Competition Shorts: Programme One

Due to the nature and content of these programmes, this event is for those aged 18 and over.

Travel Socks 

Orla discovers she is pregnant. It is March 2020. With restrictions and lockdowns looming, and a family Zoom quiz imminent, Orla makes the difficult journey across the Irish Sea to access a safe abortion. Featuring a wonderful performance from Alice Mann, Travel Socks is a deeply funny and moving film, highlighting the lack of support and resources that NI still suffers from.

To Break A Circle

Young man Bog is keen to escape his small hometown of Liscommon, its only noteworthy feature being an ancient stone circle protected by fairies (if you believe in that sort of thing). Down on his luck and at a loose end, he takes on a job constructing a new motorway which would run straight through the stones. This beautifully animated short captures a distinct essence of the listlessness and folkloric paranoia of small-town Ireland.

Die Bully Die

Max goes to dinner with Adam, someone who used to bully him in school for his queer identity, but has since come out himself. Underneath the niceties and the small talk, Max’s repressed traumas and grudges bubble to the surface in unexpected ways. A darkly funny but sensitive short about the difficult intricacies of shame and repression, identity and pride.

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