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…

Glitterbug

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.

La Tumba

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.