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The Boat

Luke Morgan, 15 minutes, 2023

When Dhuckia grows up, she wants to be a boat builder like her father. But when he finds out that she is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, he must make a terrible choice.

Bobby Sands: 66 Days

Brendan J. Byrne, 105 minutes, 2016

This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening. In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his…

Bog Graffiti

Bob Quinn, 105 minutes, 2019

If you think climate change is a joke, you are the joke.

The Bogman

Dylan Hennessy, 105 minutes, 2019

A bog worker in the Irish midlands struggles to come to terms with the end of his era.

Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire

Oisín Kearney, 80 minutes, 2019

Bojayá: Caught In The Crossfire follows the story of LeynerPalacios, a community leader and Nobel peace prize nominee, who lost 32 relatives in one massacre. The 2002 Bojayá massacre was and remains, one of the worst mass atrocities in Colombia’s…

Bold Emmett, Ireland’s Martyr

Sidney Olcott, 37 minutes, 1915

After Gene Gauntier disbanded her company and ended her professional relationship with Sidney Olcott, he returned to Ireland one last time where he made Bold Emmett and All for Old Ireland. Jack Melville starred in a number of O’Kalem films…

Bongo Bong

Ken Wardrop, 6 minutes, 2008

A little commentary from the valley of the squinting windows. Also available as part of Wardrop's Shorts, a programme of five shorts directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman.

Boomerang

Diarmuid Doran, 16 minutes, 2016

An unknown crisis darkens the heart of a mysterious wreck.

Bordalo II: A Life of Waste

Trevor Whelan, Rua Meegan, 10 minutes, 2018

An intimate portrait of Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo as he aims to highlight the extent of our wastefulness and the impact this has on our environment through his 'Trash Animals' sculptures.

Born and Reared

Henrietta Norton
Dan Dennison, 66 minutes, 2016

Born and Reared explores contemporary Northern Ireland through the lives of four men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. In Northern Ireland today communities struggle to come to terms with the horrors and sacrifices of the past. Four men, of…

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