PRAY FOR OUR SINNERS

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Director: Sinéad O’Shea

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Duration: 81 mins

Language: English

Genre: Documentary

Rating: M

Original Release:  10 September 2022 (Toronto)

 

 

 

Through the stories of everyday citizens resisting the status quo, Pray For Our Sinners, the new documentary from filmmaker and journalist, Sinéad O’Shea confronts Ireland’s recent history of brutality against children and women from corporal punishment to state-sanctioned mother and baby homes.

O’Shea returns to her hometown in rural Ireland to explore the control the Catholic church held there until recent years and uncovers the gentle but extraordinary figures who chose to resist.

This is a portrait of genuine bravery, hope and love.

 

WINNER – Documentary Feature – Hamptons International Film Festival 2022
NOMINEE – Best Documentary – Chicago International Film Festival 2022

 

“Its power lies in its intimacy and, ultimately, in its cautious hopefulness” – Donald Clarke, Irish Times

 

“The nation of Ireland is vastly different now, but O’Shea shows this change was not inevitable, but the effect of courageous dissidents” – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian