IRENE’S GHOST

Winner of the Best Feature Documentary award at SMHAF 2019. The screening is followed by a Q&A with director Iain Cunningham, Catharine Carver from Action on Postpartum Psychosis and Clare Thompson from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.

After the birth of his own child, director Iain Cunningham is inspired to find out the truth about the mother he never knew. Irene died when Iain was only three, and the family silence meant that she was alive only his imagination. This poignant documentary merges filmed and animated sequences as it movingly rebuilds a lost life.