Director Niall McKay s The Ferry has qualified for the short live action Academy long list.
Described as a darkly comic mystery with a twist, the film focuses on a young woman who battles ancient forces of church and state in a bid to find her birth mother. It reveals many women s struggles with losing their children to mother and baby homes. The Ferry is a short drama that explores the themes of secrecy, family, loss and regeneration set against the backdrop of the mother and baby homes in small town Ireland. It was shot on location in Shillelagh and Tinahely, Gorey in Co Wexford and in Crooke, Co Waterford.
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