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Reel Time: Small Things Like These

From the film Small Things Like These

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.

Small Things Like These
2024 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 38m
Director: Tim Mielants

Oscar® winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as a devoted father in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.  These incidents are drawn from the real-life Magdalene Laundries, in which Catholic nuns around Ireland separated unmarried and pregnant women from their children, until the last one closed in 1996. 
 

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door (Feb/March/April/May)
February 3: Small Things Like These
March 3: All We Imagine as Light
April 7: Universal Language
May 5: In the Summers