Movies: Harvest Films

Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Their personalities are distinctly different. Elder Johnson is the District Leader and oversees their efforts. His companion, the vain Elder Van...

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters a...

Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy makes her an outcast at school and gets her in trouble at home. When a painful family loss disrupts her seemingly idyllic seaside life, her sense of isolation intensifies, yet it doesn't stop Amiko ...

Eoghan is a sound recordist who is returning to Ireland for the first time in 15 years. He has been given an unusual task: to find and record places without man-made sound. His journey takes him away from towns and villages, into remote terrain, to p...

A chronicle of the worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie....

The life story of traditional Irish folk singer Joe Heaney, who is estimated to have recorded in excess of 500 traditional Irish sean nós ('old style') songs. Heaney moved from Ireland to the UK, and then on to New York City, where he settled shortly...

Tory Island, nine miles off the coast of Donegal is the most remote inhabited island off Ireland. Its notorious inaccessibility and unforgiving landscape has not deterred 150 people from making this island their home. Oileán Thoraí captures, over th...

'Living in a Coded Land' is a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life. The film revolves around the notion of a sense of place and stories associated with place, reflec...

Documentarian Pat Collins adopts cartographer Tim Robinson's memoirs of his time in Connemara, exploring the ill-defined boundaries of the region through scenic imagery and hushed narration....

“Songs of The Open Road” sheds light on the life of the award-winning Irish Traveller, Traditional Singer, Thomas McCarthy. Thomas comes from a long line of singers and musicians who kept the tradition of singing strong within the Irish Traveller com...

Thrillingly documenting the creation of a new dance show by Michael Keegan-Dolan, acclaimed Irish filmmaker Pat Collins reveals a work that is expressive and exhilarating....

On March 30th 2006, after a life-time of dedication to his art, John McGahern, one of Ireland's most distinguished writers, sadly passed away after a long illness. Since the publication of his first book in 1963, John McGahern was at the cultural hea...

‘William McKeown: Idir Neamh agus Talamh’ is a meditation on the work of Irish artist William McKeown (1962-2011), who developed a body of work that has had a radical and fundamental effect on our understanding of the age-old relationship of art to ...

Documentary profile of the acclaimed Irish actor....

Emigration, mythology, consumerism, socialism, the place of the church in Irish life, the central role of land in Irish history, and the sense of a civic society are explored in a series of conversations and imagery....

Based on the book by Pat Sheeran and Nina Witoszek, this hour-long documentary focuses on the hold that the dead have on the living in Ireland, and the tradition of the funeral in Irish culture....

Each year on the last Sunday of July one of the oldest pilgrimages in Ireland takes place. Pilgrims come from the surrounding countryside to ascend the 2,510 feet of Croagh Patrick. It has been traditional for certain people to climb the mountain at ...

'Ballade' is a four minute film commissioned by the Trailblazery and RTÉ which was shown as part of 'We Need to Talk about ireland', a 90 minute show on what it means to be Irish in 2014....

A portrait of the history and people of the city of Cork, Ireland....