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THE BLACK GUELPH

By John CONNORS, Paul ROE

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Drama - Completed 2023

Kanto, a small time drug dealer trying to get off the streets whose long absent father Cormac, an industrial school survivor, returns home looking for forgiveness and reconciliation.

Festivals
& Awards

Oldenburg Film Festival 2022
WINNER Outstanding Performance by an Actor
Oldenburg Film Festival 2022
WINNER German Independence Audience Award
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Crime
    • Countries
    • IRELAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 125 mn
    • Director(s)
    • John CONNORS, Paul ROE
    • Writer(s)
    • John CONNORS, Tiernan WILLIAMS
    • Producer(s)
    • Kevin GLYNN, Sean KELLY, Maria O'NEILL, Dylan STAGNO, Tiernan WILLIAMS
    • Synopsis
    • 1300AD in Florence Italy, a battle for the hearts
      and minds of society raged between two
      groups. The White Guelphs and Black Guelphs.
      The Black Guelphs supported the Papacy's
      influence on the economic welfare of the
      Florentine people. Hundreds of years later in
      Ireland during the aftermath of the biggest
      sexual abuse scandal in the history of the State.
      They did it again...

      Canto is thirty years old, actively dealing drugs while
      suffering from mental health issues when his girlfriend Leah,
      kicks him out. Leah sick of his antics and his criminal lifestyle
      tries to shield her daughter Rachel from Canto's negative
      influence. Canto is forced to turn to the streets for help as he
      always has done. Dan, Canto's father comes back to the area
      and tries to reconnect with Canto, who outright rejects him
      for abandoning him when he was a child.
      Dan then begins to become somewhat of a surrogate father
      to Virgil who he meets outside a derelict industrial school
      where Dan is rough sleeping. Virgil lives alone with his
      mother Beatrice on a barge. Dan and Beatrice become
      entangled romantically, two addicts seeing both their own
      reflections in one another and internal motivation to find
      peace. Canto's drug debts to a local enforcer are piling up
      and a game of cat and mouse ensues, survival hangs in the
      balance.

      This film is inspired by Dante's Inferno and the seventh
      terrace of lust. The symbolism of unresolved sexualised
      trauma permeates down through the generations and flows
      deep within the psyche.

      A single act of violence perpetuates another and the original
      sin, a case of childhood clerical sex abuse, creates a domino
      effect where the fear of intimacy and human connection is
      handed down by father to son. The seventh terrace of
      Dante's inferno will only free the suffering soul when they
      are brave enough to let go of fear, lust and their ego. One is
      just to speak with sincerity and integrity, allowing honesty to
      pass from one's lips to offer compassion to another's ear.

      This simple act of humanity casts out
      the inner demons, but conversely what
      isn't said also becomes the root of a
      never-ending and self-perpetuating
      cycle of intergenerational despair. The
      origins of such long forgotten, what
      isn't said ultimately becomes the
      symptom...
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