FIDIL GHORM (BLUE FIDDLE)
Sunday, March 2 • 1:10 PM • T2
In Loving Memory of Anne Mitchell | The screening will include a special guest appearance by musician/actor Edith Lawlor and will feature live music.
Dramatic Feature | Irish Language | East Coast Premiere | Award Winner | Woman Director
10-year-old Molly believes that, if she can learn to play the fiddle like her father once did, she will be able to wake him from a coma. Whilst in the coma, her dad is moved to a rehab center where Molly, her mother and her brother Jack visit him daily. After the doctor tells her mother that it would probably take a miracle to wake him, Molly becomes curious and inquires about miracles. Her mother tells her that miracles are a kind of magic, and Molly’s imagination goes into overdrive. One day in the rehab home, Molly hears an elderly grumpy man called Malachy play the fiddle beautifully. She is told that he has “magic in his hands” and had once been a champion fiddler. After Molly persuades Malachy to teach her to play the fiddle, they go in search of the miracle and magic that only music can bring.
DIR Anne McCabe; SCR Patricia Forde; PROD Pierce Boyce, Bríd Seoighe. Ireland, 2024, color, 84 min. In Irish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AWARDS: Winner Best Irish First Feature - Galway Film Fleadh 2024
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Anne Mc Cabe is the director of FIDIL GHORM, a new Cine4 feature film in Irish. She is an experiences drama director, having worked with three national broadcasters over the last thirty years, RTÉ, TG4, and TV3. Her credits include J.J. BIKER, a film about a little girl making her dying father's dream come true starring Brendon Gleeson and Liam Carney, which won the Golden Rose Award at the Bulgarian Film Festival; THEY CALL MY MAMMY NOW, a drama documentary with Liam Cunningham about AIDS orphans in inner-city Dublin, which won a Jacob's Award; and the crime drama series DECEPTION for TV3 (Virgin Media).
Edith Lawlor is the winner of the U12 Fiddle Competition at Dublin Fleadh 2022, and makes her debut acting appearance in FIDIL GHORM.
The Capital Irish Film Festival is supported by the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, Culture Ireland, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Embassy of Ireland, Northern Ireland Bureau, Northern Ireland Screen, and the Irish Film Institute’s IFI International Programme supported by Culture Ireland. Solas Nua is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
