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Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story

Alan Leonard, 100 minutes, 2019

Celebrating the legacy of a prodigiously talented Irish singer-songwriter, Heyday charts Mic Christopher’s musical journey from Grafton Street busker to The Mary Janes and rock stardom to the near-fatal accident that radically changed his world view and ignited a drive…

In Time: Dónal Lunny

Nuala O'Connor, 95 minutes, 2025

Dónal Lunny is one of Ireland’s outstanding artists, a peerless contributor to Irish culture and music. As a founding member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts, Lunny helped revive and transform Irish traditional and folk music. The film reveals how significant events…

The Job of Songs

Lila Schmitz, 74 minutes, 2022

Travellers from all over the world gather in the village of Doolin, County Clare, hoping to connect with their Irish heritage through traditional Irish music. But things are changing: facing rapid modernisation at the hands of tourism, confronting depression and…

Keep it Reel

Ricky Carranza, 2017

1994's Eurovision, hosted by Ireland, featured interval act Riverdance, which would become an overnight sensation and an iconic worldwide cultural phenomenon, spawning an unprecedented interest in Irish dancing around the world. One such place was Finland, a country far more…

Kila: Pota Óir

Anthony White, 63 minutes, 2017

Kíla: Pota Óir is a portrait of one of Ireland’s most respected cult bands who merge folk and world music traditions into a euphoric live experience. Now in their 30th year, Kíla, formed by a bunch of musical youths in…

Kneecap

Rich Peppiatt, 105 minutes, 2024

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low-life scum’ Naoise & Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of…

Love Yourself Today

Ross Killeen, 80 minutes, 2021

Every Christmas in Dublin, the crowds gather for Damien Dempsey's Christmas gig at Vicar Street. For many, these shows have become a cathartic ritual, a safe space where emotions can be laid bare. We meet Dempsey and three members of…

Midnight Dance

John McCloskey, 6 minutes, 1996

The skeletal dead risen and walking is a theme in many great works of medieval art, and that tradition is used to great effect in this animated short. A fiddler plays music to raise skeletons from their graves and lead…

Moore Street Masala

David O'Sullivan, 5 minutes, 2009

Director David O’Sullivan effects a meaningful cultural crossover between Bollywood film styles and Northside Dublin locations in this musical short about a love that leaps across a class divide. Working a dead-end job as a shop clerk, a young man…

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