uses reverse chronology to unravel the events that led to this point. What starts as a poorly executed robbery becomes a portrait of a wilful woman trapped in her own past.
DIRECTOR
Damian McCann is an award-winning Belfast-based director. He has been making documentaries in his native Irish language for almost twenty years, including four feature docs, most recently Iarsmaí (Remains, 2024), featuring Irish institutions wrestling with the decolonisation of historical collections acquired during the British colonial period. His first feature drama, Doineann (Hurricane, 2021) won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama. Premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2025, Aontas (Union) is his second feature drama.
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