Belfast Film Festival will screen the documentary 'A Kind of Sisterhood' on Tuesday, March 10, at 7pm in Omniplex Kennedy Centre. The event marks International Women's Day and includes a Q&A with directors Claire Hackett and Michele Devlin, and participants Liz Maskey, Eileen Morgan and Rosie McCorely.

The 2015 film covers women's experiences as political prisoners in Armagh and Maghaberry prisons over 25 years. It starts with women interned in the 1970s and includes the 1979 killing of a prison officer outside Armagh Gaol and protests for political status.

Liz Maskey, formerly Liz McKee, was the first woman interned in Northern Ireland on New Year's Day 1973 at age 19. Her internment conviction was quashed in December 2022.

Maskey stated that the film addresses internment, women in Armagh, protests and hunger strikes, and women in Maghaberry. She noted her experience as the first interned woman and stressed the need to inform people about internment and women's roles in prisons.

She added that young people know more about hunger strikes and Long Kesh but less about women's prison roles. Maskey emphasized women's full participation in the struggle inside and outside prison.