Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

Forced to flee their African village due to war, a young girl and her family seek refuge in Ireland. As they rebuild their lives, they discover that home is not just a place, but a feeling they create together.

There are many ways to commemorate Ireland's 1916 Rising. Only one of them involves bloodshed.

A young adult goes to a house party, hoping to meet their friends there.

A fictionalized mockumentary account of a nuclear conflict between NATO and Russian forces taking place in the late 2010s.

Three alien criminals from the planet Tryzzia are exiled to a distant planet for their heinous crimes. The planet is Earth! Who will stand against these evil extra-terrestrials and thwart their killing spree, or are we all doomed?

What can you do when you’ve accidentally smashed the local statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary? The only thing you can do: frame your older brother.

A horror short film.

Inspired by Mike Scott's recent memoir Adventures of a Waterboy, this film - the first full Waterboys film - will follow Mike and his band recording a new album in 2018, and will look back over a 30 year musical odyssey "ever in search of new sources of inspiration".

Augenblick reflects on what it means to be human in a post-human world. Moving from The Age of Enlightenment into a digital world, what becomes of out relationship to each other and to the earth?

Meeting with numerous musicians affected by war, Northern Irish singer-songwriter Matt McGinn explores how they use music, not only to address their past, but to shape their future.

Set in 1912, 'Uisce Beatha' (Gaelic for Whiskey or Water Of Life) is the true story of Tom, a young Irish man who leaves his home in rural Ireland to cross the ocean on the ill-fated 'Titanic'. But a night of celebration beforehand results in a twist that will affect Tom's fate drastically....

A night exploration filmed at the ruins of the infamous Hell Fire Club, in the hills of Dublin.

Battling with the ghosts of wars past, private investigator Jack Oswald is set on the case of the murder of insurance man Lee Brisket. As he delves into his case, he delves into his trauma and discovers there's more to this than meets his eye.

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

a short animation

An aspiring botany student seeks out her disgraced mentor, only to find out he's not what he once was.

The life of Frank Ryan (1902- 1944) who was an Irish radical, International Brigade volunteer in Spain, and Nazi collaborator in Berlin.

Gerard returns home after his brother falls ill. He discovers upon arrival that the rest of the family have ulterior motives regarding the family’s estate.

Jordan-Lee Brady-James aka HYFIN, a young Derry-Londonderry man in-between places, is told that a Northern Irish accent can’t rap.

When Chris comes home to Cork for her sister Zara’s 13th birthday, a buried family secret begins to find its way to the surface.

A man witnesses a strange creature walking on the road at exactly the same time each night.

A slapstick comedy about an unhappy young girl whose life is turned upside-down when she finds a mysterious runaway with psychic powers in her back garden.

Paranoia evokes the insular world of a young disturbed woman who has closed herself off from society.

Excited about a new opportunity with a local politician, a journalism student takes his role too seriously, seeing this opportunity as life or death.

An Irish woman in the 1980s suffers a terrible tragedy and develops Dissociative Identity Disorder. Under the supervision of her unorthodox Psychologist she assumes the identity of infamous flapper girl Zelda Fitzgerald.

A parody of the spy mission genre, where Gummy and his friends, Kala and Harry, are taken on by a Covert Government Agency to defeat a set of nefarious villains, led by Dr Verde, who is determined to erase the colour green from the planet, while Gummy thinks he is merely testing cotton candy flavors.

Hazardous Materials is about anxiety, loneliness and friendship, told completely nonverbally. Nora has trouble talking to anyone, and is scraping by, while Rachel, a well meaning co-worker, wants to bring her out of her shell. When Rachel invites Nora to a house party - how will Nora react?

In a uniquely personal journey on the 50th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in August 1969, Peter Taylor reflects on almost a half century of covering the Northern Ireland conflict.

Franky Bannon can't cope. In his fifties, recently widowed, he is suicidal. Until his bizarre imaginary childhood friends return to show him that the world is beautiful.

Productivity, optimisation, constant forward motion. In this experimental short from artist and filmmaker Lisa Freeman, frenetic camerawork and quickfire editing convey the body’s lacklustre requirement to always be working in our capitalist society. Using glimpses of concrete environments, bodies on treadmills, crash-test dummies, and other ubiquitous urban images, and melding these with a soundscape of ragged breathing and disjointed conversations, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out provides a cutting commentary on what our society inflates with importance.

Feeling detached from her body and the world around her, Niamh McMahon struggles to remember events from a college party. Becoming overpowered by sudden flashes from the night’s evens, she struggles to regain her voice in connecting with those around her. Niamh is desperately trying to find some sort of solace in a world filled with so much noise.

A new strain of a disease that could be dangerous to livestock herds is being discussed on the radio. A cow listening to the show naturally gets a bit worried about the topic.

