Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Squared Circle

Ian Meehan, 12 minutes, 2019

A veteran troupe of wrestlers assemble a ring on a seaside promenade. A summer festival prepares for their exhibition of physical drama.

St. Francis Didn’t Run Numbers

Chris O'Neill, 2 minutes, 2009

The first in an on-going series of ‘found-footage’ film projects, Saint Francis Didn’t Run Numbers is a eulogy to personal interpretations of cinema with a fetishistic fascination with the imperfections of ageing celluloid. By re-filming a well-known classic of American…

St. Patrick’s Day

Gary Shore, 15 minutes, 2017

A sensitive but slightly oddball student enters the life of her unsuspecting teacher and wreaks havoc.

Starry Night

Emma Smith, 2019

Cara must make a choice - abandon her sisters and pursue her dreams, or sacrifice herself so that one day they too might stand a chance.

State of Suspension

Clare Langan, 6 minutes, 2012

Clare Langan’s extraordinarily beautiful IFB-funded short, State of Suspension, is a meditation on loss in which a human figure and water defy the laws of gravity. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

Static

Daniel Holmes, 17 minutes, 2017

An isolated conspiracy theorist learns how to re-enter the outside world with the help of a mysterious accomplice.

Stephanie

Fergal Costello, 2019

John and Stephanie wake to the sound of someone outside. This stranger wants Stephanie dead. Why? We come to learn that Stephanie may be harbouring a monstrous secret.

Stigma

Helen Warner, 10 minutes, 2018

A string of confessions unveil a tale of religious guilt, sin and redemption in this short experimental drama set against the dramatic and rugged Northern Irish coastline.

Stir

Rory Bresnihan, 12 minutes, 2020

A young woman finds herself a prisoner in the home of an old man who has recently lost his wife. As her desperate attempts to escape accelerate, he soon realises that he has taken on more than he can handle.

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