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Float Like a Butterfly

Carmel Winters, 100 minutes, 2018

In rural Ireland in the 1960s, Frances (Hazel Doupe) is a young Traveller who has coped with tragedy from an early age. When her father Michael (Dara Devaney) is imprisoned, Frances learns to fend for herself and her brother, developing…

Florence

Tess Doolan Burke, 100 minutes, 2024

Florence works for the Echo Grief Centre, where actors are hired to recreate the memories of bereaved clients in an attempt to remedy their regrets.

Fluent Dysphasia

Daniel O'Hara, 16 minutes, 2004

A clever spin on the difficulties Irish speakers can face in their own country, Fluent Dysphasia has the beer-swilling, pub-crawling Murph (Stephen Rea) suffer a head injury that leaves him capable of only speaking in Irish. Suddenly appearing terrifying to…

For Ireland’s Sake

Sindey Olcott, 39 minutes, 1914

The O’Kalems’ returned for a fourth time to Killarney in 1913 but under new management. After her resignation, along with Olcott, from Kalem in 1912, Gene Gauntier capitalised on her own fame as an actress to form her own production…

For the Land is Mine

Jamie O'Rourke, 15 minutes, 2024

Peggy runs the family farm as well, if not better, than her mother and father did before her. Her brother Joe is pushing 50, suicidal and depressed. He's more than a reluctant farmer and an alcoholic. Joe becomes sole heir…

For You

Brendan Canty, 13 minutes, 2017

An act of devotion gives a struggling young woman the strength to love.

Fortune’s Wheel

Joe Lee, 76minutes, 2015

Fortune’s Wheel brings to life the remarkable, implausible story of a Fairview lion-tamer in Dublin in the 1950s. Bill Stephens was an ordinary young Dubliner, with an extraordinary dream – to become a skilled animal trainer and a big circus star.…

Foscadh

Seán Breathnach, 95 minutes, 2020

When his over-cosseting parents pass away reclusive John Cunliffe is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of twenty-six. After inheriting mountain land that obstructs a lucrative wind-farm development, John is forced to navigate the choppy waters of…

Foxes

Lorcan Finnegan, 15 minutes, 2011

Turning Ireland’s housing crash into a gothic horror, Foxes features a couple isolated in a ghost estate. While husband James (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) busies himself at work, wife Ellen (Marie Ruane) finds herself fascinated and even altered by the foxes prowling…

Frank

Lenny Abrahamson, 95 minutes, 2014

Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) fancies himself as a musician, though his pitiful efforts at song writing don’t suggest a stadium tour is on the cards for him anytime soon, his limited talent unlikely to provide an escape from the day job…

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