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When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. A Want In Her is an immersive, first person account of the cost of love, and how difficult it can be to escape.

“Raw, searing ... a daughter’s shattering testament to her mother’s absence, presence and endurance ... passages of cathartic beauty, grace and even humor.”
Variety “A profound reprocessing of personal archives and piercing conversations ... clearly impresses as a debut and could become essential viewing for anyone grappling with the indescribable complexities within a mother-daughter relationship.”
Cineuropa “Consistently compelling and impressive ... an example of how to make a strikingly original aesthetic statement from wrenchingly personal material.”
The Film Verdict
“The work of an artist, one who is making her own rules about how to tell this story, far from documentary dogmas ... A Want in Her is reminiscent, at times, of the work of Jonathan Glazer. But it’s too original and accomplished for such parallels to stick.”
Screen Daily“The term hybrid documentary scarcely does justice to the achievement of this picture, which aims rather to contribute to a wider discussion of what documentary and filmmaking at large can and will do.”
The People’s Movies“Miraculous ... a raw portrait of vulnerability and confrontation.”
Film Fest Report

Screenings



IDFA, Netherlands, 14-24 Nov 2024
Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 25 Jan-3 Feb 2025
DocPoint Helsinki, Finland, 4-9 Feb 2025 WINNER INTL COMPETITION
DocPoint Talinn, Estonia, 5-10 Feb 2025
DIFF, Ireland, 20 Feb-2 Mar 2025 WINNER INTL DOCUMENTARY, AUDIENCE AWARD
True/False, Missouri, US, 27 Feb-2 Mar 2025
MOMI First Look, New York, US, 12-16 Mar 2025
ZagrebDox, Croatia, 30 Mar-6 Apr 2025
Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy, 2-6 Apr 2025
One World Romania, Bucharest, Romania, 4-13 Apr 2025
Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Poland, 9-18 May 2025 SPECIAL JURY RECOGNITION
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival (HIFF), Canada, 28-31 May 2025
Sydney Film Festival, Australia, 4-15 Jun 2025
Shanghai International Film Festival, China, 13-22 Jun 2025
Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK, 18-23 Jun 2025
Dokufest Prizren, Kosovo, 1-9 Aug, 2025



Credits

Director ... Myrid Carten
Cinematograpy ... Donna Wade, Myrid Carten, Seán Mullan
Editor ... Karen Harley, edt
Story Editor ... David Barker
Consultant Editors ... Sabine Groenewegen, Michael Nollet, Maya Daisy Hawke
Producers ... Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisín Geraghty, Kat Mansoor
Co-Producer ... Eline van Wees
Sound Designer ... Morgan Muse
Sound Mix ... Mark Glynne
Composer ... Clarice Jensen
Producers

Inland Films
Snowstorm Productions
Basalt Film Funders

Screen Ireland
BFI
New Dawn
NL Film Fonds With the support of

NI Screen
Docs Ireland 
Stuart Croft Foundation
AEMI
IDFA Project Space
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