Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

Ronan, who hails from the people's republic of cork, is struggling to fit in in Dublin City (aka da big shmoke), as he lets his date, Eve, out of his apartment he starts to realize he can't keep up his facade any longer.

All the plants and animals begin mysteriously exiting earth.

All is swell in Milan’s humble abode. The pants people are dancing, da Kirk, Stephen and Epstein are having a blast. When all of a sudden a foe appears… Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

While trying to take her own life, Mai is interrupted when a young, pregnant woman in distress calls to her door in desperate need of help.

Struggling writer Sam works to overcome his self-doubt and write his next great work of art with the help of his roommate Clarisse and old mentor Mr. Lynch.

A simple charming story of two aligned souls who appear to be the exact opposite of one another - like day and night, who try to find a way to meet each other in the middle - at sunset.

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.

A priest plots revenge on the archbishop he thinks has failed him.

A man goes to increasingly desperate lengths to avoid his girlfriend discovering the web of lies he has woven.

The village of Rhode takes to the big screen for an event like no other. Watch as some of the community's brightest personalities take on some of cinema's biggest characters. Films such as The Young Offenders, A Few Good Men, The Field, Sister Act, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Derry Girls and The Snapper. Watch all of them on the Rhode GAA YouTube channel!

Two exhausted detectives are hunting down a calculated serial killer, who has left cryptic clues pointing to connection to each murders that has happened over the following days. The two detective are now in a situation where every second counts. Will they solve the disturbing case before the clock hits 12? Or will there be another crime scene to clean up?

Mirroring The Distance Between Natural Surroundings And Internal Separation. Duel Vision Within A Deepened State Of Dissociation. Nature And Psychosis Side By Side, Thinly Divided And Relentlessly Oppressive. Moments Which Could Not Last, Captured Briefly Alongside Their Reckoning.

A man returns home.

Brief And Buried Glimpses Of Abandoned Creation. Flashing And Fainting Towards A Distant Sorrow. Layers Of A Reality Rippling Wild Through The Solemn Slits Of Eternity. Returned And Exactly Violent As The Bodies Worth, Soundless As The Sighs Of A Gentle Heaven, Mirrored And Upheld. Transformed Through The Irreparable And Absurd Assurance Of Indefinable Loss.

A short documentary about women's football in Ireland.

When White podcaster Áine sees a Black girl dancing around Dublin's famine statues, she believes she has uncovered an ancient ritual to discuss on her show.

Texas Ollie, a film about a cowboy, not any cowboy but a Donegal cowboy. This hour-long documentary starring Ollie Hepburn and showcases his life and love for horses.

Jack realises his fish are slowly disappearing one by one. His younger brother Andrew is acting strangely at night.

A woman, returns to a family funeral to find out the truth about her father.

The acclaimed electronic duo visit St James' Church in Dingle, Ireland, to play a show for the "Other Voices" live music series.

A bathroom conversation between two friends, where a single possibility of pregnancy threatens to unravel their entire future.

An exploration of childhood comfort items and the psychological and emotional significance they hold.

A monk wants to haves a little peaceful outdoors meditation but he is continually interrupted by an annoying fly.

A young boy steals away from an old man's wake and wanders into the surrounding countryside.

Looped, Distorted And Layered Hallway Footage. Increasing In Intensity And Detail. Terrorized Intervals Visualizing Momentary Separation From Self And Form.

M.A. Littler's film diary, Beyond the White Rains, subtly reflects the dichotomy of man, mind, and place. In Littler's singular style, the film juxtaposes an author's interior landscape with the dramatic exterior of a remote coastal setting. Set within the interior of an old whaler's cottage, the film captures the ever-changing weather, the impervious sea, and moving clouds, reflecting a lifelong study of the interaction between man and place. Enigmatic, elegiac, and at times eerie, the film's pared-down images and otherworldly sound design reveal both the external beauty and the haunting interior landscape.

A young lobster fisherman catches a white lobster but when he ignores warnings of a curse for keeping such a catch, strange things start to happen.

On a cold Christmas Eve, two friends get ready to go out, when a knock is heard on their door.

After the tragic suicide of Jack's friend Josh, a year after his death a group of friends go on a camping trip in a forest that takes a dark turn.

‘WAKE’ is a short film dedicated to the moments between death and funeral. The suspension of ones life. An acknowledgement of the enormity of obliterating work that is to be done, but that categorically cannot all be done yet. ‘WAKE’ is a reflection of grief before the grief sets in.

A headstrong single mother, struggling in her relationship with her teenage daughter, gets caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with some local teenagers.

Part 3 Of The Glimmered Barriers Trilogy. A Loud And Intrusive Examination Of Grief, Psychosis And Derealization. Drifting Irresolutely In The Birthing Envy Of Mystery, The Oppressive Repetitions Of A Deep Lived Disease Stealing The Hope Within. Through Three Distorted Phases Of Multicolored Awakenings, Violently Representative And Worsening With Time, Progressing Downward. Grief Surpassing Sorrow, Light Outlasting Memory, Mind Infecting Body. Shrouded In Memories Plague, Vanishing Into A Loathsome Dream, Somewhere Between A Curse And A Miracle.

A man finds a dead body in a field while on a walk to clear his head.

After her death by a Russian missile, a Ukrainian woman finds herself in the purgatory of the Irish countryside — between past and present, life and death. A poetic film essay about trauma, exile as death, and the struggle to exist in an unreal world.

