Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

A man's luck begins to take a turn for the better, much to the disdain of his rival.

A documentary series charting the birth, growth and development of the Irish state from its foundation in 1921 until the 1990s.

An Irish farm reaches the end of an era.

Josh Roche loves munchie boxes more than anything, the issue? Josh must organise something with his buddies to get a munchie box. Why? His mammy will batter him if he gets one for no reason, unlike Finn Hudson’s mammy. And so, naturally, Josh attempts to make plans with his buddies Finn Hudson (Finn Hudson) and Daniel Dalton (Daniel Dalton). But it seems The Rocher’s plans to get a munchie box are not the same as his buddies’…

This film is the result of a two-year oral history project which collected the stories of people living and working in Douglas, gathering reflections on the story of the past and witnessing the changes in a small village that became a suburb of Cork, Ireland.

In Search of Hy-Brasil contemplates the textures and rhythms of island life. It brings to the fore the symbiotic relationship that exists between islanders and their elemental surroundings, and how their existences are formed and shaped by raw materials.

Altering And Furthering The Nightmare Of 1926's 'A Page Of Madness' By Teinosuke Kinugasa. Through A Five Strip Three Color Scheme (Orange, Black, White) Along With Distorted/Shifting Grains, Jump Cuts And Sporadic Repetition In Attempts To Pronounce The Horror Of Preexisting Images. Internally Bound But Externally Altered. Birthing A New Horror. Digitized, Baptized, Abandoned. (Part Of The ‘Alter Images’ Series)

Teaman finds the location of The Vegan King and decides to confront him.

One Sunday, Theo, who finds his family’s weekly church attendance to be an absolute bore-fest, makes a brave decision that puts him at odds with the Son of God. Will Theo confess or will he hold fast, and risk dire consequences?

Angels in heaven revolt against a tyrannical God, demanding that they be allowed back to earth to have sex.

The shop mannequin sees endless activity that passes for human existence. People fill their time moving, talking, shopping and looking. They gaze listlessly in at him and he stares impassively back. He is aching for their chance to live, imploring them to make the most of their freedom, outraged that they do not.

Young trans man, Jake Ellis, falls for his family's new Italian exchange student, Maria Bacco who understands him better than anyone else ever has.

On a dark winter night a father is faced with an impossible decision. With only hours left to live, he has to make sure to give his daughter the best chance of survival in a post apocalyptic world.

A surveyor clerk trespasses an ancient fairy forest, as an old mythology transforms for a modern world.

A fairycatcher is on the hunt for fairies in the forest and is met by a number of friends and foe.

A music video about John Joly, inventor of the Joly screen colour photography process, narrativised via elements of a story by Samuel Beckett and a poem by Jean Genet

Robbie attempts to move out of his parents house but soon realizes that renting in Dublin isn't as simple as he thought. Accompanying him on his journey are his piggy bank and the voice narrating his life.

Screaming Into The Dispersed Ether, This Last Shattered Wound Drips And Steals Musically Along, Echoes Infinite Against The Slant Breeze, Screeching Beyond Knowing. Our Saviors Have Grown Tired. A Thousand Enchanted Heavens Wrapped In The Ruins Of These Sightless Times, Crystal And Bloodred, A Dream Of Abandoned Creation.

An increasing number of Irish people are travelling to Turkey for cosmetic procedures. This documentary examines why they are going and who is responsible when it all goes wrong.

The Sun Dissolves Into The Sky, Into A Bleaker Realm, A Sleek Citadel Stripped Of Its Fragile Armor, Its Now Tragic Holy Opal Laid To Waste And Wrung Of Its Wet Light. A Deathless Rain Suffocates All In Exhilarating Fear, Flows Of Thunder Reverberate Like Loveless Songs, Voices Rippling Wild Through The Solemn Slits Of Eternity. Time Travels Up The Spine Of A Speechless Twilight, As I Descend Back Into The Torment Of Absence.

A secular man, married outside his faith but living in an ultra-Orthodox area of London, questions his marriage when he meets his best friend's captivating new girlfriend.

After an innocent game of knick-knacks spirals into unfathomable carnage, two teenage girls learn a hard lesson about the importance of taking responsibility for their actions. A raucous coming-of-age comedy, starring Claire Gleeson and Karen Kelly.

My Memory Is Not My Own. The Present Only Exists As A Memory Of The Past. I Exist In Neither.

I Don't Remember Feeling This Urge The Last Time. Usually When I Get Such An Urge I Act Upon It Unless It Continuously Screams And Burrows Inside My Head. I Don't Think There Is Any Other Way Of Stopping It? It's Getting Increasingly Difficult To Distinguish Between My Own Thoughts And Feelings And Those Enforced By My Afflictions. I Gave So Many People So Many Chances To Do What Was Necessary, But Apparently It Wasn't Enough. Think Of All That Could Have Been Spared.

I Can't Stop Thinking Of The Possibility That Where I'm Trying To Escape To Is Far More Sinister Than What I'm Trying To Escape From.

A winged creature begins the precarious return from the city to the forest. There she will meet a group of mysterious beings who guide her to the heart of the forest. Step by step, they push her to transform, to leave herself behind. What happens when you decide to return to the forest?

An intimate exploration of poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s world and creative process.

Fashion, Family and Fate. An intimate family portrait is woven as three sisters recollect the legacy of their mother Vonnie Reynolds, a forgotten Irish fashion icon forced to retire after a tragic accident.

