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Short Order

Anthony Byrne, 100 minutes, 2005

An airy piece of fantasy, Short Order tells the story of Fifi (Emma de Caunes), a brilliant chef paralysed by a fear of failure. Working at a small business serving passers-by on the street, Fifi spends her time in romantic…

Showrunners

Des Doyle, 90 minutes, 2014

This film lifts the lid on the fascinating world of U.S. television showrunners and the creative teams that combine to make some of the leading series on TV. These women and men instigated the writer-led revolution and battle daily between art and commerce, managing every aspect of…

Shrooms

Paddy Breathnach, 2007

Having been promised the ‘trip’ of a lifetime by their Irish friend and mushroom expert Jake, a group of American teenagers arrives in Ireland, keen for adventure. Despite Jake’s warnings about the shrooms they shouldn’t eat, things start to go…

Significant Loss

Kevin Glynn, 2019

A woman attending a weight loss class loses more than she wanted to.

Silence

Pat Collins, 86 minutes, 2012

Abstract, sensual, and hauntingly atmospheric, documentarian Pat Collins’ first feature film Silence sees sound-recordist Eoghan (Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride) set out on a journey from Berlin to his native Donegal in search of a landscape free from man-made noise. Moving…

The Silver Branch

Katrina Costello, 75 minutes, 2017

A cinematic eulogy to nature and agrarian culture and a glimpse into the life of farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, descendant of generations of farmers who have lived off the Burren in County Clare. The Mesolithic tombs, famine villages and endless stone…

Sing Street

John Carney, 106 minutes, 2016

This film was released 18th March 2016, and is no longer screening. With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to the Brothers in Synge…

Sister

Aoife Duffin, 7 minutes, 2017

When Caoimhe's sister shows up in London to have an abortion, she is faced with a decision: whether or not to help her estranged sibling.

Sister This

Claire Byrne, 2019

Two sisters talk on the phone about an upcoming birthday; tempers flare as promises are broken. Secrets are revealed and tears are shed. Both women eventually realise that shame is one thing they can’t afford if they’re going to survive.…

Situations Vacant

Lisa Mulcahy, 97 minutes, 2008

There's only three ways to succeed in life...lie, lie and lie. Situations Vacant is a contemporary comedy set in the world of Dave Bracken. It's a film about self esteem, how to have it, how to lose it and how…

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