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"Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity" imagines and pays tribute to Lucia Joyce at 'full capacity', referencing Berenice Abbott's iconic photograph of Lucia in her silver fish costume, and WB Yeats's Abbey Theatre Ballets.

"TRUE NORTH...", offers a rare window into the life of Native Canadians via an Irish Family who were fortunate enough to share their path in the 70s and 80s.

Once upon a time, during World War Two (or "The Emergency", as it was known in Ireland), enigmatic Irish-German woman Erina Brady brought cutting edge Modern Dance to Ireland, from Germany. A forgotten reel of film by Irish film industry founder Liam Ó Laoghaire immortalized the mysterious modern dancer teaching her tiny pupils in her Harcourt Street Studio and dancing freely in the open air in his 1943 gem of a film, "Dance School". Setting eyes on this rare footage for the first time, 1943 - A Dance Odyssey brings five of Brady's former tiny tots on an odyssey to a bygone era in her enchanted Irish School of Dance Art studio. Seventy years on, 1943 - A Dance Odyssey, explores who were these tiny dancers, attempting an arabesque, and stretching out their little limbs in barefoot dance of expression? Where did the dance of life take them? Unlocking fond memories of those extraordinary classes the women share how the modern dance pioneer influenced their lives, and opened them up to a lifetime of creativity.

In her photographic pilgrimage, Dragana Jurisic brings Rebcca West's 1941 masterpiece into the present day, for an encounter with the medium of photography - through her rolliflex camera as she follows West's footsteps through Yugoslavia, her former homeland, from which she was displaced during the 1990s war. Their photo-documentary highlights this unique and original road-trip where two women from different eras [Jurisic and Anglo-Irish writer Rebecca West], intersect in an intellectual, emotional, and physical journey through the Balkans. Conveying the devastating impact of war on ordinary people, this moving documentary which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the tragic massacre at Srebenica, and the subsequent Dayton Agreement, (1995), features Olwen Fouere as Rebecca West, Zlata Filipovic (author, "Zlata's Diary"), Dijana Milosevic (Founder, DAH Theatre, Belgrade), Colin Graham (Writer, Critic, and Lecturer in English at NUIM), photographer Dragana Jurisic, Pat Laffan, and is narrated by Deirdre Mulrooney. Image editor is Aoife Carey, and sound engineer is John Davis.