10TH BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL

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OCTOBER COUNTRY
IRELAND PREMIERE

QFT
Monday 26 April 7.15pm
£6.50/£6.00

Director: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher / USA / 2009 / 80 mins / Print source: Wishbone Films


	Shot over the course of a year from one Halloween to the next, the film presents three generations of a working class American family in upstate New York. The film details many of the personal trials and tribulations of the Mosher family but, on a universal level, provides an honest insight into what is often too simply described as America’s obsession with violence. The film is both a cinematic poem and a dramatic record of the impact of everything from the Vietnam War to present day economic recession on one family; the grandfather is a vet who tells no war stories but watches war movies, the grandmother an eloquent rock of support, the daughter struggling to bring up two girls of her own. One of the girls struggles to avoid abusive relationships and the other an example of natural intelligence, creativity and curiosity trying to understand the world around her. Engrossing, rich, multi-layered and stunning to watch, this first feature leaves you feeling like you’ve read a seriously good book. Winner of Best US Documentary AFI, Silverdocs