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Piano Dreams
Gary Lennon, 95 minutes, 2022
When Gary Lennon (I Dream in Photos) lived next door to a Music Conservatory in Shanghai he became acutely aware of the piano-mania sweeping the country. With over 40 million piano students in China, the competition to secure places in…
The Pier
Gerard Hurley, 88 minutes, 2011
Written, directed by and featuring Gerard Hurley, himself a returned emigrant, this low-budget, realist take on the experience of home-coming confronts questions of return, loss, and regret in an engaging drama about a damaged family. Tricked into coming back to…Pigeons of Discontent
Paddy Cahill, 9 minutes, 2019
In the otherwise tranquil Dublin neighbourhood of Stoneybatter, one local issue has divided neighbours: the pigeons.
Pigs
Cathal Black, 78 minutes, 1984
Made in the midst of Ireland’s crippling 1980s recession, Pigs is infused with a sense of fury and despair born out of director Cathal Black's socially-engaged consciousness. Jimmy (Jimmy Brennan), a gay man separated from his wife, moves into a…The Pike
Alicia Ni Ghrainne, 16 minutes, 2017
An estranged grandmother and grandson are forced to live together for a brief period of time.
Pilgrim
Matthew Darragh, 4 minutes, 2006
In this surreal animated short an anthropomorphic fridge scrambles through a desert in search of a power source. Completely silent, the tension builds as the fridge’s precious cargo begins to melt, and the need for power becomes increasingly urgent. Preferring…
Pilgrim Hill
Gerard Barrett, 85 minutes, 2013
Bachelor farmer Jimmy Walsh (Joe Mullins), whose farm offers only his cows and his bed-ridden father for company, is the subject of this emotionally devastating exploration of one lonely man. Weaving the mundane events of Jimmy’s life with his answers…
Pilgrimage
Brendan Muldowney, 96 minutes, 2017
Cistercian monk Brother Geraldus (Stanley Weber) arrives on the shores of early-13th century Ireland with the aim of obtaining a religious relic of great significance from a remote community of fellow monks. His ultimate goal is to present the object…
The Pipe
Risteard O'Domhnaill, 83 minutes, 2010
Local opposition to a gas pipeline in the West of Ireland is already seen to have caused the imprisonment of five activists when this documentary account of the ongoing battle between Shell Oil and a County Mayo community picks up…
Pitch and Putt with Joyce and Beckett
Donald Clarke, 3 minutes, 2001
The writing styles of two of Ireland’s great writers, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, are parodied here in this sharp comedy sketch which sees the pair struggling to complete a hole in a round of golf.