Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Rip to the Rescue!

Paudie Baggott, 2019

In a post-apocalyptic Irish midlands, an overconfident American jet pilot tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from her domineering mammy, but around here, getting involved with family can be deadly.

Roadside

Joe Comerford, 12 minutes, 2003

RoadSide, Comerford’s first digital short, is a veritable assault on its audience – an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Mixing found footage from personal archives and his own unfinished short, Rough Touch, it outlines the brief encounter between a…

Rockmount

David Tynan, 13 minutes, 2014

1982, Cork. Roy is 11, small and sure he's going to get on his club's starting team. Even if no one else is.

Romance is Dad

Dave Moran, 9 minutes, 2025

Mikey and Drew are away for a romantic weekend in a fancy hotel, the first weekend alone together since the birth of their two kids. A luggage mix-up puts a dampener on proceedings, so Drew, thinking on his feet, tries…

The Rooster, the Crocodile, and the Night Sky

Padraig Fagan, 6 minutes, 2008

A money-hungry crocodile wreaks havoc on a rooster and his strange community when he uses a vacuum to steal the night sky. Brilliantly inventive in both plot and presentation, a bombastic soundtrack is married to a wildly creative animation style…

Rory O’More

Sidney Olcott, 12 minutes, 1911

Rory O’More was made on the company’s second visit to Ireland and is the first of several historical dramas set around the Irish rebellions of 1798/1803. The company was based in Beaufort, outside Killarney, for this and subsequent summers, and…

Rosalyn

Olivia J Middleton, 18 minutes, 2019

A compelling horror hat explores the fragility of mental health during pregnancy.

Rough

Adam Patterson,
Declan Lawn, 13 minutes, 2020

In post-conflict Northern Ireland, paramilitaries have evolved into street gangs who enforce their own brutal street justice in the form of “punishment” attacks. But when they pass a death sentence on a local dog, they bite off more than they…

Rúbaí

Louise Ní Fhiannachta, 12 minutes, 2013

Modern Ireland is the theme of this Irish language short that deals with one girl’s refusal to make her Holy Communion. Committed atheism is Rúbaí’s (Doireann Ní Fhoighil) reason for refusal, a decision that scandalises the adults in her life.…

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