Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Grabbers

Jon Wright, 94 minutes, 2011

Comedy, horror, and romance collide in this genre mash-up about an alien invasion hitting a bucolic Western Irish island. An urban teetotaller assigned to work on ‘Erin Island’, Garda Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley) finds herself unimpressed by local drunkard and…

Hokum

Damian McCarthy, 101 minutes, 2026

A reclusive horror writer (Adam Scott) travels to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes, only to become entangled in unsettling local lore surrounding the ramshackle building. As strange visions intensify and a mysterious disappearance occurs, his grief…

The Hole in the Ground

Lee Cronin, 90 minutes, 2019

Trying to escape a broken past, Sarah (Seána Kerslake) is rebuilding her life on the outskirts of an isolated rural town with her young son, Chris (James Quinn Markey). Following the discovery of a mysterious sinkhole in the vast forest…

Hollow Trees

Cathal Fitzpatrick, 82 minutes, 2026

A gloriously ambitious, slick first feature from Co. Down filmmaker Cathal Fitzpatrick, Hollow Trees takes place years after a war that wiped out 50% of the world’s population. A hardened survivor, Kent (Tom Kerrisk), and a young boy, Danny (Louis…

Let the Wrong One In

Conor McMahon, 100 minutes, 2022

Matt 16, is a nice kid from Northside Dublin. A little too nice for his own good and it has been holding him back his whole life. He always puts other people’s needs before his own but will he ever…

The Lodgers

Brian O'Malley, 92 minutes, 2017

1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must…

Mandrake

Lynne Davison, 85 minutes, 2022

Probation officer Cathy Madden is tasked with rehabilitating the notorious killer ‘Bloody’ Mary Laidlaw and integrating her back into society after twenty years in jail for the murder of her husband two decades before. Is she a witch, a psychopath…

Mary Shelley

Haifaa Al-Mansour, 120 minutes, 2017

Acclaimed director Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadjda) brings to life Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's fiery, tempestuous relationship with romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the creation of Frankenstein, one of the world's most famous Gothic novels. The pair are two outsiders constrained by…

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.

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