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Exposure

Kieran Hickey, 48 minutes, 1978

A socially dissident drama from director Kieran Hickey, Exposure is a courageous assault on a smothering cultural conservatism prevalent in Ireland in the 1980s. Three surveyors – married men Dan (T.P. McKenna) and Eugene (Bosco Hogan) and single man Oliver…

Expulsion

Sinéad Murphy, 10 minutes, 2020

Haunted by visions, a young woman revisits an abusive past seeking to expel inner demons and put an end to her torment. However, she soon finds reality is her true horror and it bares the face of man.

Extra Ordinary

Mike Ahern
Enda Loughman, 94 minutes, 2019

Following in the tradition of Flann O’Brien, Kevin McAleer, and Father Ted, Extra Ordinary views rural Irish life through a surreal comic lens. Lonely driving instructor Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins), believing herself responsible for the death of her paranormal investigator…

Face Down

Gerry Gregg, 85 minutes, 2023

On December 27th 1973, German businessman, factory manager, and honorary consul Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He was never seen alive again by friends or family. He became one of the ‘disappeared’, and it seemed that…

Far From the Reach of the Sun

Kevin Gaffney, 23 minutes, 2018

A corporation markets a drug that can alter your sexuality, targeting wealthy straight customers and vulnerable gay people.

Far Isle

Laura Robinson, 23 minutes, 2019

Through a series of enchanting encounters, Fern discovers how to see the world from a different perspective.

Far Out Isn’t Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story

Brad Bernstein, 66 minutes, 2013

Celebrated as a children’s author for books such as The Three Robbers and Moon Man, Tomi Ungerer’s distinctive animation has also addressed political issues with the protest posters he produced supporting America’s civil rights movement and damning its war in…

The Far Side of Revenge

Margo Harkin, 72 minutes, 2012

Margo Harkin’s powerful documentary is one part in a body of work that has chronicled `The Troubles’ from 12 Days in July (1997) to Bloody Sunday – A Derry Diary (2010). A study on reconciliation, it also experiments with visual…

Farewell Packets of Ten

Ken Wardrop, 3 minutes, 2007

Blending emotional warmth with self-deprecating humour, two elderly women discuss their smoking habits in this short documentary by Ken Wardrop. Lamenting both the prohibitive cost of cigarettes and the young people who nonetheless smoke them, the pair’s wit comes to…

Farmer Michael (The Life and Times of a Social Pariah)

Gerard Walsh, 3 minutes, 2019

Farmer Michael is a Galway-based, divisive character getting millions of views online. But his creator, Stevo Timothy, has a past with far more twists and turns than anyone would expect.

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