Wildfire

Lauren and Kelly are two inseparable sisters, raised in a quiet small town in Northern Ireland, close to the Irish border between the independent republic in the south and the UK-province Northern Ireland in the north. The sister’s lives were shattered with the mysterious death of their mother.

Left to pick up the pieces after her sister abruptly disappeared, Lauren is suddenly confronted with the family’s dark and traumatic past when Kelly returns home after being reported missing for a whole year. With the intense sisterhood reignited, Kelly’s desire to unearth their history is not welcomed by all in the small town, as rumours and malice spread like wildfire, threatening to push them over the edge.

About the director:
Cathy Brady was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. Her debut short film Small Change (2010) won her an Irish Film and Television Academy Film & Drama Award. She has been working on several short films and - beside other works - contributed with an episode in 2011 for the Channel 4 anthology series Coming Up  and an episode for the British TV series Glue (2014). Gradually evolving into a director with bigger projects she directed the first season of the RTÉ2 television series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope (2016 & 2018) before releasing her first feature film with Wildfire in 2020.

Genre: Drama

Director and screenwriter: Cathy Brady

Starring: Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, among others

Country and production year: UK, Ireland, 2020

Length: 85 min

Language: English

In cooperation with the British Council and the British Embassy Stockholm