Directed by Emer O’Shea, Manus Brennan and Michael Mc Monagle. 

Borders across the world are often contentious places where differences between people are focused and concentrated making them difficult places to live and prosper.

The land border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK is one of these contentious borders. Pettigo is a small village in the Northwest of Ireland divided in half by this border and over the years has known its fair share of The Troubles.

However, despite these conflicts the people of Pettigo, both Unionist and Nationalist, have continued ot cooperate and work together. This documentary, Triang Times, focuses on the lives of two such people, one Unionist and one Nationalist, who have spent a lifetime stepping outside their cultural boundaries to build a better place to live.

Directed by Emer O’Shea, Manus Brennan and Michael Mc Monagle.

With Pat Britton and William Hamilton

Produced by Kevin Smets

Edited by Manus Brennan and Diana Cheung 

Music: Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, Holy Island by Eamon Cagney  

Thanks to Irene Gutiérrez, Reel Borders, Diana Cheung, The Nerve Centre Derry and Michael Daly

Special thanks to Gemma Gfeller, Margaret Gordon, Seamus Gordon, Tom Hannigan, Sean Harkin, Molly Phillips, Francis Jones (Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive), Kasandra O'Connell (IFI Irish Film Archive) and Peter McDonald

Nerve Centre: Diana Cheung, Niall Kerr, Joe Carlin, Richard Taylor, Mik O'Connell and Laura Aguair

Thanks to Silvia Almenara-Niebla, Yazan Badran, Bart De Rauw, Jay McGlinchey, Bernard Donaghey, Mohammed Firdose (aka FD), Marie Sauvé and Lennatt Soberon

Queen's University Belfast: Katy Hayward, Cathal McCall, Des O'Rawe and Cahal McLaughlin 

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