Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

In 18th century Ireland, a wild band of natives struggle to keep their delicate settlement from dissolving into anarchy.

Two grieving fishermen join an impossible rescue mission at sea.

The Unsinkable Entrepreneur follows Enda O'Coineen as he fulfills his life-long dream of competing in The Vendeé Globe. An inspirational story for anyone who has dreamed big, failed, and lived to dream again.

A portrait of Dublin and its people.

A young man’s sanity deteriorates as he searches his home looking for his missing tablets.

Sewa is a black woman struggling to get over her ex-girlfriend. Through her monologue we experience the emotional rollercoaster of a first break up.

A young man films his family to better understand them and as a result is destroyed by them.

Director Seán Murray investigates Israel’s policy of Journacide and highlights the collective silence of mainstream media in holding to account the direct targeting of those attempting to uphold the truth.

An American tourist tracing her ancestors in a small Irish village gets shown local sites by a knowledgeable barfly with the gift of the gab, until their shared sense of loss sparks a connection that goes beyond words.

"I Wish You Were Here" is a captivating psychological thriller, Angela returns to her family home in East Cork where she meets the man of her dreams, like the ones she writes about in her books. But under the surface not everything is as it seems and when Angela learns a terrifying truth about herself she's forced to live with the harsh reality.

Bob Quinn's 'Bog Graffiti' explores the relationship between humankind and nature, addressing the issue of climate change. Bob Quinn said: 'To paint images on granite rocks in the wet and windy landscape of Conamara would seem to be a folly. Foolishness also to plant saplings on the same bogscape – it is four thousand years since the place was fully clothed in trees. But then to turn the wood into grotesque figures must be considered perverse. Or perhaps a parable? We are part of the cycle of the natural world. This film notes the passing beauty of a tiny planet before we destroy it.'

A group of students have their Irish oral exams, which are being graded by an incompetent teacher

While struggling from the loss of her boyfriend, a young woman resorts to an experimental drug treatment that lets her return to past memories.

’Anziety’ is Ian’s journey to becoming a drag artist. Weaving through death, loss, and foster care, he brings us to his darkest moments, yet we end up in a room full of love. Both a celebration of unwavering loyalty and creative self-expression, Anziety moves between an intimate reflection on Ian’s past and a contemporary portrait of his present.

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan performs her poem You City, You Boyfriend, a love letter to the city of Dublin.

Two-part documentary about the Irish Northern Aid Committee

A man faces the consequences of sleeping with his bosses wife.

Stay Awake was inspired by a worldbuilding project I created based on my own nightmares, which I have been writing down and compiling for a number of years. It intends to encapsulate the inescapable off-putting nonsense of dream logic, and the way in which nightmares and their denizens reflect and distort the anxieties of the waking world.

After 50 years of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and a decade of the blockade on Gaza, John McColgan journeyed through the occupied Palestinian territories to witness the struggles endured by Palestinians and the inspiring partnerships which aim to improve people's lives.

A young man experiences fitful visions on his deathbed. He visits abandoned cityscapes, follows a Grim Reaper and eventually ends up in a coffin with the Reaper looming overhead.

A short experimental film.

In March 2011, documentary photographer Guy Martin arrived in Libya on the trail of uprisings that were sweeping across the Middle East. One month later he lay in a hospital bed in Misrata, fighting for his life after a rocket-propelled grenade landed near his group, killing photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros and at least seven rebel soldiers. 'Rebirth' is a dramatic exploration of memory and trauma, charting one man's descent into the terrifying reality of war.

There is a need for our towns and cities to be made more liveable and sustainable. Róisín Murphy’s Big City Plan examines what needs to change in order for that to happen.

Documentary that follows Damian Browne and Fergus Farrell as they attempt the impossible: traversing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean in a small two-person rowboat.

