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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…

To This I Belong

Nicky Larkin, 66 minutes, 2026

Following the creation of an ambitious, island-wide dance project in which four choreographers - one in each province of Ireland - are commissioned by Luail, Ireland’s new national and all-island dance company - to make site-specific works rooted in land,…

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…

Try!

Oisín Mistéil, 86 minutes, 2026

Try! follows four Irish mixed-ability rugby teams from cold winter training nights to the heat of summer competition in Pamplona, where 32 teams from 16 countries compete in a fiercely contested, full-contact World Cup. Played by people with and without…

Tumtha

Mary Keane, 61 minutes, 2025

Tumtha reveals the story of the Coláistí Ullmhúcháin, seven boarding schools founded across Ireland in the early years of the State amid urgent efforts to revive the Irish language, and keep it alive. Through the memories of the remaining former…

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