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Cara Holmes, 11 minutes, 2019

Combining documentary and dance performance, this visually arresting film dives into the mind and creative process of Oona Doherty's award winning dance show Hope Hunt. Awards: Best Irish Short Film, Dublin International Film Festival, 2020

The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy

Duncan Campbell, 30 minutes, 2015

The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy is a new film work by Irish-born, Turner Prize-winning artist Duncan Campbell. Filmed in and around the Kerry village of Dún Chaoin the film integrates newly-scripted dramatised material with footage from The Village (1968),…

West of the Horizon

Barra Convery, 15 minutes, 2024

On the remote coast of Connemara, a runaway trans-teenager has a chance encounter with a bereaved, suicidal fisherman that sees the two form an unlikely bond.

Wet and Soppy

Cliona Noonan, 4 minutes, 2020

A man just wants to dry his underwear. Tormented by the weather, he is forced to use the local laundromat each evening, instead of his garden washing line. But another customer is watching him from afar.

What Remains

Tadhg O'Sullivan, Pat Collins, 11 minutes, 2013

What Remains, directors Pat Collins and Tadhg O'Sullivan's abstract work, explores personal and cultural memory, and is made exclusively from film in the IFI Irish Film Archive. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

When Women Won

Anna Rodgers, 52 minutes, 2020

Coinciding with the second anniversary of the historic referendum which saw over 1.4m Irish citizens vote to overturn the Irish Constitution’s controversial 8th amendment, the film tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign. In the aftermath…

Where is Eva Hipsey?

Orla Mc Hardy , 9 minutes, 2018

Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further away from…

Where it All Began

Alan Dunne, 2024

A transgender woman arrives in her rural hometown for her mother’s funeral and is met by the father she left behind.

The Whistle-Blower

T. McAdam, 13 minutes, 2016

Reflecting on the Sallins Mail Train Robbery case and a miscarriage of justice.

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