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Sea Fever

Neasa Hardiman, 95 minutes, 2019

Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) is a brilliant young marine scientist and PhD student who is more at home amidst laboratory equipment than people. She must complete a series of tasks, including a deep sea dive, as a component of her studies,…

Séamus

Gursimran Sandhu, 6 minutes, 2018

When a man discovers a boy following him on his daily trek, he wrestles with his sanity as he shakes away his haunting companion.

Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens

Adam Low, 88 minutes, 2019

Six years after his unexpected death in 2013, Seamus Heaney’s wife Marie and their three children talk intimately about their family life and read the poems he wrote for them. His surviving brothers remember their childhood and the shared experiences…

Second to None

Vincent Gallagher, 7 minutes, 2017

A black comedy in stop motion about the world's second oldest man who learns that ambition can be a killer.

The Secret Market

Martina McGlynn, 23 minutes, 2017

Chief surgeon Dr.Amy McCarthy has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her.

Secret of Kells

Tomm Moore, 75 minutes, 2009

An animated feature, The Secret of Kells creates a gorgeously realised vision of a medieval Ireland wherein a young monk battles monsters and Vikings to help complete the Book of Kells. Brendan (Evan McGuire) chafes against the restrictions of his…

The Secret Scripture

Jim Sheridan, 108 minutes, 2016

After an eclectic range of films in recent years, Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) returns to Irish themes and material with this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s acclaimed novel. The elderly Rose (the inimitable Vanessa Redgrave) is the last…

Self-Portrait with Red Car

Bob Quinn, 20 minutes, 1976

Made in collaboration with Joe Comerford (camera), Roger Doyle (music), and Brian Bourke (painter), Self-Portrait has been described as an aesthetic joke, although it is essentially an exploration of how sound controls our visual perception. The author himself explains: “the…

Sensation

Tom Hall, 105 minutes, 2010

Inheriting the family farm after his father’s death, twenty-six year old Donal Durkan (Domhnall Gleeson) starts what quickly becomes a personal relationship with prostitute, Kim (Luanne Gordon). Growing closer, Donal allows Kim to hide away from thugs on his farm…

September Says

Tom Hall, 100 minutes, 2024

Teenage sisters September and July, born just ten months apart, are as close as sisters can be. September (Pascale Kann), the elder, is protective, domineering, and distrustful of others while July (Mia Tharia) is increasingly curious about the world around…

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