EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL: Christy (Ireland)

The 13th European Film Festival South Africa is here. Over 10 days across 4 cities, audiences will have the opportunity to see some of the best films in current European cinema, fresh from Cannes, Venice, Berlin and beyond. Featuring award-winning films by giants of European cinema alongside bold new voices and starring Europe’s biggest names: this year's films follow families of all kinds — biological, chosen, broken, rebuilding — fighting to hold together and carve out a future against everything working to pull them apart.

ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS WILL BE SCREENED WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

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Christy (Ireland)

Directed by Brendan Canty. Drama. 1hrs 34mins.

The debut feature from Brendan Canty picked up a slew of nominations and awards at this year’s Irish Film and TV Awards for its tender direction and impressive lead performance from Danny Power as the title character – a teenager with a murkily remembered tragic past, who after he’s kicked out of his latest foster home returns to Cork to stay with his estranged brother. As Christy tries to figure out his future, he soon learns things he would rather forget about his past, rediscovers the relationship with the brother he thought he didn’t really know and begins to imagine a home among people in a place he might yet grow to know and love.