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Oda O’Carroll, <60 minutes TBC, 2022

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The Daisy Chain

Aisling Walsh, 89 minutes, 2008

A psychological horror from director Aisling Walsh, The Daisy Chain is a story of two scarred individuals – a child and a mother – forming a potentially destructive relationship. The mother is Martha (Samantha Morton), a woman feeling the raw…

The Devil’s Doorway

Aislinn Clarke, 76 minutes, 2018

Two priests are sent to a 1960s Magdalen laundry to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a found footage film whose setting adds a level of genuine horror to proceedings.

Disco Pigs

Kirsten Sheridan, 93 minutes, 2001

Imaginative, shocking, and wholly unlike any coming-of-age narrative Ireland had seen before, Disco Pigs is the story of two teenagers whose lifelong partnership suffers an almost Edenic fall from grace. Runt (Elaine Cassidy) and Pig (Cillian Murphy), known to their…

Dollhouse

Kirsten Sheridan, 95 minutes, 2012

Kirsten Sheridan’s third feature is a loose, experimental depiction of a modern-day bacchanal as a group of five young Dublin outsiders break into a luxurious seafront house. At the eye of the storm is Jeannie (Seána Kerslake), who has been…

Eggs and Soldiers

Imelda O'Reilly, 22 minutes, 2016

A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on Christmas Eve. Ned the older brother's humanity is challenged when he risks everything to have his younger brother Marco experience a real Irish Christmas. Awards: Best Screenplay, Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film…

The Far Side of Revenge

Margo Harkin, 72 minutes, 2012

Margo Harkin’s powerful documentary is one part in a body of work that has chronicled `The Troubles’ from 12 Days in July (1997) to Bloody Sunday – A Derry Diary (2010). A study on reconciliation, it also experiments with visual…

Float Like a Butterfly

Carmel Winters, 100 minutes, 2018

In rural Ireland in the 1960s, Frances (Hazel Doupe) is a young Traveller who has coped with tragedy from an early age. When her father Michael (Dara Devaney) is imprisoned, Frances learns to fend for herself and her brother, developing…

God’s Creatures

Saela Davis,
Anna Rose Holmer, 100 minutes, 2022

A sleepy Irish fishing community is destabilised by the return of Brian (Paul Mescal), the errant son of Aileen O’Hara (Emily Watson), who shows up unexpectedly at the funeral for a local fisherman, announcing his intention to revive his brother-in-law’s…

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