Each of these short films screens in conjunction with a feature film or documentary, films and dates noted with each listing.
IRISH FOLK FURNITURE – Tony Donoghue
2012 | Color | 8 mins
2013 Sundance Award Winner: Best Animation
A widowed inventor comes up with an interesting approach to childcare.
Producer: Cathal Black
Print Source: Tony Donoghue
Screen w/ SANCTUARY: March 1 @ 7:30 p.m . – AMC
FOXES – Lorcan Finnegan
2011 | Color | 15 mins
A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world…a world of the paranormal, or maybe insanity.
Producer: Brunella Cocchiglia
Cast: Marie Ruane, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Karen Griffin
Print Source: Lovely Productions
Screens w/ KEYS TO THE CITY: March 2 @ 5:30 p.m. – AMC
THE BLOW-INS – C.J. Scuffins
2012 | Color | 15 mins
A Dublin woman joins a sea rescue service in West Cork to help redeem her family name, but things do not work as she planned when her first mayday mission turns out to be one for the sea rescue books.
Producer: Raymond McSweeney. C.J. Scuffins
Cast: Jill Sartini, Eleen Phelan, Mark Shrier, Dermot Ward
Print Source: C. J. Scuffins
Screens w/ EARTHBOUND: March 2 @ 7:30 p.m. – AMC
WE, THE MASSES – Eoghan Kidney
2011 | Color | 5 mins
2012 Brooklyn Film Festival: Spirit Award
In a barren snowy landscape a man falls to the ground. Searching to continue his fall, he discovers other men. He joins them, hoping they will lead him to his destination. What he is lead to is incomprehensible.
Producer: Nicky Gogan
Print Source: Still Films
Screens with CONGO: AN IRISH AFFAIR: March 3 @ 3:30 p.m. – SFA
HOME TURF – Ross Whitaker
2011 | Color | 14 mins
2012 Kerry Film Festival: Best Documentary
2012 Film Festival della Lessina: Best Documentary
A visual celebration of the dying craft of turf-cutting. While the old men carry out their simple tradition with good humor and determination, the film explores the battle between man and machine, the inevitability of progress and the rich benefits of old-fashioned community life.
Producer: Aideen O’Sullivan
Print Source: True Films
Screens w/ WHEN ALI CAME TO IRELAND: March 4 @ 7:30 p.m. – AMC
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TOWN – Orla Murphy
2012 | Color | 7 mins
Rural towns: how they began, how they have changed and what the future may hold for them… revitalization or …?
Producers: Orla Murphy, Orla McHardy
Print source: Orla Murphy
Screens w/ BUILD SOMETHING MODERN: Monday, March 4 @ 5:30 – SFA
UISCE BEATHA – Shaun O’Connor
2012 | Color | 8 mins
2012 Cork Film Festival: Best of Cork
2012 Healdsburg International Film Festival: Best Drama
Ford 8 Minutes Short Competition: Runner-Up
A young man leaves his home in rural Ireland to cross the ocean on the doomed Titanic. Based on a true story.
Producers: Aideen Wylde
Writer/Cast: Tadhg Hickey
Print source: Shaun O’Connor
Screens w/ MEN AT LUNCH: Monday, March 4 @ 7:30 – SFA
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FOXY JOHN’S – Lanka Hauoche Perren
2012 | Color | 4 mins
A hardware store, a pub, a iconic piece of Dingle, Co. Kerry history.
Producer: Lanka Haouche Perren
Print Source: Lanka Haouche Perren
Screens w/ THE FAR SIDE OF REVENGE: March 5 @ 5:30 – SFA
NO JUSTICE – Alan Walsh, Mario Bortas
2012 | Color | 15 mins
A father is torn between seeking revenge for his daughter and turning the other check.
Producer: John Phelan
Cast: Don Baker, Honor Heffernon, Karl Sheils
Print Source: Bootstrap Films
Screens w/ DERELICT: March 5 @ 7:30 p.m – SFA
