Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

Inexorable is a psychological horror film that focuses on the fears we have at night.

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A young Neighbourhood Watch officer must keep her community together amidst a series of grizzly local murders while flirting with the police officer assigned to the case.

Maybe this is the end. The red supergiant Betelgeuse is about to die and the gamma rays from the supernova could destroy life on Earth. Scientists are divided, the rumour is unstoppable. Sarah, a Belgian astrophysicist based in New Mexico, is spending her days reviewing calculations and controversial theories about the star. Since her colleague and lover Elliot died in a car crash, she is stuck alone inside her home, and suffers violent panic attacks every time she tries to step outdoors. She decides that the time has come to end this impossible situation. But a ghost from the past persuades her to do one last thing: if she must kill herself, to do it in the middle of the mountains, at the place where she first met her lost love. Finally the day comes. Betelgeuse is ready to explode and Sarah is ready to leave the house. Maybe this is the beginning.

Inspired by true events and set in the heart of Ireland's 1990s rave movement, two young men find themselves forever changed by one electrifying, life-altering rave. As the pulsating beats and euphoric energy consume them, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, and rebellion, seeking to redefine themselves within the underground cultural revolution of house music, where freedom, identity, and the power of sound collide.

A short documentary following an artist and storyteller who lives nearly entirely off the grid with a herd of goats in rural South Kerry. The film shows how Seán has created a growing international community through the shared love of stories and goats.

Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to face the world he's been ignoring. Now he must take a leap of faith or be trapped forever!

Struggling writer Sam works to overcome his self-doubt and write his next great work of art with the help of his roommate Clarisse and old mentor Mr. Lynch.

A short animated film that follows a girl's dance performance until she makes a small mistake that causes her to spiral. A personal film that deals with scopophobia, the fear of being stared at, along with the feeling that any step you take is being put under scrutiny.

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

After her one true love dies, Tessa is determined to continue living but when strange things start happening, she is convinced it is her dead lover, reaching out to her from beyond the grave.

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

The sceptical daughter of a traditional healer has her certainties challenged when she encounters one of the 'Good People'.

The story of barbaric murders committed in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the border between counties Galway and Mayo in 1882 and the subsequent trial in Dublin. The trial led to the unjust hanging or life imprisonment of innocent people based on the testimonies of false witnesses and the dishonesty of the British authorities and the gentry.

Tory Island, nine miles off the coast of Donegal is the most remote inhabited island off Ireland. Its notorious inaccessibility and unforgiving landscape has not deterred 150 people from making this island their home. Oileán Thoraí captures, over the course of eighteen months, the changing patterns of life on Tory. It’s an intimate portrayal, exploring the lives of the islanders, their character and community.

One minute short film.

Documentary telling the story of seminal Irish Celtic rock band Horslips

This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustrate the Dublin of 1904 which served as a backdrop to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The film traces Joyce’s childhood and adolescence, his meeting with Nora Barnacle on June 10th, 1904, and the highways and byways which Leopold Bloom wandered through on June 16th, 1904. The music in the film references some of Joyce’s favourite songs, many of which appear in Ulysses.

Comedian PJ Gallagher turns mental health warrior in a raw dive into Ireland's fight for mental wellness, with ground-breaking therapies, humour, and heart.

The cat and the fiddle and the mouse ran over the hills.

A powerful feature length documentary that tells the story of how a 60s hippy dream becomes a world-renowned centre of Buddhist practice at the Dzogchen Beara Retreat Centre on the cliffs of West Cork.

Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations where the men can sleep each night, but the government is actively enforcing its new policy against homeless encampments, and the far-right are lurking.

Floating between conceptual documentary and experimental fiction, this film chronicles the 25,000 metres that Thomson swam during the period of her mother’s death. An adaptation of her book, it uses dance, music and memorial archives to translate text into movement.

The Duel is a short film inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. The film was created and directed by Giant Animation Studios as part of the Animation Hub, a work experience programme set up for students to work on live projects.

Nessa, an archeologist at odds with the establishment and haunted by violent dreams of Celtic sacrifices tries to find an ancient relic supposedly from the De Danann period (pre 500 B.C.) called the "Danu Amulet."

Celtic Maidens celebrates the performances of those who have taken part in international beauty contests down through the years.

Danny just got the best birthday present a boy could wish for — a radio-controlled robotic scumbag!

A short film, featuring windows.

After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My Funeral—but turned to other forms of art for much of the remaining decade, never realizing projects like a feature script he penned with Gary Indiana.

When city residents hire a bus to bring them on a tour of coastal roads, one of the passengers dies suddenly. The driver suspects that the passengers are keeping secrets about the dead man.

Filmed over the last 18 months of the Irish Green Party’s time in government, Forever is Now follows party leader Eamon Ryan and his team on the political frontier of the climate crisis. Interwoven with this, the film follows Ryan’s relationship with his autistic son, Tommy, exploring hope, patience and a deeply personal relationship with nature at a critical tipping point in climate action.

Two pairs meet up at a restaurant, one for a date, the other for something more sinister.

