5 minute read
The Small Makings of A Storm
DURATION: 04 mins 45 sec
DIRECTOR: Avery Angle
PRODUCER: Avery Angle
COUNTRY: Ireland
A procession of water through its acts of metamorphosis in its life cycle. From the rising mists to billowing clouds, water weaves its way through every environment leaving an impression on even the smallest of creatures.
Everything At Once
DURATION: 8 mins
DIRECTOR: Henrik Dyb Zwart
PRODUCER: Øystein K. Dyb
COUNTRY: Norway
You’ve heard it before; that a moment can change your life. As if it's possible to point to a single instance when things changed. For Jakob, there's just a myriad of memories, piled up on top of each other. As if everything happened all at once.
Bean Feasa
DURATION: 17 mins 04 sec
DIRECTOR: Daniel Butler
PRODUCER: Maggie Ryan
COUNTRY: Ireland
The sceptical daughter of a traditional healer has her certainties challenged when she encounters one of 'the Good People'. Bean Feasa is an Irish-language supernatural drama inspired by Donegal folktales and filmed on location in the Donegal Gaeltacht.
One Good Conversation
DURATION: 13 mins 37 sec
DIRECTOR: Clare Dunne
COUNTRY: Ireland
This is a backwards love story exploring the seismic shifts one conversation can do to our lives and how maybe our biggest mistakes give us a journey we were really seeking.
DURATION: 13 mins 50 sec
DIRECTOR: Hadi Babaeifar
PRODUCER: Hadi Babaeifar
COUNTRY: Iran
Ehsan a nine-year-old boy lives with his family in a far village in the North of Iran. His younger brother has a terminal illness. Ehsan’s family does not let him know about his brother’s health and he himself figures out what is happening. Ehsan feels his brother is going to die. From an old story he believes that a death angel comes to get his brother’s life as a deer. Ehsan sees a deer at the window at midnight, he decides to guard the house, not to let the deer take his brother’s life.
Sons of the Crezent
DURATION: 10 mins 49 sec
DIRECTOR: Brendan Canty
PRODUCER: Roberto Nascimento, Valentine Taylor
COUNTRY: New Zealand
With his neighbourhood in South Auckland under threat from gentrification, a young man recalls his youth, his roots and his upbringing through spoken word memories and dance. The film is a kaleidoscopic blend of emotion, nostalgia, humour and tenderness all woven together across scenes of dance and play.
Mud Queen
DURATION: 18 mins 17 sec
DIRECTOR: Nathan Fagan, Luke Daly
PRODUCER: Seamus Waters
COUNTRY: Ireland
Set in a remote farmhouse in rural north county Dublin, Ireland in the early 1990’s. Sensitive, artistic Ryan, his 6-year-old sister Katie and his larger-than-life mother, Sue, are preparing to throw a wild and glamorous birthday party for Ryan’s 12th birthday. But is Mum’s behaviour just a normal part of the festivities? Or a sign of trouble to come? As the night wears on, Ryan must try to keep everything under control - and keep reality and the outside world at bay. Even for just one more night. A colourful, energetic film about the messiness of love and the complicated relationships between sons and mothers.
On Xerxes’ Throne
DURATION: 15 mins
DIRECTOR: Evi Kalogiropoulou
PRODUCER: Evi Kalogiropoulou
COUNTRY: Greece
A dystopian workplace at the Perama shipyard. A ban on physical contact has turned human interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch has alienated the workers communication transforming the boatyard into a charged landscape of alienation and repressed sensuality beyond stereotypical heteronormative desires. According to local legend, the Persian King Xerxes watched the overwhelming defeat of his fleet from his throne on the rocky peaks of Mount Egaleo, in today’s Perama.
My Girlfriend
DURATION: 17 mins
DIRECTOR: Kawthar Younis
PRODUCER: Sandro Canaan
COUNTRY: Egypt
Desperate for intimacy, Ali follows his girlfriend’s suggestion that puts their relationship to the test. The plan unfolds unexpectedly when gender roles become blurred.
