“Reading the stories attached to these names, one becomes more and more convinced
that what’s embedded in them is not a history of her, but of us.
A grieving American filmmaker and her Irish assistant tour the west of Ireland, researching a film about Granuaile,
the legendary 16th century Pirate Queen. The two women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards a
remote Atlantic island, and boundaries begin to blur between past and present, myth and history, dream and reality.
Donal Foreman's genre-defying work, shot in beautiful 16mm, explores the concept of storytelling and its potential to
bring history to life.
* Asian Premiere