Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

A contract killer reluctantly accepts a last minute assignment in the run-up to Christmas. The routine job takes an unexpected turn, and he finds himself morally and emotionally challenged.

Violent Max Punchface gets trapped in an alien land with only some friendly sheep for company/punch practice.

When an innocent girl summons the mythical Midnight Man for a night of thrills, she opens the door to terrifying supernatural forces that threaten to destroy her...

Shot in the US for Irish television, AIDS: A Priest's Testament is the story of Father Bernard Lynch, an Irish-borh priest and psychotherapist who set up an AIDS ministry in New York. Father Lynch is a daring, eloquent, and passionate missionary who discusses with startling honesty the pressures that have brought him close to the edge of his physical and spiritual limits as he conducts his ministry.

Grace has been recently evicted by her queer housemates, and Billy is stuck living at home with his family. They rent an extra-dimensional room to hook up in, but when the room itself turns on them, the lovers must decide if there’s any space for them in the city outside.

For when you feel like you don't belong.

Experimental Short Repurposing Footage From The 1936 Irish Movie "The Dawn" Directed By Thomas Cooper. Glitching, Repetition And Constant Forward And Backward Jumping Is Used To Pronounce And Modify The Moving Image, Creating A Digital Reality Affixed To The Past And Present.

Cameron Free (Berry Boy) has been getting new superpowers daily thanks to berries he found in his backgarden

In this pitch-black vaudeville of impotence and aggression, Emtigon tragicomically details a homeless old man's covert intrusion into the life of a young female social worker.

Mrs. Brown takes on the role of a pop svengali in her latest adventure, putting together a boy band as only she knows how. Agnes puts Louis Walsh to shame in her promotion of the new Irish pop sensations 'Westboys Life' and their debut single 'Love On A Humpback Bridge'.

Animated short film about a refrigerator lost in the desert, looking for a socket.

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

A young boy named Noah is bullied relentlessly by a group of lads in his class. He stumbles upon a sentient cat mask, possessing him and leading him to take his revenge.

Two drug addicts travel across rural Ireland with nothing but their Grandmother's radiator to finance their next hit.

A short experimental dance film about the use of the body as an instrument of temporal expression, focusing on how our memories are held and revealed in our movement.

Kevin, a transgender teen, comes out for the first time at a cross dress disco in the Gaeltacht.

A vibrant look at the frailty of a boy moving through life in all its colors.

A filmmaker reconnects with an old friend, quietly revealing the distance time can create.

A night security guard expects another uneventful shift until something strange appears on the CCTV. His curiosity leads him into a blood soaked crime scene and directly into the path of an escaped Masked Killer.

A midnight caller gets more than he bargained for...

This short film tells the story of Ava. A girl in her mid teens struggling with the loss her mother and the heartbreaking betrayal of her once close friends. At a time when Ava needs support, love and nurture she is left feeling abandoned by a family that are struggling with their own grief. Her feelings of loneliness soon change to uncontrollable anger and rage.

Joe Walsh lives a quiet life in a sleepy Irish town until the death of his brother and the arrival of a Ukrainian refugee causes him to consider his reluctance to accept outsiders during the course of which he begins to reconsider his life and come to terms with his prejudices and the potential for a life outside his insular existence.

footage from 3 different continents but with one thing in common.

Based on a series of intimate interviews with former Workers’ Party president and Official IRA Chief of Staff Seán Garland, The Man with the Hat delves into the heart of political upheaval in Ireland and beyond. Taking the viewer from the tenements of early 20th century Dublin, through the Soviet Bloc, North Korea and from the Border Campaign of the 1950s to the Peace Process. This documentary explores how one man felt while the world raged and shifted around him.

As The Otherworldly Darkness Seeped Out Of The Cracks Of The Concrete, The Holes In The Walls, The Sky Above And Our Very Own Psyches, We Begin To Comprehend Just How Close The End Was Since The Day We Were Brought Into The World. Our Personal Epilogues Began The Moment We Took Our First Breath Of Blighted Air.

