Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Gleann

Jesse Gilbert, 71 minutes, 2024

A filmmaker turns his attention to the remote valley in which he was raised. The result is a love letter to a people and a place. Using both digital and Super 8 footage, the film acts as a time capsule…

Global Warning

Garry Keane,
Rachael Moriarty, 75 minutes, 2025

Journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes ventures to the distant corners of the planet where climate change is unfolding most profoundly. Through conversations with those most affected, Boucher-Hayes discovers how people can learn to adapt and survive if they accept what’s happening and…

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Sophie Fiennes, 115 minutes, 2017

Bloodlight And Bami – Jamaican patois for the red light of a recording studio and bread – follows the incomparable Grace Jones across the globe as she visits family in Jamaica, appears on French television, and performs in Dublin’s Olympia…

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…

Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller?

David Burke, 82 minutes, 2026

A hugely influential yet mysterious figure in popular music, Kerry-born ballroom impresario Bill Fuller promoted legends Nina Simone, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and Thin Lizzy through the 30s to the 70s. He owned at…

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