Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Blizzards: Behind the Music

Jeff Doyle, 30 minutes, 2019

Frustrated by the music scene’s increasing omission of guitar music in festival line-ups and the exclusion of punk rock from national radio playlists, once-popular band The Blizzards take matters into their own hands, blowing their whole budget on a music…

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…

The Boat

Luke Morgan, 15 minutes, 2023

When Dhuckia grows up, she wants to be a boat builder like her father. But when he finds out that she is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, he must make a terrible choice.

Bog Graffiti

Bob Quinn, 2019

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

The Bogman

Dylan Hennessy, 2019

A bog worker in the Irish midlands struggles to come to terms with the end of his era.

Bold Emmett, Ireland’s Martyr

Sidney Olcott, 37 minutes, 1915

After Gene Gauntier disbanded her company and ended her professional relationship with Sidney Olcott, he returned to Ireland one last time where he made Bold Emmett and All for Old Ireland. Jack Melville starred in a number of O’Kalem films…

Bongo Bong

Ken Wardrop, 6 minutes, 2008

A little commentary from the valley of the squinting windows. Also available as part of Wardrop's Shorts, a programme of five shorts directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman.

Boomerang

Diarmuid Doran, 16 minutes, 2016

An unknown crisis darkens the heart of a mysterious wreck.

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