Director: Enzo D'Alò
Four generations of women, one midnight drive, and a grandmother who refuses to let go: this hand-drawn Irish animated feature turns a family's hardest night into a gentle, funny road trip through memory.
What is A Greyhound of a Girl about?
Twelve-year-old Mary is trying to be brave about the fact that her grandmother is dying, but Granny herself isn't ready to go. Everything changes when a strange young woman shows up on Mary's street carrying a message meant only for Granny — she turns out to be the ghost of Granny's own long-dead mother, returned to walk her daughter gently toward the end. To make that happen, she needs Mary and Mary's mother Scarlett along for the ride, and the four of them set off together on a nighttime journey that loops back through decades of family history. One woman has already died, one is dying, one is steering the car, and one is only just starting her life — and somewhere on that road, all four learn how to say the goodbye none of them wanted to face.
Cast & crew
Director Enzo D'Alò leads a voice cast built around young performer Charlotte Infussi D'Amico as Mary, alongside Maricla Affatato, Valentina Favazza, and veteran voice actor Maria Pia Di Meo, with Franco Mannella, Alessandro Carloni, Alberto Vannini, and Oreste Baldini rounding out the ensemble across the film's international dub tracks.
Context & significance
The film is a co-production spanning Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom, drawing on Roddy Doyle's novel of the same name for its story of grief, memory, and the women who carry a family forward. Its hand-drawn style favors warmth and restraint over spectacle, letting the four generations of the story's central family — and eight decades of Irish life between them — sit at the center of the frame.
Where & how to watch
The film is available on K-Time with a Persian-dubbed audio track, and this page is free to read for anyone. Streaming the movie itself only requires logging into a K-Time account, and the rest of the site's Farsi-first interface makes it easy to browse similar animated family titles from there.