Short Film Program 4 - Saturday September 2nd at 1000amThe Martello Suite


Festival Pass
Front of House Price €60
Online Price €50
Your festival pass gives you access to all all short and feature films throughout the four days of the festival. Includes opening or closing films
Short Film Ticket
Front of House Price €7
Online Ticket Price €6
Entry to Short Film Program 3

Neolithic Patchwork
Herman is approaching the end of cancer treatment but also suffers from mental meanderings. A tragedy that befalls his wife later adds more reflection about his attitudes to life and a deep life lesson.
Written and Directed by Paul Heary
Produced by Victor McGowan
Running Time 15 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Kings and Queens
A group of friends having a drink together and playing cards. Though how well do you know your best friends when the secrets start to come out.
Kings and Queens explores the love, laughter, and secrets that people keep from those closest to them
Written and Directed by Connor Quinn
Running Time: 25 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Self Tape
A disillusioned actor attempts to make a self tape audition piece and ends up questioning the very value of life.
Directed by Noel Brady
Written and Produced by John Duggan and Noel Brady
Running Time: 8 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Stuck
Michael is out walking when he meets Jack, who is stuck in a tree but refuses any help. Michael realises there’s more to Jack’s story.
Directed by Robert Keane and Christopher Galvin
Written by Christopher Galvin
Produced by Robert Keane
Running Time: 5 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Release
A story about the humanising effect of love in an ever dehumanising dystopian near future.
Written and Directed by Simon Curry
Produced by Ben Condell and Elise Brown
Running Time: 7 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Caper
Following a string of murders and the robbery of a local crime lord, two bit mobsters Frank and Tony embark on their toughest challenge yet... nipping out to the garage in the middle of a homicide, it all seems so simple.
Directed by Brian O'Neill
Written by David Svedberg
Produced by Eoin Naughton
Running Time: 15 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Robber Girls
Dorothy and Beryl are two clever thieves who rob from the rich and keep the loot for themselves. This time they have their eyes on something big, a priceless engagement diamond belonging to a wealthy lord!
Written and Directed by Robert Howat
Produced by Paul Darroch
Running Time 10 Mins

The Tell Tale Heart
He loses his mind caring for an old man. Adapted from 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Written and Directed by Patrick Ketch
Produced by Chris Cullen
Running Time: 6 Mins
Origin: Ireland

U Never Listen
A costume party on 31st October has nothing to worry about unless the punch runs out, when someone gets a disturbing call from Los Angeles. But who's going to end up having the Halloween Night from Hell? Horror icon Billy Chainsaw stars in this Los Angeles themed pitch black 21st century take on one of the world's most-loved children's stories.
Written, Directed and Produced by Nina Romain
Running Time 4 Mins
Origin: USA

Blackout
A father's struggle to catch the most important soccer match of the year.
Directed and Produced by Lorcan Dunne
Written by Peter Toplis
Running Time 13 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Good Business
Humanity makes a deal with a new client.
Directed and Produced by Ray Sullivan
Written by Simon Roy
Running Time 5 Mins
Origin: Ireland
Short Film Program 5 Saturday September 2nd at 1230pm
The Martello Suite

Short Film Ticket
Front of House Price €7
Online Price €6
Entry to Short Film Program 4

Radha
A young woman on the run from her past finds solace and oblivion in the arms of a mysterious dancer
Written and Directed by Nicolas Courdouan
Produced by Anna Harris
Running Time 22 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Aftermath
Aftermath is an intense fantasy/thriller about two detectives who have captured a man covered in blood hovering over a mutilated body.
Directed by Nigel O'Brien
Written by C.F. Fleming
Produced by Emma Owen
Running Time: 7 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Canal Bank Talks
A homeless man wakes up to a bleak world where nothing seems to be going his way. After an altercation he has a talk with his only friend, a statue of Dublin' s Grand Canal.
Written, Directed and Produced by Rian Mahood Gallagher
Running Time 8 Mins
Origin: Ireland

The Lions Share
Based on true events in Dublin Zoo. The keepers face drastic decisions and must overcome personal conflicts, if they are to save the animals during revolution of 1916,.. and keep alive a "Rising" Hollywood star ?
Written and Directed by Owen O'Gorman
Produced by Caoline Brennan
Running Time: 23 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Inanimate Affair
Love can sometimes be found in the strangest of places
Written and Directed by Jessica Hayden
Produced by Aaron Hopkins
Running Time: 9 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Narcan
Sean Ryan an Irish paramedic working in New York, He struggles every day to manage a fractured home life as well as death and depravity of the New York City streets.
Written and Produced by Peter McNamara
Produced by Peter Halpin
Running Time 20 Mins
Origin: Ireland

They Make You Grow a Beard
A young father must fight to save his son, when he finds out that his friends are being replaced by people with beards. An absurdist horror, the film looks satirically at the changing nature of the modern man.
Written and Directed by Anthony Kinsella
Produced by James Galvin
Running Time: 11 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Lily
The film tells the story of Lily, a girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman.
Written and Directed by Graham Cantwell
Produced by Sharon Cronin
Running Time 21 Mins
Origin: Ireland

Hostage
HOSTAGE is set in contemporary Dublin and is about a Lady who's husband is taken hostage and is forced to make a decision that will change both her and her husband's lives forever.
Written, Directed and Produced by Maruthi
Running Time 18 Mins
Origin: Ireland