- Dónal Foreman
- www.donalforeman.com
- donalforeman@gmail.com
- +353 (0) 85 7236343
- Based between Dublin and New York City
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Filmography
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The Cry of Granuaile
2022 — Feature Film — 82 mins -
The Image You Missed
2018 — Documentary — 74 mins -
The Ghost Said
2014 — Short Film — 18 mins -
Out Of Here
2013 — Feature Film — 80 mins -
Pull
2012 — Short Film — 21 mins -
Refuge
2010 — Short Film — 10 mins -
Repeat
2012 — Short Film — 12 mins -
You’re Only What I See Sometimes
2008 — Short Film — 9 mins -
Removal
2006 — Short Film — 10 mins
Awards
- 2023 — Winner
Montana International Film Festival — Best Narrative Feature Film. The Cry of Granuaile - 2022 — Winner
BAFICI — Best Performance & Best Original Music in International Competition. The Cry of Granuaile - 2020 — Nominee
Irish Film and Television Awards — George Morrison Feature Documentary Award . The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
Astra Film Festival Sibiu — Best International Documentary. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema — Best Feature Film - Avant-Garde and Genre . The Image You Missed - 2018 — Mention
Cinéma du Réel — Institut Français Award. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival — International Dox Award. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
Hamburg Film Festival — Political Film Award . The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival — Grand Prize City of Lisbon . The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) — Grand Prize . The Image You Missed - 2018 — Nominee
São Paulo International Film Festival — New Directors Competition . The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
BAFICI — Grand Jury Prize of Avant-Garde & Genre Competition. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
Cinéma du Réel — Prize for Best Original Music + Special Mention in French Competition. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
Filmmaker Fest — First Prize in International Competition. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
Transcinema Festival — First Prize in International Competition. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote — First Prize in International Competition. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival — First Look Award. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Winner
DocsMX — "Portraits" Grand Jury Prize. The Image You Missed - 2018 — Special Mention
L'Alternativa — Special Mention in International Competition . The Image You Missed - 2015 — Nominee
Irish Film and Television Awards — Rising Star Award . - 2014 — Winner
Dublin International Film Festival — Michael Dwyer Innovation Award (Dublin Film Critics Circle) & CINE Talent Award (Universal Pictures/Screen International. - 2003 — Winner
Fresh Film Festival — Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year.
Dónal Foreman is an Irish filmmaker living between Dublin and New York City. He has written and directed three features and dozens of shorts, which the Criterion Collection has described as “searching, shape-shifting explorations of place, cultural memory, and national identity.” The Irish Times called him “one of Ireland’s most imaginative cinematic talents”, and his films have been praised in The Hollywood Reporter, Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Film Comment and Filmmaker Magazine, and streamed on MUBI and The Criterion Channel. He has been nominated twice for the Irish Film & TV Academy Awards and presented with the Discovery Award from the Dublin Film Critics Circle in 2014. His most recent feature, The Cry of Granuaile, won awards for Best Score and Best Performance at BAFICI in Buenos Aires, and Best Narrative Feature at the Montana International Film Festival. His previous feature, The Image You Missed, premiered at Rotterdam and went on to screen at over 40 festivals across 20 countries including Edinburgh, CPH:DOX and the Viennale, receiving nine awards as well as theatrical releases in Ireland, the UK, the US, Greece and Mexico. The Irish Times recently declared it one of the 50 best Irish films ever made.