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Living in a Coded Land

Pat Collins, 80 minutes, 2014

After making his first feature, the acclaimed Silence, director Pat Collins returned to the territory he made his name on with this mesmeric documentary, a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary…

The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos, 118 minutes, 2015

In the near future – or perhaps an alternate version of the present – those without a soulmate are dispatched to a grand hotel in the countryside where they have 40 days to rectify the situation by engaging in a…

The Lodgers

Brian O'Malley, 92 minutes, 2017

1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must…

LOLA

Andrew Legge, 80 minutes, 2022

England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to embrace their inner Bowie years before he was even born and place bets…

Lomax in Éirinn

Declan McGrath, 52 minutes, 2018

In 1951 American musicologist Alan Lomax travelled to Ireland and, guided by piper Séamus Ennis, began recording and collecting traditional Irish songs and music. Released as the album Ireland, and credited with the folk and traditional music revivals of the…

London Suite

Vivienne Dick, 28 minutes, 1988

A chorus of London voices come together to offer a snapshot of the city in the 1980s in this typically bold film from Vivienne Dick. Diverse figures describe and depict their ordinary lives, with a remarkable realism achieved through Dick’s…

The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid

Feargal Ward, 76 minutes, 2017

An eccentric north Kildare cattle farmer campaigns for his rights against the planning decisions of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) in Feargal Ward’s beautifully nuanced documentary. The film charts Reid’s halting progress in his long battle with the IDA which…

The Looking Glass

Colin Downey, 80 minutes, 2011

Prolific independent director Colin Downey here produces this surrealist feature which follows Paul, a troubled young man who lives in a rural cottage with his pregnant girlfriend Clare. While dealing with the sudden arrival of his sinister mother-in-law and coming…

Losing Alaska

Tom Burke, 82 minutes, 2018

The 375 residents of Newtok, Alaska watch their homes disappear into rolling seas as winter storms steal their coastline and melting permafrost erodes the edges of their town. Tom Burke’s (The Liberties) elegiac study follows the community as they struggle to maintain their…

Lost & Found

Liam O Mochain, 92 minutes, 2017

Inspired by true stories, seven interconnecting stories are set in and around the lost and found office of a train station in Ireland.

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