| More
HOME / Festival 2012 films calendar workshops laboJEFF juries prizes practical info masterclass

The Race

8+
André F. Nebe, Ireland/Germany, 2009
90 min, Dutch subtitles

This film is preceded by the short film Washdays.

Eleven-year-old Mary is not like other girls; she dreams about becoming a car racer. When a car race is organised in the village, she simply has to take part! Together with her best friend Tom she tries to construct the winning go-kart. But suddenly Tom has to leave, her mother is tired of farm life and her father refuses to help her. Everything seems to go wrong, until her dad tells her a secret from his childhood.

Scenario/Screenplay: Rowan O' Neill
Fotografie/DOP: Dirk Morgenstern
Montage/Editing: Diana Karsten, Dirk Schwarz
Cast/Cast : Colm Meaney, Susan Lynch, Niamh McGirr, Jonathan Mason