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THE GOLDEN SPURTLE

Constantine Costi,

Each year the sleepy Scottish highland village of Carrbridge welcomes a diverse group of international contestants as they gather for the prestigious World Porridge Making Championships, each vying for the coveted Golden Spurtle trophy. For ageing, charismatic, and soon-to-retire organiser…

Tim Robinson: Connemara

Pat Collins, 57 minutes, 2011

Filmmaker Pat Collins and cartographer and author Tim Robinson might well be viewed as kindred souls, of sorts; both artists are truly unique in their respective fields, sharing as they do a profound, lyrical, and heartfelt connection to the Irish…

To the Moon

Tadhg O'Sullivan, 80 minutes, 2020

A vast compendium of moony sequences combine to create this cinematic ode to the moon. Drawing on a wealth of international cinematic archive (including sequences from the IFI Irish Film Archive) Tadhg O’Sullivan, director and editor extraordinaire, deftly interweaves the…

Tomorrow is Saturday

Gillian Marsh,
Gretta Ohle, 86 minutes, 2020

Tomorrow is Saturday is an intimate portrait of the life and work of Irish collage artist Sean Hillen. Diagnosed in his late 50s with Aspergers, Hillen has reached a point where he finds it almost impossible to work in his…

Town of Strangers

Treasa O'Brien, 82 minutes, 2018

There are only two stories: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. A stranger arrives to a rural village and calls for auditions asking people to tell her ‘dreams, lies, memories and gossip’. Together, they…

Translating Ulysses

Aylin Kuryel & Fırat Yücel, 70 minutes, 2023

Kawa Nemir is a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language, wandering from one exile to another, retaining and never forgetting every new word and idiom of his language, wondering how to transfer this collective memory onto paper. James Joyce's Ulysses…

True North: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8

Deirdre Mulrooney, 30 minutes, 2017

Offering a unique representation of the Irish-Canadian experience, Paud Mulrooney's Super 8 films and self-developed photographs of life on Cat Lake and Ogoki Post Reserves with his young family (including his daughter the film-maker) are a rare window into the…

Two Wheels Good

Barry Gene Murphy, 9 minutes, 2012

Blending animation with documentary footage, Two Wheels Good celebrates the role the bicycle once played in rural Ireland. Four people whose livelihood depended on bicycles talk about how they learnt to cycle, the fitness it required, and their cycling tours…

The Uncle Jack

John T. Davis, Sé Merry Doyle., 80 minutes, 1996

More personal and intimate than many of his other works, renowned documentarian John T. Davis dedicates himself here to memorialising his enigmatic Uncle Jack, whose influence on Davis led to his becoming a filmmaker. A leading architect of cinemas in…

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