IRISH FICTION 5
Sat 11 July | 09:15 | Town Hall Theatre | 101′
This collection offers a captivating look at contemporary Irish life, exploring universal themes of resilience, personal identity, and human connection through a diverse range of voices and landscapes.
Films in our programme can include mature themes/adult content. Viewer discretion is advised.
Drawing the Blinds
An elderly Donegal woman drifts alone through her quiet evening rituals – unaware she has lived these moments before, and will live them again.
Director/Writer: Patrick Sharkey
Producers: Patrick Sharkey, Victoria Moonan
Horseback
Ali is silenced by the loss of his mother until he bonds with a piebald pony, and Kitty, a Traveller woman. Their kindness helps him heal and find his voice again.
Director: Mark McAuley
Producers: Emer Durcan, Dorothy Whittaker, Liam O’Toole, Bairbre O’Toole
Writer: Bairbre O’Toole
Caged Rabbits
Bronagh is sent door to door around her estate to collect money from the women in her mother’s “savings scheme”.
Director: Edelle Kenny
Producer: Róisín O’Donoghue
Writer: Rachel Alexander
Stuck
Ambitious journalist Simon is drawn into a bitter rural feud involving one dead dog, two angry men, and three slain sheep. Against his editor’s advice, he attempts mediation.
Director: Will Peppercorn
Producer: Pearce Cullen
Writer: Jacob Baird
In Between
Anna knows her life is coming to an end. Before her inevitable departure, she decides to leave a letter to her successor to impart the important things.
Director/Writer: Hannah Mamalis
Producers: Aisling Malone, Lorraine Higgins
Work | Werk
A poet-stripper’s reunion with a property developer exposes power, and reveals tensions between freedom, capitalism and respectability in a rapidly gentrifying Dublin.
Director: Janna Kemperman
Producer: Laura Rigney
Writer: Stephanie Dufresne
Pull Hard
Ross navigates the charged landscape of adolescence, grappling with identity, expression, and the gaze of his peers in the high-stakes world of the Leaving Cert year.
Directors/Writers: Leah Moore, Douglas Reddan
Producers: Aoife Leonard, Olivia McLaughlin
The Lacey Way
17-year-old George Lacey does not fit in. She’s a weirdo amongst her conforming peers, and a conformist amongst her weirdo family.
Director/Writer: Regina de Faoite
Producer: Laura Devereux