Irish Professionals

From 16:00 to 17:15

Screening at St. James Church 78 minutes

Regular Rabbit

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 7.43min

Directed by: Eoin Duffy

With story and visuals purposefully separated, a Regular Rabbit battles a comically absurd onslaught of disinformation. He is not the nightmare being told. He is as shown, a regular ol’ stupid rabbit doing his usual rabbit stuff! The narrator is full of s#!t!! How is this so hard to believe?! Fake news!! Where’s the evidence?! Agh!!! He is nothing more than a Regular Rabbit!

Soft Tissue

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 8.30min

Directed by: Cliona Noonan

A father takes desperate measures in the hopes of saving his son, but his actions soon become a distraction from what matters to him most.

The Presenter

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 2.26 min

Directed by: Josephine Lohoar Self

Set within a bustling news channel Niamh, a shy 20-something-year-old production assistant tries her best to fulfill the demands of the job. But when a news anchor beckons her over to the news desk, Niamh suddenly finds herself presenting the evening news. Her pleas fall on deaf ears, and we soon find out that things aren’t quite what they seem.

Candlelight

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 6.47min

Directed by: Scott Newton

In a dusty attic, a tall dinner candle springs to life. As the playful and curious candle explores, learning to hop, skip and dance, it discovers a second candle. The two play and dance their way through the attic, falling in love. However, after a shocking discovery, the two must decide whether life without the other can still be magical, or if they want to sacrifice everything for love.

Colour!

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 10:23min

Directed by: Britt Bailey

‘Colour!’ tells the story of Coral, a vibrant little girl starting her first day at school in her new all-blue neighbourhood. As Coral struggles to come to terms with constantly clashing with the crowd, she soon wants nothing more than just to blend into the background. Can Coral find the bravery to embrace her differences? Or does she risk fading out entirely?

Red Rabbit

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 4.50min

Directed by: Rory Kerr

An anthropomorphic rabbit struggles to find peace and relaxation at home. These attempts are thwarted by a destructive shoulder devil, who takes glee in ruining any chance of tranquillity.

Still Up There

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 4.27min

Directed by: Joe Loftus

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.

Reroot

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 7.57min

Directed by: Connor Richmond

Plastic Bottle is thrown into a weed-filled patch of urban wasteland. Homesick, she feels down-in-the-dumps. An optimist, she makes friends with the wild-lives growing around her. But things soon catapult in another route when they learn that home is where the heart is. A fun, family-friendly adventure, grounded in community.

Stan By Me

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 10.00min

Directed by: Rachel Dixon

Stan by Me is a geriatric spin on a coming-ofage story about a grumpy, resentful character called Mervin. Despite the overzealous encouragement of Stan, his jolly neighbour, Mervin’s aches and pains overshadow every possible joy in life. Worlds apart in temperament; they both cope with aging, loneliness and isolation in their own way.

Live Wire

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 12.53min

Directed by: David Foley

A being made of sentient electrical wire must protect itself from the wrath of a monster pursuing it.

Hermit

Ireland // Colour // 2022 // 2.28min

Directed by: Sarah Benson

In pursuit of their greed, a Hermit loses sight of the world around them.

International Professionals 1

From 17:30 to 18:45

Screening at St. James Church 78 minutes

Ice Merchants

Portugal // Colour // 2022 // 14.00min

Directed by: João Gonzalez

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

The Record

Switzerland // Colour // 2022 // 8.38min

Directed by: Jonathan Laskar

An antique music instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record from a traveller: “It reads your mind and plays your lost memories”. Obsessed by this endless record, the antique dealer listens to it again and again, and the memories reemerge until one last and most painful memory is revealed: how he got separated from his mother on the Swiss border during World War II.

Innermost

China // Colour // 2022 // 15.00min

Directed by: Maing Caochong

Innermost is set in the future featured by highly advanced technologies but collapsed society and civilization system. The cyberpunk-style science fiction world coexists fantastically with the traditional oriental martial arts world. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre.

The Pink Jacket

Portugal // Colour // 2022 // 8.20min

Directed by: Mónica Santos

A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up his sleeve. In the comfort of his home, Casaco Rosa uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system.

The Garbage Man

Portugal // Colour // 2022 // 11.50min

Directed by: Laura Gonçalves

On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.

Night

Palestine/Germany // Colour // 2022 // 15.57min

Directed by: Ahmad Saleh

The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.

Kiss ‘n’ Ride

United States // Colour // 2022 // 7.46min

Directed by: Olivia Jensen

On her way home from a lovely cafe date, a woman finds reminders of her date in every little thing, prompting her to fall in love with the Chicago winter night around her and dream of the date ending differently.

