Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

SEA FEVER

NEASA HARDIMAN,

This film was released on the 26th of August 2020, and is no longer screening. This film is F-rated. Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) is a brilliant young marine scientist and PhD student who is more at home amidst laboratory equipment than…

Secret of Kells

Tomm Moore, 75 minutes, 2009

An animated feature, The Secret of Kells creates a gorgeously realised vision of a medieval Ireland wherein a young monk battles monsters and Vikings to help complete the Book of Kells. Brendan (Evan McGuire) chafes against the restrictions of his…

The Secret Scripture

Jim Sheridan, 108 minutes, 2016

After an eclectic range of films in recent years, Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) returns to Irish themes and material with this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s acclaimed novel. The elderly Rose (the inimitable Vanessa Redgrave) is the last…

Sensation

Tom Hall, 105 minutes, 2010

Inheriting the family farm after his father’s death, twenty-six year old Donal Durkan (Domhnall Gleeson) starts what quickly becomes a personal relationship with prostitute, Kim (Luanne Gordon). Growing closer, Donal allows Kim to hide away from thugs on his farm…

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Joachim Trier,

Stage actress Nora (Renate Reinsve) and her sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) are reunited with their estranged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-renowned film director, who reappears after their mother’s death. Gustav offers Nora the lead role in his new…

September Says

100 minutes, 2024

Teenage sisters September and July, born just ten months apart, are as close as sisters can be. September (Pascale Kann), the elder, is protective, domineering, and distrustful of others while July (Mia Tharia) is increasingly curious about the world around…

Shadow Dancer

James Marsh, 101 minutes, 2012

Having broached the U.S. Bible Belt and a grim Yorkshire circa 1980 in previous works, director James Marsh’s commitment to eschewing the obvious in terms of treatment and subject matter has him here turn to the mid-‘90s endgame of the…

Shadows

Carlo Lavagna, 90 minutes, 2020

A gripping psychological thriller following two teenagers on a journey of self-discovery as they dismantle the terrifying obstacles of the world they live in. Confined to an abandoned hotel with their slightly unhinged mother, the siblings live by night and…

The Shamrock Handicap

John Ford, 66 minutes, 1926

Already in his first big production, 1924’s The Iron Horse, Ford had foregrounded the role of Irish immigrants in constructing the trans-continental railway. His main Irishman there was played by J. Farrell Macdonald, whose prolific career playing Irishmen in Ford…

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