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Elián

Tim Golden
Ross McDonnell, 108 minutes, 2017

Three miles off the coast of Florida a five-year-old Cuban boy Elián González is rescued from a sinking boat. 11 other passengers, including the boy’s mother, have drowned. The film plots how the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and…

Elisa in Wonderland

Tim Golden
Ross McDonnell, 108 minutes,

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Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay

Alan Gilsenan, 80 minutes, 2013

Alan Gilsenan's feature documentary tells the incredible story of Eliza Lynch, the Cork-born woman who became lover to Francisco Solano López, later the president of Paraguay. Maria Doyle Kennedy captures the spirit of Eliza in her later years, while Paraguayan…

Emtigon

Joe Comerford, 10mins, 1971

Joe Comerford’s first film involves a process that informs all of his other work.  The combination of “elements of narrative with abstraction”. A pitch-black Beckett-like vaudeville of impotence and aggression, Emtigon tragicomically details a homeless old man’s covert intrusion on a…

The End of the Counter

Laura McGann, 13 minutes, 2012

A warm look on how Irish people once shopped, this documentary short recalls the history of ‘over-the-counter’ shops. In these, all goods were kept behind a counter and the shopper would wait whilst the owner filled their order; the conversation…

Equal

Gillian Callan, 13 minutes, 2019

In a small corner of the UK, a battle is being waged. A battle for love. A battle to be EQUAL.

The Erlking

C. Whiteside, M. Graham, 16 minutes, 2017

A couple's burgeoning love becomes twisted by a malevolent entity.

Essential Killing

Jerzy Skolimowski, 83 minutes, 2010

The film follows the story of Mohammed, who is captured by the US military in Afghanistan and transported to a secret military black site. When the army convoy he is riding in plummets off a steep hill, Mohammed finds himself…

Evergreen

Dominic Curran, 16 minutes, 2019

Nathan begrudgingly visits his infirm childhood friend Edgar, but their lives have diverged beyond any personal history.

Everything Alive is in Movement

Linda Curtin, 10 minutes, 2017

The power of the female spirit to transcend and transform the human body.

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