Shorts Zone
Will be located at two venues in the town and will have a constantly revolving programme of short films throughout the day.
International Competition 1
Nov/Samhain 11, An Díseart, 6pm • 122
Nov/Samhain 13, An Díseart, 8pm • 324
Trap
Anastasia Weber • Russia • 2022 • 20 mins • Fiction
Long parties, craving excess and letting themselves go. Marina knows her brother Sasha will save her. He spends his days training with the Olympic squad and is trying to steal his teammate’s girlfriend. The lives of young adults in Russia caught between drill and ecstasy, police checks and the desire to be there for each other.
No Regrets
Zanete Skarule • Latvia • 2022 • 8 mins • Fiction
Two old women look back upon their lives. A funny and almost surrealistic story.
My Mother’s Girlfriend
Arun Fulara • India 2021 • 14:59 mins • Fiction
Renuka and Sadiya, two mature working class women in love with each other, are out celebrating Renuka’s birthday. Unknown to them, Renuka’s son, Mangesh, is around. My Mother’s Girlfriend is the story of these two relationships colliding.
A Lucid Dream
Li Yue • China • 2022 29:56 mins • Fiction
Memory eats into his dream. With the disappearance of that batch of wood which comes from the Southwest border, Li Guang, who is at the age of knowing destiny, realizes that this bizarre and motley reality is only built of the extension of memories.
International Competition 2
Nov/Samhain 11, An Díseart, 8pm • 123
Nov/Samhain 12, An Díseart, 8pm • 224
An Encounter
Kelly Campbell • Ireland • 2021 • 19:59 mins • Fiction
Freely adapted from the James Joyce short story, An Encounter follows Stephen and Jay, (13), as they take a day mitching from School. As they lay hidden in the grass, a strange man approaches. What unfolds with this man terrifies Stephen and will never be erased from his memory.
The Nipple Whisperer
Jan van Dyck • Belgium • 2021 • 15 mins • Fiction
Maurice Sanders has a gift. He’s a nipple whisperer. Once he was known as “Magic Sandy”. But that was years ago, before Doris, a famous model and Sander’s muse, fell ill. Now, after more than a decade, Doris wants to meet Maurice again.
The Silent Echo
Suman Sen • India (Nepal) • 2021 • 16:25 mins • Fiction
Four teenagers, from a remote mountain village, spend their days in an abandoned bus on a ridge, playing music. When a band competition is organized in a neighboring town, they gather money and courage to be part of it.
The Trip
Reisas
Rimantas Oičenka • Lithuania • 2022 • 25 mins • Doc
Soviet Lithuania, 1975. Against the backdrop of an industrial fishing boat, fishermen kiss their wives goodbye. They are going off to sea to catch fish on the faraway Atlantic. Even though so far away from the Iron Curtain, its shadow follows the men.
International Competition 3
Nov/Samhain 12, An Díseart, 2pm • 221
Nov/Samhain 13, An Díseart, 6pm • 323
Techno, Mama
Saulius Baradinskas • Lithuania • 2021 • 18 mins • Fiction
Nikita loves listening to techno music and dreams of going to Berlin and visiting the famous club ‘Berghain’. His mother Irena doesn’t know about her son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash.
Don Vs Lightning
Big Red Button (Johnny Burns and Pier van Tijn) • UK • 2021 • 12:46 mins • Fiction
When Don, an elderly Scottish grump, finds himself the victim of multiple lightning strikes he begins to worry that his quiet, orderly life may never be the same again.
Rustling
Tom Furniss • New Zealand • 2022 • 9:24 mins • Fiction
In a family of sheep rustlers, a 15-year-old boy must go up against his domineering father in order to help his younger brother keep the baby lamb left orphaned by their latest slaughter.
A New Millennium
Qi Ji • China • 2022 • 19:14 mins • Fiction
A story about two women One from the North, one from the South. The one newly divorced and the other one working in the adult film industry.
Company
Ilnaz Kheirkhah • Iran • 2022 • 9:57 mins • Fiction
A young boy after a tough day at school waits for the bus home. An old lady calls him to come over.
International Competition 4
Nov/Samhain 12, An Díseart, 4pm • 222
Nov/Samhain 13, An Díseart, 4pm • 342
The Detection of Faint Companions
Sandro Aguilar • Portugal • 2022 • 14 mins • Experimental
Sandro Aguilar is one of the most important names in Portuguese cinema, not only for his own shorts and features as a director, but for his work as founder of the production company O Som e a Fúria. His narratives are never linear or obvious. This time however he goes even further.
