Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Dead On Arrival

Niamh McAllister, 2024

Nurses Shelley and Kate must work out how to cover up the murder of Kate’s husband. But what to do with the body? The knife? The nosy neighbour?

Deadly

Aidan McAteer, 9 minutes, 2015

Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old lady named Bridie…

Dear Little Sophia

Paddy Hayes, 16 minutes, 2020

Sophia Murphy writes a letter to her younger self to make sense of the lifelong abuse she suffered at the hands of her father.

Several years have passed since the suicide of his long-term girlfriend, and David is now in a new relationship. But a chance encounter with the dead woman's sister raises complex questions about his complicity in her death.

Declarations 25

Donal Foreman, 2 minutes, 2010

From 2009, Donal Foreman completed 25 short films using personal video footage shot over the previous five years, uploading one on the Internet every two weeks. This final film in the series consists of the disjointed image and sound of…

Departure

Aoife Doyle , 9 minutes, 2018

Faced with the prospect of yet another Christmas without her emigrated family, Alma, a lonely Irish grandmother, is at an all time low. This would-be tragedy quickly turns into a comedy as the universe conspires to bring her closer to…

Deposits

Trevor Courtney, 5 minutes, 2018

Deposits concerns the connection of all the 'Disappeared', who are the remains of those murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and those killed centuries earlier by the British Redcoats. In common they are buried without trace, but are connected by…

Dianghlasáil

Patrick Martin Collins, 2 minutes, 2020

Imposing a Lockdown is much easier than lifting one.

Displaced

Niamh Heery, 15 minutes, 2016

A journey through the memories and hopes of people who have been displaced in life, exploring how they find their link home.

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