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Assembled Memories: Jack B. Yeats, 1871-1957

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 37 minutes, 1981

Rarely screened since the early 1980s, this under-discussed film offers a visual biographical essay on one of Ireland’s leading painters of the twentieth century. O’Sullivan’s subject was a London-born Irish artist whose creative and personal journey mirrors that of the…

At Sea

Sandy Kennedy, 67 minutes, 2023

A hypnotic, hallucinatory reverie at the edge of liminal space. It is a visceral human experience, a rupture, a rhapsody of sound and image, moving beyond the sensory, to be carried deep in the body. World premiere: Galway Film Fleadh…

Atlantic

Risteard Ó Domhnaill, 80 minutes, 2016

Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities as they struggle to maintain their way of life
in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. In Norway, where the fishing industry has been aggressively protected by national authorities, the…

Atlantic

Conor Ferguson, 4 minutes, 2008

Against a wind-swept rural landscape in the West of Ireland, isolated farmer (Liam Cunningham) receives a letter from an old flame who had emigrated to America years before. The voice of the writer reveals the letter to be an invitation…

Atomic Hope: Inside the Pro-Nuclear Movement

Frankie Fenton, 82 minutes, 2022

Atomic Hope follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems and avoid calamitous climate change. Filmed over a ten-year period, these advocates for nuclear energy…

Attracta

Kieran Hickey, 55 minutes, 1983

Adapted from a work by William Trevor, Attracta is a searing account of lone voices resisting the bloodshed of twentieth century Ireland, told through the figure of the elderly, institutionalised Attracta (Wendy Hiller). An orphan of Ireland’s War of Independence,…

August 2016

Kieran Hickey, 55 minutes, 1983

20th August // Lange Nacht der Filmfestivals // Bargaintown // Berlin, Germany. 19-29th August // Vama sub Lumini de Oscar, International Festival of Visual Arts // Dreamtime Revisited // Vama Veche, Romania.

Australian Irish Film Festival – Sydney, Australia

Kieran Hickey, 55 minutes, 1983

March 19th - 22nd  The first Australian Irish Film Festival presents seven Irish features and documentaries at the Chauvel Cinema Broken Song, Living in a Coded Land, An Dhubh ina Gheal, The Sea, Out of Here, Good Vibrations and The Stag.  

AV Festival, Newcastle, U.K.

Kieran Hickey, 55 minutes, 1983

(March 1st – 31st) There will be screenings of Tim Robinson: Connemara and Silence by Pat Collins in the AV Festival, International Festival of Art, Music and Film on March 22nd, 2014. Filmmaker Pat Collins will be present for a Q&A…

Babygirl

Macdara Vallely, 81 minutes, 2013

Babygirl, the second feature from Armagh-born writer-director Macdara Vallely, revisits the world of troubled teens which he first explored in Peacefire (2010). Set in the Bronx, Babygirl is an unsettling drama about a Puerto Rican teenager (Yainis Ynoa) who finds…

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