Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

A coming of age story about a relationship between two teenagers.

An Irish anti-homophobic and transphobic bullying advertisement, created as part of BeLonG To Youth Services annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week.

A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief.

A weary man struggles through an arid world, desperate for food, until he finds a distant apple tree.

After the events of "Christmas At Dracula's", two years ago, Count Dracula has been thrown into stardom as the "saviour of the world", however, during a live TV interview, he takes the time to contemplate his new found fame.

The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism. Two Irish drug dealers, Jacko and his much-maligned sidekick Niallser, drag a captured cockney rival into an abandoned shed in the depths of rural Ireland. A stash of cocaine has gone missing, supplies are running low, and Jacko has his mind set on who is responsible. Things don't look good for Andy, the prisoner from London. Especially since the vengeful Jacko has a mighty bone to pick with the English. One that goes all the way back to the Famine. The interrogation spirals into a fiercely nationalistic debate about Anglo-Irish history, increasing the threat that something truly terrible is going to happen. Set in an isolated shed, our three characters play out this absurd scene in real time. The result is a short film full of playful humour and hard-hitting historical facts.

A behind-the-scenes look at the 1998 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

Set in a dystopian neo-steampunk world, a shy young man named Douglas invests in ‘A Better You’, a customizable carbon clone to help him win the girl of his dreams.

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, an elderly gravedigger revisits a traumatic event through the decaying visions of his fragmented dreams.

A young man wakes up on a living room floor before being confronted by a mysterious dark figure who leads him towards a series of strange events.

Flanagan is an early film by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, devised when he was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art.

An aging rocker who never realised his dreams is forced to come to terms with his failures as he tries to start a relationship with his estranged son. A coming of age drama in the mind of a 56 year old.

Cape Clear Island is a place of sanctuary and freedom. The community on the island takes in people of all walks of life who need somewhere to escape to.

During WWII, a German soldier kills a stranger and subsequently falls victim to a cycle of supernatural encounters.

Ger invites the new employee Chris over to his apartment one evening for a work party, but Ger's enthusiasm and intense nature start to become too much for Chris to handle.

Hannah returns home to her estranged Father to piece together the circumstances of her Mother's death. On the discovery of an ancient Ouija board from a local antique dealer, Hannah uncovers a deadly curse from the past.

A Scottish-Pakistani dad’s life spirals into chaos as he battles his orthodox father’s ultimatum to circumcise the grandson.

Angela is a domestic cleaner who keeps herself to herself. Mairead is a houseproud mother who, more often than not, finds herself alone at home with the children. When a mundane household accident forces Angela to add emergency childminding to her list of duties, a friendship begins between employer and employee. As the relationship blooms, they begin to discover that there may be more that bonds them together than just loneliness. But is this just another work-based transaction, or does it mean something else?

Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making "Nanook of the North" and classics such as "Man of Aran" and "Louisiana Story", but he is also criticized for engaging in distortion and stereotyping.

Ireland, 1845, and the potato crop has failed, bringing terrible hunger and plague. Everywhere people are dying or emigrating. The family of young Eily, Michael and Peggy, around whom this story revolves, does not escape. Their baby sister dies and is buried under a hawthorn tree. Their mother leaves them alone to go in search of their father. The children are determined to avoid certain death in the workhouse, where the poor are sent. So they set off on the dangerous journey across Ireland to find their great-aunts, Nano and Lena, whom they have only heard about in their mother’s stories.

For eighteen year old, Derek, running drugs isn't a big deal, it's just a job. But juggling a relationship, family and his 'career' isn't easy. Something has to give.

A young couple face the consequences of their past actions...blah blah blah.

Kevin is having a bad day. He’s been bitten by one of those strange, shuffling creatures that suddenly seem to be everywhere. Perhaps the friendly people at his local pharmacy can help?

Colm Mac Lára accidently stumbles upon a killing in a Parisian hotel and finds himself led into a dark underworld of professional assassins.

13 former missionary priests from rural Ireland reveal all in this telling documentary about why they joined and subsequently left the active ministry and their life in the Church. Raised as devout Catholics from infancy, these honest men now in their later stages of life open up about intimacy, faith, religion and life before, during and after the priesthood.

A 9-year-old girl gains control amidst family chaos by striving for her hair's perfect parting and pigtails, becoming self-reliant despite emotional turmoil.

A woman desperate to get out of her current situation and to move on with her life stages the closure she knows she will never get in reality.

When a veteran astro-geologist withdraws from a vital space mission, his place is taken by his research assistant.

Comedian du jour, Alison Spittle is simmering with jokes and probably rage, she doesn't know what the burning sensation is.

An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.

Having woken up from a coma after an accident, psychotherapist Aidan Clifford is forced to confront the consequences of his own actions.

