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A supernova in a single New York City subway carriage, NEVER STOP THE ACTION is a kaleidoscopic journey through time and space. We catch a 5am D train with friends TESHI and CASEY after an all night dance party. On their long journey through the awakening city, our two merry pilgrims share stories that take us out of the train on surreal swerves into imagined universes.
A scientist working in a revolutionary new field of quantum mechanics volunteers for a risky new experiment - despite the strong objections of his wife and misgivings of his colleagues.
A homeless girl keeps a cute, dancing robot as a companion. One morning when she is out to get breakfast the robot disappears, apparently stolen. The girl is heartbroken. The robot is more important to her than you might think. Who could be the culprit?
After catching her boyfriend with another woman, Julie becomes enamored with David a local librarian, lady's man, and musician.
In 2017 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence with a new project. They were no longer a pop group but undertakers, building the People's Pyramid out of bricks made from the ashes of dead people.
Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right direction as he tries to turn his life around and come to terms with his emotions. She's everything he ever wanted in a girl, except for the fact that she's gay.
A newlywed couple moves into their house to soon discover that their lives are about to get out of tune. Made as part of Little Cinema Galway & Galway City of Film 48 Hour Film Challenge 2024 Winner of Best Use of Shot, Line and Special Effects.
Tom Duffy has traveled the roads of Ireland with his family circus since the day he was born. His ancestors have made the same journey since 1827. Circus man moves through Toms memories as he fights to stay on the road.
Thrillingly documenting the creation of a new dance show by Michael Keegan-Dolan, acclaimed Irish filmmaker Pat Collins reveals a work that is expressive and exhilarating.
Follow Deimos, a spaghetti hungry inventor, who must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to track down the source of her sudden wormy hallucinations. These horrors threaten the fabric of her mind, and her appetite.
As the rain patters outside, an old man talks to himself about birth, death, funerals, lamps, missing pictures and "loved ones" - a term he perpetually avoids using.
This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments and original moonlit cinematography filmed across five continents, To the Moon steps lightly through the ages and ideas that people have drawn from the moon to create a meditative work.
A down-on-his-luck expatriate returns to Northern Ireland after many years away. Upon arrival he is struck by the prosperity and throngs of tourists he sees. Filled with optimism and with the help of some public funding administered through a local businessman, he embarks on becoming a tour guide.
Estranged sisters Jess and Maddie return to Red Lake, mourning their father’s death. As tensions rise and the night unravels, Jess discovers that some legends are real and resentment can indeed breed a monster.
Explores the detailed concepts of Ireland and Irish Freedom developed by Patrick Pearse, a leader of the 1916 Irish Rebellion, visiting the places his writing developed -- St. Enda's school in Rathfarnham, Dublin, and his cottage in Rosmuc, Connemara -- and the issues to which he was committed, and which still dominate Irish life: language, the role of the Church, Northern Ireland, and education. Presented in the format of a modern TV current affairs interview.
1988. Dreams, memories and history collide as a young man searches for his missing friend.
Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of erupting - Sean has little chance of escape. With his freedom hanging in the balance can the people who fear him offer him one last chance of redemption?
Actor and comedian Ardal O’Hanlon examines the role of Catholic priests in Irish life, from earliest times to the present day, to see how they shaped Irish lives for better or for worse.
A story within a story, love and identity, when language is no longer an option, we find a way to reach each other.
During his voluntary stay at an Irish mental hospital, manic-depressive Clayton falls head over heels for involuntary schizophrenic patient Anna.
A children’s game of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ transforms into a reality through the vivid imagination of little Majella McGinty. Life becomes too stressful for 8-year-old Majella and taking refuge she hides in a suitcase in her parents’ bedroom. She overhears their conversation, and her TV-addled imagination runs away with her when she believes her father has been murdered by her mother and his body bundled away under cover of darkness. The Case of Majella McGinty shows the fantastical imagination of young children. This film combines the comical with the political, criticising the impact of violence on children’s lives. Set in 1970’s Derry, violence is rife, bombs can be heard in the distance and the army patrols the streets where Majella and her friends play.
