Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Ben Sanderson believes he can travel to an alternate reality when he drinks alcohol, to see the love of his life, who was brutally murdered in a home invasion two years prior. As Ben starts to get a hold of his new found ability, a new threat surfaces that may kill him before he can seek the truth.
A woman takes time in private on a tiny island in Helsinki to contemplate a loss that has caused sudden changes in her life. This tragedy has challenged her to see the world in a different light. A light that is driven by a force of nature.
A hitchhiker makes his way towards the coast.
A lonely drifter walks through the woods, he recollects on his life and laments his existence.
Set against the backdrop of the Cervical Check scandal that rocks Ireland "THE LETTERS" tells the story of three women from different walks of life who have weeks to live due to the false results of their cervical cancer checks.
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and homeless throughout one of his days on the streets and the people and situations he finds himself in on a daily basis.
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A teenager decides to shut himself off from the world around him after receiving bad news.
In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
Mãos que não se alcançam
A man faced with a future decides to go back home, one last time
A Monk living in 9th century Ireland must contend with grief, despair, isolation and his own identity, on a far-off desolate rock.
After the tragic death of her fiancée, Ismália, in a fatal accident at sea, Selene has to deal with the pain of the sudden loss of someone she loved so much. Driven by the memories and longings of a passionate relationship, Lagamar follows the first hours of Selene's new life journey - as she faces the memories of her dead fiancée.
Americans want to take over the Irish creamery Angela Mooney's husband built up. Everybody in town is delighted, with the exception of Mrs Mooney, who has her own reasons for being opposed to the sale of the business.
Não Me Lembro da Última Vez Que Me Lembrei da Última Vez
A brief window into the life of a young person living in a country with no sun.
A visit to a bedridden lover from several decades ago takes Silka on a painful journey through her memory, where she confronts the romantic and political betrayal she thought she had left in the past.