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Lesbian Lines

Cara Holmes, 85 minutes, 2026

A poignant film that reveals an unknown queer and lesbian Irish history through the story of an underground network of telephone helplines. Each call was logged as handwritten notes kept through a time of constitutional change in Ireland as women…

Let the Wrong One In

Conor McMahon, 100 minutes, 2022

Matt 16, is a nice kid from Northside Dublin. A little too nice for his own good and it has been holding him back his whole life. He always puts other people’s needs before his own but will he ever…

Let Your Colours Run Free

Simon Blanckensee
Don Rorke, 68 minutes, 2019

Charting the path of TransGreystones, a group created to support the trans community in Wicklow, the film delineates their emotional journey to create their first art exhibition. Heartening in its depiction of subjugating vulnerability and isolation, the film explores the…

Letter

Joy Nesbitt, 68 minutes, 2024

Molly, a brown Irish woman, is tasked with writing a daunting letter. Over time, she finds the courage to overcome writer’s block, ultimately writing the letter and freeing herself from the burden.

The Liberties

Tom Burke, Shane Hogan, 90 minutes, 2009

The film equivalent of a portrait gallery, Tom Burke and Shane Hogan’s The Liberties is a series of twelve beautifully crafted short films, each encapsulating a different aspect of this famous Dublin inner-city community, which one Oscar-winning inhabitant wouldn’t trade…

Lie of the Land

John Carlin, 80 minutes, 2023

About to lose everything, the Wards prepare to escape crippling debts for a new life via a mysterious stranger, with big promises for the right fee. But last-minute doubts see the pair fighting for everything they were about to abandon.

Lies We Tell

Lisa Mulcahy, 89 minutes, 2023

An orphaned heiress in an isolated manor is forced to adapt to embrace her family’s dark legacy, in this adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas. Note: film currently on competitive circuit and not available for screening at cultural festivals

Life’s A Breeze

Lance Daly, 88 minutes, 2013

Turning again to his favoured terrain of ordinary Dubliners, director Lance Daly crafts here a warm and engaging comedy about a family making its way in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Matriarch Nan (Fionnula Flanagan) is upset when her unemployed son Colm…

Lily

Graham Cantwell, 22 minutes, 2016

The tale of an adolescent girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. In the wake of a violent and vicious homophobic attack, she is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life. Available as…

Limbo

Matthew McGuigan, 20 minutes, 2019

Brendan's mother Eilis reveals a dark secret on her deathbed, one to which Brendan must find the answer - what happened to her lost child?

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