When theater kids accidentally stage a real murder investigation in Troubles-era Derry.
A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on the doorstep, then real life intrudes in the shape of the police and security forces.
Direction
Gatti's documentary-fiction blur feels illegally intimate.
Acting
Non-professional Derry youth delivering devastating authenticity.
Writing
Script collapses rehearsal and reality until you can't tell which bleeds.
Director
Armand Gatti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gatti was a WWII resistance fighter who believed cinema should be collective political action—he literally built this workshop with Derry kids in 1982.
The film was banned in parts of UK for 'sympathizing with terrorists,' proving its central thesis that controlling narrative is violence itself.
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