Summary
A selection of short films from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland’s recent Focus and Frameworks short film schemes. The Frameworks films in the line-up are co-funded by RTÉ.
Worry World
In a black-and-white Kafkaesque society, where everyone can see each other’s thoughts, a factory worker thinks in colours. While dreaming of love and escape, she meets someone equally colourful.
Year: 2023
Director: Jessica Patterson
Runtime: 8m49
Uroboros
Trauma is a devouring time traveller in this story of a young woman trapped in an infinite loop of incarceration and escape in a 1950s psychiatric institution.
Year: 2023
Director: Diarmuid Donohoe
Runtime: 11m
Waiting Day
Waiting day – the day before payday – is the only day of the week that seems to have more than 24 hours in it. This is the story of a mother and her two daughters waiting for their pay and their possibilities.
Year: 2023
Director: Grace Dyas
Runtime: 10:17
Callus
In this haunting narrative of violence and superstition, a widowed father strives to protect his daughter after she is believed to be a curse from the Old Gods.
Year: 2023Director: Ciarán HickeyRuntime: 17m
BOG
Led by a mythical Great Irish Elk, Oisín ‘Little Deer’ comes to terms with his father’s death in a fantastical katabasis through the bog of memories.
Year: 2023
Directors: Éabha Bortolozzo and Jack Kirwan
Runtime: 10m23
Nana Dee
Nana Dee confronts the loneliness of time by avoiding time altogether and immersing herself in television. She is waiting for someone. And they are late.
Year: 2023
Directors: Marta Sniezek, Momo Willet
Runtime: 3m33
TWO FOR THE ROAD
A poignant memory of complicated love, this is the record of a boy’s adventures on the road with his alcoholic and nomadic father, one weekend at a time.
Year:2023
Director: Lochlain McKenna
Runtime: 18m31
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- INFO:Sat 24 Feb / The Lighthouse Cinema / 16:00 / 1hr 18min
