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A Girl from Mogadishu

Mary McGuckian, 113 minutes, 2020

This inspiring drama of female empowerment is based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, Female Genital Mutilation activist. Fleeing a forced marriage in war-torn Somalia in 2006, Ifrah (Aja Naomi King) is trafficked to Ireland where a medical examination when…

A Quack Too Far

Melissa Culhane, 2019

A fox must deal with a very noisy duck before he can get his precious sleep.

A Sense of Joy

Roisin Jones, 2019

A cantankerous musician endeavours to break a magical curse by passing on a sense of joy to others; something which doesn't come naturally to him.

Above the Law

Bryony Dunne, 2019

Traversing the same bodies of land and water this short film conceptually links the intercontinental routes of migratory birds with the journeys of refugees and migrants. Above the law, they traverse the same bodies of land and water.

Acre Fall Between

Antonia Campbell-Hughes, 12 minutes, 2020

On a desolate Northern Ireland border, a man begins a desperate search for his family knowing the future he feared is nigh.

AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: GO FISH

ROSE TROCHE,

In contrast to the take-no-prisoners approach of Araki, though no less defiant in their explicit presentation of queer identity, low-key films more reflective of the gay community’s everyday experience were also emerging from the independent sector. Co-written by director Rose…

Anne Devlin

Pat Murphy, 121 minutes, 1986

Irish history is often dominated by male names such as Pearse, Collins, Wolfe Tone, and Emmet; Anne Devlin rejects this imbalance by narrating the life of its titular figure, who resisted torture and confinement rather than betray her comrades to…

Archie’s Bat

Shannon Egan, 2 minutes, 2019

A lonely young boy builds a unique bond with an unsuspecting creature and learns that sometimes it's better to let go and move on.

Ballast

Emily Murray,
Paul D’Eath, 2024

Two sisters must put aside their fraught relationship in order to hide the body of a dead clown. This film was written, shot and edited in 48 hours.

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