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Super Takes North America On Ireland’s Oscar Entry ‘The Quiet Girl’ From Director Colm Bairéad

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Super has taken North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s award-winning drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), which was recently announced as Ireland’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards and selected for the 2022 European Film Awards.The film is based on the story “Foster” by Irish author Claire Keegan, who has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

It’s set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows the quiet, neglected girl, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer.

She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.The Quiet Girl premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film.

It then claimed the Audience Award and Best Irish Film award at the Dublin Film Festival and went on to garner seven Irish Film & Television Academy Awards including Best Film, Director and Lead Actress.

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