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The Girl at the End of the Garden

Bonnie Dempsey, 15 minutes, 2019

A slapstick comedy about an unhappy young girl whose life is turned upside-down when she finds a mysterious runaway with psychic powers in her back garden.

The Girl With the Mechanical Maiden

Andrew Legge, 15 minutes, 2012

A short set in a strange, quasi-Victorian world, The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden sees an inventor (Dominic West) construct a ramshackle robotic wet-nurse for his daughter after her mother dies in childbirth. As the child grows older, a robotic…

Girls & Boys

Donncha Gilmore, 81 minutes, 2025

Rugby player Jace (Adam Lunnon-Collery) meets aspiring filmmaker Charlie (Liath Hannon) at a college party. Both attend Trinity College, but their worlds couldn’t be more different; Charlie is trans, her circle full of queer artists and creatives, while Jace is…

Give Up Yer Aul Sins

Cathal Gaffney, 5 minutes, 2001

A young Dublin girl tells her own, youthfully unique version of the story of John the Baptist in this animated short. Based on recordings made in a Dublin school in the 1970s and rediscovered in the 1990s, Give Up Yer…

Glass Hour

Clare Langan, 8 minutes , 2002

Clare Langan’s work sits within both fine art and film traditions. The use of hand-made filters gives a distinctly sensuous and oneiric appearance, mixing painterly values with a strongly cinematic use of sound and space. Part of a post-apocalyptic trilogy,…

Glassland

Gerard Barrett, 80 minutes, 2014

John is working as a taxi driver in Dublin and struggling to make ends meet. He lives with his mother Jean, who he is devoted to, despite Jean being a committed and unrelenting alcoholic. When she is hospitalised after her…

Gleann

Jesse Gilbert, 71 minutes, 2024

A filmmaker turns his attention to the remote valley in which he was raised. The result is a love letter to a people and a place. Using both digital and Super 8 footage, the film acts as a time capsule…

The Glenarma Tapes

Tony Devlin, 79 minutes, 2023

On March 13th 2020, five students and two faculty members from the Mid Ulster College of Arts disappeared without trace. They were last seen near the village of Glenarma, over sixty miles away from their campus. Two years later, footage…

Global Warning

Garry Keane,
Rachael Moriarty, 75 minutes, 2025

Journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes ventures to the distant corners of the planet where climate change is unfolding most profoundly. Through conversations with those most affected, Boucher-Hayes discovers how people can learn to adapt and survive if they accept what’s happening and…

God’s Creatures

Saela Davis,
Anna Rose Holmer, 100 minutes, 2022

A sleepy Irish fishing community is destabilised by the return of Brian (Paul Mescal), the errant son of Aileen O’Hara (Emily Watson), who shows up unexpectedly at the funeral for a local fisherman, announcing his intention to revive his brother-in-law’s…

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