Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

On Departure

Eoin Duffy, 6 minutes, 2012

Directed by Eoin Duffy, On Departure is a poignant and heartfelt animation which attempts to express a personal journey centred around the loss of the filmmaker’s younger brother. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

Ooops 2: The Adventure Continues

Sean McCormack,
Toby Genkel, 85 minutes, 2020

Life in an Ark with 50,000 others has many dangers: icebergs, unwelcome visitors, storms, woodworm and a very fragile truce between carnivores and herbivores. All hopes are pinned on a dove dispatched into the wild in search of land. The…

Outside the Box

Janet Grainger, 5 minutes, 2019

Who do we see when we look at people? By putting people in a box do we restrict our own true potential?

Over the Moon

Rory Fitzpatrick, 2025

On a journey to see the stars, Jay, a young trans man confronts his childhood in the Burren.

The Overcoat

Meelis Arulepp
Sean Mullen, 31 minutes, 2018

The Overcoat is a warm and unique Christmas story about an office worker that saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand. Notes by Screen Ireland

Packrat

Shana Brewer-Gannon, 2024

The impacts of hoarding through the eyes and imagination of a child.

Paperman

Richard Kelly, 6 minutes, 2010

Living alone in a bustling city, a paper man searches for a partner to escape the loneliness of urban life. Everything in this strange world is made of paper; stacks of sheets make up tower blocks and dollar bills and…

Pet Hate

Andy Clarke, 5 minutes, 2012

A running battle between a pet shop owner and his mischievous pets grows dark in this animated short. Refusing to be sold, the animals play dead every time a customer enters the shop; with dust building in his cash register…

Pilgrim

Matthew Darragh, 4 minutes, 2006

In this surreal animated short an anthropomorphic fridge scrambles through a desert in search of a power source. Completely silent, the tension builds as the fridge’s precious cargo begins to melt, and the need for power becomes increasingly urgent. Preferring…

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