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The Irish Riviera

15 minutes, 1936

This early example of a state-sponsored promotional film made to entice visitors to the sunny south coast briefly visits Cork City and lingers at the remote outposts of Mizen Head, Garnish, the Blasket Islands (then inhabited), and Dunquin. As well…

The Irish Wedding

Alex Fegan, 75 minutes, 2021

Celebrating the joys of an Irish Wedding in all its pleasant predictability - the requisite chats about the weather, the haggle over the beef or salmon, the losing of the  rings, the ditching of the heels, the intergenerational whirl around…

The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile

Philip Donnellan, 50 minutes, 1965

Directed by pioneering television documentarian Philip Donnellan, this social-realist documentary about Irish workers in the UK proved too controversial to ever be screened on British television. It is not surprising why; employed to drive the crucial infrastructural projects which would…

The Island

Fionnuala Gygax,
Kate Gilmore, 16 minutes, 2024

After suffering a recent loss, a young mother brings her daughter on a trip to Inis Oírr. Set over three days in spring, this film explores the rebuilding of a fractured mother-daughter relationship.

It Came from Connemara!!

Brian Reddin, 60minutes, 2014

Enter the world of low-budget B-movie maestro Roger Corman, mentor of Coppola, Scorsese, Nicholson and De Niro and producer of over 350 films including, from his Irish stable, A Very Unlucky Leprechaun. This is the story of the film studio…

It Tolls for Thee

Andrew Gallimore, 74 minutes, 2017

Irishwoman Mary Elmes (1908-2002) is a remarkable unsung heroine who saved hundreds of children from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and from the concentration camps of World War II. In a film narrated by Winona Ryder, Andrew Gallimore pieces together the jigsaw of her…

It’s Not Yet Dark

Frankie Fenton, 77 minutes, 2017

Screening in tribute to filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, this is an inspirational portrait of a filmmaker who recently lost his battle against Motor Neurone Disease (MND). When he was diagnosed with MND in 2008, Simon was told he had four years…

It’s Some Kind of Voodoo

Nicky Phelan, 3 minutes, 2006

A delightful gothic short narrated by Neil Hannon, It’s Some Kind of Voodoo uses string puppets to tell the story of a vengeful sculptor. Scorned by the beautiful neighbour he has taken as his muse, the sculptor attempts to use…

Jack Scott’s Wood

Noel Holmes , 28 minutes, 2016

Five friends go on a mountain bike ride in a isolated wood. But someone does not want them to be there.

Jaha’s Promise

Patrick Farrelly
Kate O'Callaghan, 82 minutes, 2017

Jaha is a young woman who returns home from the US to the Gambia to lead a campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM), the brutal procedure that she suffered as a baby and which almost destroyed her life. Jaha doesn’t…

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