Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Four Letters of Love

Polly Steele, 110 minutes, 2025

Nicholas and Isabel are made for each other, but fate does not always choose the easiest path to true love. Nicholas’ father, William has abandoned his family to move to the West of Ireland to become an artist. Meanwhile Isabel…

Four Mothers

Darren Thornton, 89 minutes, 2024

Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to…

Fran the Man

Stephen Bradley, 89 minutes, 2025

Competing in the FAI Cup for the first time should have been amateur Irish football club St Peter’s United’s finest hour, but when blundering assistant manager Fran Costello learns that some of his players have taken a bribe to fix…

Frank

Lenny Abrahamson, 95 minutes, 2014

Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) fancies himself as a musician, though his pitiful efforts at song writing don’t suggest a stadium tour is on the cards for him anytime soon, his limited talent unlikely to provide an escape from the day job…

Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke, 103 minutes, 2024

Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker Shoo (Clare Monnelly) leaves her pregnant girlfriend to care for Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain), a cantankerous old woman who has incarcerated herself in a big house on the edge of a remote…

Froggie

Luke Morgan, 90 minutes, 2024

Brothers Fiachra and Tadgh peaked at the age of seven when they appeared on national TV, singing with their homemade puppet, Froggie. 25 years later, they are still singing the same ol’ song when their show gets cancelled. The world…

Garage

Lenny Abrahamson, 85 minutes, 2007

A stark portrait of an isolated man Garage centres on Josie (Pat Shortt), the sole employee of a rural garage, in this nuanced portrait of male loneliness in the Irish midlands. Living a monotonous existence built around his job, it…

The General

John Boorman, 124 minutes, 1998

One of Brendan Gleeson’s finest performances, he here takes the lead role in this biopic of notorious Dublin gangster Martin ‘The General’ Cahill. Opening with Cahill’s murder by the IRA in 1994, the film returns to Cahill’s youth to tell…

George Best: All By Myself

Daniel Gordon, 90 minutes, 2016

In 1961 George Best, a shy well-mannered Belfast teenager, was recruited by Manchester United to become what Pelé would call “the greatest player in the world”. A devilishly charismatic figure, Best achieved celebrity status early. His football was transcendent (playing…

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