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Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

Tomas Vengris, 112 minutes, 2023

A collection of intertwined stories told through the eyes of an old AirBnB apartment. Within the walls of this apartment, we witness five guests experiencing a crisis of love, unaware of the stories that have transpired within the same walls…

Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain

Oonagh Kearney, 24 minutes, 2018

Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain describes the soul-searching journey of first-year medical student Viv, whose first encounter with a cadaver in the anatomy room sends her a quest into the nature of what it means…

Five Minutes of Heaven

Oliver Hirschbiegel, 89 minutes, 2009

Northern Ireland’s violent past casts a long shadow in this emotionally-complex drama that has director Oliver Hirschbiegel wrestle with difficult questions of guilt and forgiveness. The brutal murder of Joe Griffin’s (Kevin O’Neill) brother before his eyes by the teenage…

The Flag

Declan Recks, 85 minutes, 2016

Harry Hambridge is down on his luck and living in London. In one day, he loses his job, his father and his beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his grandfather,…

Flanagan

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 11 mins, 1974

Flanagan was devised and produced when Thaddeus O’Sullivan was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art.  After an opening image of the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, we cut to a young man who epitomises the angst-ridden artist…

Flea Ceoil

Louis Marcus, 23 minutes, 1967

A tribute to the ‘Fleadh’ – a traditional Irish music festival – Louis Marcus’ film was made in the town of Kilrush in Co. Clare in 1967, at the peak of the 1960s resurgence of Ireland’s musical traditions. This intimately…

The Flight to Memmingen

Greg Corcoran, 15 minutes, 2018

A darkly comic relationship drama based on a short story by Icelandic writer Gyrðir Elíasson, The Flight to Memmingen tells of the rise and tragic demise of standup comedian Dave Murphy. He just wants some peace to write his famine…

Float Like a Butterfly

Carmel Winters, 100 minutes, 2018

In rural Ireland in the 1960s, Frances (Hazel Doupe) is a young Traveller who has coped with tragedy from an early age. When her father Michael (Dara Devaney) is imprisoned, Frances learns to fend for herself and her brother, developing…

Fluent Dysphasia

Daniel O'Hara, 16 minutes, 2004

A clever spin on the difficulties Irish speakers can face in their own country, Fluent Dysphasia has the beer-swilling, pub-crawling Murph (Stephen Rea) suffer a head injury that leaves him capable of only speaking in Irish. Suddenly appearing terrifying to…

For Ireland’s Sake

Sindey Olcott, 39 minutes, 1914

The O’Kalems’ returned for a fourth time to Killarney in 1913 but under new management. After her resignation, along with Olcott, from Kalem in 1912, Gene Gauntier capitalised on her own fame as an actress to form her own production…

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