Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

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 Little Bird Told Me

Sophie Meehan, 2025

A teenage girl caring for her seriously ill father attempts to contact the spirit of Phil Lynott, to prove to her dad that there's life beyond death.

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.

A Visual Storm – Aurelio Caminati

Sinéad Walsh, 64 minutes, 2025

A portrait of Italian avant-garde artist Aurelio Caminati (1922–2008), whose prophetic vision spanned six turbulent decades. Set against the baroque intensity of Ireland’s wild Atlantic coast following his journey to Ireland where he forged a deep connection with local people…

A Want in Her

Myrid Carten, 82 minutes, 2024

When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her and risks losing herself. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone…

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.

ALPHA

JULIA DUCOURNAU,

CLOSING THIS THURSDAY 12TH! From the director of Raw (2016) and the Palme d’Or-winning Titane (2021) comes another singular exploration of body horror. When 13-year-old Alpha (Mélissa Boros) allows a classmate to give her a tattoo at a typically hedonistic…

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