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.

A retired Irish paramilitary witnesses the fatal shooting of his pregnant wife by an SAS officer. After outwitting the SAS, now wounded, and presumed dead, he escapes, taking his revenge to the dark and paranoid streets of 1970's London. (imdb)