Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Bobby Sands: 66 Days

Brendan J. Byrne, 105 minutes, 2016

This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening. In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his…

Bog Graffiti

Bob Quinn, 2019

If you think climate change is a joke, you are the joke.

Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire

Oisín Kearney, 80 minutes, 2019

Bojayá: Caught In The Crossfire follows the story of LeynerPalacios, a community leader and Nobel peace prize nominee, who lost 32 relatives in one massacre. The 2002 Bojayá massacre was and remains, one of the worst mass atrocities in Colombia’s…

Born and Reared

Henrietta Norton
Dan Dennison, 66 minutes, 2016

Born and Reared explores contemporary Northern Ireland through the lives of four men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. In Northern Ireland today communities struggle to come to terms with the horrors and sacrifices of the past. Four men, of…

BORN THAT WAY

EAMON LITTLE,

FINAL SCREENINGS THIS WEEK! ★★★★★ 'A moving, beautiful documentary about a gentle Irish hero' – The Irish Times In a small wooden house in County Kilkenny, Patrick Lydon’s life is ebbing away. Throughout his final year he reflects on an…

Born that Way

Éamon Little, 95 minutes, 2025

In a small wooden house in County Kilkenny, Patrick Lydon’s life is ebbing away. Throughout his final year he reflects on an extraordinary life that took him from a budding career in rock journalism in America to trailblazing in Ireland…

BOWIE: THE FINAL ACT

JONATHAN STIASNY,

SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26TH The film explores how David Bowie’s last chapter transcended closure and instead became a bold act of reinvention. Beginning with a period of artistic uncertainty in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the documentary follows…

Breaking Out

Michael McCormack, 85 minutes, 2019

Fergus O’Farrell was the charismatic voice of Interference, one of the most influential bands on the Irish music scene in the '80s and '90s. Although diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at a young age, Fergus did not define himself by his…

Broken Song

Claire Dix, 66 minutes, 2013

GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists, rappers and song-writers from Dublin’s often-deprived suburbs. Through their words they have found a way to diffuse their frustration with the chaos that surrounds them and to inspire others to…

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