INFO: Mon 27 Feb / Light House 2 / 18:00 / 118 mins
You’re Not Home
DURATION: 10 mins 57 sec
DIRECTOR: Derek Ugochukwu
PRODUCER: Gregory Burrowes
COUNTRY: Ireland
When an ominous mould appears in their room, two African brothers seeking asylum are faced with a dark entity lurking within their direct provision centre.
DURATION: 18 mins 05 sec
DIRECTOR: Daniel Mateo Vallejo
PRODUCER: Anderson Ascanio, Andre del Sur. Daniel Mateo Vallejo, Kees de Klein, María Paula, Jiménez Trujillo
COUNTRY: Columbia
Keisi wakes up one morning with the obsession of escaping into the thick of nature that has been stalking her lately. A photograph as fantasy; the art gallery that exhibits it as a nightmare.
Sons of Róisín
DURATION: 10 mins
DIRECTOR: Conor Bradley
PRODUCER: Hana Mohammed Sami, Ruairi Bradley
COUNTRY: Ireland
Pádraig's life has been turned upside down after the tragic passing of his brother, Fionn. One month later Pádraig visits an audiologist to learn that his hearing has deteriorated beyond repair. Left in the silence of his own grief, Pádraig hides from the world.
Blind Spot
Cracks Will Come People of the Plaza
DURATION: 14 mins 35 sec
DIRECTOR: Elias Neijens
PRODUCER: Elias Neijens
COUNTRY: Tunisia
Under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, a man is kidnapped, tortured and killed, then vanishes without ever being found. Thirty years later, he comes back to talk to us. Taking over the question of his mother: "Where did you abandon my son's body?"
DURATION: 14 mins 23 sec
DIRECTOR: Paul Gleeson
PRODUCER: Emma Langan, Anna Lugard, Fionn Quigley, Luan Rogers, Naoise May
COUNTRY: Ireland
Should cities be shaped around people, or should people be shaped around cities? The passer-by's of Dublin 8 respond to the controversial fencing of Portobello Plaza for the building of yet another Dublin hotel. Is it a sign of a far bigger problem?
DURATION: 9 mins 38 sec
DIRECTOR: Ethan Barrett
PRODUCER: Tiffany Barrett
COUNTRY: USA
As he cradles his new-born, a father wonders if his daughter would be better off without him and imagines her life once he is gone. Completely hand-drawn with crayons.
Warsha
DURATION: 15 mins
DIRECTOR: Dania Bdeir
PRODUCER: Coralie Dias
COUNTRY: France/Lebanon
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.
Full Moon
Rosemay A.D. Tsutsué
DURATION: 9 mins
DIRECTOR: Alexander Wilson-Flynn
PRODUCER: James Flynn, Keith Browett
COUNTRY: Ireland
On a stormy night, a father tells his daughter a scary story before bed. But the darkness the story reveals hits perhaps a little close to home.
DURATION: 15 mins 35 sec
DIRECTOR: Amartei Armar
PRODUCER: Ike Yemoh
COUNTRY: France, Ghana
Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his demise, Okai believes their brother is still out there…
GlitterbugLa Tumba
DURATION: 14 mins
DIRECTOR: Tania Notaro
PRODUCER: Ali Doyle, Trish Ryan
COUNTRY: Ireland
Set in 90’s Dublin, two young female DJ’s have their dreams of making it big in London crushed when one of them is diagnosed with HIV.
DURATION: 14 mins 15 sec
DIRECTOR: Natasha Waugh
PRODUCER: Natalie McAuley
COUNTRY: Ireland
When park ranger Paddy discovers Pilar, an elderly Spanish lady with no English, at a freshly dug grave, he thinks his fantasy of solving a murder case has finally come true.
Far Calls
DURATION: 22 mins 07 sec
DIRECTOR: Olwen Fouéré , Tristan Heanue
PRODUCER: Clifden Arts Festival, Tristan Heanue
COUNTRY: Ireland
A film about life and death, following the final moments of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, as the river dissolves into the ocean towards the Atlantic horizon.