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Wren Boys

2017 · 11 min Drama
7.4 / 10 · TMDB

Shane returns to his small Irish hometown for Christmas, fresh out of prison for a crime no one dares to name. He is met not with welcome, but with a wall of silence and the averted eyes of old acquaintances. The only one who breaks the quiet is his teenage nephew, whose probing questions about the past refuse to be silenced. They embark on the traditional St. Stephen's Day 'hunt,' a ritual where festive custom thinly veils the deep-seated family secrets and the heavy, unspoken guilt that has settled over the community like a frost.

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Year 2017
Country United Kingdom
Genre Drama
Director Harry Lighton
Runtime 11 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.4/10 (14 votes)

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This concise Irish drama transforms personal atonement into a collective parable about memory and forgiveness. Every frame, from the gloomy peat bogs to the cramped pubs, breathes with the weight of the unspoken, with performances built on eloquent silence.

What lingers after the credits is a quiet resonance—the realization that some wounds don't heal but are merely buried under the routine. A film about the burden of silence, which can sometimes speak the loudest. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Harry Lighton

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The damp chill of an Irish winter, muted landscape tones, a heavy quiet in crowded rooms.

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