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Behind the Blood

Loretta van der Horst, 90 minutes, 2019

Priest and furniture maker Daniel Pacheco works in one of the most dangerous cities in the world: San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He tries to save lives, but that’s no simple matter in a country with staggeringly high murder rates. The…

BELOW THE BELT

SHANNON COHN,

Executive produced by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Through the personal and inspiring stories of four women urgently searching for answers to mysterious symptoms, Below the Belt exposes widespread problems in our healthcare system that disproportionately affect women. Through the lens of…

Beocht

Diarmuid Micheal Ó Donnacha, 2024

An Spidéal is a village steeped in the arts but recently has been quietly suffering, and visibly gloomy. Local creatives, young and old, explore the past to navigate an uncertain yet optimistic future.

Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey

Lelia Doolan, 88 minutes, 2011

This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted…

Best Before Death

Paul Duane, 89 minutes, 2019

In 1992, Bill Drummond's enormously successful pop group The KLF ceased activities. Since 2014, he's been on a world tour visiting Kolkata, North Carolina and elsewhere. In each place he carries out his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes,…

Between Land and Sea

Ross Whitaker, 90 minutes, 2017

This observational feature – at times intimate, at times epic – embeds itself in a community of surfers in Lahinch, Co. Clare, following their on-and off-season lives over the course of a sea-buffeted year. The surfers have dedicated their lives…

Billy Willy

Sean Mullan,
Michael Barwise, 2019

Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of jazz.

Birdsong

Kathleen Harris, 52 minutes, 2024

Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from Cobh, Co. Cork is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland - that’s nearly 200 birds. Often joined by his partner Alba, he travels to some of the country’s most…

Blankets of Hope: Cork Cancer Care Centre

Edvinas Maciulevicius, 4 minutes, 2019

A look at the Cork Cancer Care Centre and their mission to deliver 'blankets of hope' to cancer patients around Ireland.

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