The Quiet Girl

A quiet film, much like its heroine, about how little a person needs to feel seen and needed.

Rural Ireland in the early 1980s. Nine-year-old Cáit grows up in a troubled large family where she is almost invisible. When her parents send her to stay with distant relatives for the summer, she finds herself for the first time in a home where adults genuinely care that she exists.

Colm Bairéad tells this simple story in a conspiratorial whisper, careful not to disturb the laziness and warmth of summer. Out of small everyday moments emerges a moving story about how people of any age change when they are finally noticed.

🏆 Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.