From 20 March 2025

Small Things Like These Small Things Like These

Tim Mielants / Ireland, USA, Belgium / 2024 / 98 min / English

Ireland, 1985. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) works as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and their five daughters. While delivering coal to the local convent of the Magdalene Sisters, he begins to suspect that the girls' school they run is in fact a cruel and exploitative laundry ... The film, which is based on Claire Keegan's novel of the same name, opened the Berlinale.

cast Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Eileen Walsh

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