Irish short 'A Woman's Hair' has won joint Best International Short at The Venice International Short Film Festival.
The film was adapted and directed for the screen by writer/director Conor McDermottroe from a short story by Bryan McMahon.
'A Woman's Hair' is set in the 1950s and tells the story of an unlikely bond that develops between a traveller woman and a young girl, played by nine-year-old Orlaith Donnelly, during a cold winter.
The rest of the cast are Kelly Campbell, Denis Conway, Frank O'Sullivan and Fionnuala Murphy.
The film was funded by Shorts Cuts, an Irish Film Board/RTE initiative and produced by Kate Bowe.
The director of photography was Ronan Fox with production design by Padraic O'Neill.
