Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

Set in Dublin, Duffle Bag Boy follows Kevin, a young weed dealer, as he makes his nightly rounds. It’s a typical night for him, until one delivery turns out to be for someone he recognises from his past.

Sadhbh, a young dancer from a small Irish fishing town, has one dream: escape and dance for a living. She is thrilled with the news that she has got an audition, however, her boyfriend Matty is terrified it could spell the end of their relationship.

In the village of Anhovo on the Soča River, there lies an old asbestos factory that has managed to outlive wars, regimes and borders. It provided employment and stole life. Even today it continues to exhale smoke.

Working for the Echo Grief Centre, Florence feels overwhelmed by a world that reflects the anxiety around her pregnancy, until child actor Angel comes to audition.

A film on the artist Patrick Dillon using only still photographs.

Adam Clayton retraces a trip artist Francis Bacon took to Ireland in 1929, painting a fresh picture of Bacon's relationship with the land of his birth.

After surviving a brain eating parasite, Levi, a young queer man, is invited to his secondary school crush Roan's house for the weekend. Waking from an intoxicated night of reconnecting, Levi becomes convinced Roan kissed him. As Levi seeks the truth of what happened that night, his grip on reality loosens.

An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity.

A woman arrives for a piano lesson to find her teacher playing a piece that has no name and no ending; she discovers that it is about a former lover whose memory still haunts the younger woman. When it is the older woman’s turn to play, she, too, cannot finish the piece she is playing, which was written by her daughter in the months prior to her death. As both women struggle to articulate their feelings of loss and grief, they realise that the music gives them a means of holding on to, and living with, their pasts. 'Resonance' is a film about memory and emotion - and about the power of music to articulate and give life to the human spirit.

The sound of the streets of Teheran is transformed into forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets belonging to the government and a vision of a utopia within creativity. Street salesmen and pedestrians form an imaginary choir of the streets, backing up the youth, suggesting the public space should belong to the public. The narrative is captured in a circular chronology in a single day, from dawn to dawn.

In the mid 2000s, The UN Peacekeeping Troops raided the neighbourhood of Cité Soleil in Haiti several times, targetting gang leaders and killing many innocents in the proces. Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills visit the area ten years after to explore the aftermath.

Their world collapsing around them, a girl struggles to catch up with her father.

After the “Real Santa” is arrested for not delivering presents, two detectives try their hardest to interview him.

Colonel Robert Lundy has become infamous as the archetypal traitor who betrayed the cause of the besieged Protestants in the walled city of Derry in 1688/89. Each December his effigy is ritually burned in memory of the victorious outcome of the battle between Protestant King William and Catholic King James II. It is also as a warning to all potential traitors. Ian Paisley, leader of the DUP, was especially vocal in popularising the term Lundy to defame all those who were deemed guilty of ‘selling out’ in the push for peace after decades of conflict in Northern Ireland. Gregory Campbell, DUP, sums up the depth of feeling when he says: “There is, within the Protestant psyche, deep contempt for people who betray their principles.” But who was the real Lundy and does his name carry the same potency today when compromise is a key component of the new political discourse? Unionist Roy Garland embarks on a personal journey to discover the reality behind the myth.

Documentary telling of the revolutionary period in Ireland from 1913 to 1923 using archive film and photographs from the period.

Aidan commits dangerous stunts in return for online success. But when his morals begin to challenge his work, he realises that sharing content with the world is not as straightforward as he once thought.

Rhythm of the Dance DVD, Bring the beat and passion of Rhythm of the Dance into your home with our souvenir DVD Running Order: Newgrange at Dawn Celtic Air The Plight of the Irish Bodhran Dancing at the Crossroads Journey to old Ireland (Song) The Gathering Emigrants Lament The Departing A New Dawn Thinking of Home (Song) The Irish overseas Beat of the Bodhran Conflicting Rhythms Emigrants Medley Swing Time Musicians Farewell Home Finale Encore

Remnants Of Memories Of The Past. Carried Upon The Skin. The Result Of Years Of Pain Caused Through Dissociation, Psychosis And Mismanagement Of Related Symptoms. The Scars Of Time Deepened And Retained. Through This Project, Embraced And Unravelled. Visually Capturing A Secret Impossible To Hide. Peace And Sentence Divide, It All Must Be Accepted.

Surrounded by strangers, a woman's memories of her past relationship unravel and mesh with the people around her.

An unusual interview becomes an extraordinary race.

Laura's musician boyfriend gifts her with a tape of a song dedicated to her.

Unable to accept his son's sudden death in a car crash, a father tries to come to terms with his loss and must attempt to find peace in a most unexpected way.

Hurdle is a heartfelt animation that shows a path of a person weary of life's obstacles that finds lightness and freedom by pushing through the ultimate hurdle with an underlying rebuilding belief idea.

Hovering in the sensuous haze where flesh and dream become one, it wordlessly explores the shared inner life of two people whose devotion to one another expresses itself in forms that still challenge convention.

Interviewing skinheads across Europe, this film explores the apparent contradictions between being gay and living as a skinhead.

A cinematic portrait of Kyiv’s Soviet scrap metal ‘Kachalka’ gym – the world’s most hardcore gym.

To mark the centenary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Irish Free on 25 October 1922, the National Archives and the Courts Service of Ireland presented a unique event: a dramatic re-enactment of the proceedings of the 1922 Constitution Committee, performed in the Constitution Suite of the Shelbourne Hotel where the committee originally met.

Two Dublin actors, 'Stoney' & 'Jo', escape the city for a rural retreat but find chaos follows them into the wilderness...

