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Róise & Frank

Rachael Moriarty,
Peter Murphy, 90 minutes, 2022

Bríd Ní Neachtain stars as the recently widowed Róise, who believes that a stray dog embodies the spirit of her late husband Frank. Isolated since his death two years ago, the appearance of the dog shakes her out of herself.…

Room

Lenny Abrahamson, 118 minutes, 2015

This film was released 15th January 2016, and is no longer screening. Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, Room tells the story of Ma (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are being held captive…

The Rooster, the Crocodile, and the Night Sky

Padraig Fagan, 6 minutes, 2008

A  money-hungry crocodile wreaks havoc on a rooster and his strange community when he uses a vacuum to steal the night sky. Brilliantly inventive in both plot and presentation, a bombastic soundtrack is married to a wildly creative animation style…

Rory O’More

Sidney Olcott, 12 minutes, 1911

Rory O’More was made on the company’s second visit to Ireland and is the first of several historical dramas set around the Irish rebellions of 1798/1803. The company was based in Beaufort, outside Killarney, for this and subsequent summers, and…

Rosalyn

Olivia J Middleton, 18 minutes, 2019

A compelling horror hat explores the fragility of mental health during pregnancy.

Rose Plays Julie

Christine Molloy,
Joe Lawlor, 95 minutes, 2019

Veterinary student Rose (Ann Skelly) is an only child who has always wanted to know who her biological parents are. Having traced her birth mother Ellen (Orla Brady) who has no wish to have any contact, Rose travels from Dublin…

Rosie

Paddy Breathnach, 86 minutes, 2018

Roddy Doyle’s first original screenplay since When Brendan Met Trudy (2000) puts a human face to Dublin’s homeless issue and the increasing numbers of families affected. Rosie (Sarah Greene), partner John Paul (Moe Dunford), and their four young children have…

Rotha Mor An Saoil (Hard Road To Klondike)

Desmond Bell, 55 minutes, 1999

Developed from the autobiography of Michael MacGowan, an emigrant labourer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Hard Road to Klondike is the retelling of a life of punishing work done at the limits of survival. Voiceovers drawn from…

Rough

Adam Patterson,
Declan Lawn, 13 minutes, 2020

In post-conflict Northern Ireland, paramilitaries have evolved into street gangs who enforce their own brutal street justice in the form of “punishment” attacks. But when they pass a death sentence on a local dog, they bite off more than they…

Rúbaí

Louise Ní Fhiannachta, 12 minutes, 2013

Modern Ireland is the theme of this Irish language short that deals with one girl’s refusal to make her Holy Communion. Committed atheism is Rúbaí’s (Doireann Ní Fhoighil) reason for refusal, a decision that scandalises the adults in her life.…

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