Projects in genres: Northern Irish

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The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete.

Finn's misery is compounded when Jack, a hard and edgy minor gangster responsible for his predicament, lands a few yards away, feet also set in concrete.

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An injured skier wakes up one morning, expecting everything to be normal. But as he limps around his house, he realises things are not as they should be. His nightmare is about to begin.

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A Map With Gaps is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 'seventies, in a van he built and named Supervan.

Utilising a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation, a surreal and comic tale unfolds of 12,000 miles, 14 countries and 26 very peculiar days. Essentially this is a catalogue of minor disasters, a story that demonstrates that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction and sometimes the grey area between the two is the most interesting place to explore, particularly if you forgot to bring a map.

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Divis Tower and Mountain and a dead rapper

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A young boy draws on the condensation of a car window.

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Nothing in life is black and white. When death reveals a painful secret all the rules you live by are abandoned. In the town where he was born 28 years earlier, Jack Duggan discovers a part of himself that he never knew existed. Haunted by his mother's pain Jack begins his search for revenge, which leads him into a dangerous world beyond his control. Suddenly he is faced with choices he never dreamed he would have to make. Meeting Laura changes everything and reminds him of the morals he once held so dear. But is he already in too deep? When an ordinary man becomes driven by revenge what happens when he comes face to face with the past? Set against the backdrop of modern day Cork (Ireland), this unique revenge begs the question - His life or her love?

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A fish in a block of ice. A scientific discovery?

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Drawings on the wall. A knife under the bed. Raz prepares to go out.

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A little bit of love and fantasy in the culinary underbelly, where life is a buffet and everything is short order.
 

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An older man meets a strange and possibly dangerous young kid on a train, following the death of his wife that morning. They also meet a couple in the same carriage also touched by death that day. The kid's outlandish behaviour sparks a chain of events that lead inexorably to a major showdown. A dark but brutally funny Irish comedy by one of the greatest contemporary Irish playwrights, Martin Mcdonagh, here making his film debut.

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Soldier is a gritty war drama that centres around an Irish mercenary who is torn between his mission and the morality of war, when a child stumbles across his position while playing in an abondoned house.

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Ireland 1920: workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless 'Black and Tan' squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland's bid for independence.

Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy, in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom.

As the freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted against one another as sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.