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Kenneth Branagh, 98 minutes, 2021

Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic paean to the city of his birth is a bittersweet, but irresistibly charming, child’s-eye view of growing up at a time when the tension and violence of the Troubles were beginning to exert an increasing hold over…

Bellwether

Caroline Campbell, 7 minutes, 2018

On a remote beach in the west of Ireland, Anne begins her journey to become the Bellwether – the sheep that can lead the flock.      

The Belly of the Whale

Morgan Bushe, 83 minutes, 2018

After breaking free from his foster home, feral teenager Joey Moody returns to Laytown, a rural Irish town just over the horizon, in a bid to reclaim his family’s caravan park and salvage his friendship with his best mate and…

Below the Window

Salvador Alejandro Gutiérrez, 17 minutes, 2023

Maria, a new mother living in isolation, encounters a mysterious wayfarer seeking shelter from an approaching storm. The stranger reveals a disturbing interest in Maria’s personal life that will challenge her notion of what is real.

Bending Glass

Suzie Keegan, 7 minutes, 2019

Since the beginning of the neon industry in Ireland in the 1930s, the community has been incredibly closed and tight knit. There is no formal training, with only five glass benders in the country today. Eighty year old Paddy Dignam…

Beocht

Diarmuid Micheal Ó Donnacha, 7 minutes, 2024

An Spidéal is a village steeped in the arts but recently has been quietly suffering, and visibly gloomy. Local creatives, young and old, explore the past to navigate an uncertain yet optimistic future.

Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey

Lelia Doolan, 88 minutes, 2011

This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted…

Best Before Death

Paul Duane, 89 minutes, 2019

In 1992, Bill Drummond's enormously successful pop group The KLF ceased activities. Since 2014, he's been on a world tour visiting Kolkata, North Carolina and elsewhere. In each place he carries out his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes,…

Between Land and Sea

Ross Whitaker, 90 minutes, 2017

This observational feature – at times intimate, at times epic – embeds itself in a community of surfers in Lahinch, Co. Clare, following their on-and off-season lives over the course of a sea-buffeted year. The surfers have dedicated their lives…

Between the Canals

Mark O'Connor, 74 minutes, 2011

While Dublin’s criminal underbelly has occupied many Irish filmmakers over the past fifteen years, this debut from Mark O’Connor distinguishes itself by largely avoiding genre clichés and creating credible and likable portraits of small-time troublemakers. As with Martin Scorsese’s Mean…

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