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Stupid August

Pádraig Trehy, 90 minutes, 2025

An amnesiac clown finds himself exiled to the Ireland of the early 1960s, haunted by the events of World War Two. As the shadows of his past re-emerge, Gus must navigate the present dangers to find himself again and be…

Subconscious Voyage

Dylan Dreher, 7 minutes, 2020

The story of a young boy named Brian who tries to escape the hardships of reality.

The Summit

Nick Ryan, 95 minutes, 2012

In 2008 eleven climbers died in twenty-four hours in what was the worst mountaineering disaster ever on K2, the world’s second highest mountain, a tragedy that is the subject of this investigative documentary. Interviews, found footage, and reconstructions build on…

Sunday’s Child

Phil Shanahan, 6 minutes, 2020

Boy is awoken in the middle of the night, following an entity that may be connected to a group of missing kids.

Sunlight

Claire Dix, 91 minutes, 2023

Former addict Leon (Barry Ward) is indebted to Iver (Liam Carney), his friend who helped him back from the edge. Now the tables have turned; Leon is clean and bursting with unbridled energy while Iver is at death’s door. Diagnosed…

The Sunny Side Up

Peter Kilmartin, 11 minutes, 2019

Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs both served years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. After being exonerated, what are the chances they both met and fell in love?

Sunphlowers

Dave Byrne, 81 minutes, 2025

When Catherine’s husband dies unexpectedly, a toxic legacy of ruin and deceit emerges. Catherine quickly realises that she must confront the realities of her new life which may even include financial destitution. Initially she struggles to deal with the overwhelming…

The Surprise

Mike van Diem, 102 minutes, 2015

An eccentric multi-millionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple fall in love and wish to get…

Surrender Your Horns

Bryony Dunne, 61, 2022

After snorting a line of powdered horn, a lonely Irishman undergoes a Kafkaesque metamorphosis that turns him into a rhino-head man. Embodying both hunter and hunted, he guides us into an eclectic series of real and fantasy worlds, from the…

The Survivalist

Stephen Fingleton, 104 minutes, 2015

We are in a post-apocalyptic scenario; runaway population growth has outstripped resources and society has collapsed. An anonymous man (Martin McCann) is alone in the forest, tending meagre crops outside his wooden shack and nervously guarding his surroundings from attack.…

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