Pray For Our Sinners
Irish filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea returns to her hometown to explore the historically shameful treatment of women and children by church and state in this intensely moving documentary.
The town of Navan, just west of Dublin, like many other communities in recent Irish history lived under the iron control of the Catholic church and officialdom. Contraception and abortion were banned, pregnant teens faced harsh punitive treatment, beatings were the norm for wayward kids. Award-winning director O’Shea is no stranger to difficult topics, as evidenced by her previous film A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot (SFF 2018). Nonetheless, amongst the brutality and hurt, O’Shea undercovers stories of kindness and resistance, from doctors who surreptitiously helped young mothers-to-be to impassioned campaigners against corporal punishment. 
- Program Strand
- International Documentaries
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- Unclassified 18+
- Country
- Ireland
- Language
- In English
- Director
- Sinéad O'Shea
- Producer
- Sinéad O'Shea, Maya Derrington
- Cinematographer
- Andrew Cummins, Brian Moore, Michael Lavelle, Enda O'Dowd
- Editor
- Enda O’Dowd
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Documentary, Women Directors, Focus on Women, Religion & Belief
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: Dogwoof
