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Sylvia

Seamus Moran, 6 minutes, 2012

In an effort to impress classmate Eibhlín (Manini Linuza), teenager Pól (Jack Quinn) takes on the task of caring for a cherished motorcycle, Sylvia. Initially successful, Stevie soon finds caring for Sylvia more work than he can handle in this…

Takasera

Matjaž Pinter
Eva Pivač, 94 minutes, 2016

Takasera, a village in Western Nepal, is settled on a hill above an ancient lakebed, composed of hundreds of tightly interwoven houses, giving an appearance of a giant buzzing bee-hive. Surrounded by mountains, and connected only by a dead-end dirt…

Take Me Swimming

Claire Dix, 15 minutes, 2018

A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father's intentions to keep his mother alive, despite her expressed wish to the contrary.

Talking to My Father

Sé Merry Doyle, 90 minutes, 2015

Modern architecture in Ireland reached a high point in the early ’60s and one of its most celebrated figures was Robin Walker. Robin studied under Le Corbusier and later worked alongside Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. His return to…

Tana Bana

Pat Murphy, 77 minutes, 2015

Varanasi on the Ganges is famous for its Muslim silk weavers whose lives are closely interwoven with that of their Hindu neighbours. For over a thousand years the skills of their trade have passed from one generation to the next.…

Tara Road

Gillies MacKinnon, 97 minutes, 2005

Life’s crises are turned into opportunities to grow in this drama which has two women living on either side of Atlantic try set to right the troubles in their lives. Her son dead in a motorcycle accident, Marilyn (Andie MacDowell)…

Tarrac

Declan Recks, 96 minutes, 2022

Aoife (Kelly Gough) returns home to help her father (Lorcan Cranitch) recover from a heart attack. Day to day they get along just fine but never talk about the loss of Aoife’s mother. Over the summer, Aoife gets pulled back…

The Tattoo

Ian Power, 15 minutes, 2018

A Holocaust survivor working in a New York funeral home makes a distressing discovery.

Tea with the Dead

Gary Gill, 105 minutes, TBA 2026/7

Tea with the Dead is an animated fantasy that follows a small-town embalmer Frank Finnegan. Frank must take drastic measures to get his dead clients to their graves, but not before they've had a cup of tea. Based on Gary…

The Tell-Tale Heart

Patrick Ketch, 7 minutes, 2017

He loses his mind caring for an old man... An Irish retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic Gothic tale.

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