A WANT IN HER
Friday, February 27 • 2:15 PM • T2
Documentary Feature | Feature Directorial Debut | Award Winner | Woman Writer & Director | Irish Language
Screening generously sponsored by Meredyth A. Woody
When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, visual artist and filmmaker Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house, and a history that threatens to take everyone down—including herself. Filmed over seven months and interweaving intimate family interactions with visually striking footage and her own childhood home movies, this award-winning directorial debut lays bare the effects of alcoholism, depression and unresolved family trauma in a raw, immersive, and fearless portrayal of the filmmaker’s complex relationship with her mother.
DIR Myrid Carten; PROD Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisín Geraghty, Kat Mansoor; CAST Myrid Carten, Nuala Carten, Kevin Gallagher; DOP Donna Wade, Myrid Carten, Seán Mullan; SCORE Clarice Jensen. Ireland, 2025, color, 81 min. In English and Irish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AWARDS: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Best Feature Documentary, Best Debut Director, and the Raindance Maverick Award; Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF): Best Documentary and Audience Award
“A daughter’s shattering testament to her mother’s absence, presence and endurance…Extraordinary…Raw, searing” – Variety
“A reclaim of the artistic values within documentary making, elevating its impact beyond mere reporting on facts and events; it exposes complexities and emotions, while maintaining a near-religious focus on the subject of inquiry” – The People’s Movies
“Clearly impresses as a debut…A remarkably realist work” – Cineuropa
“Raw, emotionally devastating documentary…Catches the beauty, love and even humour that so often make a fragile nest in the midst of miser…The work of an artist, one who is making her own rules about how to tell this story, far from documentary dogmas” – Screen Daily
Funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, BFI Doc Society, Netherlands Film Fund, New Dawn Fund, Inland Films, and Basalt Film.
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Myrid Carten is an Irish filmmaker who makes works for cinemas and galleries. She trained in Artists’ Film at Goldsmiths University London and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Her work interrogates both the struggle for intimacy and the ways we are compromised by our pasts. She received the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award 2018-19. Her films have screened internationally and been supported by the BFI, Doc Society, Screen Ireland, NI Screen, New Dawn Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund. A WANT IN HER is her debut feature.
DINNER AND A MOVIE DEAL
Our festival partner, McGinty's Public House, has generously offered an ongoing discount from February 27 through March 2 for all CIFF ticket holders! When you dine at the restaurant, show your CIFF ticket or pass for a 10% off discount on your bill. Located just around the corner from AFI Silver Theatre, McGinty's (911 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910) is the perfect place to grab a bite to eat between screenings.
The Capital Irish Film Festival is supported by the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, Culture Ireland, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Embassy of Ireland, Northern Ireland Bureau, Northern Ireland Screen, and the Irish Film Institute’s IFI International Programme supported by Culture Ireland. Solas Nua is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
