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The Road to God Knows Where

Alan Gilsenan, 53 minutes, 1988

The Road to God Knows Where was a breakthrough, iconoclastic film for Alan Gilsenan and remains a memorable zeitgeist movie of Ireland in a transformational decade. The 1980s was a period of social regression, emigration and political crisis. Capturing the…

Roadside

Joe Comerford, 12 minutes, 2003

RoadSide, Comerford’s first digital short, is a veritable assault on its audience – an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Mixing found footage from personal archives and his own unfinished short, Rough Touch, it outlines the brief encounter between a…

Rockmount

David Tynan, 13 minutes, 2014

1982, Cork. Roy is 11, small and sure he's going to get on his club's starting team. Even if no one else is.

Rocky Road to Dublin

Peter Lennon, 70 minutes, 1968

Rocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard (long-time collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard), examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “what do you do…

Rocky Ros Muc

Michael Fanning, 92 minutes, 2017

Seán Mannion, a talented boxer from the quiet Gaeltacht village of Ros Muc, Co Galway, left Ireland for Boston in the 1970s and rose to the heights of New York’s Madison Square Gardens where, in October 1984, he fought for the WBA light middleweight crown. This…

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.…

Romance is Dad

Dave Moran, 9 minutes, 2025

Mikey and Drew are away for a romantic weekend in a fancy hotel, the first weekend alone together since the birth of their two kids. A luggage mix-up puts a dampener on proceedings, so Drew, thinking on his feet, tries…

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…

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