Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

The Dream Team members are late and Nay BOAM has been kidnapped by Coffeeman.

This short of powerful imagery takes us through traits of human behaviour that everybody will recognize, be proud of or completely deny. This is a fun scenario depicting a woman and a man on that action adventure Saturday night out with friends. The images will be used to poke fun at both parties, provide light entertainment and even throw a little romance into the mix.

In an afternoon of preparations and packing to leave her parents’ home, Camille wanders in a mist of feelings and memories of her past, through which she finds the strength to face her future.

Ascension Island lay barren for a million years, until it was 'terraformed' by Victorian naturalists into a tropical paradise. Today scientists return in search of answers, as humans begin the process of geo-engineering the entire planet.

Gillian agrees to help her girlfriend process her trauma, in this knotty look at family relationships and healing the past.

Three film students attempt to make a horror movie 'blockbuster', but their Hollywood plans get derailed when their very own horror movie slasher escapes the chains of film and script and springs into reality to cause chaos and mayhem upon their neighbourhood on Halloween night. Now its up to these teenage misfits to put end to their film mascot come to life while also attempting to save those who ridiculed their creative visions.

A man on a bridge considers ending it all but is hampered by a nosey seagull.

A frustrated old pet shop owner is constantly confounded by his pets who have decided that they don't want to be sold.

The traditional music mecca, The Cobblestone, is the focus of this two-part documentary. The family run business became the centre of media attention when thousands took to the streets of the capital to fight a planning application for a 9-storey hotel, which, if successful, would have threatened the very existence of what the Cobblestone had become.

The relationships between land, movement and ownership through richly intertwined songs sung in both English and Shelta (the language of Irish travellers).

An invisible scientist uncovers the ubiquitous influence of algae on our planet in a visually sumptuous science fiction documentary that stretches from the deepest past to the near future.

..at large under the sun... is a new short film, a lyrical post-apocalyptic diary movie for 2020 imbued with an irrepressible chthonic joyfulness that erupts from broken stone and broken birds. The soundtrack boasts an atmospheric sonic contribution by Declan Synnott.

Other than the ocean, the rest of the planet was bathed in purple, which was due to the colour of the vegetation. The change in the sun’s radiation had probably caused the plants to evolve as they adapted to the new light.

Short animation about a monster haunting a train in the night.

An experimental short film rendered using real-time graphics. Through contrasting a vibrant, virtual paradise with a dark reality, the film reflects upon humanity’s ignorance of their destructive nature on earth; the innocence of youth and the indifference of adulthood.

A fox must deal with a very noisy duck before he can get his precious sleep.

A young man travels to collect his inheritance left to him by his late uncle but discovers that the man dabbled in the occult.

Brian Maher and Mike Sheridan attempting an arduous 126 mile run from Limerick to Dublin to Raise awareness for Special Olympics Ireland.

"The artist looks at scenes of a woman (Pour Hosseini) and a man at the Iranian Maranjab Desert through the texture of a film strip on top of it, and through its sprocket holes. Dirt, flare, and red ink printed on the celluloid add to the images of the landscape a patina of optical illusions, even though the original moving images were, by definition, tricking the eye in first place." - Mónica Savirón, Museum of the Moving Image

Live from Dingle In this 2006 Netflix documentary, Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice delivers an intimate solo performance at St. James' Church in Dingle, Ireland, as part of the Other Voices series. The concert showcases his raw, emotive style, likely featuring tracks from his acclaimed albums O and 9, characterized by melancholic reflections on love and loss.

Traditional Irish folk music and a story of Irish mythology.

Working at the edge of language, Jenny Brady follows interpreters across diplomatic meetings, asylum interviews, classrooms, and conference booths, observing what happens between hearing and saying. Voices pass through bodies, hesitations accumulate, and meaning never fully settles. In The Glass Booth, interpretation appears not as neutrality, but as a fragile human negotiation.

An documentation of rural life, in it's twilight, in Northern County Kerry, Ireland.

In a luxury Irish resort, a guilt-ridden night manager must confront her inner demons, a resentful ex-girlfriend, a hallucinating colleague, and a sinister night of terror to reclaim her sense of self.

Maeve gets overwhelmed at a party, so she slips into her mind.

Documentary about the anti-homeless policies put in place in Galway in the 90s. The documentary was filmed from 1992-94 using a domestic home video-camera and SVHS camera. It portrays what Galway looked like pre-gentrification and gives insight into the lives of people living and making money on the streets at the time.

Delivery is a short documentary about Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara, the exploitation of its natural resources, and the struggle for Sahrawi freedom.

A film about Gerrymander and discrimination, including an interview with former leader of the Nationalist party in Northern Ireland – Eddie McAteer. This film was not shown at the time because Terence O’Neill and Sean Lemass met for the first time – and it was felt impolitic to show a programme that might have embarrassed the Northern premier.

All Our Yesterdays is a documentary exploring 250 years of Irish history through the voices of a town in the west of Ireland. With rare archives, stories, and music, it captures resilience, heritage, and deep ties to the Irish diaspora.

I Am Eternally Bound To The Fragile Moment Of Half-Hearted Reluctancy, Spent Sudden And Upon Me As The Foul Folds Of Sleepless Sympathy Relinquish All Ties And Bonds To My Once Sustainable Deception. Clasping In Fear The Promises Of The Protective Myth, Flowing Freely Its Silent Bloodlust Like A Starved Full-Dead Innocence Silenty Surrendering To Anemia. Holding Back The Night, Once Beloved, Its Internal Damages Rusting All Comfort, Sequencing The Inevitable. Acquiring Acceptance. Accepting My Fate. Losing To The Disease. Leaving It All Behind.

