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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.

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),…

Stephanie

Fergal Costello, 87 minutes, 2019

John and Stephanie wake to the sound of someone outside. This stranger wants Stephanie dead. Why? We come to learn that Stephanie may be harbouring a monstrous secret.

Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance

Ruán Magan, 80 minutes, 2022

Steps of Freedom, a spectacular performance-based documentary, follows the evolution of Irish dance from humble origins to present-day global phenomenon which sees weekly Irish dance classes held in more than 60 countries around the globe, millions attending theatre shows and…

Stigma

Helen Warner, 10 minutes, 2018

A string of confessions unveil a tale of religious guilt, sin and redemption in this short experimental drama set against the dramatic and rugged Northern Irish coastline.

Stir

Rory Bresnihan, 12 minutes, 2020

A young woman finds herself a prisoner in the home of an old man who has recently lost his wife. As her desperate attempts to escape accelerate, he soon realises that he has taken on more than he can handle.

Stolen

Margo Harkin, 107 minutes, 2023

Stolen tells the story of how women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ were treated in an Ireland dominated by the Catholic Church. Between 1922 and 1998 over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in Irish church-run…

Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village

Aoife Kelleher, 90 minutes, 2016

In 1879, fifteen people in the village of Knock, Co. Mayo witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary.  The village was declared a Marian Shrine and today welcomes over one million pilgrims annually. Aoife Kelleher (One Million Dubliners) builds a…

The Stranger

Neasa Ní Chianáin, 80 minutes, 2014

The Stranger, is a haunting new documentary from Neasa Ní Chianáin (Fairytale of Kathmandu). English artist Neal McGregor died alone, aged 44, in a stone shed where he lived without water, electricity or heating on the small Donegal island of Inishbofin,…

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