People's Picturehouse Recap - November 2025

Our November showcase was a veritable feast of themes, styles and genres - with dramas, comedies thrillers, experimental film and even a music video for good measure.

Thanks to those who joined us on the night, those who submitted their films for screening, and thank you to @thepav.ie as usual for hosting us!

Congratulations to all of the fantastic filmmakers who screened their work on the night! 🎬

Now, walk with me down memory lane for a glimpse at those films screened on the night.

2006/Adam O' Brien

Cast & Crew

Writer and Director: Adam O' Brien

Producer: Louise O' Donnell

Starring: Kenneth Burke, Lisa Marie Murphy, Liam O' Caoimh, William Birrane

Camera: Ryan Matthew

Production Design: Marleen Hein, Louise O' Donnell

John is forced to live a life of crime and deception, but when somebody he deeply cares for is murdered. He stops at nothing to take brutal revenge on the perpetrators.

Do the Crows Know where the Trains Go/Ciaran Shanahan

Cast & Crew

Director & Producer: Ciaran Shanahan

Reflections of a Believer

Flights/Fiach Ó Corráin

Cast & Crew

Director/Producer: Fiach Ó Corráin

Being so different, friendship can be hard.

Thus Spake Zach O' Thústla/ Adam Barry Murphy

Cast & Crew

Director/ Producer: Adam Barry Murphy

Starring: Nathan Sweeney, David McSweeney, Sorcha Crowley, Zara Petkova, Oscar O' Sullivan

A lonely young man is approached by a pick-up artist, who offers some unhelpful guidance - with disastrous consequences!

Complicated Coffee / David Gould

Cast & Crew

Written and Directed by David Gould

Starring Liam O' Caoimh, Olivia Matthews, Graham McSweeney, Leah Buttimer Foley

Sometimes simplicity can be the hardest thing of all.

The Happy Pills - Superconscious/ Lucas Stan & Louiza Siemens

Cast & Crew

Director: Lucas Stan & Louisa Siemens

The Happy Pills present their newest music video for their latest album 'Superconscious'

 

Under the Strongbow Tree/Louisa Siemens

Cast & Crew

Director: Louisa Siemens

A potentially supernatural tale with a twist.

Intruder Within/ Kaia Egretipe

Cast & Crew

Directed by Kaia Egretipe

On her first night in a new apartment, a young woman is relentlessly pursued by a familiar presence.

Urinal Situation / David McCall & Lucy May McManus

Cast & Crew

Directed by David McCall

Produced by Lucy May McManus

Starring James McCarthy and Mark Leavy

"Kill or be killed. Are you a monster like me?"

The Bird Bridge Deprimere/ Kuba Nowaczyk

Cast & Crew

Directed by Kuba Nowaczyk

Starring Kyle English, Olan Kelleher and Colum McInerney

When was the last time you leaned in and spoke? A man haunted by grief and unable to cope with the death of his friend to cancer, battles with his mental demon who resembles his lost friend.

Shot for Seachtain

Our wonderful chair Graham McSweeney announced 'Shot for Seachtain' - an initiative for Seachtain na Gaeilge (February) in which filmmakers are invited to recreate a scene from a favourite film, as Gaeilge. The screening will be the 25th February - so get brushing up on your cupla focail!