Production Slate

Seventeen-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. Thrown out of his suburban foster home, he has moved in temporarily with his estranged older brother, Shane, in Cork’s inner city.

But Shane wants something better for Christy. After so many years apart, the brothers are forced to reconcile their turbulent past, whilst deciding what the future looks like. Sometimes, to move forward, you have to go back.

• Photography Colm Hogan
• Editor Allyn Quigley
• Production Design Martin Goulding
• Music Daithi
• Irish Location Cork
• Running Time 100 minutes

Born ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves. Yet, older sister September dominates and controls July, and their dynamic is clearly a concern to their mum, Sheela.

When September is suspended from their school and July is left to fend for herself, July begins to assert her own independence. Following an unseen incident, the trio move to an old family holiday home in Ireland. There, July finds that her bond with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand, and a series of surreal encounters test the limits of their shared experience.

• Editor Bettina Böhler
• Music Johnnie Burn
• Irish Location Dublin
• Director / Script Ariane Labed Producers Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann, Lara Hickey Photography Balthazar Lab Editor Bettina Böhler Production Design Lauren Kelly
• Running Time 100

A coming-of-age story with a twist, revealing the greyness we create to make sense of the world. Katie is the only child of two loving parents.

Katie is cheeky, funny, and wants to be one of the boys. Her housing estate is small and is filled with young families who make up the maisonettes, flats, and houses. The transition to teenage life brings Katie and her friends to places they did not expect when they push the boundaries of their circle and try on a maturity they are not yet ready for. A bursting coming-of-age story with a twist, revealing the greyness we create to make sense of the world, rooted in deep friendships they hope can stand the test of huge change.

• Photography Phil Blake
• Editor Nathan Nugent, Claire Frances Byrne
• Production Design Jenny Oman
• Music Stephen Shannon
• Irish Location Dublin
• Running Time 85 minutes

In 1880, an isolated and God-fearing fishing community in the West Fjords of Iceland Witnesses a shipwreck just off their shores.

Fearing their rations will not suffice to sustain them through the winter, they decide not to rescue any survivors. But when a cruel fate begins to befall them, they fear they have been damned.

• Photography Eli Arenson
• Editor Tony Cranstoun
• Production Design Frosti Friðriksson
• Music Stephen McKeon
• Running Time 100 minutes

When the local crime lord, Leon, vows to let her brother Paulie’s body rot in the street, Twig, young and iron-willed, defiantly sets out to do the right thing.

The tragedy which unfolds inexorably pits the two figures against each other, building relentlessly as grief, love, hope and despair collide in a dramatic conclusion against the backdrop of Dublin’s docklands.

• Music Gerard Leonard
• Irish Location Dublin
• Director/Script Marian Quinn Producers Ruth Carter, Tommy Weir Photography Declan Quinn E Editor Tony Cranstoun Production Design Lauren Kelly
• Running Time 107 minutes

Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success.

Busy with the demands of his upcoming book tour, the last thing Edward needs is his friends leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.

• Photography Tom Comerford
• Editor Gretta Ohle, Gary Dollner
• Production Design Lucy Van Lonkhuyzen
• Music Stephen Rennicks, Hugh Drumm
• Irish Location Dublin
• Running Time 90 minutes

On the eve of the Second World War and the end of his life, Sigmund Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis for a debate over the existence of God.

Innovatively, the film explores Freud’s unique relationship with his lesbian daughter Anna, and Lewis’ unconventional romance with his best friend’s mother. Freud’s Last Session interweaves past, present and fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

• Photography Ben Smithard
• Editor Paul Tothill
• Production Design Luciana Arrighi
• Music Coby Brown
• Main Cast Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries
• Irish Location Dublin, Wicklow
• Running Time 121 minutes

In the aftermath of the first World War and the Irish Civil War, Seamus Óg Mac Grianna tends to a lighthouse on an isolated Irish island, haunted by the loss of his wife and son.

When the new priest, Fr. MacGabhann clashes with him over the improper burial of his late wife on the lighthouse grounds, the conflict leaves the island’s loyalties divided. Seamus’ burgeoning friendship with American war widow Edith begins to strain his relationship with his housekeeper and protector, Maire, and with his grief, he must decide what kind of life he is willing to fight for.

• Irish Location Donegal, Mayo
• Director/Photography Vic Sarin Producers Larry Bass, Aaron Farrell, Mary Callery, Tina Pehme, Kim Roberts Script Ciaran Creagh Editor Austin Andrews Production Design Ray Ball

After his sheep are massacred by unknown men, an Irish shepherd is drawn into a devastating cycle of violence.

• Irish Location Wicklow
• Director/Script Christopher Andrews Producers Julianne Forde, Ruth Treacy, Ivana MacKinnon, Jacob Swan Hyam, Jean Yves Roubin Photography Nick Cooke Production Design Fletcher Jarvis
• Running Time 90 minutes

As humanity faces an unspecified man-made disaster, a very rich family has moved underground into a bunker.

Wealth and luxury fuel their delusion that they can survive the extinction. As oblivion presses in upon them, they cling ever more desperately to the hope that they can live happily while everybody else disappears. In the bunker live a father, mother, son, a butler, a maid, a dentist, the pigs they rear for food – and a young woman who, seeking shelter, finds her way in.

• Photography Mikhail Krichman
• Editor Neils Pagh Andersen
• Production Design Jette Lehmann
• Music Joshua Schmidt; Lyrics by Joshua Oppenheimer
• Main Cast Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, George MacKay, Bronagh Gallagher, Tilda Swinton
• Irish Location Dublin
• Running Time 150 minutes

Louise is a fourteen-year-old cancer survivor desperate to have some fun. Jess is the school weirdo hiding a secret.

These unlikely friends concoct the Live Large list, a nonbucket list to help Louise seize the moment. Navigating the rocky road of secondary school, Louise faces down body image issues and bullying, first-time rebellion and frenemy drama, crushes, curve balls, and more. Through it all, her list ensures that Louise and her gang of misfit friends are always Living Large.

• Photography Eleanor Bowman
• Editor Robert de Lint
• Production Design Ebun Oladeru
• Music Pieter Van Dessel
• Irish Location Kildare
• Running Time 8 x 24 minutes

Struggling artists Harry and Robin adapt to life as new parents in the vibrant city of Essaouira, Morocco – until one evening, everything changes.

Three-year-old Dillon is left sleeping alone for the briefest of moments when an earthquake hits. Harry races back to rescue his child, only to find his apartment in rubble and no evidence of his son. Three years later, thousands of miles away in Dublin, Harry spots a six-year-old boy in a crowd – a boy he is convinced is Dillon. Harry sets out to prove his son is still alive, even if his obsession jeopardises his marriage and unearths shameful secrets.

• Photography Tim Fleming
• Editor Daragh Moran
• Production Design Jon Beer
• Music Dina Coughlan
• Irish Location Wicklow
• Running Time 4 x 60 Minutes