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Q4L (quest for love)

Antonia Campbell-Hughes, 8 minutes, 2019

Arriving at a new home in Paris, Eve begins to explore the city, wandering through crowds devouring the freedom, with Max drifting around her — a companion, a burden, a mystery. Eve faces and tests herself, tests their bond and…

Quarantine

Tadhg O'Sullivan, Feargal Ward, 15 minutes, 2011

An affectingly intimate portrait of isolation, Quarantine record a woman’s brave response to being put in quarantine after radiation therapy. Her isolation is acutely captured by directors Tadhg O’Sullivan and Feargal Ward but it is Rosanna Byrne’s stoic response to…

The Queen of Ireland

Conor Horgan, 82 minutes, 2016

Panti Bliss – AKA Rory O’Neill – is many things: Ireland’s premiere drag queen, successful businesswoman and, most recently, an accidental activist and campaigner on the world stage championing LGBT rights. Described by long-time co-conspirator Niall Sweeney as a “glamorous…

The Queen v Patrick O’Donnell

Tomás Seoighe, 90 minutes, 2021

The fascinatingly complex story of how Pádraig Ó Dónaill/Patrick O’Donnell, a man from the Donegal Gaeltacht with no overt political affiliations, came to shoot and kill one of the leading figures of the assassination squad The Invincibles, and Ireland’s most…

Questionable Treatment

Joe McStravick, 12 minutes, 2022

The subject of an illegal "cure" for autism is discussed by Fiona Pettit O'Leary, a woman who is trying to stop the abuse of vulnerable people.

The Quiet Man

John Ford, 129 minutes, 1952

A classic in the canon of Irish film, Irishman Sean Thornton (John Wayne) returns from Pittsburgh to his native home in the fictional town of Inisfree. Falling in love with both the scenery and local beauty Mary-Kate Danaher (Maureen O’Hara),…

Quintessentially Irish

Frank Mannion, 119 minutes, 2024

With a distinguished cast including former 007 actor Pierce Brosnan, two Presidents, a Prince, and an unconventional Irish Lord, director Frank Mannion looks at the influence of the Irish diaspora, and asks what it means to be Quintessentially Irish with…

The Race

Andre F. Nebe, 84 minutes, 2009

An uplifting family drama about a young girl breaking barriers, The Race has thirteen year old Mary Kensay (Niamh McGirr) challenge the expectations of her rural Northern Irish community by dreaming of becoming a racing driver. Her ambitions, however, are…

The Racer

Kieron J. Walsh, 95 minutes, 2020

Summer 1998. The opening stages of the Tour de France have been relocated to Ireland. Fictional Belgian rider Dom Chabol (Louis Talpe) has been one of the best support riders on the Tour for the last 20 years. It's a sacrificial…

The Raj in the Rain

Patrick Cooney, 120 minutes, 2012

The Raj in the Rain is an affectionate, insightful and frequently bizarre portrait of a dwindling tribe – the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. For centuries, the landed gentry lead privileged lives in palatial mansions on vast rambling estates. Following Ireland’s independence, the…

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