Join Projects Arts Centre for a special set of free lunchtime screenings of Rene Matić’s film, Many Rivers (2022). 

This film tells the story of Matić’s father Paul and the ambiguity of his past. Paul’s father Julien emigrated to the UK from St Lucia in the Caribbean in 1958. Paul’s mother, a white Irish woman called Patricia, gave birth to Paul in 1962 at age nineteen. Patricia was a Catholic and giving birth to a Black baby ‘outside of wedlock’ would have carried shame and stigma within the Catholic church. Intimidated and overwhelmed, Patricia ultimately returned to Ireland leaving Paul with Julien and Julien’s new partner Nancy.

This story is told from four perspectives. That of Paul; Matić’s mother Ali; their grandfather Julien; and their aunty Lulu.