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Fifty Percent Grey

Ruairí Robinson, 3 minutes, 2001

Nominated for an Academy Award, Fifty Percent Grey explores the existential predicament of a space-suited character, who wakes up in a featureless grey landscape with only a series of televisions welcoming him to ‘Heaven’ for company

Filleadh an Athair

Tomasz Woszczynski, 10 minutes, 2016

Scaoiltear fear as an bpríosún le castáil ar a iníon fásta. Ach cuireann trioblóid agus náire sa bhaile baol ar saoirse an fir. A man gets out of prison to see his adult daughter. Shame, rejection and trouble with his…

Film from the Sea

Alan Lambert, 5 minutes, 1999-2011

Film from the Sea is a strip of 35mm cine-film found on a beach in Valencia, Spain. Corrosion has allowed only little photographic emulsion to survive, although two uniformed figures (possibly Spanish Revolution soldiers) in heated discussion can be perceived.…

Finky

Dathaí Keane, 95 minutes, 2019

A psychological drama telling the story of Micí Phincí Ó Foghlú, a young musician with a tragic past who is crippled in a car accident. He is given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent avant-garde…

The First was a Boy

Shaun Dunne, 10 minutes, 2019

Set in the heart of Dublin's ever-changing Ringsend, this experimental film explores the special bonds between grandparents and grandchildren, grief and ageing.

Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

Tomas Vengris, 112 minutes, 2023

A collection of intertwined stories told through the eyes of an old AirBnB apartment. Within the walls of this apartment, we witness five guests experiencing a crisis of love, unaware of the stories that have transpired within the same walls…

Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain

Oonagh Kearney, 24 minutes, 2018

Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain describes the soul-searching journey of first-year medical student Viv, whose first encounter with a cadaver in the anatomy room sends her a quest into the nature of what it means…

Five Minutes of Heaven

Oliver Hirschbiegel, 89 minutes, 2009

Northern Ireland’s violent past casts a long shadow in this emotionally-complex drama that has director Oliver Hirschbiegel wrestle with difficult questions of guilt and forgiveness. The brutal murder of Joe Griffin’s (Kevin O’Neill) brother before his eyes by the teenage…

The Flag

Declan Recks, 85 minutes, 2016

Harry Hambridge is down on his luck and living in London. In one day, he loses his job, his father and his beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his grandfather,…

Flanagan

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 11 mins, 1974

Flanagan was devised and produced when Thaddeus O’Sullivan was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art. After an opening image of the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, we cut to a young man who epitomises the angst-ridden artist…

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