The films of the 18th Festival

Garage

Irlande - 2007 - 85 min - couleurs

Director : Lenny Abrahamson
Screenplay : Mark O’Halloran
Image : Peter Robertson
Montage : Isobel Stephenson
Production : Ed Guiney
Cast : Pat Shortt, Anne-Marie Duff, Conor Ryan, Don Wycherley, Andrew Bennett, Denis Conway
Distribution: Mk2

Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station in a small town in Ireland. But then over the course of a summer, Josie’s world shifts. A teenager, David, comes to work with him. They open up to each other and thanks to David’s friendship, Josie is awakened to needs in himself that have never been met. And Carmel, from the local shop, who has always been kind to him, stirs feelings within him that he struggles to name…

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