Irish comedy wins Best Foreign Film at the Arizona International Film Festival

Lost & Found is an anthology film with seven interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station.

An independent Irish film, which took five years to make, has recently won big at a US film festival.

Written and directed by Liam O Mochain, Lost & Found sees seven individuals and their intertwined stories all come together in a story that centres around the Lost & Found office of an Irish train station.

All segments are inspired by true stories, which share a theme of something lost or found and have characters that come in and out of each other’s lives.

The comedy boasts a plethora of Irish stars including Aoibhín Garrihy, Liam Carney, Lynette Callaghan and Seamus Hughes  – all of whom worked extensively on the project over some time, due to the film being funded wholly independently.

According to the O’Mochain, Lost & Found was filmed in seven segments of three-four days per annum over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016 in Ireland.

Lost & Found is O Mochain’s third feature film. His 2007 feature film, WC, claimed Best Foreign Film at Las Vegas International Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterford Film Festival.

His debut feature film The Book That Wrote had its world premiere at the 1999 Galway Film Fleadh and garnered a lot of international interest before internationally premiering at the 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival.