A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot (2017)

Original title

A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

Directed by

Sinéad O'Shea

Genre

documentary film

Country

Northern Ireland

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows an Irish family in Derry over five years. The mother helped arrange a punishment shooting of her own son to keep him safe from worse violence. The film looks at how the Troubles still shape daily life and family choices long after the peace deal.

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What happens

A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot is a 2017 documentary film written and directed by Sinéad O'Shea. Filmed over a period of five years, it tells the story of the O'Donnell family in Derry. Their older son Philly had received a punishment shooting from a paramilitary group. His mother had helped organise it to prevent a worse fate happening to him. The film explores the effects and ramifications of this, along with the sociopolitical background of The Troubles in Ireland, which, however, officially ended in 1998, and how communities remain affected after the Good Friday Agreement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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