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Screening Online March 17 - 21, 2021

Films have been scheduled in the traditional fashion, with new films ‘premiering’ at designated times during each day of the festival. Each online film will be available to unlock for 72 hours after it premieres and you will have 48 hours to finish watching the film once you hit play. Each screening is limited to a select number of attendees so if you want to make sure you see a film, the safest option is to pre-book.

Available Wednesday, March 17, 7:00 PM

Ireland, 1845 on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier in the Napoleonic wars arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a disease that eventually wipes out the country’s potato crop, contributing to the death and displacement of millions. 

As the crops rot in the fields, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the English Landlord’s house to request a stay on rent increases that Colmán predicts will destroy his community. His request falls on deaf ears and that night Patsy goes on a murderous rampage killing five people including the Landlord and Colmán’s brother, Seán.

Two years later and millions of Irish have either died or been displaced. Colmán, blamed for the murders and on the run is unable to prevent the death of his loved ones. Isolated on a rocky island he is driven mad with the trauma of his loss and lives a feral existence in a realm between life and death.

After a failed suicide attempt, Colmán encounters a young girl, Kitty, abandoned on the mainland. In an attempt to help her he is injured in an attack and they are both stranded on the island. They nurse each other back from the brink and a life saving friendship develops. But Colmán’s respite is short lived when Patsy, now in the employment of an English bounty hunter returns to find him.

Available Thursday, March 18, at 7:00 PM

A boozy 44-year-old single mother becomes pregnant from a one-night-stand, much to the shame of her buttoned-up teen daughter.
A Bump Along the Way is a female-led, feel good, comedy drama set in Derry, Northern Ireland, about a middle-aged woman whose unexpected pregnancy after a one-night stand acts as the catalyst for her to finally take control of her life and become the role model her teenage daughter needs and craves.

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Available FRIDAY, March 19, at 7:00 PM

Two brothers and a woman they’ve just met journey across the island of Ireland to bury a stranger.

A comedy-drama road movie telling the story of a man bringing the body of someone he barely knows for burial with his family. His good intentions are motivated by trying to patch up his relationship with his own brother. However, en route from West Cork to Rathlin Island, both romance and family secrets emerge to complicate the trip.

Available Saturday, March 20, at 7:00 PM

There is much rivalry between twin sisters Emma and Chantal, quite different in just about every way, when their mysterious young neighbor moves back in.