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Time Traveller

Steve Kenny, 11 minutes, 2018

A Back To The Future-obsessed traveller boy strives to finish building his own DeLorean replica before his family are evicted from their halting site.

Yet another tragic miscarriage sends Adaeze's life out of kilter. The medical diagnosis that further pregnancy attempts will be difficult means Adaeze must face the reality of the situation with her husband, Nonso. Adaeze evaluates the emptiness now left inside…

To Break a Circle

Kalia Firester, 12 minutes, 2024

When a young man accepts an ill-fated job offer to construct a motorway that will run straight through an old stone circle, he quickly learns that a road built at such expense does not lead very far. Awards: James Horgan…

To the Moon

Tadhg O'Sullivan, 80 minutes, 2020

A vast compendium of moony sequences combine to create this cinematic ode to the moon. Drawing on a wealth of international cinematic archive (including sequences from the IFI Irish Film Archive) Tadhg O’Sullivan, director and editor extraordinaire, deftly interweaves the…

Tomato Can

Ciaran Cassidy , 14 minutes, 2018

Danny 'Danger' Kelly is a retired journeyman boxer who accepts a last-minute fight. But there's one problem - it's his weekend to look after his teenage daughter, Leah. He thinks he has nothing to lose, while Leah just thinks he's…

Tomato Red

Juanita Wilson, 112 minutes, 2017

Oscar-nominated Irish director Juanita Wilson’s second feature is an adaptation of the novel longlisted in 2000 for what was then the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award by ‘country noir’ author Daniel Woodrell, whose work has previously been brought to the…

Tomorrow is Saturday

Gillian Marsh,
Gretta Ohle, 86 minutes, 2020

Tomorrow is Saturday is an intimate portrait of the life and work of Irish collage artist Sean Hillen. Diagnosed in his late 50s with Aspergers, Hillen has reached a point where he finds it almost impossible to work in his…

TOT

Tom Getty,
Aimée Kirkham Priester,
Fiona McLaughlin, 12 minutes, 2020

After the death of her father, Tot roams through a mystical world carrying her grief with her as she searches for closure. Awards: The James Horgan Award for Best Animated Short, Galway Film Fleadh, 2020

Town of Strangers

Treasa O'Brien, 82 minutes, 2018

There are only two stories: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. A stranger arrives to a rural village and calls for auditions asking people to tell her ‘dreams, lies, memories and gossip’. Together, they…

Trad

Lance Daly, 90 minutes, 2025

Donegal teenager Shóna McAnally feels conflicted about her prodigious talent as a traditional Irish fiddle player. She takes to the road with her little brother Mickey and a troupe of wandering musicians, on a cross-country journey of adventure, romance and…

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