The Well
(An Tobar)

Directed by Anna Rackard and Adrian Mccarthy.
Ireland, 2005, color, 52 min.

This fascinating documentary offers a tantalizing glimpse into a relatively unexplored area of Irish cultural heritage—the sacred well. Visiting several of the country's most sacred well sites on their special days of devotion, documentarians Anna Rackard and Adrian McCarthy reveal the continued importance of Christian and pre-Christian traditions in contemporary Ireland as well as many of the peculiar legends that persist to this day.

Part of film series

Read more

Magners Irish Film Festival

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

Read more

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

Read more

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

Read more

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

Read more

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

Read more

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

Read more

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

Read more

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

Read more

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue