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Mickybo and Me

Terry Loane, 95 minutes, 2004

Religious divisions in Northern Ireland form the backdrop for this rollicking family adventure from director Terry Loane. Shy young Protestant boy Jonjo (Niall Wright) accidently crosses his community’s sectarian borders when he befriends the energetic, wild, and – crucially –…

Midnight Dance

John McCloskey, 6 minutes, 1996

The skeletal dead risen and walking is a theme in many great works of medieval art, and that tradition is used to great effect in this animated short. A fiddler plays music to raise skeletons from their graves and lead…

The Mighty Celt

Pearse Elliott, 82 minutes, 2005

A young boy’s friendship with a greyhound provides the starting point for this heartfelt tale about people coming out of the shadow of Northern Ireland’s past. In an act of compassion, the young Donal (Tyrone McKenna) saves a doomed greyhound…

Million Dollar Pigeons

Gavin Fitzgerald, 92 minutes, 2022

Pigeon racing is now a multi-million dollar industry, attracting high-stakes competitors from all around the globe. Pigeon fanciers register their prize racers, box them up and dispatch them to faraway places to compete in a series of lucrative races, but…

Milo

Berend Boorsma, Roel Boorsma, 93 minutes, 2012

Milo (Lorcan Bonner) is a young boy kept isolated from the world by parents so ashamed of his rare skin condition that they have devised treatments to keep Milo from even knowing about it. Running away from this oppressive environment…

Mincéir

Teresa Lavina, 54 minutes, 2022

Mincéir is a unique piece conveyed in the shape of a 50 minute documentary that brings the audience on a journey across the Irish Travellers' traditions exploring strong connections with art, their past traditions, present transitions and future views. It…

The Miracle

Neil Jordan, 97 minutes, 1991

An act of retrenchment after a difficult first foray into big-budget filmmaking, The Miracle sees Jordan move as close to the world of his short stories as his film career would ever take him with this intimate drama set on…

Mise Éire

George Morrison, 88 minutes, 1959

Produced by the pioneering Irish language filmmakers Gael Linn, Mise Éire, draws almost exclusively on contemporaneous newspapers, newsreels and actuality footage from the early years of Ireland’s revolutionary period to present a history of that turbulence. The era under director…

The Missing Scarf

Eoin Duffy, 7 minutes, 2013

George Takei narrates this animated short in which a squirrel sets out in search of a missing scarf only to find himself offering life lessons to the forest’s neurotic inhabitants. Friendship, fears, and existential crises are tackled in this philosophical…

Mister John

Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy, 95 minutes, 2013

Gerry (Aidan Gillen) travels to Singapore where his estranged brother, a bar owner who has possibly been involved in nefarious activities, has died in a drowning accident. It emerges that Gerry is running away from his own problems at home,…

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