Mark Noonan

Mark is an Irish director with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from University College Dublin and an MA in Film from Dublin City University. An alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the TIFF Film Lab in Toronto, his debut feature film YOU’RE UGLY TOO (2015) premiered in the Official Selection of the 65th Berlinale and was nominated for both Crystal Bear and Best Debut Feature awards. The film was also nominated at the 28th European Film Academy awards and screened at over a hundred film festivals worldwide, winning the Directors Guild of America Finder’s Series in LA, Best Debut Feature in Galway, Best Breakthrough Feature in Boston, and Best Screenplay Awards in Tokyo and Athens.

His debut feature documentary KEVIN ROCHE: THE QUIET ARCHITECT (2017) was released to critical acclaim in Irish, UK, German and US cinemas in 2018.

When they all vanish

LIM | Less is More 2019

Fleeing an unhappy relationship, Daria (40) takes refuge on a remote island where her peaceful existence is shattered by the unexpected arrival of younger sister Esmé (36) and daughter Hannah (11). Headstrong and rebellious, Daria is the total opposite of her civil servant sister, but is concerned for her sister’s mental health when a frantic Esmé claims the world is coming to an end. The next day Esmé has disappeared, leaving her daughter in Daria’s care. Daria finds her already strained relationship with men challenged, as the male islanders claim to see a sickness in women — the women are gradually disappearing in front of their eyes. Amidst rumours from the mainland about the dangers of these vanishing women, a dangerous and uncertain energy spreads through the island resulting in a bizarre men’s uprising, and forcing Daria and Hannah to act quickly to discover if the vanishing is a legitimate extinction event or just another Salem witch hunt.