Ireland

Set in County Cork,in 1920, the drama unfolds at Danielstown House, the home of Anglo-Irish aristocrats Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Myra (Maggie Smith). As the war for Irish independence escalates around them, Sir Richard’s nineteen-year-old niece, Lois (Keeley Hawes), struggles with her longing for love and the yearning for freedom. She is being courted by a British Army captain (David Tennant) who is deeply in love with her. But when she discovers an old childhood friend who is now an Irish freedom fighter hiding on their estate, she becomes fascinated by the rebel he has become. It’s not long before the violent turmoil that has thus far remained at a safe distance threatens to transform all their lives forever.Read More »

Frustrated by life unemployed in a small Irish border town Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and Arthur (Eamon Morrisey) see “Roustabout”, a movie where Elvis Presley rides a fairground Wall of Death – to the amazement of the local community, they proceed to build their very own Wall of Death on the outskirts of town.

As their enthusiasm increases, their cash decreases, and it becomes necessary for the pair to finance the project by hiring themselves out to run pigs, videos and booze across the border for the local smuggling baron. There are consequences and repercussions for all concerned.Read More »

Tells the story of a hundred years of a life as seen through the eyes of thirty Irish centenarians.Read More »

After the death of his alcoholic father, Jonathan Breech steals his father’s ashes from his brother’s house. He drives a stolen car off a cliff in order to commit suicide but he survives. After this, he accepts an alternative sentence of three months in therapy in a psychiatric hospital. There, he joins a suicide group under the supervision of Dr. Figure. He befriends a disturbed Rachel Row (who saw her mother dying in an accident) and Toby (who accidentally killed his brother in a car crash). During the treatment, the sarcastic Jonathan changes his behavior and sees the importance of being alive.Read More »

Kanto, a small time drug dealer trying to get off the streets whose long absent father Cormac, an industrial school survivor, returns home looking for forgiveness and reconciliation.Read More »

A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball….Read More »

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In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick “Kitten” Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town’s understanding.Read More »

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.Read More »

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Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.Read More »