The films of the 18th Festival

Kings

GB - 2007 - 90 min - colors

Director : Tom Collins
Screenplay : P. J. Dillon
Montage : Dermot Diskin
Production : Jacqueline Larkin
Cast : Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Brendan Conroy, Donncha Crowley, Barry Barnes, Sean O’Tarpaigh

In the mid-70’s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home – but does so in a coffin. Jackie’s five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced to face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home.

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