Love Lane United

Set on a chaotic Dublin house share, the film follows Benny, whose world begins to unravel after he loses his job. Instead of facing adulthood, he dives headfirst into a doomed romance with his housemate Laura and convinces his equally lost friends to form a disastrous Sunday League football team.

As nights blur into mornings through drinking, partying and denial, Love Lane United captures a generation caught between freedom and fear. Beneath the humour lies a deeply human story about love, loss, anxiety, depression and alcohol abuse, and the quiet panic of trying to find purpose before time runs out.

Both side-splittingly funny and emotionally devastating, the film holds up a mirror to friendship, masculinity and growing up, asking whether its characters will finally change, or remain trapped in the comfort of their own mistakes.

A raw, funny and heartbreakingly honest portrait of life in your mid-20s, when standing still feels safer than moving forward.

AWARDS

Audience Choice Award at the 2025 Louth International Film Festival