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Geist

Sean Mullen, Ben Harper, Alex Sherwood, 11 minutes, 2015

A shipwrecked fisherman takes shelter in an abandoned house on a remote island, but soon realises he is not alone.

One of Brendan Gleeson’s finest performances, he here takes the lead role in this biopic of notorious Dublin gangster Martin ‘The General’ Cahill. Opening with Cahill’s murder by the IRA in 1994, the film returns to Cahill’s youth to tell…

George Best: All By Myself

Daniel Gordon, 90 minutes, 2016

In 1961 George Best, a shy well-mannered Belfast teenager, was recruited by Manchester United to become what Pelé would call “the greatest player in the world”. A devilishly charismatic figure, Best achieved celebrity status early. His football was transcendent (playing…

Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man

Trisha Ziff, 117 minutes, 2025

Gerry Adams first met Englishwoman Trisha Ziff, a community activist and founder of the “Camerawork Derry” workshop, at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict in 1981, remaining in contact for over forty years. This film weaves together interviews recorded…

Get Up and Go

Brendan Grant, 98 minutes, 2014

Coilin and Alex are part of Dublin’s bohemian underworld of musicians, artists and comedians, who eschew hard work in favour of changing the world. But over the course of twenty-four hours of degradation, they are forced to look the real…

The Ghost of Richard Harris

Adrian Sibley, 107 minutes, 2022

In a career spanning five decades, a broad range of film genres and a glittering array of best actor awards, Limerick-born Richard Harris (1930 – 2002) brought an electric presence to both stage and screen. He was nominated for Oscars…

Ghost Train

Lee Cronin, 16 minutes, 2013

Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant pilgrimage to the old fairground where their friend Sam went missing three decades ago. This time, Michael has a secret to confess.

Ghosts of Baggotonia

Alan Gilsenan, 80 minutes, 2022

An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity. ‘Baggotonia’ was both an area and a cultural…

The Girl

John Hayes, 17 minutes, 2012

Building a new life in the west of Ireland after a series of miscarriages, the emotionally scarred Sophie (Geraldine Somerville) finds herself falling into a place between madness and the supernatural in this chilling short. When left alone in their…

Girl Alone

Keith Farrell, 17 minutes, 2019

A girl with a dark past finds herself alone and on the run. Sometimes moving forward is harder than it seems.

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