Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

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.

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…

Fairview Park

Aymeric Nicolet,
Ellie Hodgetts, 16 minutes, 2024

Declan Flynn, a man struggling for self-acceptance, is preyed upon by a gang of self-described ‘Queer-bashers’ in Dublin, 1982. Based on a true story, and seen as a major catalyst for Ireland’s LGBTQ Pride movement.

The Far Side of Revenge

Margo Harkin, 72 minutes, 2012

Margo Harkin’s powerful documentary is one part in a body of work that has chronicled `The Troubles’ from 12 Days in July (1997) to Bloody Sunday – A Derry Diary (2010). A study on reconciliation, it also experiments with visual…

The Flats

Alessandra Celesia, 116 minutes, 2024

Belfast’s New Lodge is a Catholic neighbourhood violently affected by the Troubles. Many of the men who live here engaged in paramilitary activity in their youth and now suffer from disillusionment, unemployment, and poor mental health. The women work to…

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