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The Belly of the Whale

Morgan Bushe, 83 minutes, 2018

After breaking free from his foster home, feral teenager Joey Moody returns to Laytown, a rural Irish town just over the horizon, in a bid to reclaim his family’s caravan park and salvage his friendship with his best mate and…

Bending Glass

Suzie Keegan, 7 minutes, 2019

Since the beginning of the neon industry in Ireland in the 1930s, the community has been incredibly closed and tight knit. There is no formal training, with only five glass benders in the country today. Eighty year old Paddy Dignam…

Berlin St. Patrick’s Festival

Suzie Keegan, 7 minutes, 2019

March 17th - 19th The Berlin St. Patrick's Festival opens on March 17th and will see the launch of Irish Film on Tour, presented in collaboration with the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, showcasing the work of Irish filmmakers with…

Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey

Lelia Doolan, 88 minutes, 2011

This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted…

Best Before Death

Paul Duane, 89 minutes, 2019

In 1992, Bill Drummond's enormously successful pop group The KLF ceased activities. Since 2014, he's been on a world tour visiting Kolkata, North Carolina and elsewhere. In each place he carries out his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes,…

Between Land and Sea

Ross Whitaker, 90 minutes, 2017

This observational feature – at times intimate, at times epic – embeds itself in a community of surfers in Lahinch, Co. Clare, following their on-and off-season lives over the course of a sea-buffeted year. The surfers have dedicated their lives…

Between the Canals

Mark O'Connor, 74 minutes, 2011

While Dublin’s criminal underbelly has occupied many Irish filmmakers over the past fifteen years, this debut from Mark O’Connor distinguishes itself by largely avoiding genre clichés and creating credible and likable portraits of small-time troublemakers. As with Martin Scorsese’s Mean…

Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up

Conor O'Toole, 90 minutes, 2021

Mags, a hot-headed pizza delivery cyclist who reckons herself to be entirely self-sufficient, is just about getting by during the property crisis in Dublin. When her bike is stolen and she loses her job, her eviction seems inevitable. With nowhere…

Billy Willy

Sean Mullan,
Michael Barwise, 2019

Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of jazz.

Biografilm Festival – International Celebration of Lives, Bologna, Italy

Sean Mullan,
Michael Barwise, 2019

June 6th - 16th What Richard Did screening: Wednesday 11th June, 8.30 pm, Cinema Lumière, Sala Scorsese with Lenny Abrahamson in attendance. Adam & Paul screening: Thursday 12th June, 7 pm, Cinema Lumière, Sala Scorsese with Lenny Abrahamson in attendance.

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