Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Crucible

Caroline Harvey, 2024

A red warning comes into place on the eve of Hannah’s surf assessment. Sensing an ill omen, her anxiety rises. Her worst fears are realised when a surf accident forces her into the eye of her own repressed storm of…

The Daisy Chain

Aisling Walsh, 89 minutes, 2008

A psychological horror from director Aisling Walsh, The Daisy Chain is a story of two scarred individuals – a child and a mother – forming a potentially destructive relationship. The mother is Martha (Samantha Morton), a woman feeling the raw…

Dead On Arrival

Niamh McAllister, 2024

Nurses Shelley and Kate must work out how to cover up the murder of Kate’s husband. But what to do with the body? The knife? The nosy neighbour?

The Devil’s Doorway

Aislinn Clarke, 76 minutes, 2018

Two priests are sent to a 1960s Magdalen laundry to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a found footage film whose setting adds a level of genuine horror to proceedings.

Disco Pigs

Kirsten Sheridan, 93 minutes, 2001

Imaginative, shocking, and wholly unlike any coming-of-age narrative Ireland had seen before, Disco Pigs is the story of two teenagers whose lifelong partnership suffers an almost Edenic fall from grace. Runt (Elaine Cassidy) and Pig (Cillian Murphy), known to their…

Dollhouse

Kirsten Sheridan, 95 minutes, 2012

Kirsten Sheridan’s third feature is a loose, experimental depiction of a modern-day bacchanal as a group of five young Dublin outsiders break into a luxurious seafront house. At the eye of the storm is Jeannie (Seána Kerslake), who has been…

Eat / Sleep / Cheer / Repeat

Tanya Doyle, 87 minutes, 2024

Welcome to the surprising world of cheerleading in Ireland, where athletic young hopefuls search for their place in the world through the sport they love. The colourful members of Team Ireland: Jessica, Jayleesa, Blathnaid, Dean, Taylor and Rickie – by…

Eggs and Soldiers

Imelda O'Reilly, 22 minutes, 2016

A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on Christmas Eve. Ned the older brother's humanity is challenged when he risks everything to have his younger brother Marco experience a real Irish Christmas. Awards: Best Screenplay, Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film…

Every Moon is Atrocious

Yvonne McDevitt, 98 minutes, 2026

Tracing the cinematic journey of a poet who realises that his life has been a mirage, and based on the poetry of Niall McDevitt, the film explores the connection between poetic and cinematic storytelling in a visually stunning odyssey through…

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