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Ballywalter

Prasanna Puwanarajah, TBC, 2022

A university drop-out living with her mum, and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up. A bittersweet life-affirming story about the unexpected connections that can change the course…

Baltimore

Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, 97 minutes, 2023

Wealthy art-loving British heiress Rose Dugdale, radicalised at Oxford, finds herself hiding in a remote cottage in Ireland, following an audacious and violent art heist. Gathering at pace beyond the cottage is the biggest police hunt in Irish history. With…

The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh, 109 minutes, 2022

The perils of petty grievances are imaginatively explored in Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh’s (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) latest comedy-drama, set on the fictional island of Inisherin off the west coast of Ireland during the time of the Civil War,…

Barber

Fintan Connolly, 90 minutes, 2023

Val Barber (Aidan Gillen), a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow (Deirdre Donnelly) to find her missing granddaughter, Sara. The search gets murky as long-buried secrets – including Barber’s own – come to the surface, and new and…

Barracks Estate

Joe Lee, 90 minutes, 2017

Following the success of Fortune’s Wheel (about Bill Stephens, the Fairview lion tamer), director Joe Lee focuses now on another Dublin neighbourhood, Inchicore, to tell the extraordinary story of life as lived over 200 years in Richmond Barracks, Keogh Square and St…

Barriers

Fiach Kunz, 13 minutes, 2020

Martin lives an isolated and monotonous life on a farm. He tends to livestock and cares reluctantly for his alcoholic, bedridden father. An encounter with a care worker unearths buried trauma, sending Martin on a journey of reckoning that will…

Battlefield

Emile Dineen, 45 minutes, 2018

Mick O’Dea RHA is one of Ireland’s most renowned living painters. His diverse range of work includes a ten-year study of the War of Independence, culled from found and researched images. As he prepares a monumental exhibition “The Foggy Dew”…

Battleship

Luke Morgan, 10 minutes, 2018

After discovering that they were both married to the same man at the same time, two women try to cultivate a relationship between their children.

Beat the Lotto

Ross Whitaker, 86 minutes, 2025

When downtrodden 1980s Ireland inaugurated a National Lottery the people began to dream. For Cork-based mathematician Stefan Klincewicz, it was an obsession. Spotting a flaw in the system, he recruited a ragtag team of chancers, and masterminded an audacious plan…

Beckett’s Film

Alan Schneider , 20 minutes , 1965

In 1969 Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in recognition of his development of a circular form of reasoning that implies entrapment in circumstances of one’s own design. Film, directed by Alan Schneider in New York and…

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