CHRISTY

Special Features: Closing Night | East Coast Premiere | Post-screening reception offsite

Seventeen-year-old Christy (Danny Power) is at a crossroads. Kicked out of his latest suburban foster home, he returns to his old neighborhood to live with his estranged half-brother Shane (Diarmuid Noyes) and his young family, stirring up memories of their difficult childhood for both of them. As far as Shane is concerned, the arrangement is temporary — but Christy begins to find himself and a sense of home on Cork’s working-class northside. As he makes friends and begins to let in the community, Christy also reconnects with his destructive extended family, despite Shane’s best efforts to steer him away. After so many years apart, the brothers need to find a way to reconcile their turbulent past while deciding what the future looks like. CHRISTY is a powerful story of brotherhood, belonging, second chances and finding your place in the world. In his debut feature, accomplished music-video director Brendan Canty (Hozier’s “Take Me to Church”) mines humor and heart for a crowd-pleasing drama that resists typical social realist pitfalls. The film won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus Jury at the 2025 Berlinale and Best Irish Film at the 2025 Galway Film Fleadh. DIR/SCR Brendan Canty; SCR Alan O’Gorman; PROD Marina Brackenbury, Meredith Duff, Rory Gilmartin. Ireland/UK, 2025, color, 94 min. NOT RATED

Run Time: 94 Minutes

Opening Date: Sunday, March 01, 2026

Genre: Comedy, drama

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