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Hope – The Story of Yes

Grace Sweeney , 15 minutes, 2018

A deeply personal assessment of the highs, lows and personal risks of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Referendum.

In 1915, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle travelled with their young children Giorgio and Lucia to Switzerland to escape the turmoil of World War I. Lucia later trained as a dancer and performed throughout Europe. Her career ended when, in…

Horses

Esperanza Collado, 2 minutes, 2011

Rewinding the film in a Super 16mm Bolex camera to shoot a triple exposure, Horses was shot at different speeds and home-processed using an extreme, unorthodox procedure. The resulting footage shifts unexpectedly from negative to positive and vice-versa, while scratches…

Horseshoe

Edwin Mullane,
Adam O’Keeffe, 88 minutes, 2025

All families are mad, not least the Canavans. A drama comedy with a twist set in the wild West of Ireland. When Colm, the head of the family, dies, there are few who mourn his passing, not even his four…

Hostage to the Devil

Martin Stalker, 90 minutes, 2016

A child possessed. An exorcist locked in combat with an ancient evil. Using firsthand interviews, dramatic reconstruction, archival evidence and Martin’s own words, this documentary film tells the true story of Father Malachi Martin, and asks, in the battle for…

The House Fell

Maeve Stone, 12 minutes, 2019

Feeling trapped at her sister's wedding, Fiona must face the past to escape the ruins of a life she once dreamed of.

Housewife of the Year

Ciaran Cassidy, 76 minutes, 2024

Between 1969 and 1995, women all over Ireland competed to win the Housewife of the Year, a competition celebrating “cookery, nurturing, and basic household management skills”. Broadcast on RTÉ from 1982, the programmes featured not just the competition itself but…

How Harry Became a Tree

Goran Paskaljevic, 99 minutes, 2001

Very much an international production, How Harry Became a Tree has a Serbian director use an Irish cast to tell a Chinese folk tale that comically touches on the legacy of both Irish and Balkan civil wars. Central to the…

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

Des Henderson, 90 minutes, 2016

In 1975 Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad began a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland respite from the Troubles. Project Children ultimately brought more than 20,000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban USA for summer-long visits…

How to Divorce During the War

Andrius Blaževičius, 108 minutes, 2026

Set in Vilnius in 2022, high-flying executive Marija chooses the worst moment to discuss divorce with husband Vytas - one day before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The couple navigates separation amid a refugee crisis. World premiere: Sundance Film Festival,…

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