Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

A documentary on the 1916 Easter Rising, written and performed by the duo Rubberbandits.

AYT Senior present a complete performance of Alice Birch's [BLANK]

Cian is constantly bullied at school and his home life isn't much better. Suddenly an opportunity arises to gain the respect of those around him by going head to head with a bull - Matador style.

The story of Irish farmer Thomas Reid who, for years, has been locked in a grueling battle with his neighbor - U.S. microchip manufacturer Intel who want to expand into Reid’s land.

A group of Ballyfermot schoolboys attempt to rob an orchard in the more affluent, nearby suburb of Chapelizod.

A 16-year-old homeless girl on the streets of Sligo town. For Samanta, reaching out for help has only ever ended in closed doors, but she has a hidden gift for songwriting and performance. When a music shop owner spots her talent, she has a chance to finally accept that music could be the open door she’s been waiting for.

After cheating on his girlfriend, Cameron is forced to reconsider whether he is the nice guy he thought he was and not in fact, a dickhead.

After the death of their friend, a group of young men begin to fall apart as they're dragged into the world of crime. Desperate to pay off a drug debt, Conor and his friends must enter the underground rave scene in Cork city and traverse the dangers of old grudges and new enemies. For Conor, loyalty to his friends is everything. However, after a chance encounter with the mysterious Katie, his entire world begins to change. How far would you go for your friends?

Seán, a 12-year-old boy raised in an Irish-speaking family on Dublin's Northside, encounters ridicule for his "unorthodox" upbringing.

Drinking his way through a tragedy, Miles messages an old friend, hoping it'll heal old wounds, but little does he know, what starts as a friendly reunion, slowly turns sinister

A young woman gets her revenge.

7 friends head to the wilderness of Connemara, Co. Galway for a weekend break to celebrate the first year anniversary of a close friend. First night in they come across a beaten and bloodied male looking for help as he warns them that three masked men attacked him and took his girlfriend, some of the group head into the wooded area in search as others return to their cars which have disappeared. With no houses for miles and no transport they must walk themselves back but are not alone! All caught on camera "Somebody's There" is a intense rollercoaster that will bring documentary style to another level.

Romantic realisations between two best friends are made awkward, when classmates and crushes call over to an end-of-school party. Internal social pressures break down barriers, before the chaos of misunderstanding leads to a hazy truth.

A day in the life of an anthropomorphic bullet.

In 1850s Ireland, a prisoner is taken to bleak marshland to reveal the burial place of his last victim.

The story of an ordinary man whose entire world changes in the blink of an eye. He finds himself in a moment where a split second decision will determine the outcome of the rest of his life. With a slight move of his finger, he makes the wrong decision and enters a road where there is no turning back.

A dark, stream of consciousness fever dream, gathering all that is decrepit in this world, and reflecting it all back to those who have reduced the Earth to what it is.

The stories of five characters whose good intentions lead to disastrous consequences.

As the world mourns Pope Francis, Mary Kennedy explores his journey from Argentina to the Vatican, examining the key themes that shaped his papacy.

Ernest attends an interview at the Riblock Foundation. As the questions grow increasingly bizarre he wonders whether he’ll get the job and if he does, what will it entail?

It follows Allie Clarke, who is failing an interview for a Team Leader role. Outside of work, he decides to start a cricket team to keep his friends out of trouble over the summer.

This is a backwards love story exploring the seismic shifts one conversation can do to our lives and how maybe our biggest mistakes give us a journey we were really seeking.

A group of women are brought together by the death of their childhood friend. When they discover that she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption at the age of 15, the group embark on a journey in search of the child, with a donkey called Thatcher in tow.

A capsule romance accelerates dramatically against the backdrop of the pandemic as two filmmakers are forced to move in together after two weeks of knowing each other.

This little Irish island has a big Donald Trump problem.

Orla is riding the brink caring for her terminally ill Dad, Darragh. While waiting in the pharmacy for his pain medicine, all hell breaks loose when Orla's ex-girlfriend shows up to return a potted succulent.

Two artists find each other in an experimental homage to images from famous album covers.

A vengeful banshee takes vengeance on a small Irish town that lynched her 50 years ago. Her only opposition is a demon hunter and his wild protégé.

Irish-made road-movie set in the African Sahara.

Documents the period 1919-1922 in Ireland's history, covering the war of independence against the British and the civil war that followed using archive footage from the time, including original newsreel footage.

A group of wellness influencers are made to attend a team-building health retreat in the countryside. The event is a tech detox with a sense of adventure as they are dropped off at an unknown destination. Things go from bad to worse as divisions in attitudes amongst cynics and devotees begin to show in the group. The environment they find themselves in and the eccentric behaviours of their hosts is soon overshadowed by the arrival of some mysterious strangers.

Advances in artificial intelligence are accelerating at a breakneck pace. A journalist connects these innovations to the changes they bring to our daily lives. A documentary that makes it easy to understand these technological upheavals.

Leaving home, a young footballer finds himself unable to outrun the emotional ties and unspoken truths he hoped to leave behind.

Upon hearing that the death of a student during the final exams results in top marks for the rest of the class, two desperate friends conspire to kill the class bully in an attempt to pass.

With the spectre of COVID-19 looming, the old ways of waking and burying the dead are fractured and desolate in this curious tale of two bachelor brothers, Pádraig and Éamonn, from Achill Island, living and dying under the shadow of the Coronavirus.

