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At Sea

Sandy Kennedy, 67 minutes, 2023

A hypnotic, hallucinatory reverie at the edge of liminal space. It is a visceral human experience, a rupture, a rhapsody of sound and image, moving beyond the sensory, to be carried deep in the body. World premiere: Galway Film Fleadh…

Atlantic

Conor Ferguson, 4 minutes, 2008

Against a wind-swept rural landscape in the West of Ireland, isolated farmer (Liam Cunningham) receives a letter from an old flame who had emigrated to America years before. The voice of the writer reveals the letter to be an invitation…

Atlantic

Risteard Ó Domhnaill , 80 minutes, 2016

Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities as they struggle to maintain their way of life
in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. In Norway, where the fishing industry has been aggressively protected by national authorities, the…

Atomic Hope: Inside the Pro-Nuclear Movement

Frankie Fenton, 82 minutes, 2022

Atomic Hope follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems and avoid calamitous climate change. Filmed over a ten-year period, these advocates for nuclear energy…

Attracta

Kieran Hickey, 55 minutes, 1983

Adapted from a work by William Trevor, Attracta is a searing account of lone voices resisting the bloodshed of twentieth century Ireland, told through the figure of the elderly, institutionalised Attracta (Wendy Hiller). An orphan of Ireland’s War of Independence,…

Babygirl

Macdara Vallely, 81 minutes, 2013

Babygirl, the second feature from Armagh-born writer-director Macdara Vallely, revisits the world of troubled teens which he first explored in Peacefire (2010). Set in the Bronx, Babygirl is an unsettling drama about a Puerto Rican teenager (Yainis Ynoa) who finds…

Bainne

Jack Reynor, 81 minutes, 2019

Ireland, 1851. A farm hand at the end of the Great Famine encounters a ghostly female figure leading him to a new hope. Bainne is a coproduction between Sky Arts and Screen Ireland. Awards: Best First Short Drama, Galway Film…

Bainne

Jack Reynor, 17 minutes, 2019

During the last year of The Great Famine in Ireland, a farmhand working for the local landlord has hardened his heart against his countrymen to ensure his own survival. But when he encounters a ghostly female figure stealing milk from…

Báite

Ruán Magan, 93 minutes, 2025

September, 1975. Summer is coming to an end. Peggy Casey (Eleanor O'Brien) prepares for a big weekend of fishing. Her pub will be full to the door, and she desperately needs the business.  It has been a few months since…

The Balkan Cowboy

Dragana Jurišić, 93 minutes, 2026

The Balkan Cowboy follows Croatian artist and photographer Dragana Jurišić as she searches for cult filmmaker Hari Džekson, who directed Westerns in the former Yugoslavia. Retracing his mythical story, she recreates one of his films using local people from both…

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