Joe Lawlor Movies

Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a...

Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid...

Rose Plays Julie is the story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose...

In their debut documentary Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O'Higgins,...

After discovering his wife's infidelities, Gerry leaves London to look after his deceased brother's business and family in Singapore. Discovering a...

An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to 'play'...

A father returns to work.

The thoughts of a young African woman in Ireland as she considers her future, and her unfolding sense of identity, as she walks along the city street...

Lyrical and musical in its style, Tiong Bahru is a thoughtful portrait of 3 very different people caught at a cross-road in their lives. TIONG BAHRU...

The perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence. With more than a passing reference to the 'narrative'...

Discussions in a town hall.

A police officer, coordinating the reconstruction of the last known movements of a young girl who has gone missing, speculates on what might have...

Short film set on a boat

Originally created as a series of short films by writer/directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, Civic Life features seven vignettes focusing on...

A book sale goes awry.

Poetic images of a city in change and the world of experience of its inhabitants, filmed in misty long takes in Cinemascope. A sense of loss is...

A group of young people receives therapy in the City Hall of Manchester.