Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

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…

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.

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…

The Other Lamb

Malgorzata Szumowska, 97 minutes, 2019

Life in her cloistered, self-sufficient commune is the only life Selah has ever known. She has grown up cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune with a band of young women who are presided over by a…

The Outcasts

Robert Wynne-Simmons, 104 minutes, 1982

Set in rural, pre-famine Ireland, a time when poverty and magic were accepted as facts of life, this is the haunting tale of a young girl's discovery of her own powers through a 'a wild, ungodly man' and the passage…

Sea Fever

Neasa Hardiman, 95 minutes, 2019

Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) is a brilliant young marine scientist and PhD student who is more at home amidst laboratory equipment than people. She must complete a series of tasks, including a deep sea dive, as a component of her studies,…

Shrooms

Paddy Breathnach, 2007

Having been promised the ‘trip’ of a lifetime by their Irish friend and mushroom expert Jake, a group of American teenagers arrives in Ireland, keen for adventure. Despite Jake’s warnings about the shrooms they shouldn’t eat, things start to go…

Son

Ivan Kavanagh, 97 minutes, 2020

From acclaimed writer/director Ivan Kavanagh, Son is a bold and unnerving character driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Babadook. Having escaped from a cult as a child, a mother must face her past when…

Vivarium

Lorcan Finnegan, 97 minutes, 2019

The anxiety of house-hunting takes on a nightmarish dimension in Lorcan Finnegan’s accomplished second feature, a lean psychological thriller made with clockwork precision which offers a wry commentary on the creeping malaise of suburban married bliss. In the market for…

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