A classic romantic comedy that interweaves three stories revealing that, no matter how much time passes, sometimes two people are meant to be together forever.

A man plunges from the sky, a militia chase down two siblings, a woman weeps in a derelict house: vignettes from a surreal family breakdown, visions from an unreliable narration who speaks only in idioms.

The latest materialist gesture in cinema's dematerialisation- uncompromising alter-ego Johnny Kline returns in the form of found and partially destroyed early 20th century pornography and found material depicting domestic scenes. Always inappropriate in his re-appropriation of found materials Kline brings the private and public realms together in the creation of a drive-in cinema and a child's discovery of a satan-worshipping cult. A marriage of Messe Noire (1928) and the Irish landscape captured from various formats including 16mm through a custom-designed telecine apparatus and finished in an anaglyph 3D process, The Curse of Johnny Kline stands alone in contemporary Irish underground cinema.

A séance of old and new light.

"What are you fighting for?" Armed simply with this question, Arthur MacCaig goes to Northern Ireland to confront Irish Republicans. The result is an inside look at the ghettos of Belfast. The Jackets' Green calls no one to arms, but offers simple portraits of a few men and women most often represented as fanatical zealots. As they speak candidly about their cause, it becomes difficult to continue branding them as "terrorists."

A reclusive non-conforming immigrant arouses fear and suspicion within a conservative insular community.

Made for Holiday Windows during the pandemic. Light at the end of the tunnel, orbits circling the sun, fur, dancing and folk songs.

Eight senior members of Dublin Youth Dance Company dance their truths – the good, the bad and the beautiful – in a time of lockdown.

This satirical view of our contemporary attitude about beauty is presented in the style of a 1950’s informational film.

Borderland hinterland.

First officer Maedhbh has high hopes for her first day of work, but when she fails to impress Captain Cara and with a cabin full off restless passengers waiting to take off, it's far from what she expected...

A girl moves into an apartment and becomes consumed with curiosity for her reclusive, strange flatmate.

"Personal Growth" is a Super-8 film work, an enigmatic, fragmented piece that could have been filmed at any point in the past sixty years. It conveys the haunting charge of a privately made home movie of great significance to its creators but unsettlingly mysterious to viewers. Its grainy, black and white texture vividly renders the elemental coastal seascapes where it was filmed. Langan & Le Cain appear as a couple who inhabit this wild terrain as if it were a domestic arena.

When the mouth, the brush, and the film reel all get excited together, the result is an experimental film that pulsates between materials, signs, and black and white to the frenetic rhythm of Nicole Paris's beatboxing and that of her father and mentor, Edward Cage.

Ireland"s best loved comic on stage at Ireland's best loved theater. All the old favorites including Bottler

As a young man from the Travelling community, Johnny Maughan always felt different. Growing up all around Ireland and the UK he experienced discrimination wherever he went – in every new school, in every town he was isolated and called names – a knacker, a pikey, a gypsy – and so he learned to stick with his own. But as Johnny got older, he began feeling different even within his own community when he started to realise he was gay.

The story of a woman, lost in her own thoughts and world, going about her business without anyone taking any notice of her strange behaviour.

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!

A tale of love, art and maddness... Based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait (1850)

Irish Folk Band, The Dubliners, guide us through the history of Dublin.

Eamonn may seem strange on first impressions, living alone in his purpose built funeral home at the centre of a small Irish town. For most, embalming the dead might seem like a strange career to pursue, but for this Irishman, it brings purpose to his life. His number one ambition is to get families, friends and loved ones through their pain and suffering.

20 years after the murder of his parents, a man investigates the mysterious corporation responsible for their deaths.

A farmer finds a deer befriending his herd of cattle.

A boy finds adventure in the big city.

Failed pop star. The soul of The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder reconstructs the purgatory of his career in a hilarious testimony that craps on every aspect of the pop music business. Those on the prowl for public relations and commercial potential have come to the wrong place. Haines is a notorious party-pooper, a wet blanket at awards ceremonies, and a sourpuss-that-sulks-in-the-corner. To relate his tragic-comic saga, director Niall McCann organizes a perfidious puzzle filled with talking heads: Jarvis Cocker, Stewart Home, David Peace… (or, as Haines puts it: “people who pretend they have met me”), unforgettable quips by the disgusted composer (“To hell with the common people”, “Britpop never existed”), and a script that resembles Winterbottom gone punk: actors that aspire to walk in Haines’ shoes, frozen images, surprising turns, and historical tiffs.

An investigator investigating the disappearance of a previous investigator runs into a spot of bother involving things that are not quite dead.

John wakes up to realise his worldview has changed and he has now somehow the messiah everyone was waiting for. It gets bonkers in the end.

When two kids from different backgrounds are forced to spend an uncomfortable amount of time together, they realise how little it takes to become the best of friends.

The film explores the unusually high number of vocations emanating from the parish of Doon, Co. Limerick. In 1962, when the documentary was made, there were 117 living nuns who were born in Doon. Through a series of interviews with the parish priest, nuns and the children from the local convent school, the Radharc team discover what makes this town unique.

The film follows a young boy during the pandemic. He uses his imagination to try help his mother who falls ill and imagines a witch from his storybook might be the root of all problems.

An experimental documentary exploring the beautifully messy relationship between intimacy and LGBTQ+ hook-up culture.