Re-Creation

When the French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was brutally murdered near her Irish holiday home in 1996, a suspect quickly emerged: the British journalist Ian Bailey. Although he was never charged by the Irish authorities due to lack of evidence, both the court of public opinion and a French court, which sentenced him in absentia, found him guilty.

Legendary director Jim Sheridan has approached the case in a highly unconventional way. Based on police documents and other evidence, he lets a fictional Irish jury make a new decision in the present day. Starting with a skeptic, the jurors' deliberations transform into introspective reflections on their doubts, their lives, their pasts, and their fears in this brilliant and unusual thriller, where the focus is less on the actual crime and more on the state of humanity