Niall Cunningham has spent his life on the waters of Dalkey, a place that has always felt like home. His father, Ken, served as the ferryman, a role steeped in tradition and community, until his passing two years ago. Now, Niall steps into his father’s place, navigating the tides of grief and responsibility as he becomes the new Ferryman of Dalkey, determined to keep a legacy alive.

A bored nightwatchman goes to investigate a strange noise. Mistake number one.

In a post pandemic world, an acclaimed writer from Northern Ireland struggles to leave his home and find meaning in his work while his therapist helps him uncover his true self. Does she have something to do with his disappearance ?

Mairéad Farrell was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other unarmed members of the IRA in one of the most controversial incidents arising from the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She had just been released from prison the year before after serving ten years for causing an explosion at an hotel near Belfast. The killing of the three provoked an international outcry and eventual enquiry. Due to her youth, her gender and her stature within the IRA, Mairéad Farrell was, unsurprisingly, quickly subsumed into the pantheon of Irish republican martyrs. But behind the mythologizing and demonisation of the time, there was also a real person, a flesh and blood young woman who was prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.

Barbie Borza, the son of an Italian emigrant, decides to organize a photo exhibition. A tribute to his forefathers of sort. He gathers about 5000 old black and white photographs borrowed by all the Italian families who have emigrated to Ireland over the past hundred years. The documentary follows Barbie in his quest and interviews members of other families who have emigrated into Ireland. The result is a melancholic, nostalgic and at times funny portrait of a unique community.

The creators of this experimental essay introduced the film by saying, “Fear of the unknown, fear of the dark, fear of the enemy, fear of death since the beginnings of mankind have been both a driving force of humanity as well as a stumbling block. It is an instinctive force that has made humanity join up in communities in search of safety and shelter from a danger lurking in the darkness, however the finality of things is always inevitable. How does one overcome fear of their own fatality?”

The impact of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, on the lives of the Mayan women who joined as rebels to seek justice within their own culture.

Two injured Nazi soldiers come under attack from strange creatures in a forest.

Margaret is an international renowned composer who witnesses the violent accidental death of her partner - and becomes convinced her spirit is still within the house. In the search for an answer, she composes a suite of new music to drive the spectre out from the shadows. In doing so, she evokes her own deep unresolved pain and guilt - and what she's afraid to confront about her own feelings for someone else....

A tailor who can hear the musical score to his own life attempts to tell a loved one about his problem.

An Tailliúr Gorm looks at the unique struggle for survival on the small, marginalised Gaeltacht island of Inis Bigil off the Mayo coast. As the only island in Ireland to have been both Protetstant and Irish speaking, it is not surprising that Inis Bigil has developed a character all of its own. However today, with only 23 remaining inhabitants, the islanders now find themselves at a crossroads. Focusing on the story of the island’s most famous inhabitant Padraig Daeid (an tailliúr gorm), the film interweaves past and present, exploring the island’s rich culture and heritage, as it faces into perhaps its greatest challenge yet.

An unhappy mother struggles to connect with her infant daughter.

A story of a young, biracial boy who moves to Ireland in the '90s. He shaves off his Afro in order to fit in and it works...but then his Afro grows back, bigger and bigger, until it traps him in his room and he has to find a way out.

The story of the Northern Ireland Troubles through the unflinching testimony of two men who played key roles on opposite sides of that bloody conflict. Nearly ten years ago the two paramilitary leaders told their stories on condition that they could never be revealed while they were still alive. The stories told by the Irish Republican Army's Brendan Hughes and Ulster Volunteer Force's David Ervine tell us of the motivations of the participants, the planning of campaigns of violence, the misery of a hunger strike, the tracking and killing of informers and the duplicity that ended a conflict that had lasted too long. It is also a narrative of the fate of combatants when their wars are over.

At the hands of an Irish blacksmith, a forge, three centuries old, gives birth to a memorial for a legendary Celtic figure still remembered after three millennia.

The tale of two American women who went looking for love online and became the 'new face in the war on terror.'

A documentary which chronicles a ninety-year-old love story, through the collective voice of seventy ladies.

Fictional tale of young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici, a sheltered 16-year-old who has spent her life locked inside the city’s grandest palazzo.

Horror movie in development.

While working and traveling in Russia, Cork-based Sam meets U.S. citizen Gabe, who is trying to trace the birth mother that he and his sister were taken from in childhood when they were adopted into America.

Dara O Briain’s award-winning show filmed at Dublin’s Vicar Street in 2022. Dara deals with missing body parts, a TV show he’ll never do and an astonishing family revelation.

In this special Billions Club Live concert film, Ed Sheeran takes the stage in Dublin to perform his biagest sonas on Spotifv--each with over 1 billion streams--plus a couple far favorites. This special performance celebrates Ed's connection to Ireland, his impact on pop culture, his Billions Club milestones. and the fans who helped him reach them.

Three men seeking asylum in Ireland find themselves on the streets, caught between restrictive migration policies and an increasingly aggressive far-right movement. Dennis Harvey captures an explosive sequence of events on the streets of Dublin.

On an awkward day on the beach, Hannah tries to talk to Claire about what is happening with their friendship.

Dorothy discovers if home is where the heart is.