A father and daughter struggle in the midst of the famine in Ireland. Faced with the grim reality of eviction and starvation, a young girl learns just how far her father is willing to go to survive.

Reflections – Ireland is a stunning, non-narrated tourist film with accompanying music by Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains. Many of Paddy Carey films depict a scarcity of civilisation, an untouched landscape, but here he treats the viewer to the beauties of landscape interwoven with a vivid tapestry of human activity: anglers in a lively river; bird-watchers at work; sheep farmers; horse riders; seaweed gatherers. A nighttime sequence shows people gathering in an unidentified village for music in a cosy pub.

Set in two sites of so called 'pilgrimage', the Ganges in India and the Forty Foot in County Dublin, this documentary takes a gentle, reflective look at our need to rejuvenate ourselves through bathing.

Directed by Tiernan MacBride, this short film – nominated for a Palme d’Or in 1978 for Best Short Film – is a visual representation of the Irish folk song Arthur McBride and The Sergeant, played and sung by Irish singer Paul Brady. The lyrics tell the story of Arthur McBride (Paul Bennett) and his cousin (Paul Wilson) who fight off a recruiting sergeant (Godfrey Quigley) when he tries to enlist them in the British army.

Two lads owe some drugs.

Two friends turn on each other after discovering a rare artefact beneath a sacred shrine, and must hone their respective skills if they are to fight one another to the death in hopes of claiming it.

Fr. Brennan has been acting rather strange lately, and who better than Man of the Year Richard Hennessy to whip the naïve parish priest into shape?

With original artwork in the form of a graphic novel, music and dramatic reconstruction, this creative and multifaceted documentary unpicks the threads of the monumental 1913 strike in Dublin, examining the social, economic and political concerns of the time.

Its New Years Eve, cause for celebration? NO ! CAUSE FOR MURDER !!?

Two caterpillars, wildly in love, embark on a journey of change.. but will they still feel the same when they emerge from their chrysalises?

Feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage, Sarah confides in her daughter’s friend. In a moment of weakness, everything changes and she is suddenly faced with feelings she has never felt before. Sarah must chose between her family and her own happiness. When she makes her choice, it’s up to her daughter to put her mother’s happiness first.

God creates the universe... with the help of his son.

The story of ‘the greatest single blow against British Imperialism of its time’. A cocktail of jewel thefts, cover-ups and a Royal gay scandal that threatened to rock the British Monarchy to its foundations. The Irish Crown Jewels were stolen by Frank Shackleton, brother of famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and this film is a wonderful historical who-dunnit, investigating the evidence, theories, conspiracies and hoaxes surrounding the theft.

A compelling documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the world's most powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their State to protect their rights, they find that the government has put Shell's right to lay a pipeline over their own.

A musician recording an album in the woods finds mysterious cassette tapes being left for him. On them, a woman researching an urban legend was being terrorised by a man and his vicious dog. Now, those same things are happening to the musician...

The young Irish film makers in Kilkenny get help from a mentor with their short film...

A sensitive but slightly oddball student enters the life of her unsuspecting teacher and wreaks havoc.

Filmed live at Vicar Street Theatre, this one-off show is a mix of Jason’s record breaking Edinburgh Festival set alongside some brand-new-to-DVD material including his famous quickly, quickly, quickly request from the wife! Even members of the audience aren’t safe as Jason shows off some magic, teaches the Riverdance and exposes a couple in the audience who are having an affair.

An angel falls in love with a young man.

A private investigator is sent to Florence, Italy to find a woman who mysteriously disappeared there.

An ethereal young woman visits her grandmother in a nursing home by a lake. Mystical forces converge with a coming-of-age tale that celebrates the power of storytelling - through the plight of two women struggling to overcome grief.

In pre-Christian Ireland, a young, recently bereaved woman with no one left in the world, travels the land in search of a remedy that can bring her child back to life, only to find a cure not for the child's mortality, but for the grief she can no longer bear.

One by one a group of workers are stalked and killed by a mysterious masked figure during a 12 hour night shift in a factory facing closure.

Niall Horan left his hometown of Mullingar at 16 to join one of the biggest boybands of all time. Now, 12 years later, Niall is coming home - and he's bringing his best friend Lewis Capaldi along for the ride. In this exclusive film, the two global superstars embark on an epic Irish road trip before they wrap up their travels with a once in a lifetime gig in Mullingar. Expect standout performances, laugh out loud moments and a whole lot of Irish charm. It's time to see two of the biggest singer songwriters on the planet like you've never seen them before.

A bereaved man, grieving and drunk, idly asks for a way out. Unfortunately, in doing so, he irritates someone that could give him just that.

A family of urban foxes embarks on an adventure-filled day-trip to the countryside, after one of its cubs asks to see where he was born.

A man arrives at an apartment to reunite with a former lover but is instead met by something much worse

A lonely priest's housekeeper discovers a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.