Father
Jonathan Pease • Australia • 2022 • 14:44 mins • Fiction
A story of a father and daughter in the father’s last days of life.
The Savior
Soheila PourMohammadi • Iran • 2022 • 15 mins • Fiction
A story about a little kid who is traumatised following the tragic death of her mother. Her father is a fisherman. When he brings home the fish, he notices his daughter carrying them back to the sea in order to save them as they are dying.
A Present Light
Luz De Presença
Diogo Costa Amarante • Portugal • 2021 • 19 mins • Fiction
On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about the slippery road. This is how I met Diana. Suffering from heartbreak, Gonçalo falls from his motorbike.
Sit Down and Shut Up
Cian O’Connor • Ireland • 2021 • 13:07 mins • Fiction
1980, Ireland is in the midst of recession. Football royalty Real Madrid faces Limerick City FC in, the opening of the European Cup. This is the David Vs Goliath tale about the opera of football, the city of Limerick. A game that no one remembers but three men will never forget.
International Competition 5
Nov/Samhain 11, An Díseart, 10pm • 124
Nov/Samhain 13, An Díseart, 2pm • 321
To my Next Lover
Kieran Charnock • New Zealand • 2022 • 3:26 mins • Fiction
This will not end well… A poet forewarns their next lover of what lies ahead. Based on the poem, To My Next Lover, by Paula Harris.
Reckless
Pella Kågerman • Sweden • 2022 • 10:16 mins • Fiction
Stockholm is a city buried deep under sea. Despite recent water leaks all 20 year old Nikki can think about is her ex.
Proxy
Kaz Ps • USA • 2022 • 14:08 mins • Fiction
The story of a woman who is a surrogate for a couple with fertility issues who decide they no longer want the child she is carrying for them when the child is found to have a genetic illness. It explores issues of infertility, sacrifice and
motherhood in a unique way.
On My Mind
Martin Strange-Hansen • Denmark • 2021 • 18 mins • Fiction
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.
Bad Suns
Kevin Ryan • USA • 2021 • 25:05 mins • Fiction
Los Angeles 2028… a military escalation between China and the United States has had devastating consequences for the world. Within a desolate Los Angeles, during a period of Martial Law, we meet a lone stranger named ’Jake’. He takes on Lilly desperately looking for her mother, and so their long journey to a safe zone starts.
National Competition 1
Nov/Samhain 11, John Benny’s@Green Room, 6pm • 171
Nov/Samhain 12, An Díseart, 6pm • 223
Saoirse
Sinead Ralston • Ireland • 2022 • 12:06 mins • Fiction
Working mother Yvonne struggles to maintain harsh beauty standards, not realising that her young daughter Saoirse is watching and taking notes. Saoirse portrays the extreme pressure felt by women and girls to live up to unrealistic
imaging of the female body.
Not my Sister
Jessica Courtney Leen Ireland • 2021 • 13:57 mins • Fiction
When Chris comes home to Cork from London for her sister Zara’s 13th birthday, a buried family secret begins to find it’s way to the surface.
Now
Pat Collins • Ireland 2022 • 4:08 mins • Animation
In a small Irish town, a community has come to mourn the passing of Tadhg. Heartbroken, his friend and partner, Sean greets the mourners as they commiserate. Tadhg’s wake brings the mourners who share sandwiches, tea, whiskey and memories. At funerals, it is always difficult to find the right words. Tom, struggles more than most.
Pádraig
Brian Benjamin Dwyer Ireland • 2021 • 4:59 mins • Fiction/Moc
A visit to an historic French Chateau brings an unexpected encounter.
Time is Ticking
Geraldine Boyle • Ireland • 2022 • 5:06 mins • EX
We don’t have to look far for evidence of climate change. A nostalgic aesthetic of Ireland’s flora through the eyes of Super 8 medium can’t mask the changing seasons.
Last of the Season
Hannah Levingstone • Ireland • 2022 • 5:04 mins • Animation
Inspired by the oblivious joys of childhood, ignorant of time passing. This film is an
attempt to capture the melancholy of nature following its cyclical course, through a woman’s fondly held memories. Autumn turns to winter as she revisits her younger self.
Nothing to Declare
Garret Daly • Ireland 2021 • 29:59 mins • Doc
The charming story of two Irish boys aged 10 and 13 on a stowaway adventure of a lifetime from Dublin to New York in the summer of 1985.
