Award-winning documentary coming to Mayo cinema

FOLLOWING its global festival journey, A Quiet Love, Ireland’s first feature documentary told entirely through Irish Sign Language, will be released in selected cinemas, including Mayo Movieworld, Castlebar, from February 27.

The documentary has enjoyed sold out screenings in Dublin, Cork and Belfast and a remarkable run on the international circuit since its world premiere at the 2025 Doc Edge Film Festival in New Zealand, where it won the category award 'Being Oneself'. It also picked up the Audience Choice Award at the San Diego International Film Festival, underscoring its powerful emotional resonance with global audiences.

A Quiet Love captures the remarkable love stories of three deaf couples told through Irish Sign Language: a decades-long forbidden romance across a religious divide, a same-sex couple navigating parenthood with deaf and hearing children, and a deaf boxer and his hearing partner facing a life-altering choice.

A Quiet Love is a cinematic celebration of resilience, connection, and enduring love; featuring an immersive soundscape. It is Ireland’s first feature film in Irish Sign Language, produced by a deaf and hearing team and directed by Garry Keane (In the Shadow of Beirut, GAZA).

Last May the film was honoured in Cannes with the Global Production Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, further underlining its significance as a ground-breaking work of on and off-screen representation on the world stage. The film employed 28 members of the deaf community behind the scenes in a variety of roles, an Irish filmmaking first.

A Quiet Love will be released in Mayo Movieworld on February 27. For tickets, see mayomovieworld.ie or aquietlove.com.