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A film about the perils, pitfalls and pleasures of growing up in Romania's communist propaganda industry. This is a history of a European country, told through the eyes of one person and her family, and through the medium of the world of films and propaganda in which she lived and worked. It is the ...
ViewA filmic essay which unfolds as a series of conversations on Ireland, exploring themes such as emigration, mythology, consumerism, socialism, the sense of a civic society, the place of the church in Irish life, the central role of land in Irish history. Combining images of contemporary Ireland with ...
ViewThe film equivalent of a portrait gallery, The Liberties is a series of intimate vignettes, each focusing on a different character within Dublin's Liberties community. From the man who raised seven daughters in a two bedroom flat, to the Oscar-winning actress who would not live anywhere else in the ...
ViewStand Up: My Best Friend is a documentary assembled from a series of interviews given by young Irish LGBT individuals and their straight best friend. The documentary is a tender mood piece that illustrates a radically different Ireland than that is normally perceived or propagated overseas. It is...
ViewOff The Beaten Track chronicles a world, untouched for centuries, struggling with profound change. Since joining the EU, Romanians have been free to work as agricultural labourers and can earn more in one month than a year in their traditional occupation as shepherds. The films follows Albin, a t...
ViewMen of Arlington documents the lives of residents of London's Arlington House, which housed thousands of Irishmen who fled Ireland in the 1950's in search of work. These men dug the roads and rebuilt Britain after the war. For most, Arlington offered a bed for a few nights as they established the...
ViewOn the 20th May 2009, the 80 year old artist Brian O'Doherty came back to Ireland from New York to kill and bury his alter ego Patrick Ireland on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in a resonant and emotional ceremony attended by over 500 people. Patrick Ireland had been created over 35 ...
ViewA vibrant, intimate and vivid portrait of one of Ireland's most significant musical talents, fiddle maestro Martin Hayes. As Hayes plays on the world stage, the film examines his shaping influences and looks and how his collaborations involve traditional and contemporary idioms. It provides an orig...
ViewLiving Colour is a film about an abstract watercolour painter who takes three and a half minutes to climb into a van, a chatterbox stone carver with the shakes, a woman who colours her dreams, a precision ink-drawer who stares into fires, a diminutive sage who makes politically satirical animations ...
ViewIn 1988, the Gate Theater in Dublin staggered a seminal production of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'. Since then, the same four actors have performed the play throughout the world, winning great critical acclaim and many international awards. To mark the 20th anniversary, the Gate Theater too...
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