When a young girl moves into a secluded house on the edge of an ancient forest, she discovers a mysterious fairy ring hidden within. Drawn by curiosity, she crosses a threshold never meant to be broken - unleashing the preternatural, as the forgotten rules of the old world claw their way back.

This film explores gender identity in Ireland. It focuses on two main questions: what is gender identity and where is it located in the individual (is it in the heart, is it in the body, is it in the soul?). Three Irish based transgender people, Lucie/Richard, Diane and Stephen, answer these questions from the position of their own gender journey experiences.

A year in the life of the Sightless Cinema audio drama network, as they embark on their biggest show to date. The Sightless Cinema network is a group of blind and visually impaired people who create audio dramas for performance in theatres and cinemas. Founded in 2015 by theatre director Ciarán Taylor, and sound artist Rachel Ní Chuinn, Sightless Cinema has grown from a tiny group to a nationwide community. Director Gareth Stack followed Sightless Cinema as they rehearsed and performed their new show across Ireland. Members of the group candidly discuss their sight loss and how their lives have been shaped by blindness. We watch their creative process in action. As Sightless Cinema turn their lived experiences of blindness into compelling audio theatre.

Tinsmith, storyteller, and traditional fiddler, John Doherty, travels the hills of Donegal. Here he talks to Sean O'Haughey of the Irish Folklore Commission. John Doherty was born into a very musical travelling family in February 1900 in the Ardara area of Co. Donegal as the youngest of 9 children. The film follows John’s travels and explores the Doherty family’s place in the musical traditions of the countryside. John’s parents were Mickey Mór Doherty and Mary McConnell. Mickey Mór Doherty had a musical inheritance of a couple of generations of both Doherty and Sweeney musicians on his father’s side. Also, Mary McConnell was a sister of Alec and Mickey McConnell, who were very well-known travelling tinsmiths and fiddle players in their day.

insecure. tells the story of Sean, a student in his 6th year of secondary school, and the battles he faces with his insecurities as he yearns to be accepted by those around him.

A young woman fights with her sobriety.

In modern-day Ireland, on Christmas Eve, a hardworking man, influenced by the anti-immigrant rhetoric around him and in the media, faces a life-altering event that forces him to confront his own prejudices and realise the humanity behind those he once feared.

A man gets a call to do a job. It's not what you think.

SKINFLICKER blends hand processed Super8 footage with a digital editing technique that extracts and arbitrarily shuffles each frame of the film. It reinterprets the flicker film form using a purely digital editing and explores the representation of a body through surface (film) and fragmentation, accompanied by a percussion soundtrack played on the Irish bodhrán, itself made from animal hide.

A one-minute, one-take short dance film.

Daddy goes to get the milk.

Deirdre, who is new to relationships is met with the struggle many people with uteruses have to go through each month; the age old question "Am I sick, or am I pregnant?"

In this short documentary, Nora Twomey discovers the activities of her great-grandmother on the Anti-Treaty side of the War of Independence and Civil War.

A documentary about what karaoke means to three very different college students from across Ireland.

A portrait of a deeply religious farmer from County Meath, Ireland.

A gothic-infused escapade where slapstick visual gags are playfully tested. A man disappears into a bathtub and out hops a woman; a fisherman casts his rod over a hill into a glass container which tries to swallow him; a gravedigger makes a futile attempt to lift a headstone. Two men enter a tunnel seconds before a train, only to exit a few moments later, visibly injured.

A portrait of avant-garde artist Aurelio Caminati (1922–2008), whose prophetic vision spanned six turbulent decades through a determined compulsion to create.  Set against the baroque intensity of Ireland's wild Atlantic coast and local heritage, the film fuses the raw power of nature with this resistance master's defiant, ever-evolving body of work.  Aurelio Caminati channels nature's fury – declaring nature as the ultimate power source. Rejecting artistic and ideological conformity, Caminati plunges the viewer into subconscious undercurrents arising when storm-force nature trumps conventional ideologies.

Immrám is a lyrical, experimental journey through Ireland's land and language, following a family's path of cultural revival, spiritual pilgrimage, and everyday resistance guided by myth, community, and the enduring voice of philosopher John Moriarty.

Picture Me Gone draws a lyrical parallel between animals confined in aquariums and our relationship to screens. Shot on an iPhone 13, its blurred visuals and meditative soundscape explore disconnection and longing in artificial worlds.

The story of a refugee born in a camp in war torn Iraq on the day the Gulf War began. Zak and his family share their experiences from fleeing their home to building a new life in Ireland, where Zak finds a community and his passion through the Irish Gaelic sport of hurling. After 20 years since leaving Iraq, he returns to reconnect with his past on an emotional journey. It is a poignant and inspiring story of resilience and hope, that explores the importance, meaning and feeling of a home. The film had its Irish Premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh 2024.

A documentary style film about an old man’s journey from his home in Roche’s Point to Whitebay, Whitegate, Rostellan, Cork City, Iniscarra, Carrigadrohid Castle, ending up in Gougan Barra where he contemplates the grave of Cork’s first Bishop (Saint Finbarr).

A guy thinks he sees a UFO. His roommate doesn't believe him.

Inspired by the real-life experiences of Irish women, this film showcases the reality of female subjection and sexualisation, told through evocative text messages and intimate visuals.

Fiadh, an overworked student, begins to make sacrifices to a demon to save her failing grade in Irish class.

A chaotic journey into the world of Irish transport.