Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

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Colm Bairéad, 95 minutes, 2021

Even before its release, Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has, quite rightly, become one of the most lauded and garlanded Irish films of recent years. Adapted from Foster, a short story by Claire Keegan, it centres on nine-year-old Cáit, a shy…

An Taibhse

John Farrelly, 92 minutes, 2024

The first-ever Irish language horror film unfolds in the bleak landscape of post-famine Ireland as Éamon and his daughter Máire take up residence as caretakers of a remote Georgian Mansion during the harsh winter. Their task, initially serene, veers into…

Ancestors

David Turpin, 106 minutes, 2026

A love story, noir mystery and metaphysical fable that follows charismatic but vulnerable Beau (Éanna Hardwicke) as he searches 1980s London for his missing friend, Tiny (Jack Wolfe). Dream, reality, memory and history gradually intertwine, ultimately bringing Beau face-to-face with…

Angel

Neil Jordan, 92 minutes, 1982

In his first appearance as a writer-director Neil Jordan laid down a marker as to what was to come in his career, casting signature actor Stephen Rea as Danny, a showband saxophonist shocked by the senseless terrorist shooting of an…

Animal Kingdom

Dean Kavanagh, 120 minutes, 2017

Experimental filmmaker Dean Kavanagh’s latest work is a genre-defying exploration of the cinematic apparatus. The film concerns a character (played with corporeal intensity by Cillian Roche) who happens upon a group undergoing bestial metamorphosis. Narrative is not at the forefront…

Animals

Sophie Hyde, 119, 2019

Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat star as best friends and drinking buddies Laura and Tyler whose hedonistic existence falls under the threat of responsibility and adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – a devilishly handsome and ambitious pianist. As…

Ann

Ciarán Creagh, 90 minutes, 2022

Based on the true story of the then 15-year-old Ann Lovett, who gave birth in the grotto in Granard; the last day of her life, a girl alone and abandoned by society, its prejudices, taboos, and traditions.

Anne Devlin

Pat Murphy, 121 minutes, 1986

Irish history is often dominated by male names such as Pearse, Collins, Wolfe Tone, and Emmet; Anne Devlin rejects this imbalance by narrating the life of its titular figure, who resisted torture and confinement rather than betray her comrades to…

Aontas

Damian McCann, 91 minutes, 2025

Déanann triúr gadaí neamhghnách comhar creidmheasa tuaithe a robáil, faoi stiúr bean atá ar tí cliseadh. Osclaíonn Aontas ar iarmhairt thragóideach na gadaíochta a chuaigh chun donais agus insítear an scéal droim ar ais go nochtar na heachtraí a tharla…

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