Features

A FILM WITH ME IN IT
2008/ Ireland (89 min)
Director:  Ian Fitzgibbon
Mark is having a bad day. His long-suffering girlfriend is about to walk out, his landlord is ready to evict him. He’s only got his best mate Pierce and their ambition of writing a career-breaking film to sustain him. Life’s not easy, but things are about to get worse...much worse, and then some-one dies and things get really bad. 

BEHOLD THE LAMB
2011 /Northern Ireland  (85 min)
Director: John McIlduff
2012 Honoree: Best Feature
In an attempt to save the neck of his junkie son Joe, Eddie agrees to do a mysterious pick up with the help of Joe’s girlfriend Liz. The two head off across mid Ulster and eventually find them-selves in possession of a lamb. En-route they fumble their way through a series of comic, tragic and disturbing adventures.  In between moments of unexpected heroism and unlikely sightings of birds, Eddie’s dysfunctional humanity connects with Liz’s tortured past and a kind of healing begins.

STELLA DAYS
2011 / Ireland  (100 min)  
Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan
2012 Honoree: Director's Choice Feature
A small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood and a man and his conscience. Stella Days is the story of a man, a story about the conflict between love and duty, hope and faith, and be-tween the excitement of the unknown and the security of the familiar. It encapsulates the dilemma of Ireland in the mid-1950s - on the cusp of the modern but still clinging to the traditions of church and a cultural identity forged in very different times. 

THE QUIET MAN
1952/ Ireland/USA (129 min)
Director: John Ford
60th Anniversary Screening
Starring: John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara
The story of a man who leaves his home in America to return to a simpler life. Instead, he becomes involved in a fiery courtship with a local girl, and a brawl with her aggressive, dowry-withholding brother.

Shorts

ALL THAT WAY FOR LOVE
2010 (20 min)
Director: Henry Mason A young idealistic Irishman, travelling across Africa to reach his girlfriend, hitches a ride with a warring European couple. The crossfire could be deadly.

COLLABORATION HORIZONTALE
2010 (14 min)
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
A famous photograph taken by Robert Capa of the Liberation Day in a small town in France shows locals celebrating victory over the Germans...or does it?

DOWNPOUR
2011 /  Ireland  (3 min)
Director: Claire Dix
2012 Honoree: Director's Choice Short
This short film is a celebration of Irish rain. A bride-to-be recalls pivotal moments in her relationship that all took place in a shower, a drizzle, or a down-pour. 

23 DEGREES 5 MINUTES
2011 (10 min)
Director: Darragh O’Connell
An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place.

EVEN GODS
2010 (18 min)
Director: Phil Harrison
Hughie has gotten used to life in a Belfast hostel. But when his estranged daughter gets in touch, the boundaries of Hughie’s solid life begin to blur.

THE SHORE
2011/ U.K. (29 min)
Director: Terry George
The Shore is the inspiring story of two boyhood best friends - Joe (Ciarán Hinds) and Paddy (Conleth Hill) - divided by 25 years of mis-understanding. What happened all those years ago? Can old wounds be healed? The answer is in equal parts hilarious and moving.

FOXES
2011 (14 min)
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Foxes tells the tale of a young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIMMY
2010 (3 min)
Director: Johnny Cullen
Timmy gets an inappropriate present from his father. 

JONNY BOY
2011 (7 min)
Director: Laura Way
As she gradually slips away, Jonny lov-ingly reassures his wife on her death-bed. Determined to reveal the burden that she has been carrying for their thirty five year marriage, Nell confesses a secret which opens a door to Jonny’s past bringing her life, and his, round full circle.

SAFE INSIDE
2011 (2 min)
Director: Colette O’Neill
Safe Inside is an experimental short film that explores the perspective of someone or something safe inside their world.

ORIGIN
2011 (6 min)
Director: James Stacey
A young man is on the brink of emigration but as he races through the streets of Dublin, he comes to realize the spirit he is leaving behind.

A PEDIGREE PERFORMANCE
2010 (7 min)
Director: Sarah McCann
A short light-hearted documentary on a typical show-day for a Charolais breeder. 

