Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

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.

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…

Bloody Good Headline

Tom Burke, Paul Quinn, 2014

Dublin’s newspaper sellers, whose demanding job has them work long hours in all weather, are offered the chance to tell their own stories in this documentary short from Tom Burke and Paul Quinn.

Blue Rinse

Matt Leigh, 11 minutes, 2010

A celebration of daily life, Blue Rinse records a single day at a hair salon and the conversations between hair-dressers and customers. Their honest and open attitudes shine through in a documentary short made with a keen sense of the…

Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story

Sinéad O'Shea, 100 minutes, 2024

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her…

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