In this offbeat comedy an uptight Helen is forced to embark on a radical journey to dispose of her dead husband George’s body. With nothing going to plan Helen struggles to keep her composure while George’s wacky sister Charlie tags along and becomes convinced their misadventure is leading them to become best friends.

Could Ireland follow in the steps of UK hip hop, producing world-class rappers that top the charts? Ireland is renowned for its writers and poets, so why hasn’t hip hop entered the cultural mainstream here? This short documentary explores the issues surrounding rap music in Ireland and shows the wonderfully eclectic mix of artists carrying the genre forward. This film is a testament to the rise of Irish hip hop and the changing attitudes towards the once-foreign artform that is finding increasing popularity amongst a new multicultural generation.

One sunny day in late May 2015, Ireland went to the polls to vote on same sex marriage – the first country in the world to do so by public vote. The world was watching our small nation as the future of equality for Ireland’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people was up for debate and ultimately a national decision. The Story of Yes, a new documentary for RTÉ2 airing exactly a year later, brings us back to this momentous day, and marks another important anniversary in 2016. The story is told through the eyes of those who it mattered to most – the LGBT community and their families. Through powerful and emotional interviews, the programme will transport the viewers back to the lead up to the vote, capturing the highs and lows of the campaign as people took to the streets, their computer screens and the airways to tell their stories and fight for marriage equality.

Two worlds, one city. A short glimpse of life in Dublin from two very different points of view. As day breaks over the smokestacks and passing ships at Bull Island, a barber shop across town buzzes with life.

Michael O’Connell’s adaptation of the short story Swallows filmed where an isolated rural Garda is reminded of his love of Paganini when he meets a violin playing surveyor.

When arts student Larry Beamish decides to take a stand against the urinary pressures of public bathrooms, he becomes an instant sensation on campus, attracting the reverence of many and the criticism of others. Reporting for the university’s TV station, tireless journalist Julia Stauber documents Beamish’s rise to fame, all while trying to maintain her cool with the station’s idiosyncratic anchor, Anvil Burnett, as well as the many colourful characters along the way.

The evening takes a sinister turn for a group of thrill-seeking youngsters.

Ground down by endless nights awake, an insomniac takes a night-time walk, where she finds comfort in a fellow sleepless stranger.

With the likelihood of a border poll becoming an increasing possibility, do we really understand what that could mean for all those living on the island of Ireland? Or are we stumbling into some possible future as Britain once sleep-walked into Brexit? With unique contributions from the likes of Leo Varadker, Bill Clinton, Mary-Lou McDonald, Mike Nesbitt, Monica McWilliams, John Major, Susan McKay, Bertie Ahern, Fintan O’Toole, Gerry Adams, Linda Ervine and Peter Mandelson amongst many others, The Irish Question takes a fresh and sometimes surprising look at the dark trauma of the past and the unique possibilities of the future.

A serial killer is on the loose in an Irish town, and has set his sight on Candy, a local athlete.

An RTÉ documentary on Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

Jay Holben, Edward Schofield, and Doug TenNapel in Mothman: The Film That Never Was (2025) A documentary about the lost 1997 horror movie 'Mothman', and the dark events that befell its production.

In a remote forest in northwest Germany, an urban combat facility called “Tin City” is used to train British soldiers before deployment in Northern Ireland. A bar, a bank, a shop – each location reveals another iteration of the same macabre set-up.

Yana, a young Ukrainian girl, struggles to assimilate into her new Irish school until she meets with Chloe, who helps her settle in and find some hope in this new country.

