Producer
Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland’s islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questioned by a provocative cinematic approach that ultimately results in a hypnotic and visceral inquiry into the very possibility of documentary objectivity.
Director
Panti Bliss is many things: part glamorous aunt, part Jessica Rabbit, she's a wittily incisive performer with charisma to burn who is regarded as one of the best drag queens in the business. Created by Rory O'Neill, Panti is also an accidental activist and in her own words 'a court jester, whose duty is to say the un-sayable'. Over the last few years Rory has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and since the recent scandal around Pantigate, his fight for equality and against homophobia has been recognised all around the world.
Director
Poet Kevin Barrington takes to the streets at night to confront what terrifies him.
Steven
Mientras clasifica material de archivo rodado a principios del siglo XX, David descubre que su casa fue el escenario de un terrible crimen. Un hecho luctuoso que amenaza con proyectar una sombra fantasmagórica sobre la vida del protagonista. Usando las imágenes de archivo como algo espeluznante, The Canal se convierte en una gran muestra de terror psicológico.
Writer
Following a bad breakup, relationship councilor Cormac Kavanagh starts sleeping with his clients in a misguided attempt to reignite their passions.
Tom
Eoin is a businessman who can no longer pay the bills or the mortgage, Paul is a landlord with the banks breathing down his neck, and Monika is a Polish cleaner whose minimum wage job is under threat. All three are struggling for survival and forced into increasingly desperate actions in the hope of keeping their lives and families together. Through separate but interlinked stories their choices will affect their own lives as well as each others.
Director
A man dances underwater with his 76 year old mother.
Director
The making of a portrait is an intimate experience, one which can be a pleasurable event for both parties or one that's fraught with difficulties. Either way, to paint someone's picture is a unique way of really getting under their skin. In a world where anyone can make a realistic likeness on their cellphone, the importance of the painted portrait remains: as an emblem of power and prestige, as a political act and ultimately as a memorial. These themes and many others are explored through the work of three of Ireland's most notable portrait painters: James Hanley, Mick O'Dea and Brian Maguire.
Director
What goes on behind the scenes when one of Ireland's biggest sporting events takes place on the field of Croke Park? This enthralling observational documentary follows the off-pitch story of All Ireland Football Final day.
Director
Documentary short.
Village Guard
In a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis.
Writer
In a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis.
Director
In a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis.
Father
Lowland is a teenage girl temporarily living in the middle-of-nowhere Ireland while her father is on an archaeological dig. When she happens across two young brothers cutting peat in a bog, a surprise discovery brings the three of them together for a night of exploration
Director
A visually based exploration and appreciation of the work of artist Dorothy Cross, showing many of the highlights of her career to date, framed by her evolving and passionate relationship with the sea. The film follows her as she embarks on a new sea-based project in New Ireland, an island off Papua New Guinea that is one of the last true wildernesses left on Earth. This documentary marks the first time the artist has agreed to participate in a film about her work.
Millen Ayre
Some people live to work. Some people work to live. Dave Bracken works to love.
Director
Almost one hundred people from all over Ireland talk about their experiences of happiness.
Writer
On hearing she may not have long to live, a woman in her fifties goes looking for love in all the wrong places.
Director
On hearing she may not have long to live, a woman in her fifties goes looking for love in all the wrong places.
