Myrid Carten’s A Want in Her wins 3 awards at the 2025 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs)
Posted: 1st December 2025
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate Myrid Carten and the team behind the Screen Ireland-supported documentary A Want in Her on the film's British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) award wins last night. The film won all three awards it was nominated for: Best Feature Documentary, the Raindance Maverick Award and Best Debut Director - Feature Documentary.
When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house, and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. The film received its World Premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival 2024 (IDFA) and went on to win several awards over the course of its festival run, including Best Documentary at the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival and the DocPoint Award at DocPoint, Helsinki's Documentary Film Festival.
A Want in Her is Myrid Carten's feature directorial debut, proudly supported by Screen Ireland and the BFI Doc Society Fund in association with New Dawn and the Netherlands Film Fund. The film is an Inland Films Production in co-production with Snowstorm Productions and Basalt Film.
Irish production company Element Pictures also strongly featured among this year's BIFA winners, with their productions Pillion and My Father's Shadow winning a total of five awards on the night.