Arracht

An Irish fisherman faces a battle for survival during the potato famine in Tom Sullivan’s beautifully crafted debut.

As the season’s potato crops begin to fail Irish fisherman Coleman Sharkey faces a battle for survival. Caught between the threat of starvation from the growing scarcity of food and the rising price of rent from the occupying British landlords, Coleman goes to meet the landlords to plead that the rent rates remain the same. Yet as his request falls upon deaf ears the resulting fallout from the meeting will leave him at the brink of sanity and test his will to survive.

A hauntingly atmospheric tale of a nation pushed to its limit. Arracht evocatively transports us to mid-19th century rural Ireland with its use of dialogue spoken in the traditional Gaelic language, coupled with impeccably crafted shots of Ireland’s coastal landscapes.