Cian Geoghegan

Cian Geoghegan

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Cian Geoghegan is a writer and filmmaker from Ireland. His short documentary Childhood, about a former child soldier living in Ireland and raising children of his own, premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2025.

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The Lane 2020 (10)

Fear courses through the back lane of a busy college town. The elderly residents live in quiet unease of the local young people, student renters and partygoers. When the lane enters lockdown, their agoraphobia takes on a new form and their old fears are put into perspective.
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System 2021

When Direct Provision was first introduced in Ireland, the time an asylum seeker was to spend awaiting approval of their claim was said to be a period of no more than six months. Jerome lived in Direct Provision for eight years while his claim was processed. Through moving personal testimony, former asylum seeker Jerome illustrates the precarity, anxiety and frustration behind daily life in the Direct Provision system. He outlines the feeling of being stranded or forgotten by the system, as basic human decency was denied to him.
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The Total Station 2022

In an era of increasing automation, a land surveyor reckons with his relationship with technology - is it a necessity, a crutch or an impediment?