The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has selected Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) as its entry for the best international film category for the 2023 Oscars, in the first announced submission of the upcoming awards season.
The Irish-language work swept the IFTA awards last March to become the first debut feature to win best film, as well as clinch best director, actress, cinematography, editing, production design, and original score.
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, the coming-of-age drama stars Catherine Clinch as a quiet, neglected girl who is sent from her overcrowded, dysfunctional household to live with distant relatives for the summer.
She begins to blossom in their care but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
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