PENTECOST
2012/ Ireland (11 min)
Director: Peter McDonald
Against his will, Damian Lynch is called in at the last moment to serve as an al-tar boy at an important mass in the local parish. He faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or serve an extended ban from his passion in life, football. 

RETURN TO ROSCOFF
2011 (15 min)
Director: Ken Wardrop
A woman attempts to introduce her son to his estranged father.

SWITCH
2011 (8 min)
Director: Thomas Hefferon
A man seeking atonement discovers that righting his wrongs may take more than he’s prepared to give. 

THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE
2011 (8 min)
Director: Kealan O’Rourke
Ten year old Rupert has fallen hopelessly in love. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again.Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever.

THE SHOT
2010 (7 min)
Director: Samuel Steele
Two hitmen have a bit of a relational breakdown while out on a job. After all...everyone has problems.

TOM’S SCEADU
2011 (15 min)
Director: Liam Delahunty
Recently retired Tom likes to do the shopping, enjoys watching TV and gardening. But when he is in his shed, he really comes alive.

WASHED UP LOVE
2011 (6 min)
Director: Dylan Cotter
Moira is looking for love. Love doesn’t even know he’s missing.

WE THE MASSES
2011 (13 min)
Director: Eoghan Kidney
A short animated film based on the art-work of Robyn O’Neil. 

Docs

BALLYMUN LULLABY
2011/ Ireland (72 min)
Director: Frank Berry
2012 Honoree: Best Documentary
Music teacher Ron Cooney has been working in the Republic of Ireland’s only high-rise housing estate for fifteen years. During this time, he has seen the area undergo a dramatic transforma-tion, including the demolition of six of its seven tower blocks. The young people of Ballymun have had an extraordinary experience, and Ron sets out to produce a collection of music that gives voice to their story.

BERNADETTE: Notes on a Political Journey
2011/ Ireland (50 min)
Director: Lelia Doolan
Made over a nine year period, this film charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted with Devlin McAliskey, director Lelia Doolan perfectly encapsulates the idiosyncrasies and rebelliousness which has fuelled her subject’s pivotal role at the heart of civil rights, feminism and socialism in Northern Ireland.

DREAMING THE QUIET MAN
2010/ Ireland (90 min)
Director: Sé Merry DoyleProducer
In this documentary, commentators and filmmakers including Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Jim Sheridan, and Maureen O’Hara wrestle with the 60-year legacy of John Ford’s signature Irish American film

HOT PRESS: THE WRITE STUFF
2011/ Ireland (54 min)
Director:  John O’DonnellIn
1977, Niall Stokes and Mairin Sheehy founded Hot Press, a music magazine that became a political and cultural rallying point for alternative ideas. The documentary tells the tumultuous story of those early years through the memories of its writers and staff.

IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW
2010/ Ireland (58 min)
Director: Andrew Gallimore
The dramatic historical connotations and true story behind the epic world featherweight title match that took place between Barry McGuigan and Eusebio Pedroza, a now legendary fight that gripped an entire Irish nation on one hot summer’s night in 1985.

THE ROAD TO MONEYGALL
2011/ Ireland (56 min)
Director:  Ed Godsell
A documentary about Barack Obama’s long lost cousin, Henry Healy, and his efforts to bring the American president to visit him in the remote Irish village of Moneygall. Filmed with full-access over the course of nearly four years, this is the story of how the most famous man of the 21st century came to the village that time forgot. 

TUBAISTE ÁRAINN MHOR
2011/ Ireland (50 min)
Director: David Starkey
On the 75th anniversary of the biggest disaster ever to hit Arranmore Island, Donegal when 19 people drowned just a few hundred feet from shore after re-turning from the tattyhoking season in Scotland, the islanders who witnessed the after math, re-visit the pain of that dreadful day.The only survivor, Paddy Gallagher lost 7 members of his family and was unable to speak about the horror of that night for 50 years. Much of this gripping documentary was filmed in the house where Paddy spent months recovering before returning home.