A 10-year-old runs a dairy farm in secret—what could possibly go wrong? Everything.
When her mother dies, a 10-year-old girl secretly runs the family dairy farm to help her distraught father, until it becomes too much.
Acting
Caragh McKenna carries impossible weight beautifully
Direction
Kemperman balances absurdity and tragedy masterfully
Cinematography
Misty Irish countryside becomes a character
Director
Janna Kemperman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on a working dairy farm in County Cork with local non-professionals as background farmers.
Part of a wave of post-recession Irish shorts exploring rural childhood and economic precarity; Shadow premiered at Cork Film Festival 2022.
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