Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Million Dollar Pigeons

Gavin Fitzgerald, 92 minutes, 2022

Pigeon racing is now a multi-million dollar industry, attracting high-stakes competitors from all around the globe. Pigeon fanciers register their prize racers, box them up and dispatch them to faraway places to compete in a series of lucrative races, but…

Milo

Berend Boorsma, Roel Boorsma, 93 minutes, 2012

Milo (Lorcan Bonner) is a young boy kept isolated from the world by parents so ashamed of his rare skin condition that they have devised treatments to keep Milo from even knowing about it. Running away from this oppressive environment…

Mincéir

Teresa Lavina, 54 minutes, 2022

Mincéir is a unique piece conveyed in the shape of a 50 minute documentary that brings the audience on a journey across the Irish Travellers' traditions exploring strong connections with art, their past traditions, present transitions and future views. It…

The Miracle

Neil Jordan, 97 minutes, 1991

An act of retrenchment after a difficult first foray into big-budget filmmaking, The Miracle sees Jordan move as close to the world of his short stories as his film career would ever take him with this intimate drama set on…

Mise Éire

George Morrison, 88 minutes, 1959

Produced by the pioneering Irish language filmmakers Gael Linn, Mise Éire, draws almost exclusively on contemporaneous newspapers, newsreels and actuality footage from the early years of Ireland’s revolutionary period to present a history of that turbulence. The era under director…

The Missing Scarf

Eoin Duffy, 7 minutes, 2013

George Takei narrates this animated short in which a squirrel sets out in search of a missing scarf only to find himself offering life lessons to the forest’s neurotic inhabitants. Friendship, fears, and existential crises are tackled in this philosophical…

Mister John

Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy, 95 minutes, 2013

Gerry (Aidan Gillen) travels to Singapore where his estranged brother, a bar owner who has possibly been involved in nefarious activities, has died in a drowning accident. It emerges that Gerry is running away from his own problems at home,…

MJ

Jamie Delaney, 13 minutes, 2017

MJ turns social media addiction to deadly revenge.

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, U.K.

Jamie Delaney, 13 minutes, 2017

April 25th 'Irishmen Impressions of Exile' will be shown as part of the Sean Lynch exhibition in the Modern Art Oxford Gallery.

Mom and Me

Ken Wardrop, 2016

In this keenly anticipated second feature documentary, Ken Wardrop explores a series of mother/ son relationships to reveal the universality of their experience. Zooming in on the state of Oklahoma, recently voted the manliest state in the USA, Wardrop finds his…

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