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AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: GO FISH

ROSE TROCHE,

In contrast to the take-no-prisoners approach of Araki, though no less defiant in their explicit presentation of queer identity, low-key films more reflective of the gay community’s everyday experience were also emerging from the independent sector. Co-written by director Rose…

Animals

Sophie Hyde, 119, 2019

Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat star as best friends and drinking buddies Laura and Tyler whose hedonistic existence falls under the threat of responsibility and adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – a devilishly handsome and ambitious pianist. As…

Anne Devlin

Pat Murphy, 121 minutes, 1986

Irish history is often dominated by male names such as Pearse, Collins, Wolfe Tone, and Emmet; Anne Devlin rejects this imbalance by narrating the life of its titular figure, who resisted torture and confinement rather than betray her comrades to…

Aontas

Damian McCann, 91 minutes, 2025

Déanann triúr gadaí neamhghnách comhar creidmheasa tuaithe a robáil, faoi stiúr bean atá ar tí cliseadh. Osclaíonn Aontas ar iarmhairt thragóideach na gadaíochta a chuaigh chun donais agus insítear an scéal droim ar ais go nochtar na heachtraí a tharla…

Archie’s Bat

Shannon Egan, 2 minutes, 2019

A lonely young boy builds a unique bond with an unsuspecting creature and learns that sometimes it's better to let go and move on.

At Sea

Sandy Kennedy, 67 minutes, 2023

A hypnotic, hallucinatory reverie at the edge of liminal space. It is a visceral human experience, a rupture, a rhapsody of sound and image, moving beyond the sensory, to be carried deep in the body. World premiere: Galway Film Fleadh…

Báite

Ruán Magan, 93 minutes, 2025

September, 1975. Summer is coming to an end. Peggy Casey (Eleanor O'Brien) prepares for a big weekend of fishing. Her pub will be full to the door, and she desperately needs the business.  It has been a few months since…

BÁITE

Ruán Magan,

In a pretty Irish village proprietor Peggy Casey (Eleanor O’Brien) prepares for a busy weekend in the pub. But when a body is found in the receding waters of the lake, the community is deeply unsettled. Dublin Detective Sergeant Frank…

Ballast

Emily Murray,
Paul D’Eath, 2024

Two sisters must put aside their fraught relationship in order to hide the body of a dead clown. This film was written, shot and edited in 48 hours.

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