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The Girl

John Hayes, 17 minutes, 2012

Building a new life in the west of Ireland after a series of miscarriages, the emotionally scarred Sophie (Geraldine Somerville) finds herself falling into a place between madness and the supernatural in this chilling short. When left alone in their…

Girl Alone

Keith Farrell, 2019

A girl with a dark past finds herself alone and on the run. Sometimes moving forward is harder than it seems.

The Girl at the End of the Garden

Bonnie Dempsey, 15 minutes, 2019

A slapstick comedy about an unhappy young girl whose life is turned upside-down when she finds a mysterious runaway with psychic powers in her back garden.

The Girl With the Mechanical Maiden

Andrew Legge, 15 minutes, 2012

A short set in a strange, quasi-Victorian world, The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden sees an inventor (Dominic West) construct a ramshackle robotic wet-nurse for his daughter after her mother dies in childbirth. As the child grows older, a robotic…

Give Up Yer Aul Sins

Cathal Gaffney, 5 minutes, 2001

A young Dublin girl tells her own, youthfully unique version of the story of John the Baptist in this animated short. Based on recordings made in a Dublin school in the 1970s and rediscovered in the 1990s, Give Up Yer…

Glasgow St. Patrick’s Festival – Glasgow, Scotland

Cathal Gaffney, 5 minutes, 2001

March 9th  The Irish Pub screens as part of the St. Patrick's festivities in Glasgow. 

Glass Hour

Clare Langan, 8 minutes, 2002

Clare Langan’s work sits within both fine art and film traditions. The use of hand-made filters gives a distinctly sensuous and oneiric appearance, mixing painterly values with a strongly cinematic use of sound and space. Part of a post-apocalyptic trilogy,…

Glassland

Gerard Barrett, 80 minutes, 2014

John is working as a taxi driver in Dublin and struggling to make ends meet. He lives with his mother Jean, who he is devoted to, despite Jean being a committed and unrelenting alcoholic. When she is hospitalised after her…

The Glenarma Tapes

Tony Devlin, 79 minutes, 2023

On March 13th 2020, five students and two faculty members from the Mid Ulster College of Arts disappeared without trace. They were last seen near the village of Glenarma, over sixty miles away from their campus. Two years later, footage…

God’s Creatures

Saela Davis,
Anna Rose Holmer, 100 minutes, 2022

A sleepy Irish fishing community is destabilised by the return of Brian (Paul Mescal), the errant son of Aileen O’Hara (Emily Watson), who shows up unexpectedly at the funeral for a local fisherman, announcing his intention to revive his brother-in-law’s…

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