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Guest Country: Ireland

Helen

Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
Ireland / United Kingdom
 - 2008

An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to ‘play’ Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy’s last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Gradually Helen begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl’s life. But is Helen trying to find out what happened to Joy that day, or is she searching for her own identity?

DIRECTOR
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
SCREENPLAY
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ole Birkeland
EDITOR
Ben Slater, Christine Molloy
SOUND
Simon Gillman
MUSIC
Dennis McNulty
PRODUCTION
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Desperate Optimists
CAST
Annie Townsend, Daniel Groenland, Sonia Saville, Sandie Malia, Dennis Jobling, Sheila Hamilton, Betty Ashe, Gavin Huscroft
RUNNING TIME
79 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2008
COUNTRY
Ireland / United Kingdom

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