Short movie – Ireland Production year: 2005 Movie length: 21 minutes
Director: Colm Bairéad Writer: Colm Bairéad
Movie description:
A moving examination of a father-son relationship in the aftermath of a devastating family tragedy.
»Mac an Athar« is the moving story of Seán Ó’Gallchóir, a 12 year-old boy raised through the Irish language in the northside suburbs of Dublin city. Ever since the death of his mother, Seán has not spoken a word of Irish to his father Tomás, a campaigner for the language in the local community. But as Seán begins to see the toll her death has taken on his father, a transformation begins ...