Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry

Sarah Share, 90 minutes, 2023

John Murry was on the cusp of greatness with his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013) when, addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on Irish shores a broken man. Now, he is ready to retrace his…

Guerrillere Talks

Vivienne Dick, 24 minutes, 1978

Vivienne Dick began making Super 8 films in New York in the late ‘70s as part of a group of filmmakers and musicians whose affiliation to the aesthetics of punk became known as ‘No Wave’. Guerrillere Talks is her first…

How to Tell a Secret

Anna Rodgers,
Shaun Dunne., 100 minutes, 2022

Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest people to come out on Irish television. Enda McGrattan, also known as Veda, promised to keep their HIV status a secret but eventually broke free with…

Hush-a-Bye-Baby

Margo Harkin, 80 minutes, 1990

Goretti (Emer McCourt) and her friends are four happy-go-lucky 15-year-olds living in the Catholic ghettos of the Bogside and Creggan estates in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1984. When Goretti meets Ciarán (Michael Liebmann) at an Irish language class, a romance…

I Belong

Fatoumata Gandega, 14 minutes, 2025

Laliya navigates her cultural identity and belonging, reconciling Somali heritage with suburban life in Ireland while facing isolation and misunderstanding.

I Hope We Can Still Be Friends

Aisha Tyler, 90 minutes, 2025

A high-powered executive wakes up alone, trapped inside a wooden cell, with food, water, and a bed but absolutely no idea how he got there. As the days pass, panic turns to anger, grief, and finally despair. When he discovers…

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

Mary Bronstein,

Rose Byrne gives a performance of blistering intensity in Mary Bronstein’s extraordinary second feature; a white-knuckle ride into the psyche of a woman on the brink of despair. Byrne plays Linda, a psychoanalyst caring for her critically ill daughter who…

If I Should Fall From Grace

Sarah Share, 93 minutes, 2001

A moving,highly personal portrait of a rock icon.Shane MacGowan tells of his early problems with drink and drugs and his subsequent breakdown,his discovery of punk and the voice he found through music.IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE includes interviews with…

IFI & AEMI: DESIRE LINES

Various,

aemi’s touring programme is an annual selection of artist and experimental short films that brings some of the most exciting moving image work by Irish filmmakers into conversation with key international voices. ‘Desire Lines’ has been curated around Chloe Brenan’s…

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