The Guard (15)

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An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality, teams up with a strait-laced FBI agent sent over to Ireland from the US to investigate and try to bust an international drug smuggling ring. Quirkiness, dark humour and surprises abound to enjoy, in a crime caper that sees Brendon Gleeson and Don Cheadle on top form.    Prescience Films (NFTS affiliates) were involved with the production of this film.  Running time 96 minutes.

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Faces in the Cloud Forest (graduate film)

2023.   Deep in Bwindi impenetrable forest, Uganda, conflict has broken out between local people and one of the last remaining populations of Mountain Gorillas. In an effort to protect both humans and animals, one veterinarian discovers that the very thing that makes these two communities so similar, is exactly what threatens to drive them apart. Running time 23 minutes..