Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Every Moon is Atrocious

Yvonne McDevitt, 98 minutes, 2026

Tracing the cinematic journey of a poet who realises that his life has been a mirage, and based on the poetry of Niall McDevitt, the film explores the connection between poetic and cinematic storytelling in a visually stunning odyssey through…

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Grant Gee, 103 minutes, 2026

In June 1961, New York City, the legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans forms his perfect trio and records two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one night. Central to the success of this project is Evan’s soul…

Extra Ordinary

Mike Ahern
Enda Loughman, 94 minutes, 2019

Following in the tradition of Flann O’Brien, Kevin McAleer, and Father Ted, Extra Ordinary views rural Irish life through a surreal comic lens. Lonely driving instructor Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins), believing herself responsible for the death of her paranormal investigator…

Faraway Home

Terry Loane, TBA, 2026

Based on Marilyn Taylor's novel, Faraway Home is a story of two young Jewish children sent by their parents away from Nazi occupied Austria during World War II, on the Kindertransport, where they end up at a Jewish refugee farm…

Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch, 110 minutes, 2025

Jim Jarmusch, master of the droll vignette, contemplates family dynamics in a triptych of thematically linked stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their estranged or deceased parents, and each other, and does so in typically cool and laconic fashion.…

Father of the Cyborgs

David Burke, 90 minutes, 2020

A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post,…

The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos, 119 minutes, 2018

Two rivals vie for the affections of Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deliciously caustic black comedy. Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, has long been the trusted companion of the insecure, jealous and physically ailing monarch (Olivia…

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Marco van Belle, 90 minutes, TBC 2026/7

A group of twenty-something influencers escape to a remote Irish forest for a weekend of luxury and fun. However when they awaken the world’s original vampire from her slumber, they must fight for their lives. World premiere: TBA

Fidil Ghorm

Anne McCabe, 84 minutes, 2024

The story of 10-year Molly who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad, she can wake him up from a coma. When he is moved to a rehab centre, she overhears her mother say that…

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