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Hunger

Steve McQueen, 96 minutes, 2008

Turner prize-winning artist Steve McQueen made a shattering entry into feature film-making with this vivid, contentious yet ultimately compassionate study of Bobby Sands’ 1981 hunger strike at the Maze prison. Extensively researched, and co-written by noted Irish playwright Enda Walsh,…

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Ruán Magan, 90 minutes, 2020

Narrated by Liam Neeson, this landmark documentary marks the 175th anniversary of the start of the Great Irish Famine and provides a comprehensive guide to one of most defining moments in Irish history which led to the loss of over…

Hush-a-Bye-Baby

Margo Harkin, 72 minutes, 1990

Margo Harkin’s feature debut takes a political stance in its depiction of the dilemma faced by a Derry teenager when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Set in 1984, against the backdrop of sustained violence in Northern Ireland and a failed…

Hydebank

Ross McClean, 17 minutes, 2019

In an encounter between innocence and assumed evil we witness the daily struggles of an imprisoned 21-year-old.

I am Belfast

Mark Cousins, 84 minutes, 2015

Part documentary, part reverie,
I Am Belfast is Mark Cousins’ film exploration of the city he calls home. Incorporating contemporary dream-like sequences, archival film and a haunting score by David Holmes, the film portrays the city in an ethereal light not…

I am Not a Serial Killer

Billy O'Brien, 98 minutes, 2016

When a series of mysterious murders happen in Clayton, a small mid-west town, John Wayne Cleaver, a 16 year old obsessed with serial killers, is suspicious. Fearing he might become a serial killer himself, John makes a list of rules…

I Bet

Rashko Miljkovic, 2019

Fintan, a young gambling addict, fights his inner demons in, for him, the very bizarre surroundings of St. Marie's Hope House, a general addiction rehab centre.

I Didn’t… I Wasn’t…I Amn’t… (An Un-romantic Comedy)

Laoisa Sexton, 26 minutes, 2018

A pitch-black comedy on the social contract of human endeavour between men and women in the paradox of modern life.

I Dream in Photos

Gary Lennon,
Ollie Aslin., 80 minutes, 2023

This documentary profile explores the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton, who quit “the best job in the world” at the peak of his career aged just 40. As chief photographer for Reuters in India, McNaughton…

I Must Away

Dennis Harvey, 75 minutes, 2023

Dennis left Ireland in the midst of the global financial crisis in order to find work abroad. Hashem was a politician in Bangladesh, but had to flee for Spain after a change in government and threats on his life. Alicia…

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