Emlyn Bolye made this for Halloween, in 2023. This was partly inspired by a local ghost story of Westmeath, Ireland.

Concerned ponders the gap between public ‘concern’ around gender, identity, and child/parent roles, and the private reality of those who are actually concerned; gender nonconforming people and their families – all told through the filmmakers’ own personal daughter/mother relationship.

Waterpark is an experimental film that stimulates us to the extents of our perceptions. Its tactile imagery generates hallucinatory colors and contrary momentums.

This short documentary was filmed over the course of a weekend gathering on the coast of Co.Clare and explores the experiences, uncertainties and joys of life as an LGBTQ+ person in rural Ireland.

In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy made a visit which would change America and the rest of the world’s perception of Ireland forever. Kennedy referred to his visit to Ireland as “the best four days of his life”. One of those days, June 29th, was spent in Galway, known for its long winding promenade, beautiful beaches and traditional Gaeltacht culture of music, dancing and Irish language. Told through the eyes of residents who were present on the day, the film recalls the euphoric excitement felt within the local community. Nobody in Galway had ever experienced such privilege before, nor had they felt such an atmosphere, and they’d certainly never met someone as famous as the President of the United States of America.

In this Roy Spence film, Two children rescue an old woman from a gang of young bullies. She rewards them with a magic ring which enables them to "see things not as they are, but as they were." Along the way the pair encounter all many of quirky characters and witness quaint customs. This film is courtesy of Roy Spence and is held in the Irish Film Archive.

When two children discover a herd of cows at the end of the rainbow they are disappointed as they were expecting to find gold. The film traces the journey of butter from cows grazing, to milking, to the final churning of milk into a crock of gold – packets of butter – much to the delight of the children. It is a simple delight, and moments like the creative sound mixing in the laboratory scene gives you a taste of Spence’s filmmaking talents.

Everything Has An End, I Have Come To Mine, My Corpse Wrapped In Red Velvet Laid To Rest In A Field Of Wet Grass, Shimmering In The Moonlight. People Come And Go, They See But Choose To Ignore, Stepping Over Me With Smiles On Their Faces, Conversing, Laughing. A Thick, Bright Smoke Emerges From My Carcass And Engulfs Everything In Sight.

Tina returns home to try to come off crack, supervised by her mother. Together they embark upon a ‘rattle’. The whole thing is witnessed by her 3-year-old daughter.

An old woman thinks back to the murder of her husband by British officers.

A black goat talks to three old Irish folk-punks as they're walking home one night, and they freak out and kill it. The Devil turns up and claims it was his goat. He challenges them to play him a good song. If he likes it, he'll let them go. If he doesn't...

Who do you talk to, when you're frantically looking for a car space, need advice, help with the lotto numbers, or just to rant? This man talks to his dead Father. Conversations with my dead Father is an episode in the life of someone who lost their father but wants to continue the conversations. It's a film about remembering memories, some bitter, some sweet, it's about fights, diets, it's about missing the ones you love, it's about not letting go, it's about everyday chats. It's about life.

When Ireland went into lockdown due to COVID-19, the students of Trinity College Dublin started documenting what was happening to themselves, their friends, their families, and their world. This feature length documentary contains material created by 60 filmmakers from 14 countries to tell the story of young people seeing their world change forever.

On the windswept planes of the Burren, fifty-something bachelor Jimmy McEvoy spends his days constructing dry stone walls and waiting for a call from the matchmaker, as he muses on life and love.

Walking through the ruined streets and houses of Belchite and Corbera d'Ebre is like revisiting the summer of 1937 and 1938, when German aviation and Franco's artillery devastated the cities. Today, the ancient cities are a silent witness to the violence and brutal consequences of the Spanish Civil War.

An affable cat, new in town, just wants to make friends. But when he tries to befriend three dogs, he struggles to make them see him as he sees himself. He’s just one of the dogs.

In 1926, ten years after the Easter Rising, the Irish government decided to create a new coinage for the Free State. They invited the most famous poet in the world, W.B. Yeats, to chair the design committee. Behind-the-scenes battles were fought before the new coins became one of the most enduring success stories of the new Irish state.

Three women surf the waters off the west coast of Ireland, in a celebration of the radiant female surf community.

"September 10th 1998"

A Viennese actor has a stressful time on a student film set in Belfast.

On Our Own We Are Free To Do Many Things ocuses on the construction of the Romanian Palace of the Parliament (known as the Casa Poporului); the heaviest, most expensive and largest civilian administrative building in the world manically commissioned by Nicolae Ceauşescu in the 1980s. The film considers the problem of making a redundant legacy workable, such as the Casa Poporului that Ceauşescu left behind – too big to demolish, too big to utilise.

On a quiet day in a small Irish secondary school, one janitor decides that enough is finally enough.

Damien spends his days sweeping the corridors of a dance college, but is it time for this overlooked caretaker to step into the limelight?

An undertaker's secret admiration for the deceased is interrupted by a family quarrel that erupts in the final few minutes at an Irish wake.

Tommy finds it difficult to come to terms with his father's abandonment. His friend Conor helps Tommy with his struggles and unknowingly ends a cycle of abandonment.

A group of people are auditing to play the role of the Janitor, which one will get it?

As the potato blight tears through a rural community, a charitable woman helps young boys emigrate in search of a better life. But as quiet doubts begin to surface, questions emerge about her true intentions.