East Cork Cinema Club will present a series of documentaries as part of the This Must Be The Place | The Great Island programme over the weekend of Fri 10th – Sun 12th March

€5 SUGGESTED DONATION PER SCREENING

The Overnighters
Sun 12 March
1.30pm

Directed by Jesse Moss
Drafthouse Films, 90 mins

The Overnighters is a 2014 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Jesse Moss. The film depicts the lives of people chasing the dream of high salaries in the North Dakota oil boom, only to discover that affordable housing is almost impossible to find. Much of the focus is on the efforts of local pastor Jay Reinke, who allowed over 1,000 different people to stay at his Williston, North Dakota church over a period of about two years. This award winning documentary engages and dramatizes a set of universal societal and economic themes: the promise and limits of re-invention, redemption and compassion, as well as the tension between the moral imperative to ‘Love thy neighbour’ and the resistance that one small community feels when confronted by a surging river of desperate, job-seeking strangers. Winner of ‘The Special Jury Award’ Sundance Film Festival 2014. 

This event is part of the This Must Be The Place | The Great Island Project 2017