Projects in genres: Northern Irish

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Rehearsals is an impressionistic snapshot of Belfast as Northern Ireland feels its way towards the future. The film revolves around groups of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes or pubs whilst voices and images of Belfast remind us of the stark and poignant realities of everyday life.

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One Night. Two Cloakroom Attendents. Three Bouncers. Four Bar Staff. Five Hours of Madness! Every weekend the streets surge with crowds looking for love, music and oblivion. Social Work is about the people who provide it to them -- those faceless heroes whose Monday morning is other people's Friday night. It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. The film takes place over one Saturday night shift in a seedy nightclub and centres on Lee and Andy, who run the cloakroom. The club is the kind that people go to in every city and town all over the country. Andy and Lee are the Cloakroom Attendants, having worked there for the longest anyone has ever managed to, ruling it like their own little cubby-hole of a kingdom. It is their world. Everyone who enters the nightclub, almost invariably has to go through the ritual of leaving in their coats and unwanted belongings under the care of Andy and Lee. Under the ever-watching eye of the arrogant, slimey Club-owner Barry, they do their best to have a great night and make a little extra dosh with their cloakroom scams. The Staff and Clubbers find themselves intertwining, as each life has an unexpected impact on another. Lee and Andy find that their little cloakroom is a centre-point for many unforeseeable developments as they transpire throughout the night.

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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.