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Yara

James Doherty, 2024

A Syrian father, haunted by his past, struggles to adapt to life with his daughter in rural Ireland.

Completed shortly before he died, this feature-length film about folk singer Liam Clancy presents a revealing and surprising portrait of the man whom Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life.” This intimate,…

The Yellow Dress

Alan Gilsenan, 108 minutes,

To help her mother regain her joie de vivre after breast cancer and to cushion the blow of her father's news, sassy 14-year old Aisling sets her up on what she hopes will be the perfect date but when the…

You Are Not My Mother

Kate Dolan, 95 minutes, 2021

Teenager Char and her mother, Angela, share a house with grandmother, Rita. Relations are fraught as Angela’s poor mental health and erratic behaviour cause Rita to become increasingly impatient and Char to isolate from her bullying classmates. When Angela disappears…

You Remember Ellen

Sidney Olcott, 13 minutes, 1912

It was inevitable that Gauniter, as scenarist, would turn to Thomas Moore’s mid-nineteenth century ‘Melodies’ for inspiration; such was their renown and popularity among Irish Americans and beyond, and their suitability for adaptation in a setting as picturesque as Killarney.…

You’re Ugly Too

Mark Noonan, 78 minutes, 2015

When 11-year-old Stacey (Lauren Kinsella) becomes an orphan, her closest relative, her uncle Will (Aidan Gillen), is in prison. As part of his rehabilitation, Will is released to look after Stacey, and they set up a makeshift home on a…

Youghal Clock Tower

James Horgan, 30 seconds, 1910

Youghal Clock Tower is a light hearted and playful exploration of the possibilities of animation in its infancy. Depicting the well-known landmark dancing into frame, the clock gate comes to life, spinning and dancing through the main street of the…

Young Cassidy

Jack Cardiff, 105 minutes, 1965

Though only loosely based on the early life of Sean O’Casey (renamed Johnny Cassidy), this colourful drama includes key historical moments from 1911 to the late 1920s – the 1913 Lockout, 1916 Rising, and the riots at the opening of…

Young Mother

John Robert Brown, 13 minutes, 2019

A lone teenage girl roams the streets of Dublin urgently trying to buy alcohol in this intense family drama.

The Young Offenders

Peter Foott, 85 minutes, 2016

Inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007, The Young Offenders follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the…

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