Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Declarations 25

Donal Foreman, 2 minutes, 2010

From 2009, Donal Foreman completed 25 short films using personal video footage shot over the previous five years, uploading one on the Internet every two weeks. This final film in the series consists of the disjointed image and sound of…

Deireadh Seachtaine – Wisconsin, USA

Donal Foreman, 2 minutes, 2010

October 3rd - 10th An Bhean A Shúil Trasna Mheiriceá will screen at the annual Deireadh Seachtaine event in October for students of Irish. Brian Ó Broin, will present the film.

The Delinquent Season

Mark O'Rowe, 104 minutes, 2017

Two couples appear content in their middle-class Dublin lives: rewarding jobs, good work/life balance, happy kids and entertaining friends. Cracks begin to appear when Jim (Cillian Murphy) and Danielle (Eva Birthistle) discover that Yvonne (Catherine Walker) and Chris (Andrew Scott)…

Departure

Aoife Doyle, 9 minutes, 2018

Faced with the prospect of yet another Christmas without her emigrated family, Alma, a lonely Irish grandmother, is at an all time low. This would-be tragedy quickly turns into a comedy as the universe conspires to bring her closer to…

Deposits

Trevor Courtney, 5 minutes, 2018

Deposits concerns the connection of all the 'Disappeared', who are the remains of those murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and those killed centuries earlier by the British Redcoats. In common they are buried without trace, but are connected by…

The Devil’s Doorway

Aislinn Clarke, 76 minutes, 2018

Two priests are sent to a 1960s Magdalen laundry to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a found footage film whose setting adds a level of genuine horror to proceedings.

Dianghlasáil

Patrick Martin Collins, 2 minutes, 2020

Imposing a Lockdown is much easier than lifting one.

The Dig

Andy Tohill
Ryan Tohill, 97 minutes, 2018

This debut feature from the Tohill Brothers will no doubt prove to be one of the year’s strongest Irish releases, a downbeat but canny mix of thriller and western tropes. Callahan (Moe Dunford) has just finished his prison sentence for…

Disco Pigs

Kirsten Sheridan, 93 minutes, 2001

Imaginative, shocking, and wholly unlike any coming-of-age narrative Ireland had seen before, Disco Pigs is the story of two teenagers whose lifelong partnership suffers an almost Edenic fall from grace. Runt (Elaine Cassidy) and Pig (Cillian Murphy), known to their…

Displaced

Niamh Heery, 15 minutes, 2016

A journey through the memories and hopes of people who have been displaced in life, exploring how they find their link home.

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