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see all genres ›Long a popular site for foreign film shoots, the Emerald Isle has produced numerous well-known directors, the most famous being Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, but has only flourished as an indigenous production center in recent years thanks in part to stepped-up government funding.
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The Crush
Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. Ardal Travis is in love. There's just one problem. He's an eight year old schoolboy and the object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene Ardal is heartbroken. His...Watch Movie
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly...Watch Movie
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Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Nominated for the 2010 Academy Award® for Animated Short Film. Granny tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the elderly fairy, who intends to get her revenge for not being invited to the Royal Christening with the more glamorous and youthful fairies who...Watch Movie
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Gold
Returning to his hometown after twelve years, Ray attempts to rekindle relations with his daughter and high-school sweetheart. His ex, Alice, has moved in with the over-zealous fitness trainer, Frank, who happens to be Ray's old P.E. coach. Ray's daughter, Abbie has become Frank's grand...Watch Movie
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Rubai
The First Holy Communion, a bastion of Irish tradition and culture, is fast approaching and eight-year-old Rúbaí flatly refuses to be a part of it. She's an atheist and proud of it and whilst she is happy to stand by her convictions the wider society has a problem with such an independent girl...Watch Movie
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The Catholics
Controversial for its time, THE CATHOLICS stars Trevor Howard in a powerhouse performance as an Abbot who heads the remote Irish monastery of Mork in Eire. Along with his monks, the Abbot has decided to defy an edict from Rome forbidding all Catholics to celebrate the Mass in Latin. Refusing to...Watch Movie
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Puckoon
When an Irish Free State is set up in the 1920s, the border is drawn right through the middle of the village of Puckoon, through the middle of the pub and the churchyard. Based on Spike Milligan's much-loved novel, PUCKOON digs at the stupidity of the military and religion in this typically...Watch Movie
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Herd
There is mystery to the sound and image. The focus is on an animal, but what animal? The image contains subtle movement. Gates slam as percussion to the quiet nighttime sounds. The delicate movement of the animals' fur and flesh is contrasted against its sound, almost musical in pitch and tone....Watch Movie
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Zero Tolerance
Why are children as young as five being arrested in schools across the USA? In a misguided attempt to avoid another Columbine, in "zero tolerance’"states like Texas, Florida and California, police forces armed with guns and pepper spray have been patrolling hallways, monitoring playground...Watch Movie
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What is this film called Love?
WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE? is a passionate, poetic documentary about the nature of happiness. Filmed in Mexico over three days for just £10, it begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using his ideas, opens up to look at memory, landscape...Watch Movie
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Destination: Rossport, Ireland
In 2005, five men from Rossport, Ireland, were sent to jail for ninety-four days because they would not allow Shell Oil to put a gas pipeline through their land. Filmmaker Jim Kerns goes to this remote town in the northwest of Ireland to examine the conflict and the...Watch Movie
