This three Oscar megalith stars Adrien Brody (winner of Best Actor) in the role of a lifetime as a Holocaust survivor who immigrates to USA where he struggles to realise the American Dream until a patron gives him the chance to prove his designer skills.

Gene Hackman is Harry Caul, a San Francisco-based surveillance expert hired by a shadowy company director (Robert Duvall) to eavesdrop on a couple walking through Union Square. After much knob-twiddling and wire-tuning, he deciphers a clue that triggers his fear that he is being surveilled himself.

Sparkling with the surreal and humour, this is a story of buried secrets coming to life after Shula stumbles across the body of her Uncle Fred on an empty road in the middle of the night. Fascinating, fresh and funny, this complex movie elegantly mixes catharsis and levity to achieve a formidable work.

We travel back to a very different time when Gay Byrne quizzed female TV Show contestants about motherhood, marriage and housework as they competed for the accolade ‘Housewife of the Year.’ Funny, sweet and shocking, this winner of Galway Film Festival 2024 Best Irish Documentary, will have you counting your lucky stars.

NCC has teamed up with Wee Bookworms to bring a storybook-themed fun morning of creativity and imagination for 1-6 year olds. 

Join us on a walk through the old trees of Donard Park, meandering through the forest of the demesne that once surrounded the Donard Lodge and on to the quarry where the ravens live. Led by keen birder Andy Carden and other friends of our local flora and fauna, we will pause to listen to birds, spot rare trees and bathe in nature.

Who doesn’t love a wedding? Hankies at the ready for this warm celebration of the joys of the Irish wedding in all its predictability - the nerves, the dress, the speeches, beef or salmon, losing the rings, the first kiss. Following a number of couples, Director Alex Fegan’s faith in humanity shines in this display of all that is familiar and celebrates the huge diversity of Irish citizenry.

Fuelled by tracks from Sleaford Mods, Fontaines DC and Coldplay, we follow 12-year-old Bailey growing up in a freewheeling, graffiti-daubed North Kent squat with a teenage half-brother who dabbles in violent vigilantism and her feckless, magnificently tattooed, drug-dealing dad, Bug (Barry Keoghan).

This thrilling roller coaster film essay pulls together American jazz and the geopolitical machinations of the 1950s and 60s to deliver an insightful interpretation of the 1961 CIA-led assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first PM of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film is propelled by the rhythms of jazz musicians of the day - Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie

Meet Seán Ronayne. He’s a man on a mission. He’s set himself the task to record the song of every bird species in Ireland - nearly 200 of them. At once inspiring and cautionary, Seán’s journey illustrates the beauty and importance of sound, and what listening can tell us about the state of our natural world.

This dazzling Dreamworks animation for all ages follows robot Rozzum Unit 7134 - Roz - as she is shipwrecked on a remote Pacific island. Her attempts to ‘execute task - return to manufacturer’ are thwarted by nature’s chaos and it is her own nature of AI programming that helps her to understand where she is and her new forest friends.

An artistic archive of stories and songs from Ireland’s rich musical tradition. Celebrated singer Cathy Jordan, of traditional powerhouse Dervish, brings these tales to life with music, sound, and visuals, preserving them for future generations. Using a ‘crankie box’—a unique storytelling device with scrolling illustrations—this project beautifully marries song and art.

This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

A listless and alienated teenager helps his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while dealing with his bizarre family life back home.

Unfolding a story about female leadership, human rights activism and climate action, MRS ROBINSON tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President, a pioneering UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders.

Young Michael, shipwrecked on a remote island, must adapt to life alone. Over time, he feels another presence, learning that this world is home to both unimaginable danger and beauty.

This programme of short films about sea swimming includes the salty documentary from director Paul McCambridge about the beauty of Ireland's coastline juxtaposed with the inner strength of 83-year-old Paddy Conaghan, a man who refuses to let age define him.

Anyone aged 10 or over including adults are invited to roll up their sleeves and learn the art of breathing life into clay characters using stop-motion techniques.. Booking essential.

This multi-award winning documentary journeys the length of Dublin’s famous North Circular road, giving the audience a rich, character-filled travelogue, whilst exploring themes such as the threatened working class community, age old tensions, & of course the wonderful, ever mutating musical culture.

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

A provocative, poetic and cinematic meditation on the prospect of a united Ireland from acclaimed filmmaker Alan Gilsenan

Orla's preparation for a breeding competition and her struggle to reconcile her creative exuberance with her daily rural responsibilities.

In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.

This mini animation master class by Can Do Academy is a great introduction for anyone aged 6 and above to the colourful world of lego animation. Booking essential.

A perfectly-pitched, funny and tender tale about four generations of an Irish family, and the special bonds between mothers and daughters.

An Taibhse is the first Irish Language Horror film ever made. A bone-chilling tale set against the haunting backdrop of Ireland's famine era of 1852…

In this illustrated film lecture, filmmaker Simon Aeppli will share his recent PHD research on haunting and folk horror theories to excavate marginal and forgotten stories from our country’s past, and how they continue to affect the present.

This Frida Kahlo biography brings to light a lesser-known element of her artistic genius, namely the white-hot brilliance of her writing.