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Farfalle

Jackson Lennon, 2024

Jake’s mother takes in a new exchange student. Although hesitant at first to show her around, once they meet, that changes instantly. They spend an amazing week together and Jake writes a love letter to thank her for showing him…

Farmer Michael (The Life and Times of a Social Pariah)

Gerard Walsh, 2019

Farmer Michael is a Galway-based, divisive character getting millions of views online. But his creator, Stevo Timothy, has a past with far more twists and turns than anyone would expect.

The Farthest

Emer Reynolds, 121 minutes, 2017

Emer Reynolds’s enthralling documentary details NASA’s ambitious Voyager program which, in 1977, launched two probes whose original mission was to study the outermost planets of the Solar System, but went on to become the first human-created object to enter interstellar…

Father Father

Michael McDowell, 19 minutes, 2019

Father James must decide what kind of a father God wants him to be.

Father of the Cyborgs

David Burke, 90 minutes, 2020

A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post,…

Fathoms

Miles Davis Murphy, 6 minutes, 2020

Told through imagery, a tempestuous relationship between a father and son unfolds over a lifetime.

The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos, 119 minutes, 2018

Two rivals vie for the affections of Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deliciously caustic black comedy. Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, has long been the trusted companion of the insecure, jealous and physically ailing monarch (Olivia…

Fear of Flying

Conor Finnegan, 10 minutes, 2012

Faced with the prospect of migrating for winter, cowardly bird Dougal (Mark Doherty) hides his fear of flying from his friends in this animated short. Haunted by nightmares of crashing to earth mid-flight, Dougal plans to hibernate through winter rather…

Featherweight

Kayleigh Gibbons, 2019

A father and daughter struggle to cope with the death of a central family member. They choose to express their grief in opposite ways.

February 2016

Kayleigh Gibbons, 2019

5th Feb // Cinegael Montreal at the Concordia University // The Stag // Montreal, Canada. 14th Feb // Cinema Britannique & Irlandais, Ciné O'Clock // Gold // Lyon, France. 17th Feb - 15th March // Irish Film Fortnight at the Cinema Odyssée // Good Vibrations, Gold, One…

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