Colm Bairéad | Ireland | 2021 | 94’ 

This is a beguiling, exquisite and multi-award-winning Irish-language drama, a fi rst feature from director Colm Bairéad. The quiet girl is Cáit (the remarkable Catherine Clinch), one of an ever-expanding brood of neglected kids on an impoverished smallholding in early-80s rural Ireland. With her mother expecting yet another baby, and her father skulking sullenly in the background like an unspoken threat, Cáit is sent to stay with distant relatives. A truly beautiful and compassionate fi lm.

£7.70 (£5.90)