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.
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.
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.
A teenager decides to shut himself off from the world around him after receiving bad news.
Upon hearing that the death of a student during the final exams results in top marks for the rest of the class, two desperate friends conspire to kill the class bully in an attempt to pass.
Leaving home, a young footballer finds himself unable to outrun the emotional ties and unspoken truths he hoped to leave behind.
An artist struggles to come to terms with the fact that his eyesight is failing.
A Monk living in 9th century Ireland must contend with grief, despair, isolation and his own identity, on a far-off desolate rock.
An army sniper contemplates the lives of those he is tasked with eliminating.
A young woman travels home to reconcile with her past, the memory of her mother, and her dying father.
An expectant mother's world fractures as she obsesses over what her child's future might cost the planet - and what the planet might cost her child.
The tale of an Irish writer who moves to Northern Italy, finding a new sense of tranquility in life after experiencing heartache.
A party entertainer must go to extraordinary heights to escape a house of horror
A brief window into the life of a young person living in a country with no sun.
Eight-year-old Ardal has a romantic heart and a passionate crush on his second-class teacher, Ms Purdy. But his dreams of marrying his love are dashed when she becomes engaged to her boyfriend, who Ardal deems entirely unacceptable. Inspired by his favourite western movies, he decides that his only course of action is to challenge his rival to a duel.
A lonely single working class woman falls for the charms of a smooth-talking wealthy sexy older man- but as she grapples with her desire how far will she go to get what she wants?
Lisa arrives to a house party with plans of meeting her girlfriend, but things don't go as planned.
After a one-night stand with another man, a married farmer attempts to hide the affair from his family as the truth drives him to breaking point.
In the halls of power, a minister has fallen from grace. Government agent Beckett recruits a deadly operative Richards with a dubious past to restore control via coercion. As the power play unfolds, Beckett must confront the consequences of his choices while Richards seeks to safeguard his own interests.