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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…

In the Name of the Father

Jim Sheridan, 133 minutes, 1993

Drawn from real-life individuals and events, In the Name of the Father continued Sheridan’s collaborations with Daniel Day-Lewis in this re-enactment of the miscarriage of justice that led to the Guildford Four being wrongly imprisoned for the pub bombings of…

In the Narrow Shade of a Pen

Taro Madden, 15 minutes, 2018

George is mourning a death that did not come to pass, and Lucianne's bemused sympathy makes some sense of this;

In the Shadow of Beirut

Stephen Gerard Kelly,
Garry Keane, 92 minutes, 2023

From the makers of Gaza (2019), comes a cinematic odyssey, penetrating deep below the surface of Beirut, a still beautiful, yet deeply troubled city on the brink of financial collapse. The film weaves together the stories of four characters living…

In Time: Dónal Lunny

Nuala O'Connor, 95 minutes, 2025

Dónal Lunny is one of Ireland’s outstanding artists, a peerless contributor to Irish culture and music. As a founding member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts, Lunny helped revive and transform Irish traditional and folk music. The film reveals how significant events…

In View

Ciaran Creagh, 93 minutes, 2016

Ruth (Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a woman filled with rage, guilt and self-loathing, unable to forgive herself for a drunken indiscretion with a colleague which resulted in the loss of her husband and her unborn child. As her moodswings and angry…

Inner Child

Gary Duggan, 12 minutes, 2018

A woman's inner child knows why she hurts herself and other's around her. Is she ready to listen?

Innocent Boy

John Connors, 40 minutes, 2020

An all-Traveller cast stars in this drama about a young boy who uses the power of his imagination to cope with some tough realities in his life. Jack lost his mum at a young age, has a hearing impairment and…

Inside I’m Dancing

Damien O'Donnell, 104 minutes, 2004

Inside I’m Dancing sees two men fight to overcome disabilities and live exciting, independent lives in this uplifting tale from director Damien O’Donnell. Michael (Steven Robertson) has cerebral palsy and is drifting through life in a nursing home until the…

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