Tales of the Immigrant City – IN AMERICA with special guest Colum McCann
IN AMERICA
Jim Sheridan, 2002, 105 minutes
With: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Djimon Hounsou
With special guest speaker, Colum McCann
Co-sponsors: BAiP, LiLY, W. 90s Neighborhood Assn., W. 102nd & 103rd Streets Block Assn., W. 104th St. Block Assn.
About the film:
Set in early-1980s New York, In America follows an Irish immigrant family arriving illegally in Hell’s Kitchen, carrying grief, hope, and the fragile promise of a new beginning. Through the eyes of two young daughters, Jim Sheridan’s deeply personal film captures the exhilaration and hardship of starting over, the intimacy of immigrant communities, and the quiet acts of solidarity that make survival possible in an unfamiliar city.
About Colum McCann:
Colum McCann is a celebrated NYC-based Irish novelist and National Book Award winner for Let the Great World Spin. Across his fiction and nonfiction, he captures the layered lives of immigrants and explores how individuals navigate displacement, loss, and belonging in an ever-changing world, often using New York City as a crossroads of global stories.
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