Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill follows the daily struggles of a community of sheep farmers as they negotiate the mountainous terrain of the Beara Peninsula. Farmers Connie and John Doyle work alongside their neighbours, the Vanmechelens, who arrived in Ireland in the 1980s from the Drowned Land of Saeftinghe in Holland/Belgium leaving behind a farm which lay too close to the Doel nuclear power station. Archival media from Belgium and Holland is interwoven with present-day observational footage from West Cork, connecting disparate times and places, provoking reflection, and inspiring action for a more sustainable future.

REVIEW

“An aging community of hill sheep farmers, steeped in generations of  knowledge and tradition, but bypassed by modern farming and global  economics…refuse to bend the knee to the inevitable.”

“A new film highlights how the methods of the sheep farmers of the Beara Peninsula haven’t changed in centuries, but with an ageing profile and few willing successors, a whole community could soon be lost for ever” —Irish Independent


Post Show Discussion Will Follow

Mieke Vanmechelen, Director

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Credits

DIRECTOR(S)Mieke Vanmechelen , Michael Holly
PRODUCER(S)Fierce Quiet Films
SCREENWRITER(S)Mieke Vanmechelen

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PREMIERE STATUS: US
YEAR: 2023
RUN TIME: 87 Minutes
LANGUAGES: English

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