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Shrooms

Paddy Breathnach, 2007

Having been promised the ‘trip’ of a lifetime by their Irish friend and mushroom expert Jake, a group of American teenagers arrives in Ireland, keen for adventure. Despite Jake’s warnings about the shrooms they shouldn’t eat, things start to go…

Sicar

Ethan Donoghue, 2024

In a Traveller camp overlooking a neglected council estate, three brothers who went their separate ways are forced to reunite for their father’s funeral. The death of their father forces them to rekindle their relationships.

The Siege of Paradise

Gar O'Rourke, 86 minutes, 2026

In Cinque Terre on Italy’s northern Riviera, fewer than 3,000 locals endure over four million tourists each summer. Across one chaotic season, six very different lives play out in parallel, revealing a sharply funny and surprisingly tender story of paradise…

Significant Loss

Kevin Glynn, 86 minutes, 2019

A woman attending a weight loss class loses more than she wanted to.

Silence

Pat Collins, 86 minutes, 2012

Abstract, sensual, and hauntingly atmospheric, documentarian Pat Collins’ first feature film Silence sees sound-recordist Eoghan (Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride) set out on a journey from Berlin to his native Donegal in search of a landscape free from man-made noise. Moving…

The Silver Branch

Katrina Costello, 75 minutes, 2017

A cinematic eulogy to nature and agrarian culture and a glimpse into the life of farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, descendant of generations of farmers who have lived off the Burren in County Clare. The Mesolithic tombs, famine villages and endless stone…

Sing Street

John Carney, 106 minutes, 2016

This film was released 18th March 2016, and is no longer screening. With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to the Brothers in Synge…

Sins of Ireland

Alex Fegan, 83 minutes, 2025

Sins of Ireland, directed by Alex Fegan (Older Than Ireland, The Irish Pub, The Irish Wedding), is a portrait of Ireland through the lens of the confession box. Fifteen Irish priests, who have long heard the sins of others, offer…

Sister

Aoife Duffin, 7 minutes, 2017

When Caoimhe's sister shows up in London to have an abortion, she is faced with a decision: whether or not to help her estranged sibling.

Sister This

Claire Byrne, 7 minutes, 2019

Two sisters talk on the phone about an upcoming birthday; tempers flare as promises are broken. Secrets are revealed and tears are shed. Both women eventually realise that shame is one thing they can’t afford if they’re going to survive.…

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