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My Left Foot

Jim Sheridan, 103 minutes, 1989

His first film as director, My Left Foot launched Jim Sheridan’s international career and launched Irish cinema onto the world stage with My Left Foot earning Academy Award victories for Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown and Brenda Fricker as Mrs Brown. The film also…

My Lost Russian Mother

Sam Jones, 86 minutes, 2023

Irish filmmaker Sam Jones, in his first feature documentary, welcomes the newfound friendship of US citizen Gabe, and follows him to a remote Russian village in search of the mother he and his sister were taken from in childhood when…

My Name is Emily

Simon Fitzmaurice, 94 minutes, 2015

In this fresh coming-of-age drama, super-smart but socially awkward Emily (Evanna Lynch) is concerned when she doesn’t receive a birthday card from her loving but absent father. When she hooks up with fellow outcast Arden (George Webster) at her new…

My New York Year

Philippe Falardeau, TBC, 2020

New York in the 1990s: after leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent to J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she…

My Other Suit is Human

Andrew Paul Montague, 17 minutes, 2020

Zoe, grieving for her deceased son, has become distant from her emotionally unavailable husband who buries himself in work. Dealing with her grief alone, she seeks refuge in the form of a homemade robot suit. Slowly, she works to rediscover…

Nails

Dennis Bartok, 85 minutes, 2017

Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family with she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room. Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

Natural Grace

Art Ó Briain, 78 minutes, 2012

Diving into the world of traditional Irish music Natural Grace reveals the life and art of one of Ireland’s great modern proponents of the genre: celebrated fiddler Martin Hayes. Interviews and performances tell the story of a man who took…

Needle Exchange

Colm Quinn, 10 minutes, 2010

Two recovering drug addicts discuss the new lives they have made for themselves in this candid short documentary. The pair openly describe how their friendship helped them overcome their addiction and the challenges they have found in ordinary life. Director…

The Negotiator

Trevor Birney, 92 minutes, 2025

Waterville-born US Senator George J. Mitchell first arrived in Northern Ireland as President Clinton’s special economic envoy. Over time his role grew as he chaired the peace negotiations that led to the historic Good Friday Agreement in 1998, changing the…

Neon

Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair, 5 minutes, 2018

The world is poisoned. A sacrificial population is tasked with carving out a clean passage with neon lights between pockets of surviving civilisation. One 'runner' dares to race for her life against all the odds.

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