Brought Forth In The Wake Of Blood Is This Expression Of My Current Situations And Surroundings. The Systems Put In Place That Proclaim Salvation For Those Who Are Willing To Accept Help Are In Personal Discovery Crooked And Capitalistic Institutes Of Manipulation And False Affirmations Of Self-Importance And In Certain Circumstances Godliness. Seek Help Before The Irreversible Occurs, Wait Endlessly, Get Run Around, Participate In Brief And Empty Conversations In Which Lies Are Told On Part Of The Feeders And Truths Told To Them By The Starving Celestial Are Ignored. Repeat The Process Each Time Escalating Further. But It's Never Enough. What Do They Want From Me? Not Long Left Now, One Way Or Another, Someone Will Win, Someone Will Lose.

Short film by Frank Berry. Premise unknown.

Documentary following competitors from Ireland, England and America as they prepare for the 2011 World Irish Dancing Championships, held in Dublin for the first time in 15 years. Includes interviews with Michael Flatley, Brendan de Gallai, Ronan McCormack and Karl Drake, plus those who make dresses and wigs for the dancers.

After the realisation of how fickle life is, Maurice Murphy, mid sixties and unkempt, decides to reconnect with a very important person from his past.

A thrilling found footage short film documenting mysterious killings in the haunted abandoned forest...

A group of teens with a fake ghosthunting youtube account stumble upon a haunted house that starts to feel a bit too real.

During the German occupation of Rome from 1943-1944, Kerryman Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations and his helpers included communists, British soldiers, the singer Delia Murphy and many others. The work was dangerous. Safe within the Vatican State, he regularly ventured out in disguise to continue his mission, which earned him the nickname of the Pimpernel of the Vatican. Kappler, the Gestapo chief in Rome, ordered him captured or killed. When the Allies entered Rome in June 1944, O’Flaherty and his colleagues had saved over 4,000 lives.

One month after the death of his grandmother, Colm is left with her old rotary telephone that is more than it seems…

A young woman fights with her sobriety.

A movie about the racism crisis in Ireland.

A four-part filmed presentation of Staging The Treaty by ANU Productions - a live recording of the long-form theatre performance re-staging the Dáil Debates of (1921–1922) at the original location where they took place in Earlsfort Terrace. Based on adaptation of original transcripts by Theo Dorgan, directed by Louise Lowe in 2022 and filmed by Tiny Ark. THE BALLOT (140 mins): DAYS 12 & 13. Attempts to find common ground have failed. De Valera announces that he proposes to resign as President. Griffith calls, in an impassioned speech, for the Treaty to be passed. The vote is finally taken. The Dáil has spoken, but there will be no peace.

A supercilious chess-player becomes obsessed with his white pawn as he sees her getting closer to becoming a queen. In his efforts to catch her, he enters into the game himself, with disastrous results.

A man puts cameras around his home worried that an unknown house party guest doesn't seem to take the hint to leave. This goes on longer than anticipated.

In Cork there's a killer with a mask who's killing people which leads the headline on the news "Bloody Cork" Nancy a girl who's dealing with trauma in her own personal life gets attacked by the masked killer but escapes. A detective gets three criminals to help aid him to hunt down the masked killer and Jeff is out for revenge after some one he cares for is killed. Will they be able to save cork by capturing the killer before it's too late? And will they find out whos behind it all?

A bishop establishes missionary settlements in Ireland.

Finn is missing his girlfriend Delilah who has moved away for school. As the months go on, their relationship fades. Finn has the opportunity to go back in time and fix their relationship. Will he hang onto her , despite what’s best for her or will he let her go?

Loss, is a short film that was written, directed and shot by Seán Leahy. An interesting fact about this film, is that it is made up of a series of thirty-five still images.

An epic poem of literary quotes, soundscapes and slide film images from the former DDR.

As their Debs application deadline approaches, a closeted couple must sort their domestic issues as Gaeilge to prevent their classmates from knowing they’re an item. However, translation issues leave their relationship in jeopardy.

Familiar images of a security blockade in 1970s Belfast are reimagined as a scenario in which invisible queer lives are out and about.

Knockser centres on the journey of Bohemian FC amputee squad player Donal Bligh. The short film is a reminder of the positive impact football can have and how it connects people in unexpected ways.