Projects in genres: Northern Irish

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A troubled traditional Irish musician re-enters the fold after a long absence. An emotionally stunted friend wants to offer an apology. When words fail them both, music is all they have to bring them together.

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Based on a true story. Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.

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One night Majella O'Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly and his shooters all live within an extraordinary community in Derry, Northern Ireland. The “Troubles” officially ended in 1998 but they are still at war. They do not accept the government or police. All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How does a community respond? When do wars really end? For five years Sinéad O’Shea has filmed this shocking but darkly humorous portrait of a post conflict society. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - World premiere

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Alex Gibney reopens the mysterious unsolved case revolving the 1994 Loughinisland massacre. On 18 June, in the small village of Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, six men were brutally murdered and a few others were wounded in a pub while watching the World Cup soccer match. Despite a long investigation by the police and many confusing leads, no perpetrators of the attack were ever found. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - International premiere

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A film exploring the subtle dynamics of brother and sisterhood. Cara, the first kid in the family to graduate, returns to a celebration in her honour. Older brother Nathan, forced to quit his degree after a life-changing injury, is conflicted. But for the accident, this should have been his party.

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A group of people, who suffer from a range of mental illnesses, gather together, to work together so that they can heal together.

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As the best man, Ed, doesn't realise that his speech will be the most important that he will ever make.

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An ex-RUC Special Branch Detective serves the remainder of his career in an English coastal town hoping to heal wounds from a violent past, until the murder of his only daughter shatters his faith and sends him on a headlong hunt for the killer.

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A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - Midnight - World premiere

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Inspired by a heart-breaking true story, 'The Climb' quietly explores the concept of feeling connected to someone you have lost by immersing yourself in something they love. The painful act of remembering by doing.

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A dramatization of the events preceding the historic 2006 St. Andrews Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland after years of violent strife between Unionist and Republican factions. The extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland — firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness — who are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of modern history. It is at this moment the two sworn enemies put their past actions behind them and begin to forge an unexpected friendship that would lead to them being known as “The Chuckle Brothers.” Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations

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'She knew he would find her. Many had told her, that one day he would come.' An experimental short with elements of fine art.