More Than God
2015 · 9m · Ireland
Directed by Kev Cahill
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
A pious Irish doctor who suspects his wife of infidelity investigates his doubts, hides under a bed, and stumbles into a revelation about his own family.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A pious doctor hiding under a bed like a paranoid animal—that's the kind of premise that makes people squirm, and Cahill knows it; the film cheerfully dismantles faith, fidelity, and masculine certainty all at once, which is exactly the kind of subversive domestic inversion most scouts would nervously pass on.
Cahill positions this within a lineage of Irish Catholic cinema and domestic psychological drama, executing the tonal shift from suspicion to revelation with formal precision—the spatial constraint of that bed becomes both metaphor and compositional anchor.
The genius move here is how much hinges on that single reveal, where the investigation pivots from voyeuristic anxiety into something that reframes the entire emotional architecture; it's a small-scale film that earns its emotional weight through one perfectly calibrated narrative turn.