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  1. 1Six ShooterSix ShooterPublished 4 Oct 2021IFI Archive PlayerMartin McDonagh's first film, and the clearest place to see where the savage, grief-soaked comedy of In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin began. Brendan Gleeson plays a newly widowed man sharing a train carriage home with a foul-mouthed young stranger, played by Rúaidhrí Conroy, and the journey…0
  2. 2The ShoreThe ShorePublished 28 Oct 2021IFI Archive PlayerCiarán Hinds and Conleth Hill play boyhood best friends driven apart as the conflict in Northern Ireland escalated, meeting again 25 years later when Hinds comes home with his grown-up daughter. Terry George's Oscar winner is shot on the County Down coast and balances an old wound with real laughs,…0
  3. 3An Irish GoodbyeAn Irish GoodbyeRokuTwo estranged brothers, one of them with Down syndrome, meet again on the family farm after their mother's death and set about her list of 100 wishes before the place can be sold. Tom Berkeley and Ross White's comedy, led by James Martin and Seamus O'Hara, won both the Oscar for Best Live Action…0
  4. 4Boogaloo and GrahamBoogaloo and GrahamPublished 4 Oct 2021IFI Archive PlayerTwo boys in 1970s Belfast are handed a pair of chicks by their father, name them Boogaloo and Graham, declare themselves vegetarian and start planning a chicken farm, while bigger family news creeps up on them. Michael Lennox's Oscar-nominated short puts childhood logic at the centre of a city…0
  5. 5New BoyNew BoyPublished 9 Aug 2021IFI Archive PlayerAdapted from a Roddy Doyle story, Steph Green's Oscar-nominated short follows Joseph, a young African boy, through his first day at an Irish primary school. The teacher's pet and the two kings of the playground will be instantly recognisable to anyone who went to school in Ireland, while brightly…0
  6. 6The CrushThe CrushPublished 4 Oct 2021IFI Archive PlayerEight-year-old Ardal is in love with his teacher, Ms Purdy, and when she gets engaged to a man he finds entirely unacceptable, he takes his cue from his favourite westerns and challenges the fiancé to a duel. Michael Creagh's Oscar-nominated comedy plays a child's absolute seriousness completely…0
  7. 7Yu Ming Is Ainm DomYu Ming Is Ainm DomPublished 22 Aug 2016IFI Archive PlayerBored of his supermarket job in China, Yu Ming spins a globe, lands on Ireland, studies Irish because it is the official language, and arrives to find that nobody understands him. Daniel O'Hara's 13-minute comedy is a gentle, pointed joke about the gap between the language on paper and the one…0
  8. 8Fluent DysphasiaFluent DysphasiaPublished 24 Aug 2016IFI Archive PlayerO'Hara's follow-up to Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom flips the joke: Stephen Rea wakes after a night on the town fluent in Irish and unable to speak a word of English, with his daughter as his only lifeline. The 16-minute satire is about how hard it can be to live through Irish inside Ireland, and Rea's…0
  9. 9LipserviceLipservicePublished 22 Aug 2016IFI Archive PlayerThe Oral Irish exam, seen from the examiner's chair. Seán McGinley plays an examiner in a Dublin school wading through memorised answers delivered with more bravado than comprehension, until a troubled student played by Barry Ward turns out to have real command of the language and no interest at…0
  10. 10Give Up Yer Aul SinsGive Up Yer Aul SinsPublished 20 Dec 2017IFI Archive PlayerBrown Bag Films animated real recordings of Dublin schoolchildren made by their teacher, Peg Cunningham, in the 1960s, and the star is a small girl retelling the story of John the Baptist entirely in her own words. Cathal Gaffney's four-minute film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated…0