Molly's Way

Screening on Film

Directed by Emily Atef.
With Mairead McKinley, Ute Gerlach, Geno Lechner.
Germany, 2005, 35mm, color, 84 min.
English and Polish with English subtitles.

Though she only knows his first name and that he "works in coal," Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she'd had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord's admonishments that it is a lost cause. Anchored by Mairead McKinley's sensitive performance as Molly, first-time writer/director Emily Atef's perceptive drama received honors for its screenplay at the 2005 Munich Film Festival.