A photographer and her driver form an unlikely friendship as they go on a road trip in Donegal, Ireland.
Deposits concerns the connection of all the ‘Disappeared’, who are the remains of those murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and those killed centuries earlier by the British Redcoats. What they have in common is that they are buried without trace, but they are also connected by their hopes of discovery.
Exploring the Nobel Prize winning 'bog poems' of Seamus Heaney and the wild Irish bog landscape. Written by novelist Colm Tóibín, the film features poem readings by Michelle Fairley and is narrated by Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds.
Dennis, a lonely and frustrated teenager, is reluctantly transformed into a superhero, embedded with the symbol of a hand showing its middle finger, and must awkwardly endure his training and save his world from extinction in this superhero parody.
A couple inherits their family's ancient Italian palazzo where sinister shadows from the past reappear.
It was a different time! The female contestants on an Irish TV show with an iconic gentleman host look back on a beige-coloured chapter in TV history. More than entertaining kitsch, and with some delightfully quick-witted ladies in the winning role.
This heartfelt story charts singer-songwriter Mic Christopher's humble beginnings busking on the streets of Dublin, his rise to rock star, the near fatal accident that nearly left him millimeters from death, through to his final year where he lead an entire generation of Irish musicians onto fame, success and new artistic highs. Told through the eyes of those whose lives he touched (Oscar-winner Glen Hansard, writer/actor Sharon Horgan, Mike Scott of The Waterboys, Bronagh Gallagher, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan, Rónán Ó'Snodaigh and many more. This epic story of extraordinary music and friendship will both touch and inspire.
A short tale of one of Ireland's elite murderers as he picks, plants and tends for the dead buried deep in the Wicklow Mountains.
Raymond is living alone and trying to write; Michael is stuck at home with parents; Barry is successful in London. They reunite.
The Sabra and Shatila quarters are part of the Lebanese capital Beirut, which was rocked by a violent explosion in 2020, plunging Lebanon into the worst economic crisis in its history. In the poor districts, once provisionally built for Palestinian refugees, the residents live at a subsistence level without papers, without civil rights, without prospects. The documentary weaves the stories of the three families Kujeyje, Daher, Abeed and that of the young father Aboodi Ziani into a searing portrait of life in a city on the brink. The filmmakers accompanied their protagonists over a four-year period between 2018 and 2022 and show how the poorest of the poor firsthand felt the consequences of the gigantic port explosion, Lebanon's historic economic crisis, the corona pandemic and the ever-growing refugee quota. But unmistakable qualities like resilience and hope allow them to survive.
A movie about a beach
In a stark black and white world where shadows stretch longer than the truth, a brutal murder sets the stage for an unlikely investigation. Captain Devine, desperate for results, assigns the case to his two most incompetent detectives Boyle and Gomez, whose clumsy methods and constant missteps seem destined to derail the pursuit before it even begins. Against all odds, the pair uncover a crucial eyewitness whose chilling description leads them to a prime suspect. What follows is a tense, gritty chase through dimly lit streets, culminating in a hard won capture. But just as the case appears closed, everything unravels. In a final, shocking twist, the suspect’s motive emerges so unexpected, so far removed from anything Boyle and Gomez could have imagined, that it casts the entire investigation in a new, unsettling light.
A former paramilitary goes to unusual lengths to seek atonement for his part in the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
In 1988, following a wave of IRA atrocities, the British Government introduced a Broadcasting Ban, silencing Sinn Féin and other loyalist and republican paramilitary groups by forbidding broadcasters to allow anyone affiliated with these bodies to speak on television or radio. Bizarrely, however, a legal loophole allowed broadcasters to circumvent the ban by simply employing actors to re-voice the original sequences. Using unseen archive footage and present-day interviews with key figures such as Gerry Adams and Stephen Rea, The Ban reflects on the British government’s use of the threat of ‘terrorism’ to justify censorship, drawing inevitable comparisons with the present.
