CIFF2024 - Shorts Program 3 | Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland Spotlight
Sunday, March 3 • 12:00 PM • T2 • Approx. runtime: 90 min.
This year we partnered with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Ireland's national body for film, television, and animation, to present an additional third program of shorts dedicated to films funded directly by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland through a variety of schemes including Focus Shorts (Live Action Drama), Frameworks (Animation) co-funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and RTÉ, and Actor as Creator Scheme co-funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Bow Street Academy.
SHAKE VERSUS SHAV
In this madcap knockabout Punch & Judy style puppet film, legendary Irish playwright and Nobel Prizewinner George Bernard Shaw (Colm Meaney) battles it out with William Shakespeare (Derek Jacobi) in a war of words to decide who is the greater writer.
Credits: DIR/SCR/PROD Damian Farrell; DIR/SCR Gerry Hoban; PROD Elaine Gallagher and Martha Moloney. Ireland, 2023, color, 17 min. NOT RATED.
Funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
CANTATA
Darren needs help. His fears and anxieties are manifesting themselves in the most unusual of therapists to find a quick solution, but sometimes restoring harmony is about facing music.
Credits: DIR Dave Fox; SCR Fionn Foley; PROD Rob Early. Ireland, 2023, color, 12 min. NOT RATED.
Funded through Actor as Creator scheme funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Bow Street Academy.
WORRY WORLD
In a regimented, controlled world of black-and-white, where all thought is on display, a rebellious young factory worker who thinks in color makes an unexpected connection.
Credits: DIR Jessica Patterson; SCR Hugh O’Conor; PROD Shauna Cullen. Ireland, 2023, color/b&w, 9 min. NOT RATED.
Awards: James Horgan Award for Best Short Irish Animation - Galway Film Fleadh 2023, Audience Award for Best Short Animation - Newport Beach Film Festival 2023
Funded Frameworks animation scheme co-funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and RTÉ.
BOG
The Great Irish Elk takes young Oisín on an emotional journey through the realm of the bog. With the Elk's guidance, he finds comfort in the natural world and discovers that when we are lost, looking to the simple things can guide us home.
Credits: DIR/SCR Éabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwan; PROD Greg Connolly. Ireland, 2023, color, 10 min. NOT RATED.
Funded Frameworks animation scheme co-funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and RTÉ.
TWO FOR THE ROAD
Amidst spontaneous travels around 1990s Ireland, Oscar, a young boy, finds himself navigating the true essence of adventure with his father, one spirited weekend at a time. Based on the short story "Guinness & Coke."
Credits: DIR/SCR Lochlainn McKenna, from his short story "Guinness & Coke"; PROD Natalie Britton and Gráinne Dwyer. Ireland, 2023, color, 19 min. NOT RATED.
Awards: Best Short Film – Galway International Film Festival 2023, Best Cinematography – Galway International Film Festival 2023, Best In Kerry – Kerry International Film Festival 2023, Audience Award – Best Narrative Short – Newport Beach Film Festival 2023, Best Cork Short – Cork International Film Festival 2023
Funded through Focus Shorts scheme funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
LAMB
It’s a beautiful, sunny, ordinary day as Sarah (Aoife Duffin) makes breakfast for her baby daughter, opening the door to her cottage to let the summer light pour in. Things take a chilling, sinister turn when she discovers that a stranger has entered their isolated rural home and creeping terror ensues.
Credits: DIR/SCR Sinéad O'Loughlin; PROD Lara Hickey. Ireland, 2022, color, 15 min. NOTE RATED.
Awards: Audience Award - Cork International Film Festival 2022
Funded through Focus Shorts scheme funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
BABY STEPS
Presented with an outdated and vaguely misogynistic tape from her father entitled "How to Connect with your Unborn Child," Em – a young woman who is 7 months pregnant and has little to no connection to the baby growing inside her – attempts to follow the instructions in the hopes that they will lead to catharsis and some form of greater understanding.
Credits: DIR/SCR Hannah Mamalis; PROD Zoë Brennan-Whitmore. Ireland, 2023, 9 min. NOT RATED.
Awards: James Flynn Award for Best First Short Drama - Galway Film Fleadh 2023
Funded through Actor as Creator scheme funded by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Bow Street Academy.
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