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The Ballymurphy Precedent

Callum Macrae, 108 minutes, 2018

Largely unknown outside Northern Ireland, the deaths of eleven innocent people at the hands of the British Army in a Catholic estate in Belfast is one of the most significant events in the Troubles. In one small Belfast housing estate…

Ballywalter

Prasanna Puwanarajah, TBC, 2022

A university drop-out living with her mum, and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up. A bittersweet life-affirming story about the unexpected connections that can change the course…

Baltimore

Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, 97 minutes, 2023

Wealthy art-loving British heiress Rose Dugdale, radicalised at Oxford, finds herself hiding in a remote cottage in Ireland, following an audacious and violent art heist. Gathering at pace beyond the cottage is the biggest police hunt in Irish history. With…

The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh, 109 minutes, 2022

The perils of petty grievances are imaginatively explored in Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh’s (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) latest comedy-drama, set on the fictional island of Inisherin off the west coast of Ireland during the time of the Civil War,…

Barber

Fintan Connolly, 90 minutes, 2023

Val Barber (Aidan Gillen), a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow (Deirdre Donnelly) to find her missing granddaughter, Sara. The search gets murky as long-buried secrets – including Barber’s own – come to the surface, and new and…

Barbican, London

Fintan Connolly, 90 minutes, 2023

16.00, March 16th A screening of silent film from the archive, Come on Over, with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney in the Barbican Cinema and presented by Head of Irish Film Programming at the IFI, Sunniva O'Flynn A special screening…

Barracks Estate

Joe Lee, 90 minutes, 2017

Following the success of Fortune’s Wheel (about Bill Stephens, the Fairview lion tamer), director Joe Lee focuses now on another Dublin neighbourhood, Inchicore, to tell the extraordinary story of life as lived over 200 years in Richmond Barracks, Keogh Square and St…

Barriers

Fiach Kunz, 13 minutes, 2020

Martin lives an isolated and monotonous life on a farm. He tends to livestock and cares reluctantly for his alcoholic, bedridden father. An encounter with a care worker unearths buried trauma, sending Martin on a journey of reckoning that will…

Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival, Louisiana, USA

Fiach Kunz, 13 minutes, 2020

July 18th - 20th The annual Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival presents a series of Irish features and shorts in Louisiana at the Manship Theatre. The short film programme include recent titles: Scratch; The Missing Scarf; Mechanic; and old favourites,…

Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival, United States

Fiach Kunz, 13 minutes, 2020

July 31st - August 3rd Founded by the The Baton Rouge Irish Club, the festival showcases Irish talent, promotes cultural diversity and encourages collaboration between individuals and businesses in Louisiana and Ireland.  The 7th annual Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival returns with…

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