Dara Devaney

Rúbaí is a little girl who knows her mind - so much so that she's decided she's an atheist. Her First Holy Communion is fast approaching, but the eight-year-old refuses to take part. (thejournal.ie)

From the producers of Once and Sing Street, Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances has to fight for the right to fight back. (westend films)

Ireland, 1845 on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier, arrives just ahead of potato blight. As the crops rot in the fields, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the English Landlord's house where their request for a stay on rent falls on deaf ears. Patsy's subsequent actions set Colmán fighting for survival and sanity, until he meets a young girl with a dark past.