Original title
Storyland
Released
3/1/2009
Origin country
IE
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, RTÉ
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
13
Number of episodes
46
Storyland is an award-winning initiative by RTÉ.ie and Screen Ireland, a program that develops and showcases new, original Irish short dramas by emerging talent in writing, directing, and acting. It operates as a competitive call-out for scripts, with the top finalists receiving funding and support to produce their 25-minute short dramas, which are then broadcast on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player.
Ex-Garda detective Vi Costigan is released from prison after unjustly serving time for a crime she did not commit, She quickly realises that she must adapt her old skills to survive in a radically shifted world she now finds herself in.
Bronagh just found out she's pregnant with Dave's baby. Now, she just needs to find him.
A young boy learns hard lessons in a post-apocalyptic world.
1995. Deepest suburbia. Fourteen year-old Charlie lives for his skateboard. Nothing else matters. But he is forced to take action when his wayward sister Sam steals vital medicine from their dad.
Jo Quinn, a hardnosed Garda, joins forces with a local Reserve Garda, Mary Bridget Quinn, to investigate bizarre happenings in the village of Blackhill.
A Kurdish political activist flees Iran and arrives by truck in Ireland. But the asylum system overwhelms him and he resorts to desperate measures to have his voice heard.
When long-term unemployed Northsider Martha learns that her daughter Dawn has been accepted into a STEM program for bright children, she realises that she needs a job. Through the charity Hemline, she meets recently-widowed Southsider Sheenagh. Together, these two very different women embark on a journey of self-development in order to prepare Martha for her first job interview in years.
Having lost his job when the factory closed, father Daniel is now seemingly devoting himself to the church. When his wife, stay-at-home mum Zara, agrees to let a racy cabaret club pay to advertise on the side of their house a family showdown ensues.
A music obsessed mixed-race girl questions her identity when she becomes the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast.
A hip-hop love story about a macho MC who has to choose between his ego and the girl he loves.
Sexually abused as a child, a homeless woman in the throes of addiction confronts her geriatric abuser, only to find he now suffers from dementia.
What do we remember and why? Three actors audition to play Rasputin in a music video, only to realize they know nothing about him because they're bad at sorting fact from fiction, joke from song lyric, history from Don Bluth cartoon.
An emotionally broken woman fears her husband's blossoming relationship with a student will bring trouble. She must find the courage to stand up for herself, and him.
Three working-class Belfast women join a writing group, in an effort to lift the mood of the youngest of the trio, only to learn they've accidentally joined a Christian writing group. In between some very funny and rather lewd story ideas from of one of the women, the group offers an escape for the youngest, as we learn the disturbing and all too common reasons for her depression.
A young man from a small Tipperary town feels trapped by his home situation. Desperate to escape his small town life, he makes a terrible decision with far reaching consequences.
Vinny and Lauryn fall for each other but their future together is threatened by their present.
A man suffering trauma is given a mysterious solution to skip past his pain.
A young bicycle courier, struggling to survive in the gig economy, takes revenge on the boss who fired him.
A misguided and disgruntled teenage pigeon fancier reacts badly to the death of her champion young bird.
A desperate housewife takes drastic measures to solve her problem. It's only then that she discovers that she, herself, may be the problem that someone else has decided to solve.
Faced with the eviction from her home by her own daughter, an elderly mother takes in a refugee as freedom takes on a new relative meaning for the pair.
Eilis is addicted to mustard. When she falls madly in love, she's sure her demons are finally banished, but when the relationship breaks down her shameful addiction to the yellow stuff returns with a vengeance.
As the Devereaux dynasty gather for their father's 60th birthday, a bountiful feast is prepared, old grudges are triggered, and murder is on the menu.
A petrol station attendant is drawn into the harsh world of a trafficked immigrant car washer, torn between speaking out at the risk of losing everything.
With cocaine worth thousands of euro strapped to their bodies, Lisa and Ali are intent on getting through airport security undetected.
A young father is accepted into a prestigious art college and must tell his cousin he is leaving a life of crime behind.
A young Chinese Irish woman meets the man of her dreams at a foreign language film club. She discovers the next day through social media that he has died. Piecing together who he was through his online life, she begins to wonder what could have been.
Ruth's love for baby Fia is undeniable. But under the strain of loneliness and a difficult domestic existence, the mother impulsively makes a drastic decision.
Zo is a high-flying solicitor in Ireland's top law firm, but she's harbouring a secret: she's engaged to a man she's never met. Zo decides to break with tradition and meet her fiancé before they get married. Will he meet Zo's expectations?
A troubled man, who has lost everything except his high end American refrigerator, drags it to his former home to show his neighbours how successful he is.
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