Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Hardy Bucks Movie

Mike Cockayne, 89 minutes, 2013

Something of a media phenomenon in Ireland, The Hardy Bucks began life as a YouTube series before graduating to television and, here, to film with this uproarious comedy. Led by Eddie Durkan (Martin Maloney), the Hardy Bucks are a group…

Helen

Joe Lawlor
Christine Molloy, 79 minutes, 2008

A remarkable debut feature from directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, Helen is the story of an alienated young woman who wrestles with assuming another’s identity rather than holding to her own. Having grown up in a care home, Helen…

Here are the Young Men

Eoin C Macken, 2020

Matthew, a troubled teenager on the cusp of adulthood, finishes school along with the menacing Kearney and nihilistic Rez. In a final summer of excess, Matthew falls in love with his childhood sweetheart Jen, but is dragged into shocking acts…

Here Before

Stacey Gregg, 83 minutes, 2020

When a new family moves in next door, their young daughter, Megan, quickly captivates Laura, stirring up painful memories of her own daughter who died several years previously. Before long, Laura’s memories turn to obsession as Megan’s unsettling behaviour begins…

Herself

Phyllida Lloyd, 97 minutes, 2020

On the surface, Sandra is a young mother struggling to provide her two young daughters with a warm, safe and happy home to grow up in. Beneath the surface, she has a steely determination to change their lives for the…

High Boot Benny

Joe Comerford, 82 minutes, 1993

The challenge of maintaining neutrality when violence rages is put under scrutiny in this powerful feature from director, Joe Comerford. Benny (Marc O’Shea) is a teenage outsider sent to a school in the Republic to escape the Troubles in Northern…

Hillwalkers

Tom Cosgrove, 80 minutes, 2021

For five city friends, a day out hiking in the Irish countryside takes a turn for the worse when one of them suffers an accident. Forced to take a shortcut off the mountain, the friends cross onto private property in…

Hokum

Damian McCarthy, 101 minutes, 2026

A reclusive horror writer (Adam Scott) travels to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes, only to become entangled in unsettling local lore surrounding the ramshackle building. As strange visions intensify and a mysterious disappearance occurs, his grief…

The Hole in the Ground

Lee Cronin, 90 minutes, 2019

Trying to escape a broken past, Sarah (Seána Kerslake) is rebuilding her life on the outskirts of an isolated rural town with her young son, Chris (James Quinn Markey). Following the discovery of a mysterious sinkhole in the vast forest…

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