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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…

Nothing Personal

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 86 minutes, 1995

The violence that has plagued Northern Ireland throughout the twentieth century has proved an attractive topic for filmmakers and it is one turned to here by Thaddeus O’Sullivan in this hard-hitting film that depicts would-be political fighters as gangland criminals.…

Oddity

Damian McCarthy, 97 minutes, 2024

When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. Soon after the killing, the suspect is found…

Omagh

Pete Travis, 106 minutes, 2004

On August 15th 1998 twenty-nine people were killed by a Real IRA bomb detonated in the streets of Omagh, Co Tyrone.  This atrocity is here brought to the screen focussing on the efforts of Michael Gallagher (Gerard McSorley) in bringing…

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