Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey

Lelia Doolan, 88 minutes, 2011

This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted…

Best Before Death

Paul Duane, 89 minutes, 2019

In 1992, Bill Drummond's enormously successful pop group The KLF ceased activities. Since 2014, he's been on a world tour visiting Kolkata, North Carolina and elsewhere. In each place he carries out his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes,…

Between Land and Sea

Ross Whitaker, 90 minutes, 2017

This observational feature – at times intimate, at times epic – embeds itself in a community of surfers in Lahinch, Co. Clare, following their on-and off-season lives over the course of a sea-buffeted year. The surfers have dedicated their lives…

Billy Willy

Sean Mullan,
Michael Barwise, 2019

Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of jazz.

Birdsong

Kathleen Harris, 52 minutes, 2024

Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from Cobh, Co. Cork is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland - that’s nearly 200 birds. Often joined by his partner Alba, he travels to some of the country’s most…

Blankets of Hope: Cork Cancer Care Centre

Edvinas Maciulevicius, 4 minutes, 2019

A look at the Cork Cancer Care Centre and their mission to deliver 'blankets of hope' to cancer patients around Ireland.

Blazing the Trail

Peter Flynn, 86 minutes, 2011

The ‘O’Kalems’ was the affectionate nickname given to members of New York’s Kalem Film Company, primarily Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott, who between 1910-1915 produced almost thirty films dealing with Ireland and Irish subjects. The Kalem Company made history by…

Blind Man Walking

Ross Whitaker, 55 minutes, 2010

Blind Man Walking might well be the most inspirational story of the year. At the age of 22, Mark Pollock, a handsome young athlete premiere and academic, suddenly lost his sight. He was plunged into darkness and depression but rebuilt…

Blood Fruit

Sinéad O'Brien, 80 minutes, 2014

Blood Fruit takes us back to the height of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1984 when Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell Outspan grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid…

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