Ballymun, a suburb of Dublin and home to the largest social regeneration programme in Europe. The 4th Act examines the legacy of this 18-year project, via the dramatically and digitally reconstructed memories of the community its

Joe Rooney Live From Vicar Street, a show not to be missed with a finale that needs to be seen to be believed!

An artist obsessed with Edvard Munch struggles to create an original work.

Steve Hayes is required to make an audition tape for a role he is trying out for. His brief from the director is to 'Tell me about yourself'. It sounds simple, in theory.

Special Agent Darris Cain is on the hunt for an elusive fugitive. His only leads are a reluctant witness held in a military prison and the words "prey alone" written in a notebook. Can Cain track him down and discover the true identity of the mysterious criminal?

Two oppositonal strangers find themselves trapped in a mysterious room where they are separated from one another by a curtain, and are plagued by confusing visions and flashes to an alternate realm where they may not be as unknown to one another as it seemed.

Joe is unhappy with his life and when he gets turned into a vampire he's offered the perfect chance to escape... but he soon realises that he can't escape himself.

"The Marina" is a short documentary that follows producer Kieran Sullivan as he investigates the significance of The Marina Market to the people of Cork City, Ireland.

On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first time, to relieve an exhausted RUC in the wake of the Battle of the Bogside. As they entered the city the troops were confronted with a ring of barricades surrounding the Bogside area and manned by the rioters, presenting them with an instant dilemma – to attempt to remove the barricades and provoke a confrontation, or to leave the barricades intact and allow the Bogside to remain beyond official law & order?

‘William McKeown: Idir Neamh agus Talamh’ is a meditation on the work of Irish artist William McKeown (1962-2011), who developed a body of work that has had a radical and fundamental effect on our understanding of the age-old relationship of art to nature, steering our attention not to the distant sky but to the air around us, to the openness of nature, the feeling of our emergence into light and our proximity to the infinite.

Mom and Me takes a look at tough guys and the even tougher women who raise them. Set in Oklahoma City, apparently voted the manliest city in the United States, this creative documentary from Irish director Ken Wardrop ("His & Hers") chronicles the relationships between ten sons and their mothers.

A man decides to use any means necessary to aid his local community.

Irish emigrants in London and New York are contrasted with life in Ireland where unemployment and deprivation are said to be endemic. The experience, effects and meaning of emigration in 1980s Irish is examined using a combination of interviews with emigrants, commentators and politicians. The film also features inserts of a stand-up comic performing in various locations, adding a surreal element to the programme.

A married couple in Donegal contemplate revenge after a mysterious new neighbour fells their tree.

A woman who gave up her dream career as a surgeon struggles daily with her man-child of a husband and decides to start practicing suturing once more.

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.

Tres Mares is a short film that explores the matters of identity, love and cultural heritage from a personal perspective. Raised at Catalonia but coming from Ethiopia, Beruh Pietx Prat thinks about her childhood and the memory lapses leaved by the shortage of information about her biological mother. Together with her sister Eskedar, they create an imaginary figure of their mother, weaving knowledge from their adoptive mother to fill the holes. Using a mixture of Super 8 and digital footage, the movie merges real and imagined worlds through living colors, textures and figures. The heart of the narrative is the exploration of the physical resemblance of the sisters with her biological mother, the only tangible bond that they have left of her. Through this personal trip, the movie stands out the universal emotions of family, memory and identity, totally embracing the complexities of adoption and cultural roots.

A woman’s eyes are opened to her coercive, controlling partner when an old friend is allowed to come to dinner.

Foil Arms and Hog's 'Oink', live at Vicar Street. See Irelands top comedy trio in perform to over a thousand people in their hometown of Dublin. Includes sketches: 'Songs for the Elderly', 'Baggage Handlers' and ‘RoboActor' plus BONUS footage

Ailbhe is smart, confident and outspoken, nothing fazes her - except the christening of her nephew this weekend.

Evan, a troubled college student with behaviour issues is faced with a moral dilemma after discovering his fathers deranged secret; what happens when you get what you wish for?

A man (James Devereaux) sits on a park bench talking to the camera, trying to weave together a thought that won’t cohere while commenting on passers-by, his ‘guests’… Mysterious images intervene, overturning the serenity of the park-bench monologue. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s feature proves as engaging as it is elusive.

Temple of My Familiar is the name of a mural painted in Belfast by Canadian artist Nhan Duc Nguyen. This documentary situates Nguyen’s art within the political context of war-torn Northern Ireland, and explores the artist’s own cross-cultural search for an identity spanning East and West.

A young man joins Macra Na Feirme following the death of his mother and finds himself entangled in a love triangle.

A group of unsuspecting humans are hunted by a mysterious and dangerous alien warrior

The everyday sights and sounds of the city of Cork.

A dialogue free student short film that centers around the mental health of today's youth. The film tells the story of 'Michael' a twenty year old recent college drop-out and his mental health struggles. The film is set over two different days in his life; the first when Michael was still in college and the second where Michael heads to the beach in search of some 'Refuge

Entirely shot one frame at a time the project looks at the craft of filmmaking filtered through thematic lenses of ritual, desire and horror, themes often found in genre film. It presents and examines some of the tools and elements that are involved to create such sensational effects while remaining fundamentally a very hands-on craft.