Hugh O'Conor

Centres on the sisters as they initially use the machine to discover music from future and place bets, before realising it will best be used to help fight the Nazis. But when the sisters clash, the consequences are catastrophic.

"And then the bliss came, as though in being suspended in this cosmic movement and losing the motility that comes from taking a stand and taking hold, I had found what I went down in the sea to find.” - Alphonso Lingis, The Rapture of the Deep. A marine biologist meditates on the enigmatic figure of Libris Solar, an alchemical blend of human, non-human and neoprene.

A ballad of extinction, biodiversity loss and ecological collapse, Dust is a quiet lament from a near future.

A meditation on the love of a father for his estranged daughter. A last meeting, a reparation, a benign waiting to tell her goodbye.

A solitary man and woman become increasingly aware that their separate worlds consist of uniquely enclosed environments. Are they listening to their surroundings? Can they survive without listening? They discover that the sounds of five words are their only means of communication and perhaps their only means of escape.

Nothing is safe at the moment but then, nothing is ever ‘safe’ in matters of love. From the digital world of online dating, to meeting face to face for the first time; is finding true romance a dream or can Sam and Andi find a way to be together? A journey of love for our times, an encounter full of trepidation where distance is just as vital as those soaring feelings of attraction. When romance is at stake, yet circumstances prevail… just how close would you get?

We sit and watch as white swans sail serenely by. Yet once in a while, along comes a black swan, and our world turns upside down. A horse drowns. Next door. We all observe. But who is the horse and who is the watcher? And will we be next? Wait and see.

Drawing on the tragic, true story of a wartime shipwreck of a boat carrying Nazi German soldiers and a group of captive French sex workers, La Corbière highlights the dehumanising power of fear—in particular fear of the Other.

When Marty breaks Jackie's heart, her sister takes matters into her own hands, and calls him out as explosively as she can. A comic short which shows what happens when Belfast girls lose their temper in a very, very public way!

Fail me not, doc. You’re all I’ve got, doc. Join the dots, doc. A three act tragicomedy where a woman finds the strength to embrace her doctor’s failure.

In seven sad, funny, and absurd vignettes, two people navigate the changes within their world and within themselves in a time of pandemic. As they jump from one situation to another, we see how they adapt to new rituals and new vocabulary.

A response to a terrifying walk through a Covid hot zone in a Birmingham hospital in April as seen through the lens of a medieval English poem.

A woman sits awake in a screen-lit room, awaiting news about her mother’s imminent passing. Tuning into the tides of electrical hum around her, she wonders about the parallels between this power and the force that gives life to the body.

A traditional ballad is reimagined as modern-day fairytale in three dreamlike scenes. A noblewoman murders her lover, is taunted by a magical talking bird (who has witnessed the crime) and, ultimately, is accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake.

At a boarding school in Dublin City, a young boy secretly mourns the loss of his mother.

At a boarding school in Dublin City, a young boy secretly mourns the loss of his mother.

A Garda is coached on how to answer awkward questions. It's awkward. Awkward question for you: what's the difference between answering truthfully and telling the truth? Another one: what's the difference between self-defence and pre-emptive offence? Last one, promise: do you trust Gardaí always know the difference?

Mark Boyle, having given up technology for a life in rural Galway, meditates upon his daily rituals; of writing by hand and the ease to which sleep finds him.

When conversations occur through screens, our eyes can't meet. Our connection falters, then breaks. In these times of rift and rupture, who haunts the glitch?

When conversations occur through screens, our eyes can't meet. Our connection falters, then breaks. In these times of rift and rupture, who haunts the glitch?

Alone in her lab, a scientist studying the 1.26 million square kilometre mass of floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch looks for patterns, and some kind of meaning. By looking at the phenomena of ghost apples, and seabird corpses loaded with plastics, she starts to uncover the disastrous and indelible imprint humankind is making on our planet.

A setting of letters Beethoven wrote to Nannette Streicher about struggles with his laundry, servants and mental state. He whips himself into a frenzy of paranoia and compares his maid’s laziness with Christ’s suffering on Golgotha.

Sometimes we are our own worst enemy... We fall victim to a conscience poisoned by society's repressing landscape. A rupture occurs within ourselves – the timeless fight between good and evil.

The true story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star.

An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.

An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.

Twin sisters Emma and Chantal couldn't be more unalike. When their parents leave them alone for the summer, their simmering sibling rivalry threatens to boil over and change their relationship and lives forever.

