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Blue Rinse

Matt Leigh, 11 minutes, 2010

A celebration of daily life, Blue Rinse records a single day at a hair salon and the conversations between hair-dressers and customers. Their honest and open attitudes shine through in a documentary short made with a keen sense of the…

Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story

Sinéad O'Shea, 100 minutes, 2024

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her…

Blurred Lines

Mark Agar, 86 minutes, 2024

When six friends get together for New Year's eve and a drink gets spiked, secrets and conflicts reveal themselves begging the question, who is really responsible? Who has consented? Focussing on the modern day stigmas of consent, stereotypes, inner turmoil,…

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.

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