Richard Keaney

Directing

Richard Keaney

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Award winning Irish director Richard Keaney first started making films while studying at University College Dublin from 2010-2013 where he made a number of student shorts. After graduating, he continued filmmaking and has gone on to direct multiple award winning short films including 'Joey Had Never Been Out Of The City', 'Scope' and 'Late Arrivals' ,the latter being selected to screen on Aer Lingus long haul flights in 2016. 'Scope', his third film as writer/director was selected for 13 international film festivals with a world premiere at Chicago's Logan Theater for Chicago Irish Film Festival and end to its run with a screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox for Toronto Irish Film Festival. '…

Known for

Behind the camera

Scope poster
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When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world.

Scope

2018

Scope poster
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When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world.

Scope

2018

Scope poster
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When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world.

Scope

2018

Bare poster
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An unhappily married woman finds escape in the form of an affair with an equally desperate younger man.

Bare

2018

Getting In poster
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When his son is turned away from his favourite band's gig for being underage, a father is committed to getting him in one way or another.

Getting In

2021

Getting In poster
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When his son is turned away from his favourite band's gig for being underage, a father is committed to getting him in one way or another.

Getting In

2021

Recoil poster
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When Ryan's girlfriend is brutally murdered he begins to psychologically unravel, falling into a dangerous criminal underworld where memories are skewed and he must ultimately question his own humanity.

Recoil

2014

Recoil poster
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When Ryan's girlfriend is brutally murdered he begins to psychologically unravel, falling into a dangerous criminal underworld where memories are skewed and he must ultimately question his own humanity.

Recoil

2014

Recoil poster
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When Ryan's girlfriend is brutally murdered he begins to psychologically unravel, falling into a dangerous criminal underworld where memories are skewed and he must ultimately question his own humanity.

Recoil

2014

Cut Off poster
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In the dystopian near-future, a man wakes up in his apartment struggling to breathe and must overcome a series of technological hurdles to fix the problem before it's too late.

Cut Off

2025

Cut Off poster
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In the dystopian near-future, a man wakes up in his apartment struggling to breathe and must overcome a series of technological hurdles to fix the problem before it's too late.

Cut Off

2025

Joey Had Never Been Out Of The City poster
7.0

After a robbery gets out of hand, Joey and Wayne flee Dublin with a cash-filled biscuit tin that needs hiding.

Joey Had Never Been Out Of The City

2024

Joey Had Never Been Out Of The City poster
7.0

After a robbery gets out of hand, Joey and Wayne flee Dublin with a cash-filled biscuit tin that needs hiding.

Joey Had Never Been Out Of The City

2024

Late Arrivals poster
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An Iranian Father and Son arrive at their new home in Dublin, Ireland. However, they are unable to confront the reason for their move and the effect of which threatens to drive them apart.

Late Arrivals

2015

Late Arrivals poster
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An Iranian Father and Son arrive at their new home in Dublin, Ireland. However, they are unable to confront the reason for their move and the effect of which threatens to drive them apart.

Late Arrivals

2015

Late Arrivals poster
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An Iranian Father and Son arrive at their new home in Dublin, Ireland. However, they are unable to confront the reason for their move and the effect of which threatens to drive them apart.

Late Arrivals

2015

Women's Rugby - Breaking Through poster
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30 years after their first international match, 'Rugbaí na mBan - Ag Briseadh Tríd' ('Women's Rugby - Breaking Through') tells the remarkable story of the journey of the Ireland Women's Rugby, fighting for opportunity, success, recognition, and to inspire the next generation to take up the game and compete.

Women's Rugby - Breaking Through

2023