Spilt Milk

An 11-year-old searches for his missing brother in 1980s Dublin, in this ambitious debut that views the harsh realities of housing estate life through a child's eyes.

Year: 2025

Director: Brian Durnin 

Writer: Cara Loftus 

Producers: Laura McNicholas, James Heath 

Executive Producers: Cormac Fox, Cara Loftus 

Production Companies: 925 Productions, Randan, Vico Films 

Main Cast: Cillian Sullivan, Naoise Kelly, Danielle Galligan, Laurence O’Fuarain, Pom Boyd, Lewis Brophy, Justin Daniels Anene 

Screen Scotland support: The film accessed £35,500 of funding through the PGF Project Post strand of Screen Scotland’s Production Growth Fund. 


Spilt Milk follows eleven-year-old Bobby O’Brien, a precocious and energetic boy obsessed with becoming a great detective like his hero television sensation Kojak. Set against the backdrop of 1980’s, working class, inner-city Dublin, Bobby and his pal Nell torment their family, friends and neighbours as they set up their own private investigation enterprise. But when Bobby’s brother Oisin disappears this story of innocence and adventure stumbles into the murky world of criminality and addiction…. 

Still from Spilt Milk showing actors Cillian Sullivan and Danielle Galligan, who stand indoors looking out of an open front door of a house.
 


More information

Festivals: Spilt Milk will screen as part of the Audience Award strand at the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival.

Image credits: Stills courtesy of Randan