During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Irlande, années 1970. Désireux de laisser son sombre passé derrière lui, Finbar Murphy mène une vie tranquille dans la ville côtière isolée de Glencolmcille, loin de la violence politique qui s'empare du reste du pays. Mais lorsqu'arrive une équipe menaçante de terroristes, dirigée par une femme impitoyable nommée Doirean, Finbar est entraîné dans un jeu de plus en plus vicieux du chat et de la souris, l'obligeant à choisir entre révéler son identité secrète ou défendre ses amis et voisins.
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
Une histoire d’amour poignante, drôle et triste à la fois, racontant l’enfance d’un garçon au milieu du tumulte et de la musique de la fin des années 1960.
À Belfast, en 1971, des affrontements quotidiens de plus en plus violents font rage entre les habitants des quartiers protestants unionistes et ceux des secteurs catholiques nationalistes, opposés à la présence britannique en Irlande du Nord. Au cours d’une patrouille de routine, Gary, un jeune soldat anglais, se retrouve séparé de son unité à la suite d’une émeute provoquée par l’action brutale de policiers. Devant la précarité de la situation, l’armée abandonne les lieux. Laissé à lui même, Gary doit prendre la fuite dans les rues d’un quartier hostile pour sauver sa peau. La peur au ventre, il se terre en espérant des secours qui ne viennent pas. À la tombée de la nuit, il émerge de son abri et entreprend de se sortir de cette trappe mortelle.
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
An alpha female barrister complicates her professional and personal life when she falls for a client.
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup, Shooting for Socrates tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also follows the lives of passionate football supporter Arthur and his son Tommy from East Belfast. The lead up to a momentous day in the life of a young boy (his 10th birthday) mirrors the build up to the big day for the Northern Ireland football team as they play the greatest match of their lives.
Two young Dublin brothers must navigate loyalty, honour and the dangerous world of republicanism as they fuel the Northern war machine - by any means necessary.
When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pressures of city life, they decide to fight back - but in their own way.
Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.
‘Made in the Emerald Isle’ is a modern music documentary that addresses the ongoing struggles faced by Irish musicians in finding success here at home. Irish music and the artists behind it, although world-renowned, in many cases have stepped outside of the country in order to achieve success and notoriety. This documentary will explore the story of the Irish music industry through the eyes of Sam Wickens.
In 1970's Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life aided by the help of their pet chickens.