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Spread the Wings

Alice McDowell, 12 minutes, 2020

Despite being forced off the road in the 1980s, sisters Maggie and Nora still travel back to Connemara every summer to rekindle their connection with the land. With their caravans pulled up on the side of the road they recall…

Squared Circle

Ian Meehan, 12 minutes, 2019

A veteran troupe of wrestlers assemble a ring on a seaside promenade. A summer festival prepares for their exhibition of physical drama.

St. Francis Didn’t Run Numbers

Chris O'Neill, 2 minutes, 2009

The first in an on-going series of ‘found-footage’ film projects, Saint Francis Didn’t Run Numbers is a eulogy to personal interpretations of cinema with a fetishistic fascination with the imperfections of ageing celluloid. By re-filming a well-known classic of American…

St. Patrick’s Day

Gary Shore, 15 minutes, 2017

A sensitive but slightly oddball student enters the life of her unsuspecting teacher and wreaks havoc.

The Stag

John Butler, 94 minutes, 2013

Stressed to breaking point by his upcoming wedding, determinedly anti-macho groom Fionnan (Hugh O’Conor) is taken on an unexpected and unwanted stag weekend by best man Davin (Andrew Scott). Harbouring secret feelings for Fionnan’s fiancée Ruth (Amy Huberman), Davin needs…

Starboard Home

Rob Davis, Elton Mullally, Moira Sweeney, 65 minutes, 2016

Featuring the highly successful Starboard Home album and showcase gigs at the National Concert Hall, Dublin this documentary celebrates the formative bond between Dublin’s port, city and river through music, song and spoken word. The film illustrates the songs, airs…

Starry Night

Emma Smith, 65 minutes, 2019

Cara must make a choice - abandon her sisters and pursue her dreams, or sacrifice herself so that one day they too might stand a chance.

State of Suspension

Clare Langan, 6 minutes, 2012

Clare Langan’s extraordinarily beautiful IFB-funded short, State of Suspension, is a meditation on loss in which a human figure and water defy the laws of gravity. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

Static

Daniel Holmes, 17 minutes, 2017

An isolated conspiracy theorist learns how to re-enter the outside world with the help of a mysterious accomplice.

Stella Days

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 87 minutes, 2011

Working through themes of conservative religion clashing with modernisation, Stella Days sees progressively-thinking priest Father Barry (Martin Sheen) try to resolve a budget crisis by opening a cinema in his 1950s Tipperary parish. Working alongside schoolteacher Tim McCarthy (Trystan Gravelle),…

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