A Want in Her

BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmA Want in Her

Showing: 09 October 2025 until 16 October 2025

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Thu 9 Oct 2025
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Sun 12 Oct 2025
Mon 13 Oct 2025
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Wed 15 Oct 2025
Thu 16 Oct 2025

Certificate15
Year2024
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Myrid Carten
Writer(s)Myrid Carten
LanguageEnglish, Gaelic
CountryIreland, UK, Netherlands
Running Time1HR 22MINS
Season Main Programme

Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten's haunting feature debut presents a complex and unflinchingly honest portrait of her relationship with her alcoholic mother.

Carten’s film opens with a recording of a phone call she once made to her uncle, explaining that she had just seen her mother, Nuala, drunk on a bench in Belfast's city centre. ‘I knew straight away it was Mammy,’ she tells him, ‘cos of the heels’. The film goes on to use phone call recordings and eerily prescient old home movie footage, alongside elements of performance and video installation, to tease out a candid and confronting portrait of a mother-daughter relationship marked by addiction.

With a verité, handheld style that is often interrupted by the film's performative sequences (notably when Nuala plays herself), or some disquieting camera angles shot inside the family home, A Want in Her is at once furious and cathartic – an intricate and intense working-through of trauma and unconditional love.

All screenings will feature dialogue only subtitles.

The 6.00pm screening on Thu 9 Oct will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director Myrid Carten.

“Raw, searing... a daughter’s shattering testament to her mother’s absence, presence and endurance... passages of cathartic beauty, grace and even humor.” Variety


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