75 minutes
2/3/2002
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.

Stuart Graham
as Kyle

Patrick O'Kane
as Freddie
Laine Megaw
as Sandra
Daniel McGrady
as Joe
Conor Grimes
as Dougie

Alan McKee
as Mac

Lalor Roddy
as Heck

Gerard Jordan
as Soup

Michael Liebman
as Bap

Packy Lee
as Wee Rab

Frank McCusker
as Bap
Moya O'Hara
as Sadie

Sean Kearns
as Norman
Dick Holland
as Herbie

Colum Convey
as Larry

David Hayman
as Alec
Tom Magill
as Al

Tom Collins
as Browner