Listen to the Land Speak sees Manchán Magan – one of our most acclaimed writers on landscapes and language – reveal the profound knowledge and wisdom contained in our landscape and myths. Filmed over four seasons, the film unfolds from Winter Solstice to Bealtaine through Reek Sunday to Samhain, exploring how the stories and myths associated with the rivers, mountains, and lands around us are crucial to unlocking aspects of how we need to rebuild our relationship with nature today. It also becomes an unexpectedly personal story – as he seeks to help heal society's relationship with nature. Manchán also realises that there is a serious illness within himself that makes him see these ancient sites and beliefs in a whole new light.

An artist attempts to draw but has difficulty reconciling what he sees with what he hears.

Almost a year after the death of her mother, April begins to hear a strange noise occasionally throughout her daily life. This interference eventually leads her on a wild hunt which seemingly hints towards the idea that her mother's death may not be all what it seems.

This short documentary film, made by Roy Spence for the Ulster Folk Museum, focuses on the work of master willow-weaver, James Mulholland of Gawley’s Gate, Co. Armagh. The film traces the various stages in the making of a willow log basket from cutting the raw willow rods through to the completed product.

Surreal and mysterious, in equal parts absurd and intense, Mutual Admiration Society is part of the noted multi-film collaboration between actor James Devereaux and experimental filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi. Based entirely around a silent, tour-de-force one-man performance by Devereaux as a man who appears to be haunting and threatening himself, Mutual Admiration Society uses startling visual techniques and editing rhythms to create a claustrophobic hall of mirrors with Devereaux’s tormented protagonist at its centre.

A short experimental documentary that captures youth culture in Galway City through the conversations of the young people that inhabit it and their relationship with time.

An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.

Finding Joy tells the story of Lukas, a frustrated writer who feels trapped by the expectations of his ambitious wife Brita. Then he meets Joy, a Korean dance student, under strange circumstances and spends a wonderful night with her before they go their separate ways. Lukas tries to work on his relationship but can't quite shake the memory of his encounter with Joy and eventually decides to drop everything to go and look for her. He arrives in Seoul with no contact details for her, only the vague idea that he'll find her if it's meant to be.

A mysterious quest goes horribly wrong. Dealing with the inevitable decay that envelopes the world in which we live, you cannot barter with forces beyond your control.

An intimate documentary showcasing the vibrant poetry scene of Cork City and the talented community of artists involved in these incredible nights.

A young married couple resolve to repair their relationship with a visit to a Belfast sex shop.

Gospel singer and preacher Vernon Oxford journeys from his home in Franklin, Tennessee to Belfast on a mission to bring the healing power of Jesus back to Northern Ireland.

In the post-apocalyptic countryside, a doll's head becomes a driving wedge between two tired wanderers navigating delusion and logic.

Two property managers deal with a deadly, otherworldly disturbance haunting a house with a tragic past

Trolley Boy's frustration with his work builds up into a monster. He realises there's more to life than pushing shopping trolleys into stacks.

After a heart transplant, Heather returns to her quiet life in rural Northern Ireland. But something lingers — a melody she cannot place and words from a language and community that have always felt foreign to her. As she follows their quiet pull, she begins to sense the trace of another life and a connection that reaches across a divided past.

Repurposing A 9 Minute Segment From 'The Antichrist' (1974) With Detailed Focus On The Slowing Down Of Movement And Repetitious Pronouncement Of Actions. Switched To Black & White, Layered, Mirrored, Increasingly Frantic In Motion And Relation. The Terror Of The Original Images Altered In Distinct And Connecting Segments.

A clown's final performance is not quite what it seems.

Reminiscent of the ‘trance films’ of Maya Deren or Kenneth Anger, The Magic Circle unfolds in a timeless dusk where an archetypal sorceress ritualistically navigates magical circles. A double figure executing doubled gestures, the circles she engages with are also double: the protective circle of sand or fire surrounding the enchantress and the circle of the self-reflected through circular mirrors. Within the Magic Circle is the self, a place of fragile refuge that is also a nightfall where she constantly encounters and passes through herself. This unsettling and melancholy meditation is at once ornate and minimal, displaying Pour Hosseini’s mastery of light and composition to haunting effect.

Following the end of a significant relationship, Jess is left reeling. To put a shape on her slowly spiralling life, she pens an email to her former person detailing just how fine she is.

A simple tutorial on how to wash a paint brush, nothing more, nothing less

A woman returns to her family home in rural Ireland to find herself caught in a cruel mind game with someone she had forgotten.

Amidst his mundane job, Danny discovers a surprising connection with a guest while searching for his wife.

James, a homosexual man, and Grace, an aroace woman, maintain a false marriage to protect themselves from a harsh society. On his 40th birthday, James begins a journey of self discovery...

Frames Of Night Lost To The Heart Closer To The Bounds Of Rhythm Wholly Translated Enclosing Holding Gaze A Hungering Search For Moments Transcended Meshes Of Refinement Unmade Together And Sealed In The Sight Of Darkness The Last Light And Trace And Ties Of The End Sound Still And Projected Upon Familiar Shadows Born Believing But Beaten Unraveled Despair Will Not Distract Sacrifice Growing Weightless Faltering Heaving Swaying Blinded But Beautiful The Old Draw Of The Fall Less Prepared But Bending Around The Corners Of Days Lived Unmade Somewhere Home Again My Light Is Failing.

The lives of Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle were torn apart when they were wrongly convicted of killing police officers—Sunny in the U.S, Peter in Ireland. Each were jailed for crimes they did not commit, only be exonerated after more than a decade each behind bar. In the aftermath of unimaginable hardship, by chance, they found one another and became the world’s only wrongfully convicted, death sentenced, cop-killer accused, exonerated and married couple!

A young deaf couple's screaming row goes unnoticed in a restaurant.

Short thriller about a murder suspect pitting his wits against the detective in charge of the case.

An alien learns how to fish and how to feel