With Blood Dripping From Your Fingers Telling Me I Have Not Seen The Eyeless Servant Of Schizophrenic Nightmares Becoming Reality, Said To Be Paranoid Delusions, Psychotic Illusions. Skin-Colored Heartstrings Binding Wrists To Sternum, Eyes Beneath Ascension, Peering, Prying, Cast The Presence Out Of The Heart, The Soul Falls From A Visionary Heaven, Feeding Me Poison As A Cure, I Scream Into Your Belief And Reveal Its Deceit, Expose Its Hedonism, It Is A Fury Begetting Flesh Tearing, Branding Memory Upon Every Inch Of Skin.

The film was an attempt to translate the direct address of live performance to a lock-down art TV format. It was effective, in that 14 people contacted me after watching to tell me I had appeared in their dream. If a performance can be thought of as an act of appearing to an audience, then this film can be thought of as a tool which facilitates a performance.

Dervla Murphy is Ireland’s most prolific travel writer who for five decades has travelled the world mostly alone, and mostly by bicycle. A fiercely independent woman who turned her back on societal conventions at a time when few were as brave, she observed and recorded the world with wonder and curiosity, and an astute political sensibility. This special edition award winning documentary explores the woman behind the words in a fascinating film which shows her personal life to be as fascinating as her extensive journeys. The minutiae of life at home in Lismore and journeys abroad with her grandchildren provide an intimate backdrop to interviews with Dervla, her daughter Rachel, her publisher John Murray and fellow travel writers Michael Palin and Manchán Magan.

Super Gairdín is a new video work by artists Cóilín O’Connell and Michelle Doyle about divine spirits, landscape, language and nature. Taking cues from the folk horror tradition, the film is set in a desolate garden centre, a space where landscape is held indefinitely. A figure wanders the aisles of saplings, chancing upon a long forgotten rock deity; the Cailleach. The Cailleach is capable of great forces, summoning nature at will and throwing rocks from her apron. She views mankind with hatred and will soon enact her revenge.

I Have Become The Punished Carcass Of Consequence, My Truths Dissolve Upon Your Lonely Passage, Where Love And Loss Combine And Birth Grief. Time And Thought Are Slipping From My Grip, Crimson Consumption Looms Within False Approvals, My Future Is Inescapable, My Future Is Confinement, I Exist For The Sole Purpose Of Reaching That Future With The Knowledge Of My Death In Its Contorted Caress.

Another Repeats “Only The Lord Knows!” Until He Knows Not What The Lord Knows, The Lord Doesn't Even Know, The Lord’s Been Replaced By Sanity And Saintly Stature Among Sickness And Health. Another Crutched And Straitjacketed Set Straight And Crushed Beneath Contemptuous Castles Of Conformity. Bullied, Beating And Broken Then Buried.

Barry O'Kelly shows how easy it is for someone to call themselves a psychologist in Ireland today.

Floating between Ireland, Spain, Chile, Sweden, France and Bangladesh over seven years, I Must Away follows four migrants who have each left home to rebuild their life abroad. Narrated by a series of letters from the director to his grandmother, the film is a kaleidoscopic vérité essay which disentangles roots, land and identity, and explores the unequal distribution of rights and privileges, in our age of migration.

I've Grown Tired Of Waiting, Of Suffering. I'm Fading, Starving, Bleeding. I Can't Close My Eyes Anymore, When I Do All I See Is The Prison I've Created For Myself Through Circumstances Out Of My Control. My Future Has Been Decided, All I Can Do Is Wait.

Eddie Moroney, while suffering the mother and father of all hangovers, gave the commentary of his life at the Tipperary Under 21 football final between his beloved Aherlow and Eire Og Nenagh in 1993. This is the amazing true story of a hilarious GAA match commentary which became famous worldwide, selling thousands of match tapes and DVDs. Effin Eddie has now become an internet phenomenon.

An isolated young woman becomes enthralled by an ASMR creator she discovers online.

