Geraldine McAlinden

Who We Love

The story of Lily, a girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. With her best friend, the fiercely loyal and flamboyant Simon, she navigates the treacherous waters of school life. When a misunderstanding with the beautiful and popular Violet leads to a vicious attack, Lily is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life.

Panic Attack

Eighteen-year-old Alex is in the throes of his transition. When his best friend abandons a joint venture to assert their identity he’s forced to confront his anxieties before entering the unknown alone.

Reavey Brothers

In a trouble-ridden Northern Ireland, football and writing prospect Anthony's relationship with his brothers comes under danger. Exploring religious divides and the importance of family, Anthony will come face-to-face with the one thing he is trying to fight.

Sucking Diesel

After a bungled robbery, a petrol station owner must decide whether to protect her idiot employee or turn him over to the most dangerous man in Ballybeg.

Verdigris

A reluctant retiree struggles in a controlling marriage, until an unlikely friendship with an abandoned teen sex worker teaches her to live life on her own terms, no matter the cost.

Portrait of a Zombie

When their son, Billy, becomes a zombie, the family chooses to take care of him in the home, much to the chagrin of the neighbors and the local crime boss.

The Last Rifleman

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

Desmond

Though released from prison Desmond is still in turmoil from the past events that lead him there. As he carves out the path for his new life Desmond struggles between the man he wants to become and the man he was.

Turnaround

Following a sudden, tragic bereavement, a West Cork cleaner must decide if she will uphold a tightly hidden secret whilst navigating the fast paced pressures of a tourist property turnaround.

Volkswagen Joe

Northern Ireland 1981 - Faced with an impossible decision, a conflicted border-town mechanic is forced to make a choice that will change his life forever.

The Secret Scripture

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

Monged

Three very mismatched friends party from Friday to Monday in Dublin City in a riotous cocktail of drugs and alcohol while their personal problems - including a debt to a psychotic gangster, sexual confusion, and a lost phone number - remain in constant pursuit.

The Truth Commissioner

Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.

How to be Happy

Following a bad breakup, relationship councilor Cormac Kavanagh starts sleeping with his clients in a misguided attempt to reignite their passions.

Crone Wood

A found footage horror film about a man and a woman camping in Wicklow, Ireland.

Zoo

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

Black '47

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

First Disco

It's 1983. Culture Club are no. 1, everyone's glued to Knight Rider and Kelly Harrison not only has her first crush, she's going to her first disco!

Procession

A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how - an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral

Run

A woman’s eyes are opened to her coercive, controlling partner when an old friend is allowed to come to dinner.

Ordinary Love

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

The Bridge

After the sudden death of his parents, a young man must choose between returning to his home village in the west of Ireland to care for his estranged younger brother, and a bright future in Canada.

I Am Not a Monster

A young man returns home uninvited to his brother's engagement dinner only to find himself fighting for his sanity against the violent, mind controlling growth on the back of his head. (ALTER)

The Appointment

Ian splits his time between working his dead end warehouse job and taking care of his ailing mother. The stresses of everyday life, alongside Anna's illness, have created a rift between the two that is seemingly insurmountable.

Aisha

Aisha lives at a centre for asylum-seekers in Ireland in a state of ongoing uncertainty. Having fled Nigeria after a violent gang murdered members of her family, she is desperately trying to find some degree of permanency, where she and her mother can be reunited and live without fear. As she navigates the complex legal system to seek settlement in Ireland, she sparks an unlikely friendship with Conor, a new guard at the centre. A former prisoner, Conor’s life experience and calming presence resonate with Aisha, allowing for a tentative romance to begin. But the bond between the pair comes under strain as the threat of deportation looms ever larger.

Chasing Millions

The Northern Bank chain was owned by the National Australia Bank. Diana, a young Australian police detective who is in Belfast at the same time, seizes the opportunity to investigate the biggest crime of her career and prove herself to her misogynistic bosses back home who have passed her over for promotion. Diana is teamed with Crawford, a gruff, veteran Northern Irish police detective who does not want her help. As the case takes one more bizarre turn after another, Diana and Crawford learn to grudgingly respect each other. As they almost give up hope of catching the criminals, Diana comes up with an ingenious plan which will make the stolen millions worthless.

TRAD

From their home in the Donegal Gaeltacht, gifted fiddle player Shóna McAnally and her little brother Mickey take to the road with a troupe of wandering musicians, on a cross-country journey of adventure, romance, and musical exploration. 

Faraway Home

Two young Jewish children are sent by their parents away from Nazi occupied Austria during WWII, on the Kindertransport, where they end up at a refugee farm in Northern Ireland.

The Assassination of Michael D. Higgins

On his final shift, a worn-down hospital employee decides to indulge a patient's fantasy that he is the president of Ireland.