Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

An exploration of womanhood from the perspective of three different generations.

Irish miners describe their work underground.

Peace-loving drug lord Cosmo B. Fruitfly faces peril as his elite spy is kidnapped by his violent opposer, Ricardo Trentino and his nasty henchmen. With the fate of peace at stake, Fruitfly sends his two most loyal goons to rescue our captured co-vert agent.

Two twin brothers from a small town off the coast of Ireland try to change the world through healthy eating and living.

An Experiment In Light And Water Motion. Progressively Increasing In Speed And Deepening Layers And Impact Of Sound To Create Through Combined Effects An Hypnotic Attack On The Senses.

Based on the book by Richard Killeen of the same title, A Short History of Ireland covers the initial prehistoric settlers through modern membership in the European Union.

An ex-employee returns to his ex-workplace to apologise to his ex-friend. Then something strange happens.

In 1870s Kansas, an Irish immigrant and her American husband build a prairie homestead, only to find their new life unsettled by strange and unsettling events.

In little more than a decade, Buncrana native Frank McGuinness has produced a body of startlingly imaginative work that has played to audiences all over the world. His plays cross social, cultural, and political divides best exemplified in his ground–breaking work Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and its companion piece Carthaginians, about Bloody Sunday in Derry. Both address catastrophic events in the Catholic and Protestant psyches. Clear the Stage examines the work of this important Irish writer. Interviewees include: Frank McGuinness; David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party; Trevor Nunn, Director of the National Theatre, London; Brian Keenan, former Beirut hostage, and singer/songwriter Marianne Faithful.

Set in 2006, a directionless young man Mark, finds himself trapped working in a dying video store. His apathy towards cinema is challanged when faith brings John into his store. While not his original intention John brings a new found passion for cinema out in Mark.

When a friend needs help from another timeframe and spacetime, young lighthouse keeper Aisling Fletch must help to find the light even in the darkest times.

Bluebird is a twisted drama, scattered with comedic elements, focused around the re-connection between an estranged father and son in the worst possible place: a brothel.

A trans woman has gone very far in her transition journey, but she still feels like something is amiss.

In 1929, the Ardnacruscha hydroelectric power station was inaugurated in County Clare, Ireland. Observing the interplay of water and concrete, this essay examines the majestic edifice by replacing it in the context of a burgeoning modern nation-state.

Innocence Echoing Its Defeat In Memories Damaged Retina Skin Contact Body Torn Twisted Twice Blessed In Blissful Anemia Condemned Unholy By The Formless Controller Of Traumas Burning Kingdom Punctured Cut Drained Of Love Drained Beaten Revoked Of Hope Revoked Renounced Reborn Deathly And Afraid Breath Seared And Agonized Walking Alongside Its Own Mirrored Safety Unreachable Behind The Glass Veil Of Deliverance Falsely Martyred Screaming Yesterdays Promises Into The Supreme Mouths Of Contempt Returned And Realized Pain Constant And Relieved Teeth Torn From Youths Hunger Left Starved And Ruptured Dreams Drowned Down In Blood Blessed Blindly But Unforgiven.

Inspired by Cliodhna Cussen, Cloch is an evocation of the art of stone-carving, drawing on the work of James McKenna and on the Kilkenny sculpture workshop of 1975. Bob Quinn said about the project, “The main aspect that interested me was the physical relationship between a person and inanimate material.”

This thinly veiled advertisement for Irish Sweepstake tickets was made for the US and UK market at a time when gambling was illegal in those territories. It opens with a whistle-stop tour of Dublin locations before showing massive Sweepstake operations – which employed thousands of female clerical workers in Ireland in the 1930s.

After recovering from a mental breakdown, a young woman shows up uninvited to a friend's gathering, where a game of Would You Rather threatens to push her over the edge.

A flight attendant discovers her partner isn't who she thought he was.

A portrait of the sculptor Seamus Murphy from Cork, Ireland.

