Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

My Name is Emily

Simon Fitzmaurice, 94 minutes, 2015

In this fresh coming-of-age drama, super-smart but socially awkward Emily (Evanna Lynch) is concerned when she doesn’t receive a birthday card from her loving but absent father. When she hooks up with fellow outcast Arden (George Webster) at her new…

My New York Year

Philippe Falardeau, TBC, 2020

New York in the 1990s: after leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent to J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she…

Nails

Dennis Bartok, 85 minutes, 2017

Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family with she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room. Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

Never Grow Old

Ivan Kavanagh, 100 minutes, 2019

When a ruthless gang of outlaws terrorises a sleepy frontier town, the local undertaker, Patrick, faces a profound moral dilemma. He plays a dangerous game, providing for his family as he profits in the wake of the violence sweeping the…

The New Music

Chiara Viale, 83 minutes, 2019

Adrian (Cilléin McEvoy) is a talented pianist with a promising career ahead of him. Playing music is the only thing he lives for until his world falls apart when he is diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease. Afraid of the…

Nocebo

Lorcan Finnegan, 96 minutes, 2022

A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

NOMADLAND

Chloe Zhao , 107, 2020

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off to explore life as a modern-day nomad. Having collected numerous garlands on the 2020 festival circuit, Chloe Zhao became the…

Nora

Pat Murphy, 102 minutes, 2000

Continuing her work of investigating received history from a feminist perspective, director Pat Murphy here peels apart the mythologies surrounding famed writer James Joyce (Ewan McGregor) and gives a voice to his wife Nora Barnacle (Susan Lynch). Committed to this…

Nothing Personal

Urszula Antoniak, 85 minutes, 2009

The inimitable Stephen Rea offers one of his finest screen performances in Polish filmmaker Urszula Antoniak’s meditative two-hander, set amidst the wilds of Connemara. An enigmatic young Dutchwoman (Lotte Verbeek), lost in grief, abandons her worldly possessions to live rough…

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