A screening of Promise and Unrest by Aine O’Brien and Alan Grossman

The film offers a longitudinal exploration (over a five-year period) of a mother-daughter relationship, cross-cutting between the Philippines and Ireland. It is narrated by mother and daughter as they negotiate their relationship, having spend 15 years apart and are recently reunited through a migrant ‘family reunification’ policy. It captures the often invisible and unexpressed emotions and dynamics set in motion by long distance motherhood in the context of migration.

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