Mero makes her way into the city by train. It feels like this might be her first time out in some time. She ducks into her favourite café where a mug of coffee and an encounter with a kindred spirit put her at ease.

Amanda has painted in isolation for years, using art as both expression and refuge. Institutionalised and labelled, she reclaims her narrative through her canvas. As she prepares for her first retrospective, her story reaches national newspapers, and she navigates the vulnerability of sharing her art and her truth. Will this confrontation lead to healing or a reopening of old wounds? Through immersive explorations of her luminous works, Jiménez’s documentary captures Amanda’s transformation of silence into radiance.

Short film.

Bombs, rockets, a hammer and sickle, the USA flag and Laika the dog race around the moon in this powerful stop-motion animation depicting the Space Race during the Cold War. Moonshine belies Kerrigan’s political interests and demonstrates the refinement of her skill as an accomplished animator.

Mikey's new friend, Pidgey, follows him home for family prayer time. Unfortunately, the sanctity of Mammy's sitting room is no place for a chaotic pigeon. What happens next will change things for Mikey forever.

Based on the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W. B. Yeats. The images act as a visual re-metaphoring of the poem, set to modern electronic music.

A young woman meets her family in the past, only to discover her identity is a lie.

A documentary exploring the life of Irish surgeon Denis Burkitt, who discovered Burkitt's lymphoma, as told by a survivor of this cancer.

In rural Ireland, an old man living in fear and isolation risks everything to protect himself from dangerous intruders.

Teaman battles the cuckold Vegan King and also discovers something crazy about the omniverse.

Matthew discovers a mysterious letter and is forced to come to terms with his perception of sin.

A surfing duel breaks out between a male and female surfer off the West Coast of Ireland. Breaking waves, racing hearts, and the treachery of Lycra.

The friendship between two friends end when one finally admits they need to part ways.

This video documents the project Duncan Campbell created during his Dar Jacir residency, in which he worked with Samer Albarbari to restore and repaint a 1987 Peugeot 405 car.

Exploring the life's work of eighty-year-old glass bender Paddy Dignam, this film follows the man who used the streets as his gallery, illuminating Ireland with one iconic piece of work after another.

Edgy political comedian Bill Shanks fights to enlighten his potty-mouthed audience, to the dismay of his manager.

A frenetic night of debauchery, armed robbery, and the consumption of legal and illegal narcotic substances & eating babies - all in a night out for two stowaway bears.

In a tiny cell, somewhere in the Prison District of Heaven, there is a new inmate. A demon, she will not look out her window because the light burns her. But outside there is a persistent visitor...

The Black Lives Matter movement found a renewed voice in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, gaining global support from all cultures and ethnicities. It brought the subject of racism and immigration sharply into focus in Ireland as never before. NEW GAELS tells the unique stories of four GAA players who began life in a different countries. They came here for varying reasons, but all now share a common love of Gaelic Games. As they tell us of their experiences on and off the field, we will hear how their involvement in our national sports has influenced their lives and their connection with their new homeland - as well as seeing them in action.

Celebrating the joys of an Irish Wedding in all its pleasant predictability - the requisite chats about the weather, the haggle over the beef or salmon, the losing of the rings, the ditching of the heels, the intergenerational whirl around the dancefloor. Alex Fegan (Older than Ireland, The Irish Pub) captures all that is familiar but also conveys the momentousness of the day from the pre-wedding nerves, to the tenderness of the first kiss, from the affectionate humour of the speeches to the melancholy moments as absent friends are remembered. The Irish Wedding presents a pleasingly diverse community of brides and grooms in this warm-hearted and thoroughly entertaining survey of Irish nuptial activity.

One of Rashidi’s freest and most mysterious films to date, CIRCUMCISION OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION weaves a series of humorous, frightening and ultimately hypnotic vignettes into a visionary tapestry of cinematic dreaming.

In the depths of the countryside lies a school where eight boys are enrolled. Banking on the promises of education and rehabilitation, they struggle to come to terms with the situation of brutality and cruelty they are in. As a plan to escape moulds, and the levels of cruelty increase, the boys try to search for something to grasp, maybe a way out, or the meaning of life itself.

