Writer and Director: Orla Walsh
Producer: Paul Donovan
With: Magael Mac Laughlin
A powerful drama about a prisoner's wife in Belfast in 1987. Set on the day of a visit to her husband, a long-term Republican prisoner.
Reviews
"Neither propagandist or judgmental."
The Arts Show, RTE Radio 1
"Fledgling director Orla Walsh's debut packs breathtaking tension and emotional turmoil into little more than 20 minutes."
Belfast Telegraph
"This thought-provoking 20 minute short broached serious issues that the women of the North must face in their lives. Walsh's direction was one of sensitivity, which was demonstrated through her gentle and clear-cut approach to a delicate subject matter."
Film Ireland
"The Visit is Orla Walsh's very polished directorial debut. It's a sympathetic and, at times, moving evocation of her life sentence of virtual widowhood and her attempt to seek self-definition beyond the reference points of her man and her perceived role in the nationalist community."
Irish Times
Awards
Film Base/RTE Short Film Award, 1992
Arts Council Film Award, 1992
Cultural Traditions Group Media Prize, 1992
Best Film (Educational Politics), Oberhausen Film Festival, 1993
Best Actress, Brest Film Festival, 1993
Best Film and Best Actress, Huy, Belgium, 1993
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