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HYDEBANK

By Ross MCCLEAN

NORTHERN IRELAND SCREEN - as FIN

Documentary - Completed 2019

Governing the Northern Irish countryside, Hydebank Wood currently houses 104 young male offenders. Ryan, currently serving a 10 year sentence, has formed an unlikely bond with the prison's flock of sheep. Through their interactions, Ryan attempts to come to terms with the violent act that led him he

Festivals
& Awards

GALWAY FILM FLEADH 2019
Best Short Documentary
IDFA 2020
London Short Film Festival 2020
Best Short Documentary
Palm Spring Fest. 2020
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2020
Leipzig Film Festival 2020
HotDocs 2020
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 16 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ross MCCLEAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Chris KELLY (Little Ease)
    • Synopsis
    • Young Ryan keeps a dozen sheep on his own little farm. They are a special breed, with long ears that stand up straight. They’re very cute, especially the lambs, which Ryan bottle feeds.

      It’s all very innocent, you would think, were it not for the fact that Ryan tends this flock within the walls of the Young Offenders Center. This is a prison for young people between the ages of 18 and 21, part of Hydebank Wood Prison just outside Belfast.

      We see him doing his laundry, calling his mother and walking back and forth from the makeshift barn to his cell. Along the way, he talks about his life in prison and how he ended up here. His grandfather, his uncle and his father have also been in prison. We never actually find out what crime he committed—only that it was grim, and that it still haunts him.
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