A história do romance entre o carismático poeta Percy Shelley e Mary Wollstonecraft, uma jovem de 17 anos que viria a se tornar a aclamada escritora Mary Shelley.

O filme se passa no século 13, acompanhando um grupo de monges escoltando uma relíquia sagrada, e uma paisagem irlandesa cheio de perigo.

Ned e Conor são pessoas completamente diferentes, com personalidades como água e vinho. Um é uma estrela do rugby super popular do time, o outro é considerado um perdedor por todos. A contragosto, eles são forçados a dividir um quarto em sua escola e, inesperadamente, formam uma amizade improvável.

A woman must deal with the devastating effects of having a murderer for a brother.

The young Irish film makers in Kilkenny get help from a mentor with their short film...

The young Irish film makers in Kilkenny get help from a mentor with their short film...

At his fiancée’s urging, a very modern Irish groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a stag weekend with his friends, camping in the western wilderness of Ireland. Much to their chagrin, these modern men are joined by the brother of the bride, a crazy, unpredictable alpha male known as “The Machine”, and an explosive Id to their collective Ego. The Machine is a force of nature, and under his leadership, the men—stripped of modern comfort, convenience and, finally, clothing—must begin their journey into the wild.

A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand and of the innocent men and boys, executed because of what transpired in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge. The British soldiers were the last of the Great War volunteers, who joined up together to fight the Germans. They knew that there was a strong chance they would die in France, but to die in Dublin would never have crossed their minds. The Irish Volunteers were weekend warriors many of whom had no idea they were about to take part in large scale battles on the streets of Dublin.

In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. Most of these men died but their actions bought enough time to save many lives. This drama-documentary tells a poignant story of self-sacrifice by the Titanic's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death.

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.

"Killing Bono" é uma homenagem aos inúmeros fracassos do rock'n'roll, contando a história verídica de dois irmãos que começaram como amigos e rivais do U2 mas acabaram na lata de lixo da história musical. O filme é baseado no livro de memórias de Neil McCormick, com o mesmo título, mas os seus criadores tomaram liberdades consideráveis com o livro original. Diferentemente do que mostra o filme, por exemplo, McCormick nunca chegou a apontar uma arma para o seu amigo de escola e também inimigo Bono, embora boa parte de sua juventude tenha sido consumida com uma obsessão pouco saudável com o sucesso estrondoso do U2 e seu próprio fracasso como cantor.

After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.

The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.

A story about the healing power of the sea, seen through the eyes of a young autistic woman who really shouldn't be there...

A story about the healing power of the sea, seen through the eyes of a young autistic woman who really shouldn't be there...

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.

It’s Ireland in 1967, when a flying saucer full of aliens lands on Dan’s farm. Dan falls in love with an alien girl and tries his best to make everybody believe that she and all the other aliens are humans.

Quando a jovem Catherine Morland tem a oportunidade de ir morar com a família Allen em Bath, ela espera ter também a chance de viver aventuras românticas como aquelas que sempre leu nos livros. Como os Allen não têm filhos, logo ela é apresentada a outros de sua idade: Isabella Thorpe e o irmão John, grande amigo do irmão de Catherine, James; e também Henry Tilney, um rapaz bonito e boa família, e a irmã dele, Eleanor. Convidada para um passeio na abadia de Northanger, no estado de Tilney, a jovem sonhadora imagina que chegou seu momento de viver um grande romance. Mas Catherine logo percebe que status, classe e dinheiro têm tanta ou mais importância do que as coisas do coração. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Ritchie Donovan é um ladrão profissional que esta numa maré de má sorte. Ele é o único sobrevivente de um roubo que termina muito mal. Ritchie é forçado a levar a culpa e para compensar os erros do assalto, é enviado à Rússia para roubar uma antigüidade de valor inestimável, trancada em um cofre na cobertura de um arranha-céu de Moscou. As coisas começam mal e vão rapidamente de mal a pior no momento em que, durante o assalto, Ritchie e seus comparsas Russos são forçados a fazer reféns, pois são cercados pela polícia no 13º andar do prédio onde coisas estranhas começam a acontecer: de serial killers a loucos reféns com comportamento duvidoso, Ritchie precisa se ver livre de todos e tentar salvar sua vida.

The film tells the story of speed dating addict James Van Der Bexton as he approaches his 30th birthday.

