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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.…

Ruby

Michael Creagh, 20 minutes, 2019

Len and Ruby are celebrating their ruby wedding anniversary. Len has a history of odd and outlandish gifts. Ruby hopes that this year will be different.

Run

Caroline Grace-Cassidy,
Roisin Kearney, 9 minutes, 2019

A woman's eyes are opened to her coercive, controlling partner when an old friend is allowed to come to dinner.

Run & Jump

Steph Green, 102 minutes, 2013

Struggling to cope, financially and emotionally, with her husband’s life-altering, embattled Kerry woman Vanetia (Maxine Peake) is thrown a lifeline when American neurologist Ted (Will Forte) pays for the chance to move in with the family and monitor the recovering…

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