Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Swing Bout

Maurice O'Carroll, 90 minutes, 2024

A gripping crime thriller set backstage against the intense world of swing-bout girl boxers, with a narrative that unfolds in the dressing room of a major boxing event in Ireland where a group of female fighters await their chance to…

Tara Road

Gillies MacKinnon, 97 minutes, 2005

Life’s crises are turned into opportunities to grow in this drama which has two women living on either side of Atlantic try set to right the troubles in their lives. Her son dead in a motorcycle accident, Marilyn (Andie MacDowell)…

Tarrac

Declan Recks, 96 minutes, 2022

Aoife (Kelly Gough) returns home to help her father (Lorcan Cranitch) recover from a heart attack. Day to day they get along just fine but never talk about the loss of Aoife’s mother. Over the summer, Aoife gets pulled back…

Terraforma

Kevin Brennan,
Laurence Durkin, 62 minutes, 2023

The remote volcanic island of Ascension sat smouldering for a million years, largely devoid of life, until its radical transformation by process of 'terraforming' into a tropical paradise. But there is more to this island than meets the eye. The…

That They May Face the Rising Sun

Pat Collins, 107 minutes, 2023

An adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest writers, That They May Face The Rising Sun is a lyrical celebration of the everyday. Joe (Barry Ward) and Kate Ruttledge (Anna Bederke) have returned from London…

THE GOLDEN SPURTLE

Constantine Costi,

Each year the sleepy Scottish highland village of Carrbridge welcomes a diverse group of international contestants as they gather for the prestigious World Porridge Making Championships, each vying for the coveted Golden Spurtle trophy. For ageing, charismatic, and soon-to-retire organiser…

THE ICE STORM

Ang Lee,

Following the success of his first English-language film, the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility (1995), recently screened at the IFI, the next entry in Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s admirably eclectic body of work mined affluent 1970s American suburbia for its exploration of familial…

THE REASON I JUMP

Jerry Rothwell , 82, 2020

This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences…

THE SUPER 8 YEARS

Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot,

Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature, recalls, ‘In reviewing our Super 8 films…it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to pastimes, lifestyle, and aspirations of a social class…

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