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If These Walls Could Talk

Anna Rodgers, 13 minutes, 2009

Painful memories of institutionalisation are brought to the surface in this creative documentary short from Anna Rodgers. Over images of an abandoned ruin, once a psychiatric institution, traces of forgotten voices recount their experiences of the institution and their life-changing…

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Anna Rodgers, 13 minutes,

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The Image You Missed

Donal Foreman, 73 minutes, 2018

The complexities of a father/son relationship are explored in this documentary from Irish director Donal Foreman. Foreman, a passionate cinephile and keen filmmaker since childhood, grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian, Arthur MacCaig, whose decades-long…

Immaculate Heart

Jack Burke, 21 minutes, 2016

Two thieves on the lam witness a phenomenon that may prove to be their salvation... or their doom.

Imogen from the Heart

Emile Dineen, 60 minutes, 2024

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In America

Jim Sheridan, 103 minutes, 2002

Jim Sheridan’s most autobiographical film, this tale of an Irish family settling in New York following the death of their young son drew on his two older daughters’ memories of coming to the city as children. The loss of a…

In Bruges

Martin McDonagh, 107 minutes, 2008

In his first effort in feature filmmaking Martin McDonagh racked up numerous accolades – including an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay – with this delightfully-black comedy about a pair of Irish hitmen hiding out in Bruges after a botched…

In Orbit

Katie McNeice, 17 minutes, 2019

There was once an invisible optician, living in a strange and lonely world. Her story starts with a broken lens and the woman who taught her to see things differently.

In Sunshine or in Shadow

Andrew Gallimore, 58 minutes, 2010

In Sunshine or in Shadow is Andrew Gallimore’s dramatic investigation into the true story behind the epic world featherweight title match between Barry McGuigan and Panamanian Eusebio Pedroza which took place in the open air at Loftus Road, home of…

In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

Maurice Fitzpatrick, 90 minutes, 2017

Exploring the decades-long campaign by Nobel Prize winner John Hume to secure peace in Northern Ireland, Maurice Fitzpatrick reveals how Hume, inspired by Martin Luther King and rising from the riot-torn streets of Northern Ireland, enlisted an army of heavy-weight…

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