Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Race

Andre F. Nebe, 84 minutes, 2009

An uplifting family drama about a young girl breaking barriers, The Race has thirteen year old Mary Kensay (Niamh McGirr) challenge the expectations of her rural Northern Irish community by dreaming of becoming a racing driver. Her ambitions, however, are…

The Racer

Kieron J. Walsh, 95 minutes, 2020

Summer 1998. The opening stages of the Tour de France have been relocated to Ireland. Fictional Belgian rider Dom Chabol (Louis Talpe) has been one of the best support riders on the Tour for the last 20 years. It's a sacrificial…

The Randomer

Naji Berchara
Caoimhe Clancy
Iseult Imbert, 82 minutes, 2016

This film screened 28th September 2016. Free-spirited Meg thinks she has everything she wants, a great job and an exciting social life. But things are suddenly turned upside-down when she finds herself needing the one thing that she least expected…

Re-creation

Jim Sheridan,
David Merriman, 89 minutes, 2025

In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether British journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. Based on real events, the film reconstructs the deliberations of the twelve…

The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan

Gabrielle Russell, 96 minutes, 2025

Former IRA operative Erin Morrigan (Olwen Fouéré) is dying in a remote safe house on the Northern Ireland border. Unsettled by the arrival of a fugitive teenage boy (Jake Doyle), who resembles a man she once loved and condemned, Erin…

Redemption of a Rogue

Philip Doherty, 90 minutes, 2020

Dishevelled Jimmy Cullen returns to Co Cavan after seven years of exile to make peace with his dying father and seek redemption for past sins before he too bids this world farewell. Moments after his arrival, his father breathes his…

Reefer and the Model

Joe Comerford, 76 minutes (re-edited version 2014), 1988

Joe Comerford brought his brand of sharp realist cinema to this drama about Reefer (Ian McElhinney), an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa (Carol Scanlan), a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. Nicknaming her ‘the model’, Reefer…

Return to Montauk

Volker Schlondorff, 106 minutes, 2017

It is winter in Montauk, at the far end of Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach. The chairs are waiting for two people who have, for a long time, been lost to each other. He…

Rialto

Peter Mackie Burns, 93 minutes, 2019

At 46, Dubliner Colm (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) has a comfortable life: a managerial job in the city’s docks; a home in a leafy suburb with two healthy teenage children; and a kind loyal wife, Claire (Monica Dolan). But his emotional and…

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