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There’s No Charge for the Hat

Shane Hogan, 14 minutes, 2013

A humble couple in the Irish Midlands are the custodians of a 187-year-old hat, reputed to have the power to cure headaches and other ailments. Notes by Ross Whitaker.

Reality Baby

Nodlag Houlihan, 12 minutes, 2019

A group of friends are given lifelike baby dolls to care for over twenty four hours, but how will they rise to the challenges of teenage motherhood?

Rebirth

Emile Dinneen, 19 minutes, 2013

"I didn't get into photography to cover war. I didn't go to Iraq or Afghanistan. I didn't go to other wars in distant lands because I'm not interested in war. But here I am."

The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan

Gabrielle Russell, 96 minutes, 2025

Former IRA operative Erin Morrigan (Olwen Fouéré) is dying in a remote safe house on the Northern Ireland border. Unsettled by the arrival of a fugitive teenage boy (Jake Doyle), who resembles a man she once loved and condemned, Erin…

Recommended Rapper

Caoimhín Coffey, 16 minutes, 2019

The story of Danny Rock, a 22 year-old unemployed young man from a small tourism-dependent town in the West of Ireland, who raps. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Tupac Shakur and NWA, he uploads self directed, edited and written…

The Red Tree

Paul Rowley , 22 minutes, 2018

The Red Tree is a "powerful and poetic" short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini's Fascist regime. Available as part of a curated series of…

Redemption of a Rogue

Philip Doherty, 90 minutes, 2020

Dishevelled Jimmy Cullen returns to Co Cavan after seven years of exile to make peace with his dying father and seek redemption for past sins before he too bids this world farewell. Moments after his arrival, his father breathes his…

Reefer and the Model

Joe Comerford, 76 minutes (re-edited version 2014), 1988

Joe Comerford brought his brand of sharp realist cinema to this drama about Reefer (Ian McElhinney), an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa (Carol Scanlan), a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. Nicknaming her ‘the model’, Reefer…

Relic

Christy Scoltock, 13 minutes, 2019

Sarah is a nine-year old girl whose faith is tested after many failed attempts to evoke a sign from the Virgin Mary.

Remember Me, My Ghost

Ross McDonnell, 16 minutes, 2011

Over still images of Ballymun’s notorious tower blocks a woman tells her story of a life of deprivation, love, and personal difficulty. Her narration touches on communal solidarity and a love for her own home before turning to the social…

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