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WOMEN TALKING

Sarah Polley,

Winner of the 95th Academy Award for ‘Writing (Adapted Screenplay)’, and nominated for ‘Best Picture’ category of the Oscars. Eight women representing several generations of a cloistered Mennonite community gather in a barn to discuss the abuse they have endured…

Wonder House

Oonagh Kearney, 71 minutes, 2012

Wonder House is a meditative, mesmerising journey through rooms full of exciting ideas and striking visual concepts. This debut film from London-based Irish filmmaker Oonagh Kearney is an experimental work which combines documentary with a loose fictional narrative to explore…

Words Upon the Window Pane

Mary McGuckian, 98 minutes, 1994

Mary McGuckian’s atmospheric period piece is an adaptation of a one-act play by W.B. Yeats in which he explored the occult, a subject in which he had a life-long interest. Set during a series of séances hosted by the Dublin…

Writing Home

Nagham Abboud, Alekson L. Dall’Armellina, Miriam Velasco, 90 minutes, 2017

Successful author Daniel Doran enjoys a luxurious but vacuous London lifestyle funded by a string of international bestsellers of dubious merit. When his estranged father falls ill, he reluctantly returns home to the Irish village of Darlingford where he faces…

You Are Not My Mother

Kate Dolan, 95 minutes, 2021

Teenager Char and her mother, Angela, share a house with grandmother, Rita. Relations are fraught as Angela’s poor mental health and erratic behaviour cause Rita to become increasingly impatient and Char to isolate from her bullying classmates. When Angela disappears…

You’re Ugly Too

Mark Noonan, 78 minutes, 2015

When 11-year-old Stacey (Lauren Kinsella) becomes an orphan, her closest relative, her uncle Will (Aidan Gillen), is in prison. As part of his rehabilitation, Will is released to look after Stacey, and they set up a makeshift home on a…

Young Cassidy

Jack Cardiff, 105 minutes, 1965

Though only loosely based on the early life of Sean O’Casey (renamed Johnny Cassidy), this colourful drama includes key historical moments from 1911 to the late 1920s – the 1913 Lockout, 1916 Rising, and the riots at the opening of…

The Young Offenders

Peter Foott, 85 minutes, 2016

Inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007, The Young Offenders follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the…

Young Plato

Declan McGrath,
Neasa Ní Chianáin, 102 minutes, 2021

Headmaster Kevin McArevey illustrates how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community, in a marginalized, working class community in Belfast's Ardoyne, which for generations has been…

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