Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry

Sarah Share, 90 minutes, 2023

John Murry was on the cusp of greatness with his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013) when, addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on Irish shores a broken man. Now, he is ready to retrace his…

The Grass Ceiling

Iseult Howlett, 15 minutes, 2019

Three successful female athletes explore how being physically courageous, unapologetically competitive and deeply passionate in team sport can unlock a freedom to really occupy your own skin. Based on 'The Fear of Winning, an essay by Eimear Ryan.

The Great Book of Ireland

Alan Gilsenan, 89 minutes, 2020

Renowned Irish documentarian Alan Gilsenan explores The Great Book of Ireland, a lavish vellum manuscript dubbed a “modern-day Book of Kells”. This extraordinary tome contains the original work of 9 composers, 121 artists and 144 poets including Eavan Boland, Samuel…

The Great Wall

Tadhg O'Sullivan, 74 minutes, 2014

This bold new documentary, an adaptation of a Kafka story, looks at the enclosure of Europe by a complex system of walls and fences. Mysterious and visually dazzling, the film journeys across a range of European landscapes, and encounters those…

Groundswell

Johnny Gogan, 2021

In 2011, Ireland became a frontline state as the oil and gas industry attempted to introduce the controversial practice known as Hydraulic Fracturing - or "fracking" - into Europe. A ten year groundswell campaign started in the border counties of…

Hearing Silence

Hilary Fennell, 12 minutes, 2010

Elizabeth Petcu, a professional flute player, copes with her gradual loss of hearing in this poignant documentary short. Narrating her experiences of her condition and the problems it causes, she reveals a lifelong commitment to the arts that survives despite…

HENRY GLASSIE: FIELD WORK

Pat Collins, 105 minutes, 2019

Henry Glassie: Field Work from director Pat Collins is a portrait of the celebrated folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie. Inspired by and featuring Glassie, Field Work is an immersive and meditative film set among the rituals and rhythms of working artists in Brazil,…

The Herd

Ken Wardrop, 4 minutes, 2008

This humorous documentary short features a young deer living among cattle and going through an ‘identity crisis’. Over shots of the deer prancing about the herd, a farmer and his mother discuss how to get rid of this unwanted visitor.…

Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story

Alan Leonard, 100 minutes, 2019

Celebrating the legacy of a prodigiously talented Irish singer-songwriter, Heyday charts Mic Christopher’s musical journey from Grafton Street busker to The Mary Janes and rock stardom to the near-fatal accident that radically changed his world view and ignited a drive…

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