The installation for which Olivia Normille's two videos ("as above, so below", and "Body Diagrams") were made consisted of video projection sequences, drawings, and sculptural interventions – each functioning like the parts of a deconstructed film. The work employed strategies of editing and collage to interrupt and disrupt the familiar patterns of speech and physical movement; laying bare the materiality and labour in the construction of representational narratives, whilst also fragmenting the passivity that tends to accompany our experience of film viewership and cinematic space.

Set in the 1970s, Tart tells the story of Seán, an Alzheimer’s patient, who is remembering his life through flashbacks.

Currents Of Water, The Ether, The Fire, The Blood. / Progression Of The Fall, Its Sights, Its Flesh, Its Ruins.

a girl learns to swim

Two young men attempt to pay back a debt to a local drug dealer.

A bilingual coming-of-age drama about a boy from the Gaeltacht struggling with changes as he prepares to leave home.

Angel Of Virtue, Thou Art Blessed With Two Fretful Eyes Like Scattered Stars Melting Against A Slaughtered Sky. I Have Lost Count Of How Many Moons Have Shined Divine In Your Absence. A Thousand Crying Voices Drop Their Long Sleep Upon Me. I Wake To A Dream Of Universal Melancholy And Grotesque Enigmas, Hallowed And Shameful. My Blasphemous Birth Temporary Upon Withered Lips. Your Delicate Silvery Hands And Glassy Fingers Like Trembling Leaves Numb My Slumber.

Short film by Frank Berry. Premise unknown.

Town of Strangers takes the audience on a journey in the company of outsiders making their home in Gort, a small town in the west of Ireland.

Elegant story about the beginning and end of a relationship, simply drawn and beautifully animated. Short in international festivals such as the Seattle International Film Festival 2008.

A documentary that asks young people how they feel about Irelands culture when it comes to welcoming diversity. We narrow in on Sarah Sida, a model and college student born in South Sudan who shares with us what it was like growing up in Ireland as a black woman.

The story of a Mayo man exiled to New York following the Irish Civil War.

A clean cut business man who is averse to all things colourful enters a waiting room filled with colourful plastic chairs and is forced to confront his worst fears.

Liz's past comes back to haunt her.

Over Patrick Lydon's final year, he reflects on a life that took him from rock journalism in the US to driving the radically inclusive Camphill Movement in Ireland, sharing life with people of diverse needs and abilities. Patrick's lens on the world raises searching questions about ideas of disability and inclusion and shines a special light on the otherness in our society.

Teaman is tasked by the Loli-Tounges to kill a man called The Vegan King to get a Steam gift card.

A film about how our lives are shaped by the homes in which we grew up. To what extent are we defined by the homes into which we were born? Our first living space, though we have no say as to what or where it may be, may cast a shadow over the rest of our lives. For better or worse, it can form a key part of our identity, affecting how others see us and how we see ourselves.

Martin can't bear his parents... but he's about to discover the feeling is mutual. His rebellion meets with amused and then vicious opposition from his parents. Martin decides to run away, but he won't get far...

A three-minute visual and almost edible feast. A comic character study, this stylised film dissects the delectable eating habits of the hungry Baker family one Sunday dinner time.

The Irish family band Clannad reflects on their remarkable fifty years in the music business with Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh.

A man tries to befriend a unicorn.

This loving crafted short documentary follows the work of Tommy Orr of Killinchy, Co. Down, who has carried on the family tradition as a blacksmith for over 40 years. From the ringing of the anvil to the smoke billowing from the roadside forge, this film focuses on his work as a farrier and shows not only the unique skill that’s required but his genuine love and pride in his work.

Two ex-paramilitaries attempt to heal old wounds, but the past won't let the present lie.

After awakening in the wilderness, three friends, all with audio or visual impairments, must work together and escape from a mysterious huntress.

MR. D is a killer. A cold, calculating, brutal gun for hire. A rising star in the Mafia, he is sent from his home in New York to the suburban home of Chris and Genie Richardson, to take care of some urgent business. Unfortunately, the mark isn't home and Genie Richardson is left all alone with Mr. D and his gun.

An isolated couple's relationship dissolves after an unnatural birth.

A portrait of a magnificent bird formed over the course of three acts employs strategies of translation, performance and rhetoric to ‘give voice’ to its central protagonist, only to reveal a troubling anthropocentric bind. Drawing on research into the thirty year scientific collaboration between animal cognition scientist Irene Pepperberg and an African Grey she trained in elements of human language, Wow and Flutter considers the various forms of displacement often at play in our understanding of animals. It features a score made in collaboration with musician Andrew Fogarty, which uses a mixture of field recordings, electronics and found material to conjure a unique sound world.