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On a Paving Stone Mounted
Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 96 minutes, 1978
Funded by the BFI’s film production fund, Paving Stone is O’Sullivan’s feature-length, mixed-mode experimental film. It tries to express the emigrant condition through the central dilemma of the function of memory. Its action moves back and forth between location sequences…
Once
John Carney, 85 minutes, 2006
A heartfelt and honest musical, Once sees struggling musician ‘Guy’ (Glen Hansard) and migrant worker ‘Girl’ (Marketa Irglová) fall in love through a shared passion for music. Meeting on the streets of Dublin as ‘Guy’ busks to try make ends meet, the…
Ondine
Neil Jordan, 106 minutes, 2009
Jordan’s most recent venture into Irish-themed films, Ondine adapts Celtic faerie lore to its own ends with this story of a ‘selkie’ who appears in the nets of Cork fisherman Syracuse (Colin Farrell). Believing the young woman, Ondine (Alicja Bachleda)…
One Hundred Mornings
Conor Horgan, 85 minutes, 2009
Turning the stripped-down necessities of low-budget filmmaking to his advantage, director Conor Horgan in his feature debut creates a minimalist but handsome post-apocalyptic drama unrelenting in its grim vision of people scrambling over one another to stay alive. Jonathan (Ciaran…
Ooops 2: The Adventure Continues
Sean McCormack,
Toby Genkel, 85 minutes, 2020
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Thaddeus O'Sullivan , 100 minutes, 2000
The life of infamous Dublin gangster Martin Cahill had already been given the biopic treatment in John Boorman’s 1998 The General; here Thaddeus O’Sullivan turns Cahill into the fictional Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey) and transforms the story into a piece…
Ordinary Love
Lisa Barros D'Sa
Glenn Leyburn, 91 minutes, 2019
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 Other Side of Sleep
Rebecca Daly, 93 minutes, 2011
Following a series of stylised and distinctive shorts, director Rebecca Daly here makes her feature debut with this dreamlike vision of an isolated and paranoid young girl. Transformed by past traumas into a chronic sleepwalker, Arlene Kelly’s (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) fragile…