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Father Father

Michael McDowell, 19 minutes, 2019

Father James must decide what kind of a father God wants him to be.

A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post,…

Fathoms

Miles Davis Murphy, 6 minutes, 2020

Told through imagery, a tempestuous relationship between a father and son unfolds over a lifetime.

The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos, 119 minutes, 2018

Two rivals vie for the affections of Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deliciously caustic black comedy. Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, has long been the trusted companion of the insecure, jealous and physically ailing monarch (Olivia…

Fear of Flying

Conor Finnegan, 10 minutes, 2012

Faced with the prospect of migrating for winter, cowardly bird Dougal (Mark Doherty) hides his fear of flying from his friends in this animated short. Haunted by nightmares of crashing to earth mid-flight, Dougal plans to hibernate through winter rather…

Featherweight

Kayleigh Gibbons, 10 minutes, 2019

A father and daughter struggle to cope with the death of a central family member. They choose to express their grief in opposite ways.

Fern

Johnny Kelly, 6 minutes, 2018

Following the death of her husband, a lonely woman (Monica Dolan) nurses a dry, almost dead, potted fern back to life. As the plant thrives, an unlikely relationship develops as the fern becomes her constant companion, that is until a…

The Ferry

Niall McKay, 6 minutes, 2019

Aoife searches for her birth mother and unveils a past that entangles two other women in town.

Fidil Ghorm

Anne McCabe, 84 minutes, 2024

The story of 10-year Molly who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad, she can wake him up from a coma. When he is moved to a rehab centre, she overhears her mother say that…

The Field

Jim Sheridan, 110 minutes, 1990

Jim Sheridan’s second film was an epic tale of land rights and murder. The Field had initially been adapted with Ray McAnally – so wonderful as Mr Brown in My Left Foot – in mind, but the actor’s unexpected death…

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