At Home and Abroad

Brendan Canty & Patrick Murray ~ Christy The debut feature from accomplished music video director Brendan Canty (Hozier’s "Take Me to Church") mines humor and heart for a crowd-pleasing drama that resists typical social realist pitfalls. ​Seventeen-year-old Christy (Danny Power) is at a crossroads. Kicked out of his latest suburban foster home, he returns to his old neighborhood to live with his estranged half-brother Shane (Diarmuid Noyes) and his young family, stirring up memories of their difficult childhood for both of them. As far as Shane is concerned, the arrangement is temporary—but Christy begins to find himself and a sense of home on Cork's working-class northside. As he makes friends and begins to let the community in, he also reconnects with his destructive extended family despite Shane’s best efforts to steer him away. After so many years apart, the brothers need to find a way to reconcile their turbulent past while deciding what the future looks like in a powerful story of brotherhood, belonging, second chances and finding your place in the world.