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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…

Behind the Blood

Loretta van der Horst, 90 minutes, 2019

Priest and furniture maker Daniel Pacheco works in one of the most dangerous cities in the world: San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He tries to save lives, but that’s no simple matter in a country with staggeringly high murder rates. The…

Beirt le Chéile

Stephen Daly, 10 minutes, 2013

Tar éis Éirí Amach na Cásca, iompraíonn Tom a dheartháir gortaithe trí bhunchnoic Chill Mhantáin chun cabhair a fháil. Ach mar gheall ar chluiche páistí a bhaineann le haithne contráilte, ní thiteann rudaí amach mar ba chóir. It is the…

Belfast

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.

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