A mythic brand, three iconic cars, and three dead bodies inside the Renault’s trunk : the American actress Jean Seberg, the Italian politician Aldo Moro, and the French CEO of Renault, Georges Besse. Here are the starting points of Declan Clarke’s film, from where he deploys a larger narrative and reflexion on the intricate relationship between capitalist development, the supression of industrial policies and the expansion of privatisation, as well as the implication of international secret services and underground political networks. Declan Clarke

Halted focuses on four ordinary Traveller people and lets them tell their stories in their own way. The film shows an honest and personable view of Traveller culture that is far too often overlooked.

An Ornithologist’s Daughter merges private memories and history to paint the portrait of a woman. While observing her life, we gradually discover her identity as daughter and mother who has chosen to live far from people but close to nature. Erik Nuding’s strong debut fills the spectator’s eyes with a moving family portrait of rare grace and intelligence.

A wandering young Viking, hunting alone in the just discovered New World (later to be known as America) in the year 1267, comes across a different type of prey, a creature that has power and magic, but it’s her mysterious beauty that prevents the Viking from striking her down, resulting in an unfortunate ending.

A woman jumps from her slumber in a panic, gripped by the strange feeling that something is wrong. Creeping through the shadowed hallways of her house, something much stranger is revealed.

Following the everyday life of 21-year-old Samira from Zanzibar for 7 years, NDOTO YA SAMIRA depicts the quiet victories of a determined young woman.

A man stands in a shed at the dead of night He stands by a small religious icon He drives a nail through his hand

The story of a young girl defying gender stereotypes and turning heads in the highly competitive world of youth darts.

Dublin is a city in the midst of a property development boom but with that traditional ways of life in the city are disappearing. Saorise takes a look at inter-generational horse culture and what it means to the men of Dublin's inner city. The already marginalized culture is in decline and likely won't exist in the near future.

A short one minute film about a group of crows holding a funeral for a dead friend.

Floating Structures follows a researcher travelling across central and southern Europe seeking out an array of buildings and structures that seem as though they have emerged from another world. Our mysterious guide, drawing on the ideas and visions of the great Irish engineer Peter Rice, explores the hinterlands that surround and gave rise to these structures. It is a rail trip of revelation that wanders from the quiet Bavarian town of Haßfurt, to the inner and outer realms of Paris, to the Andalusian city of Seville. Suspended artefacts and ruins from the distant future and the industrial past are sifted through and interlinked with precision and wonder.

A relationship between a man and a woman discloses during the course of the film.

Irish surfer Conor Maguire chronicles his travels through the monsoon soaked colours of India and the lush landscapes of Indonesia. Beautifully captures the places and faces he meets along the way.

Madness see in the new year live in Dublin's city centre.

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an effort to construct functions known not to exist may on occasion produce interesting frauds.

16mm footage of life in 1960s Dublin, with music and sound effects from Westerns on the soundtrack.

Three female Irish farmers—Ailbhe Gerrard (Brookfield Farm, Co. Tipperary), Carina Roseingrave (Burren View Farm, Co. Clare), and Sophie Bell (Co. Cavan)—explore reclaiming the Irish landscape by inspiring others to connect to each other in stewardship of the land. It celebrates joy in a world increasing in mechanisation, and how farming can bring communities to healthy regenerative and organic farming practices with women farmers at the forefront of global agriculture narratives.

After all of Carrie's friends were murdered she must face the killer who unbeknownst to her is someone she knows very well...

After being attacked by a mysterious man in the woods and unintentionally killing him in the process, Luke, a young, quiet and secretive lad, is set on an ominous road towards blood thirst and cult like worship.

The crafts of filmmaking and sewing merge together in this self-reflexive work, an ambient consideration of method and process.

A look into how a student band makes their music.

A lonely, struggling Leaving Cert student reminisces on the time he spent in the Gaeltacht through videos taken on his camcorder. When given an opportunity to change his fortunes, will he take it?

The sex drive of the single-celled organism comes under the microscope.