National Competition 2
Nov/Samhain 12, John Benny’s@Green Room, 6pm • 271
Nov/Samhain 13, An Díseart, 4pm • 322
Sour Milk
Mark Keane • Ireland • 2022 • 5 mins • Fiction
Two teen boys in a kitchen at night. One boy wants the other to take him seriously, and does something extreme in order to prove himself…
Our Time
Aindreas Aingeal • Fallon Verbruggen • Ireland • 2021 • 2:12 mins • Fiction/Gay
Our Time is a short documentary where the filmmaker reflects on his bond with his mother helping him express himself.
A Stone Place
James Skerritt • Ireland • 2022 • 9:15 mins • Doc
A Stone Place, is a visual journey showcasing a unique rock that is quarried on the side of the biggest cliffs in Europe and that has created
the aesthetic of a small rural town in the west
of Ireland.
Celebrating the English Channel
Terrence White • Ireland • 2022 • 2:13 mins • Moc
A short satire about British people celebrating the sea barrier between them and mainland Europe, post Brexit. Made as part of Wexford Screen’s Remixing the Archive Scheme.
To the Sea
Jesse Gilbert • Ireland • 2022 • 7:50 mins • Doc
To The Sea follows two brothers as they set off on an adventure which captures the magic of childhood and the power of imagination.
For The Birds
Ciaran O’Connor • Ireland • 2022 • 9:09 mins • Doc
Esther, who regularly feeds dozens of pigeons outside her small house, tells us about
parenthood, sin, and past secrets. Her incredible story mirrors that of thousands of Irish women who experienced life in some of the country’s mother and baby homes in the 20th century.
Still Up There
Joe Loftus • Ireland • 2022 • 4:27 mins • Animation
A mortally wounded Astronaut awakens in the upper atmosphere after a catastrophic event. He struggles to remember how he got there and latches himself on to the only familiar thing to him, his own severed arm.
Sucking Diesel
Sam McGrath • Ireland • 2022 • 10:10 mins • Fiction/Comedy
After a bungled robbery, a petrol station owner must decide whether to protect her idiot employee or turn him over to the most dangerous man in ballybeg.
Bruise
Mo O’Connell • Ireland • 2022 • 15:13 mins • Fiction/Dance
From the outside it looks like Heather has it all, the fancy house, the good looking husband, but then the cracks begin to show. A different look on a serious domestic situation.
Vonnie: Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon
Renata Lima • Ireland • 2022 • 17:20 mins • Doc
An intimate family portrait is woven as three sisters recollect the legacy of their mother Vonnie Reynolds, an Irish forgotten fashion icon forced to retire after a tragic accident.
National Competition 3
Nov/Samhain 11, An Díseart, 4pm • 121
Nov/Samhain 13, John Benny’s@Green Room, 6pm • 371
Act IV
Ann Upton • Ireland • 2021 • 3:52 mins • Animation
A domino effect of cosmic chaos.
Ruthless
Matthew McGuigan • Northern Ireland • 2020 • 13:00 mins • Fiction
In 1970’s Northern Ireland, a young boy, bereft of his mother, defies his father to get the Glam Rock album he so desperately wants.
The Radio
Laura Kavanagh • Ireland • 2022 • 11:03 mins • Fiction
An elderly widower depends on his radio to
keep a foothold in his routine, when it breaks,
his daughter, who knows how important it is to him, is forced to pay more attention to her isolated father.
The Trouble Generator
Gerard Walsh • Ireland • 2022 • 9:30 mins • Fiction
As Louise struggles to bring Grace to an assessment, she is forced to face the realities of parenting and accepting Graces individuality.
Good to Talk
Steve Broekhuizen • Ireland • 2022 • 9:32 mins • Fiction
A man who feels he is near the end stumbles upon a counselling office with the light still on he takes it as a sign and sets forth trying to get help.
Foxglove
Michael-David McKernan • Ireland • 2021 • 14 mins • Fiction
A young woman returns to the island where she grew up to reconcile with her past, the memory of her mother, and her dying father.
Dash
Rory Fleck Byrne • Ireland • 2021 • 15 mins • Fiction
A small town stable hand struggles with his femininity amidst a rugged rural landscape. As his favourite mare is set to be euthanised he is forced to make a decision. But is it too late for him to find his freedom?
The Invisible Ones
Jesus Tiscareno • Ireland • 2022 • 13:25 mins • Doc
The Invisible Ones is a short documentary film that portrays the violence and exploitation faced by food delivery couriers in Dublin.
