Project Detail

I Am Belfast

Synopsis

"Belfast, it’s a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself." Mark Cousins.
A unique film about an infamous place, with this 10,000 year old woman as our free spirited walking tour guide. Starting in the here and now, with the everyday, we move on to the dream life of the city, mapping the voices of women and the liminal spaces, the unnoticed and the unloved things about this place. But she also looks back and she sees the tragedy and the horror of what went before. She remembers everything… 'I Am Belfast' highlights Mark Cousins’ influences, inherently cinematic, but all the while underscored by the influence of the grandparents, the mothers, the brothers and the women of the city he comes from.
Belfast Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Features
Running time
84 mins
Director
Mark Cousins
Producer
John Archer, Chris Martin
Executive Producer
Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Editor
Timo Langer
Screenwriter
Mark Cousins
Director of Photography
Christopher Doyle, Mark Cousins
Production Designer
Shane Bunting
Sound
Marty Harrison
Composer
David Holmes, featuring Van Morrisson
Principal cast
Helena Bereen, Felicity McKee, Richard Buick, Shane McCaffrey

Genre

Production Status

Production Company

A Hopscotch Films and Canderblink Film production

Sales Company

New Europe Film Sales

Jan Naszewski
Czerniakowska 73/79
00-718 Warsaw
Poland

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