Two abused children Joseph Glasspole and Jimmy Fudgewell suffer under the wrath of their oppressive midwestern father Mr. Hillbilly

The life of an elite tracking dog as he is trained in Ireland and then deployed to protect Black Rhino from ruthless poachers in Africa.

The smallest of things transport Hazel back to the past. Something happened, something so loud that it silenced everything else.

On a stormy night a little girl takes cover in an old fridge and finds herself in a once familiar home, but the rain is seeping in and the house is changing.

The story of singer Johnny Cash's tour in 1963 and his relationship with Ireland, featuring archive footage and first-hand accounts of a troubled time in the country star's life, and hearing from Irish people who saw him up close.

Jimmy runs a pirate radio station in a small Irish town. But when his broadcasts interfere with air traffic, the authorities send in the heavies.

Seamlessly weaving archival material with masterfully convincing reenacted footage, Few Can See throws us into a television set as it covers the late 1980s conflict in Northern Ireland. The film brings life what was intentionally omitted from the archive, shedding light on the blackout strikes that were broadcast across Ireland and Britain in response to media censorship.

A love crisis told to his past self.

In this award winning film, a young girl's unusual bond with an reclusive old man has unexpected results.

Dustin and his friend, Snotser, put together a boy band called Mankind featuring band members Simon Murphy, Paul Barry, Ronan McDonald, John McCall and Chris Miller.

Having grown up in London, Lucy is only just adapting to life with an estranged family in the Irish countryside when a mysterious object appears in the sky. The possibility of first contact sparks a new sense of motivation, leading her to explore the island on which she has been struggling to settle over the past few months. Lucy’s plans soon clash with her father’s overprotective reaction and her brother’s apparent disconnection to the appearance of the object, which has coincided with his own doubts as to whether this small, remote island is really the best home for either of them.

In a world ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, a resilient lone survivor discovers a sanctuary, seeking solace and security. However, as time unfolds, the survivor uncovers a horrifying truth: the supposed safe haven is under the control of a deranged psychopath.

"Ó Bhéal" (Irish for 'by word of mouth' or 'from the mouth') is a cinematic exploration of hip hop and electronic artists in Ireland who embrace oral traditions of folklore, ancient poetry and sean-nós singing to create a new fusion sound. Featuring Irish-language rappers Seán ‘Mory’ Ó Muirgheasa and Oisín Mac, producer and multi-instrumentalist Fehdah, and Limerick rapper Strange Boy.

A comical documentary film by Roy Spence focuses on the various stages of a bottle of school milk. The commentary is given by a pint-sized cartoon character called Junior who appears on the milk-bottle cap. He explains the whole procedure to a little girl at school who has confused the words ‘diary’ and ‘’dairy’. This charming educational film was made for the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland.

The Serpent’s Of Yesteryear Have Returned Hungry And Vengeful, They Seek Not Only Time And Thought But Belief And Conviction. If Nothing Else Let This Be A Confession, It Will Be Known That My Betterment Lies In Self-Hatred And Self-Violence Not In The Factious Or Resistance To Memory.

The story of Irish football’s golden generation and how they achieved unprecedented success at underage level in the late 1990s. Kerr’s Kids tells the story of these heady times, two decades on, through the eyes of those who were there. Hosted by Kerr himself, there are heartfelt contributions from Damien Duff, Robbie Keane, Richard Dunne, Stephen McPhail, John O’Shea and many more, all of whom are quick to praise the pivotal role that Kerr played in their success.

Your Words Make No Sense To Me, You Speak Them In Vain, Your Eyes Look Upon Me, Yet You Ignore My Present Pain. I Despise Your Reluctant Helping Hand, I Don’t Need You To Love Me, I Don’t Want You To Understand. Have You Or Have You Not. Will You Or Will You Not. Can You Or Can You Not. Are You Or Are You Not. Am I Who You Think You Are?