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The Last Right

Aoife Crehan, 106 minutes, 2019

A comedy-drama road movie telling the story of a man bringing the body of someone he barely knows for burial with his family. His good intentions are motivated by trying to patch up his relationship with his own brother. However,…

The Last September

Deborah Warner, 103 minutes, 1999

Much celebrated theatrical director Deborah Warner made the transition to feature film here with this lushly-filmed adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen’s novel of the same name, in a depiction of love blooming amidst social collapse. Set during the Irish War of…

The Last Time

Conor Horgan, 12 minutes, 2002

Director Conor Horgan made his debut with this heartfelt, humane short about a woman looking for love in the days before she dies. Driven to seedy nightclubs and online chatrooms, Evelyn (Linda Bassett) experiences both embarrassment and happiness in this…

Late Afternoon

Louise Bagnall, 10 minutes, 2018

An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present. Nominated for Academy Awards 2019.

Late Arrival

Barry Ronan, 3 minutes, 2006

Stripped of sound and language, Late Arrival relies entirely on its jittery and accelerated camera movement and overlapping imagery to create a kinetic and charged perception of its subject (the filmmaker’s wife) that could not have been expressed in a more ordered…

Learning Gravity / The Undertaking

Cathal Black, 70 minutes, 2007

Thomas Lynch is a Detroit-based mortician who has run the family business for over 30 years and arranged perhaps 6,000 funerals. When not an American undertaker, he is an Irishman who lives in Moveen, Co. Clare (from where his grandparents…

Learning to Fish

Teemu Auersalo, 4 minutes, 2012

Winter living proves difficult for a flock of indolent seagulls in this animated short. Ably sustained by discarded fast food throughout the summer months, the cold of winter finds the seagulls, unable to win food for themselves, creeping around the…

Leave the Road Behind You

Daniel Butler, 16 minutes, 2018

As his life changes outside his control, a young man struggles to keep his car on the road.

The Ledge End of Phil (From Accounting)

Paul O Muiris, 6 minutes, 2013

Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to face the world he's been ignoring. Now he must take a leap of faith or be trapped forever.

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Eamonn O'Neill, 10 minutes, 2012

Youth goes awry in this animated short which follows the diverging paths two young friends take in life. As Joe comes home with his girlfriend and is welcomed by town and family, childhood partner-in-crime Neil has a less glamourous life,…

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