Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

True North: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8

Deirdre Mulrooney, 30 minutes, 2017

Offering a unique representation of the Irish-Canadian experience, Paud Mulrooney's Super 8 films and self-developed photographs of life on Cat Lake and Ogoki Post Reserves with his young family (including his daughter the film-maker) are a rare window into the…

Tuesday Night

Michael Healy, 15 minutes, 2017

A dark comedy about the sensationalised media representation of trans people, and the burdens of local planning regulations. Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2017.

Tumbling Towards Home

Imelda O'Reilly, 14 minutes, 2019

An Irish immigrant moves to New York in 1989 to study acting. He works through the grief from the loss of his mother's passing and the death of his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman. Awards: Director's Choice Award, Thomas Edison Black…

Tuna

Cliona Noonan, 2019

A girl who works in a late-night supermarket has a strange obsession. After a visit from a late-night customer she becomes paranoid.

Twin

Ciará Dooley, 6 minutes, 2019

Over the course of her 21st birthday Ava explores the grief felt by the loss of her twin sister and attempts to overcome it.

Two Hearts

Darren Thornton, 17 minutes, 2011

Seeing the world through the eyes of recovering addict and single mother Lorna (Roxanna Nic Liam), Two Hearts confronts social deprivation and drug abuse in this hard hitting short. Living a fragile but clean life, Lorna finds herself tempted to…

Two Wheels Good

Barry Gene Murphy, 9 minutes, 2012

Blending animation with documentary footage, Two Wheels Good celebrates the role the bicycle once played in rural Ireland. Four people whose livelihood depended on bicycles talk about how they learnt to cycle, the fitness it required, and their cycling tours…

Tyre Kickers

Danny McCafferty, 2020

A son, determined to salvage his fractured relationship with his father, embarks on a journey to find a classic car from their past.

Ulys

Tim Booth, 6 minutes, 1997

Boldly attempting to sum up in a few short minutes James Joyce’s famously complex, Ulysses, Ulys celebrates Dublin’s most renowned novelist. Slipping between narratives – Joyce bemoans the difficulty of writing whilst a publican recounts the novel’s events– but the…

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