A man films his attempts at proving to his wife that their family home is not haunted.
Cillian decides that everything wrong in his life is the fault of Shay, who bullied him as a child, and sets out to get revenge with the help of Shay's sister Fiona, who doesn't know she's helping him.
The silence prior to the seven trumpets
Teddy Knox, a failed inventor, finds the key to a Stone Age riddle.
John Connors invites his grandmother Chrissy Donohue Ward into the frame to share the myths and oral traditions that shaped her and inspired him as a filmmaker. A lifelong Mincéir activist and poet, Chrissy blends enchanting fairytales with raw truths, celebrating the Irish Traveller community’s resilience. A powerful exploration of storytelling’s enduring magic, this documentary invites audiences to embrace the overlooked beauty of Mincéir culture and its rich legacy of connection and belonging.
A sculptor is tortured from childhood by jealousy of the son of the woman who had him trained, but marriage and a family cures him.
A miner finds an ancient Druid artefact which released a beast on a small Welsh town
An outcast creature pines to be accepted by his local village. One night, outside his mountainous home, an opportunity arises.
Henry opens his life to a woman and a damaged boy. As they move closer the past pulls them apart.
A group of criminals lay low in the remote Irish countryside after pulling off an audacious robbery. As they plan their escape they quickly realise the robbery will be the last thing to go right for them.
Based on the Scholastic book series by Maddy Mara, Dragon Girls follows three very different girls who are transported to a magical realm where they are transformed into powerful, shimmering dragons! As they come to grips with their new dragon powers, they realize that this is just the start of their epic adventure…they’ve been called to defend the realm from the evil Shadow Queen! Dragon Girls is a joyous series about a group of brilliant, brave girls celebrating their friendship and discovering the ground-shaking strength of their own inner roar.
After running away from an abusive relationship that lasted for 8 years, Alec moves to Ireland to start over and rediscover himself. However, his journey takes an unexpected turn after Jonathan enters Alec's life.
In 1973 Stanley Kubrick came to Ireland - and brought the British Army with him. A romantic comedy set behind the scenes of Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975).
A quietly gripping tale of a lonely farmer and the letter on its way from the woman who loved and left him many years ago. A letter that could change his life.
A hilarious mockumentary, 'The Light of Day' follows a flailing film crew as they attempt to adapt the vampire graphic novel 'The Quench'. Hindered by their tragically over-zealous director, it will take the two sane people on set, cinematographer Michael and writer Sarah, to save the film.
Fleeing her violent husband, a mother seeks refuge at a Women's Shelter with her teenage son leading to complications and ending in violence.
Eighteen-year-old Alex is in the throes of his transition. When his best friend abandons a joint venture to assert their identity he’s forced to confront his anxieties before entering the unknown alone.
Northern Ireland 1981 - Faced with an impossible decision, a conflicted border-town mechanic is forced to make a choice that will change his life forever.
On the 27th of December 1973, a nightmare began for an entire family. On that night, a German businessman called Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He was never seen alive again by his friends or family. He became one of the "disappeared", and it seemed that no-one knew what had happened to him.
In Dublin for her sister's wedding, Alice's night takes a curious turn when she stumbles into Hartstown, and has a series of very odd encounters with the local nightlife.
A group of workmen, among them a conflicted father and son, undertake a job in a forbidding, barren landscape only to be stalked by a bloodthirsty assailant that resides there. As darkness closes in it's up to them to use all of their wits, resources and power tools to try and survive the night.
When you feel you don't have enough time and you want more of it, but can you just stretch time?
Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has had on their lives, and the challenges they have turning their hobby into a career.
Follow the tuneful Irish lads as they go about preparing for their tour, making promo videos and recording new singles.
A poppty nanny. A pippity baby - a sharp razor, POP!