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The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) by Colm Bairéad
The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) by Colm Bairéad

Super acquired Colm Bairéad’s award-winning The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), Ireland’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards and also selected for the 2022 European Film Awards.

The Quiet Girl premiered at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix for Best Film of the Generation Kplus International Jury, as well as a Special Mention of the Children’s Jury in Generation Kplus. The film also won the Audience Award and Best Irish Film award at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival and went on to snag seven Irish Film & Television Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Actress.

The Quiet Girl is based on the highly-acclaimed story, Foster by Irish author, Claire Keegan, who has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; and stars newcomer, Catherine Clinch, alongside Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh.

Set in rural Ireland in 1981, a quiet, neglected girl, Cáit, 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.

Watch a clip from The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin).

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