Photo: Kelly Morris Copyright: WG Film
Belfast Girls

This is the story of teenage girls Mairéad Mc Ilkenny and Christine Savage, growing up in post-war Belfast. Two strong, young women with their everyday life struggles - sharing the legacy of 30 years of conflict - but living as in different worlds, in the same city but cut off from each other by high walls.
   This year their lives will take turns they never in their wildest dreams could imagine...

"Since I came to Belfast for the first time in my early twenties, I've wanted to document what ordinary peoples" lives are like here, behind all the short lived headlines of war. To shed some light on what it is like living with the high concrete walls that divide the communities, how they affect your everyday life. I have during the years seen ordinary girls in their teens on the streets on both sides of the divisions, with or without prams, - and it upset me that their voices never were heard.
   So I've spent some years making this film about Mairead and Christine and their reality in Belfast years into the so called peace process, on different sides of the division. Capturing moments of their life, as they get on with things in the shadows of the walls, and their unfolding stories of how they choose not to give in to the norm they are supposed to follow."
- Malin Andersson, director