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International Professionals 2

From 19:00 to 20:35

Screening at St. James Church

95 minutes

The Perfect Fit

Lithuania // Colour // 2022 // 10.30min

Directed by: Meinardas Valkevičius

Patrick lives in a children’s home. After seeing a parrot in the zoo, he becomes obsessed with them, which makes it even harder for him to belong and find parents who want to adopt him.

Tête-Bêche

Hong Kong // Colour // 2022 // 9.04min

Directed by: Donald Kwok, Jay Wong

One doesn’t have to be a cat to know about its joy and sorrow. One day, Ah-Jai, a silent and lonely kid met Siu-Ball, a stray cat. And their encounter turns out to be a momentous one. Flaneuring the city, their experiences complementing that of each other, allow us to see from their lenses. Both the kid and the kitten, being innocent existence in people’s eyes, are like two inverted and overlapping souls.

I’m Not Afraid!

Norway // Colour // 2022 // 7.02min

Directed by: Marita Mayer

During a game of hide and seek Vanja leaves the bright living room and enters a dimly lit courtyard, which has far too many dark corners, weird shadows and strange noises. To overcome the fear, Vanja turns into a dangerous tiger!

Everywhere

Hong Kong // Colour // 2022 // 9.25min

Directed by: Step Cheung, Kai Chung Ng

Things that we thought were gone may not truly leave us – perhaps they are still with us somehow. Life is full of ups and downs. Death is a natural part of life. This story inspires us to rethink our life and treasure every moment we have, just like the two inseparable little cats enjoying their life and experiencing the grief of death.

The Egret River

Taiwan // Colour // 2022 // 19.56min

Directed by: Wan-Ling Liu

Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely guard hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops, one day the field is destroyed, the egret escapes without a trace, he begin to see mysterious illusions…

Corvine

Canada // Colour // 2022 // 10.30min

Directed by: Sean McCarron

An eccentric boy has trouble fitting in at school due to his obsession with crows.

Spring Roll Dream

United Kingdom // Colour // 2022 // 9.19min

Directed by: Mai Vu

Linh is a Vietnamese mother who lives with her son in America. When her father visits and insists on cooking a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind.

Pulse At The Centre Of Being

Hong Kong // Colour // 2022 // 4.17min

Directed by: Tsz-wing Ho

It is a 2D experimental animation which is accompanied by the music, “Pulse At The Centre Of Being” composed by Max Cooper. Beautiful things happened inside a human through different combinations of flowers, organs and body parts.

Sensory Itch

Netherlands // Colour // 2022 // 4.40min

Directed by: Roel van Beek

After getting stung by a nettle Sarah finds that scratching, whilst providing relief, has destructive results. When minor irritations start to magnify her itch, and vice versa, restraint from scratching becomes insufferable. When Sarah is presented with a carefree alternative, can she still suppress her compulsion?

Zidane Roulette

Emy Mirel Ivasca // Colour // 2022 // 8.50min

Directed by: Romania

A boy sees from the window of his apartment a child playing alone with a ball every day.

International Professionals 3

From 10:00 to 11:30

Screening at Beehive Theatre 80

minutes

Salvation Has No Name

United Kingdom // Colour // 2022 // 16.50min

Directed by: Joseph Wallace

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.

The Torrential Melody

Mexico // Colour // 2022 // 6.55min

Directed by: José Luis Saturno

A town suffering a long drought entrusts its destiny to a wandering musician who has the power to bring rain with his accordion´s music.

The Smile

Netherlands // Colour // 2022 // 15.00min

Directed by: Erik van Schaaik

When a world-famous film star is accused of eating his female co-stars, his career goes down the drain. That wipes the smile off his face!

The Well

United Kingdom // Colour // 2022 // 8.35min

Directed by: Peter Stanley-Ward

Known as the outsider, Trish leads three ‘friends’ to a secret well in the hope to build friendships. When they realise the potential of the well, they get a terrifying reminder to always be careful what you wish for…

My Dear Son

Hong Kong // Colour // 2022 // 9.00min

Directed by: Lilian Fu

In a capitalist city, where people have kids to be proud of, a woman - Rose unexpectedly gives birth to a cat son. The Baby doesn’t behave as an ordinary baby and Rose struggles to love him. Rose tries her best to change him, even if it means changing his true nature. However, to find a connection she will need to learn to love him for whom he is and to remember something about herself that she has forgotten.

The Benefactors

Switzerland // Colour // 2022 // 8.49min

Directed by: Christophe Lopez-Huici

A weary young man thinks he found the perfect patrons for his rickshaw tours, but he soon finds out that his new customers can be very demanding.

Scale

France // Colour // 2022 // 14.53min

Directed by: Joseph Pierce

Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.