Shadows on Our SkinShadows on Our Skin

Foyle Film Festival In Partnership With Bloody Sunday Trust Presents: Shadows On Our Skin.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with two cast members of Shadows On Our Skin, Macrae Clarke and Paul O’Reilly.

Rarely screened since its initial airing as part of the Play for Today series in 1980, Foyle Film Festival presents a fully restored version of this powerful and evocative portrait of 1970s Derry.

Based on Jennifer Johnston’s novel of the same name, Shadows on Our Skin tells the story of 11 year old Joe, growing up in the Bogside area of Derry in the midst of The Troubles. Frustrated with his disaffected family and the pervasive military presence, he finds his life expanded in new and potentially exciting ways after a chance meeting with school-teacher Kathleen.

Jim O’Brien | United Kingdom | 1980 | 79 mins