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Welcome to the Dark Ages

Paul Duane, 82 minutes, 2019

In 2017, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly known as The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence – but they were no longer a pop group. They were now undertakers, planning to build a monument, The People’s Pyramid, out…

The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy

Duncan Campbell, 30 minutes, 2015

The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy is a new film work by Irish-born, Turner Prize-winning artist Duncan Campbell. Filmed in and around the Kerry village of Dún Chaoin the film integrates newly-scripted dramatised material with footage from The Village (1968),…

West of the Horizon

Barra Convery, 15 minutes, 2024

On the remote coast of Connemara, a runaway trans-teenager has a chance encounter with a bereaved, suicidal fisherman that sees the two form an unlikely bond.

Wet and Soppy

Cliona Noonan, 4 minutes, 2020

A man just wants to dry his underwear. Tormented by the weather, he is forced to use the local laundromat each evening, instead of his garden washing line. But another customer is watching him from afar.

What Remains

Tadhg O'Sullivan, Pat Collins, 11 minutes, 2013

What Remains, directors Pat Collins and Tadhg O'Sullivan's abstract work, explores personal and cultural memory, and is made exclusively from film in the IFI Irish Film Archive. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

What Richard Did

Lenny Abrahamson, 87 minutes, 2012

The third feature from Lenny Abrahamson is an extraordinary portrait of a golden-boy gone awry. What Richard Did sees the seemingly perfect life of Dublin teenager Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor) collapse around him when he makes a terrible mistake. Intelligent,…

What We Leave in Our Wake

Pat Collins, 70 minutes, 2010

Developed in the midst of Ireland’s devastating property crash and subsequent recession, director Pat Collins uses this documentary to explore the materials – the institutions, attitudes, and politics –from which modern Ireland is made. Beginning by observing that throughout Irish…

When Brendan Met Trudy

Kieron J. Walsh, 95 minutes, 2000

With several of his novels already adapted for film and television, Roddy Doyle here wrote directly for the screen with this quirky romantic-comedy about an introverted cinéphile and the rebellious law-breaker who encourages him to live. The cinéphile is Brendan…

When Women Won

Anna Rodgers, 52 minutes, 2020

Coinciding with the second anniversary of the historic referendum which saw over 1.4m Irish citizens vote to overturn the Irish Constitution’s controversial 8th amendment, the film tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign. In the aftermath…

Where I Am

Pamela Drynan, 69 minutes, 2013

In this Irish documentary, gay American writer Robert Drake returns to the small town of Sligo from his home in Philadelphia, in an attempt to revisit the memories of his time in Ireland. Twelve years have passed since he was…

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