IRISH SON

DIR. TOLU OGUNWARE | 15 MINS

This skin-crawling horror begins with a disorientated runner arriving at an isolated diner. When a charismatic stranger invites him to have lunch with him, their innocent conversation soon takes a darker twist. Unfolding like an eerie folk-tale up high in the mountains, Irish Son considers the insidious evil of racism in Ireland and the horrors that lie behind the friendliest of faces.

LARGE MCDONALD’S MEAL

DIR. BENJAMIN PORTER | 8 MINS

A cinematic insight into a nervous, restless mind, this short follows a man who walks past a large McDonald’s meal on the ground. Overcome by indecisiveness, he must figure out how to put it in a bin without turning the whole world against him. This anxiety-ridden comedy is hilarious and stunningly shot, making the internal external through anamorphic widescreen mania.

PRINTS

DIRS. EDEL MCCORMICK, ERIN O’RAWE | 18 MINS

Meghan is a linoprint artist who channels her deepest darkest feelings into her work. Yet no one seems to appreciate them at the local art fair. Watching as people rankle at her self-expression then buy work that seems shallow in comparison, she descends into a self-destructive spiral that pushes the boundaries of her own artwork. A darkly comic satire which cuts as deep into the local art scene as it does into flesh and blood.

GROWING PAINS

DIRS. ELLIE WILDMAN, CONOR TONER | 13 MINS

A lonely widower has settled for his lonely routine, stuck in his lonely ways. Until one day an informercial lights up his life and he buys a ‘Grow Your Own Girlfriend’ kit. All he has to do is add water; what could go wrong? This wonderfully bizarre comedy is as funny as it is moving, gleefully tongue in cheek and packed to the gills with visual invention.