A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem Mycenae Lookout propels Cassandra, a young actress, into addressing her own personal trauma during the sectarian violence of 1990's Northern Ireland. A sensorial and immersive trip into a young woman’s psyche, Spirit Level, boldly dissects the emotional manipulation of re-enactment, cinema as an unreliable historian, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance.
When non-league St Peter's Celtic are drawn to play titans Shamrock Rovers in the first round of the FAI Cup, assistant manager Fran Costello hopes his team will pull off one of the greatest shocks in football history. But it isn't long before the shit really hits the Fran…
A young man confronts his incarcerated twin brother unearthing secrets from the past.
A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
During the last year of The Great Famine in Ireland, a farmhand working for the local landlord has hardened his heart against his countrymen to ensure his own survival. But when he encounters a ghostly female figure stealing milk from the landlord’s barn his resolve is tested and he is beguiled on a journey towards hope.
What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother's past but uncovered secrets and resentments which have been buried deep, threaten to overwhelm them.
A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.
Five woman spend a night together at a secluded house, to celebrate the future nuptials of the bride to be. During the course of the night, alliances are formed, confrontations erupt and festivities become tense and the women quickly learn that every sacrifice has a cost. The darkness of their terrible act fractures those responsible, trapping them in a perpetual loop oscillating endlessly between hope and despair.
A lonely taxi driver takes drastic action to protect a customer from heartbreak.
Kathleen is 18 and alone. The system has no place for her now. What does the future hold when the past is all you've got? This visually arresting and emotionally-taut tale depicts the ongoing problems surrounding young adults who age out of care and their struggle to 'fit in'.
Nina Regan, an established performance artist, launches her much-anticipated exhibition, the first since spending a decade in prison for the killing of her long-term collaborator Saul Olufsen.
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
18-year-old Kathleen is fresh out of foster care. Her departure coincides with the death of her biological mother, so she returns to her hometown to take ownership of her mother’s house. She gets a job and even a friend; but the emptiness of Kathleen’s life cannot be filled by social media and reality shows. Alone and desperate for a mother figure, she sets out on a destructive path to find one.
Paul, a loving father and husband, struggles with a gambling addiction that spirals out of control. Jeopardising everything the family holds dear.
Ro takes a supervised day trip from a psychiatric hospital with her sister Lia on her 30th birthday. Amid beach crowds, arcade noise and childhood memories, Ro tries to reconnect with her sister and the world she currently feels removed from.
After her father leaves her mother for her best friend, a devastated Bobbie embarks on a chaotic campaign of revenge.