On New Year's Eve 1944, American pilot Mike Clarke inadvertently bets Al Capone's nephew $10,000.00 that he can shoot down five enemy aircraft. Later, forced to land near a remote village in Ireland after running out of fuel, Mike learns that he is cut off from the rest of the world with no way to rejoin the war and shoot down his fifth plane, which is the only way he can win the bet and save his own life. With nowhere to go, he eventually befriends the colorful villagers and meets a fiery red-head named Maggie who shows this pilot that combat can take place on the ground just as well as in the air. It doesn't take long for Mike and Maggie to grow close as she helps him figure out how to win his bet while winning her heart in the process

It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing his ballroom. In order to save it, he sets out to turn unknown female performer Denise into a superstar practically overnight.

Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.

Em pleno velho Oeste vive Mike Blueberry, um dedicado policial federal com forte vínculo com os índio da região. Seu rival, Blunt, é um misterioso assassino, que há vinte anos matou o grande amor da vida de Blueberry e que agora retorna para assombrar o policial. Blount, deta vez, está atrás de um tesouro escondido numa secreta mina de ouro localizada em território sagrado indígena. Para enfrentar seu antigo inimigo, Blueberry contará com a ajuda do índio Runi e de Maria, uma garota boa de briga. Agora a situação está armada, e os rivais se enfrentarão pela última vez. Blueberry finalmente terá a chance de consumar sua vingança, mas terá para tanto que encarar novamente seu trágico passado.

Os campos estão cobertos de lama e sangue, o ar fede. Centenas de milhares de jovens morrem aqui, e milhares de outros padecerão antes que a guerra termine. Neste cenário, um rapaz de 16 anos enfrenta seus medos mais profundos. A morte está em toda parte. Ele e os poucos homens que restaram da Companhia estão perdidos em território inimigo. Seu único refúgio é uma trincheira alemã abandonada, um labirinto de becos e túneis escuros, cheio de cadáveres e ratos. Débeis e aterrorizados, eles esperam resgate, mas ninguém vem buscá-los. Um a um, os soldados começam a morrer. Insanos, como que manipulados por uma força sobrenatural, eles voltam-se uns contra os outros. É como se a terra estivesse possuída por um poder maligno, como se o sangue ali derramado tivesse impregnado o solo e o local tivesse ganhado vida própria! Neste lugar maldito, Charles Shaskespeare enfrentará um terror maior do que a própria guerra, algo além do entendimento humano...

After spending time in New York City, Billy Hayes returns to his Ireland hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way — the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.

Três vezes indicado ao Globo de Ouro, Sam Neill interpreta o Comandante Charles "Swede" Momsen - o homem por trás do maior resgate a um submarino da Marinha dos EUA, neste filme de ação e suspense de duas horas que conta sobre a única vez em que a tripulação de um submarino foi resgatada do fundo do oceano. Baseado no envolvente best-seller do The New York Times, The Terrible Hours, de Peter Maas.

Vianne Rocher, uma jovem mãe solteira, e sua filha de seis anos resolvem se mudar para uma cidade rural da França. Lá decidem abrir uma loja de chocolates que funciona todos os dias da semana, bem em frente à igreja local, o que atrai a certeza da população de que o negócio não vá durar muito tempo. Porém, aos poucos Vianne consegue persuadir os moradores da cidade em que agora vive a desfrutar seus deliciosos produtos, transformando o ceticismo inicial em uma calorosa recepção.

The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.

In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.

Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...

Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.

Baseado uma história real. Um sinistro conto de genialidade errada. O filme narra a caminhada de um jovem para a loucura em virtude do absurdo cenário da vida suburbana inglesa. Hugh O'Conor interpreta Graham Young, um aluno dos subúrbios de Londres, cuja obsessão mortal por substâncias tóxicas faz com que ele assuma um assassinato experimental.

In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.

Ignorando que os Mosqueteiros do Rei, em virtude de uma manobra política que visa obter o trono da França, não mais existem, o jovem D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) planeja tornar-se um mosqueteiro. Em sua aventura conhece Athos (Kiefer Sutherland), Aramis (Charlie Sheen) e Porthos (Oliver Platt), leais ao monarca, e juntos acabam descobrindo um plano do cardeal Richelieu (Tim Curry) para matar a realeza francesa.

In 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.

Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), o filho de uma humilde família irlandesa, nasce com uma paralisia cerebral que lhe tira todos os movimentos do corpo, com a exceção do pé esquerdo. Com apenas este movimento Christy consegue, no decorrer de sua vida, se tornar escritor e pintor.

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.

Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.