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The Playboys
Gillies MacKinnon, 117 minutes, 1992
1950s Ireland has proved a popular theme in Irish film and director Gillies MacKinnon here turns to it to tell a story about an unmarried mother, Tara (Robin Wright), whose refusal to conform to expectations scandalises her conservative community. The…
Plough and the Stars
John Ford, 73 mins, 1936
In the spring of 1916, hostility towards the British is brewing on the streets of Dublin. Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyk) tries in vain to keep her husband Jack (Preston Foster) from joining the rebel forces for fear he will die…Póg mo Pigeon
Clíodhna Lyons, 73 mins, 2024
Mikey’s new friend, Pidgey, follows him home for family prayer time. Unfortunately, the sanctity of Mammy’s sitting room is no place for a chaotic pigeon.
Poitín
Bob Quinn, 65 minutes, 1978
Bob Quinn’s firebrand response to pastoral visions of rural Ireland, this grim depiction of rural living generated outrage when it first appeared in 1979. The story concerns two layabouts, Labhrás (Donal McCann) and Sleamhnan (Niall Tóibín), and the poitín-brewer Micíl…
The Polish Language
Alice Lyons, Orla McHardy, 8 minutes, 2009
Intelligent and imaginative, The Polish Language is an animated film-poem that explores the power of modern poetry. Hand-drawn, stop-motion, and time-lapse animation techniques are employed as the short celebrates late-twentieth century Polish poetry, with the film’s stylistic variety encouraging the…
The Polish School
Michael Ryan, 10 minutes, 2012
This short documentary presents a Saturday School in Galway which caters to the community’s new Polish residents. Children and teachers describe how the school offers them a chance to make contact with their native culture.
The Pool
Thomas Hefferon, 12 minutes, 2010
Teenage bravado is pushed to its limits in this short which sees three adolescent boys losing their sense amidst a dangerous breath-holding contest at the local pool. Sam (Thomas Kelly) is bullied by the arrogant Charlie (Ryan Andrews), a situation…Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos, 141 minutes, 2023
The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. [IFI International] Awards: Golden Lion Award for Best Film, Venice International Film Festival, 2023…Postcard from a Crisis
Kathleen Harris,
Samuel Meyler, 15 minutes, 2018
The Predicament of Man
Jesse Jones, 3 minutes, 2012
This film is the second in the collection of films; ‘The Trilogy of Dust’. Using footage shot in an opal mine in Cobber Pedy, Australia, intercut with over a thousand still images that appear momentarily on screen, Jones subliminally contrasts…