Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Breadwinner

Nora Twomey, 94 minutes, 2017

The Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon animation studio (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea) returns with another Oscar-nominated triumph; directed by Nora Twomey – co-director of Kells – The Breadwinner is a beautifully realised ode to resilience under oppression and…

Brón

Cat Mangan Williams, 4 minutes, 2025

By a riverside, a man battling personal demons finds unexpected companionship in a curious fox.

Bubbles

Rachel Fitzgerald, 2019

A puppet grows tormented at the hands of her manipulator.

City of Roses

Andrew Kavanagh, 10 minutes, 2016

One Halloween night a smouldering suitcase was pulled off a bonfire in Dublin, saving a true story of love, loss and hope.

Coda

Alan Holly, 9 minutes, 2013

A lost soul stumbles drunkenly through Dublin city. In a park, death finds him and shows him many things.

CTRL + Alt + T

Holly Keating, 2019

20,000 words and four years of hard work deleted, in one clumsy click. How would you react?

Cúilín Dualach

Nora Twomey, 12 minutes, 2004

One of the multi-award winning Cartoon Saloon’s earliest animated shorts, Cúilín Dualach brings us into the world of a young boy born with his head on backwards. The wider world is predictably shocked by Cúilín Dualach; he is shunned, mocked,…

Daffodils

Aisling O'Connor, 3 minutes, 2019

A forest creature's quiet life is turned upside down when her new neighbour attempts to win her affection.

The Dead Hands of Dublin

Leo Crowley, 7 minutes, 2020

Sidney is a failed pianist who comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he soon finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams are quickly realised! Just when he thinks he…

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