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Two Little Pigeons 5
Drama
5 mins

Two Little Pigeons

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Paying homage to her experimental contemporary Jack Smith, Vivienne Dick juxtaposes two quite different London landscapes.   The film’s opening sequence is documentary in style, capturing people basking in the sunshine of a London Park to the sound of Lol Coxhill singing Two Little Pigeons. Men are sunbathing, women are dancing, and older couples are feeding the ducks. The second half of the film introduces two eccentric characters pottering […]
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Home 3
Documentary

Home

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Empty houses are explored by a roving camera, the stories of their current and former inhabitants are told in intimate voiceover. Aoife Kelleher’s poetic short documentary explores how lives are shaped by the homes in which we lived. Early living spaces can define how we are perceived by others and how we feel about ourselves. A […]
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Man 5
Drama

Man

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Women of all ages are celebrated in this masterfully–aligned gallery of portraits. Opening with a quotation from feminist intellectual Simone de Beauvoir: ‘one is not born a woman, one becomes one’, this arresting compendium of portraits presents a boldly female gaze – in both the gaze of director Emer Reynolds and in the frank to-camera gaze of […]
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The Door 5
2000s-present

The Door

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Shortly after the nuclear Chernobyl disaster in 1986, a father risks his life and returns to his deserted apartment to retrieve his front door. A family’s world is thrown into turmoil when they are suddenly forced to vacate their apartment block close to the site of the nuclear power plant explosion. They escape the exclusion […]
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The Visit 1
Drama
22 mins

The Visit

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While on her way to confess a secret to her husband in prison, a woman reflects on the recent years in her life. Set in Belfast during the Troubles, newlywed Sheila Molloy is awoken suddenly one morning when her husband is arrested and sent to prison for 20 years. From then on, her life is […]
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Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Documentary
4 mins

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

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A wry tale of how one women’s sensuality is confined by a garden fence.  A woman breaks free of her monotonous daily routine tending to her husband by escaping into her garden; its sensual pleasures evident in her minutely-observed expressions of delight. The garden’s sights and sounds offer welcome distraction as do the attentions of her neighbour.   This winsome, dialogue-free film celebrates the often-overlooked sensuality […]
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Fruit 15 2
Drama
15 mins

Fruit 15

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Twenty-three-year-old Una (Gabrielle Reidy) is pregnant – perhaps by immaculate conception? This independent young woman zips about on her motorbike, cheerfully visiting her mammy and younger siblings in the country before returning to her busy social life in Dublin, preoccupied with her pregnancy and determined to find a father for her unborn child. She and […]
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Documentary
7 mins

Fall Into Half-Angel

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A documentary exploring the romantic and artistic relationship between two trapeze artists.  Trapeze artists Ken Fanning and Tina Segner perform a series of breath-taking feats in the air as they reflect on their relationship and the profound physical and emotional trust that their partnership demands.    This is not your traditional love story: boy meets girl; they fall in […]
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Day One 5
Drama
17 mins

Day One

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Day One comically documents receptionist Jody’s eventful first day at her new job.   Writer Margaret Moggan conjures all the anxiety and nervous excitement of a young woman’s first day at her new job in a small property firm. In her desperate attempt to impress her boss, Jody (Pauline Hutton) finds herself holding up a busy coffee […]
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Bye Bye Now 02
Documentary
15 mins

Bye Bye Now

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Residents of rural Ireland reminisce on the joys and sorrows of phone boxes as they become obsolete in the modern world.  When phone boxes were first introduced in Irish villages in the 1920s, there was stern competition between local businesses to have one installed outside their property. The phone box would assume a monumental role […]
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Bua 2
2000s-present
13 mins

Bua (Victory)

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A twelve-year-old girl gallops her horse fearlessly across the open countryside, an unspoken and visceral language emerging between them as the horse begins to see what she sees, and feel what she feels.   A young girl (Jemma Harris) sits on her majestic white horse driving him faster and faster as she tries to ride beyond […]
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Animation
10 mins

Late Afternoon

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In this delicately rendered animation, Emily, an elderly woman with dementia, vividly relives her memories. Sitting comfortably in her armchair Emily (voiced by Fionnula Flanagan) takes a cup of tea and a biscuit when a simple mishap triggers a pleasant journey into the past. She swims through the memories of being a child on a beach, […]
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