Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

His Mother

Sidney Olcott, 12 minutes, 1912

A variation on the emigrant theme found in The Lad from Old Ireland, His Mother also engages with the emotional costs of migration on those left behind. Other familiar elements include the interior of the Irish cottage and the central…

Home Turf

Ross Whitaker, 15 minutes, 2011

Home Turf lovingly envisions what has become an endangered activity – cutting turf from bogs to provide fuel for domestic fires. The turf cutters are characterised by hard work and proclaim both their love for their work and the good…

Homemade

Luke McManus, 5 minutes, 2012

A shocking vision of a generational conflict between feral youth and seemingly genial pensioners, Homemade has the elderly Tommy’s (Jim Norton) efforts to live a quiet life and strike up a relationship with new flame Joan (Deirdre Donnelly) upset by…

Homo Sapiens Project (93)

Rouzbeh Rashidi , 12 minutes, 2012

The 93rd film in Rashidi’s ongoing Homo Sapiens Project, HSP (93) evokes, like much of his prolific output, the atmospheric unease and suspense of horror cinema removed from its contextual and narrative confines. A man (played by Rashidi himself), inhabits…

Honest

Matt Roche, 8 minutes, 2019

One Sunday, Theo, who finds his family’s weekly church attendance to be an absolute bore-fest makes a brave decision that puts him at odds with the Son of God. Will Theo confess or will he hold fast, and risk dire…

Hope – The Story of Yes

Grace Sweeney , 15 minutes, 2018

A deeply personal assessment of the highs, lows and personal risks of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Referendum.

Horses

Esperanza Collado, 2 minutes, 2011

Rewinding the film in a Super 16mm Bolex camera to shoot a triple exposure, Horses was shot at different speeds and home-processed using an extreme, unorthodox procedure. The resulting footage shifts unexpectedly from negative to positive and vice-versa, while scratches…

The House Fell

Maeve Stone, 12 minutes, 2019

Feeling trapped at her sister's wedding, Fiona must face the past to escape the ruins of a life she once dreamed of.

How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic

Michael-David McKernan, 11 minutes, 2020

A capsule romance accelerates dramatically against the backdrop of the pandemic as two filmmakers are forced to move in together after two weeks of knowing each other. Awards: Best Short Documentary, Galway Film Fleadh 2020

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