SWIMMER

DIR. HELEN WARNER | 19 MINS

After a bomb hits her city street at the height of WWII, young Iris finds herself evacuated to the countryside. Shellshocked and alienated by her lush green surroundings, she stumbles upon a secret ritual occurring under cover of night and unwittingly triggers a tragic series of events. A creepingly unnerving piece which plays tricks on the mind, what is that you see lurking in the shadows? Or at the bottom of that murky black lake?

THE GENERATORS

DIR. GEORGIE COWAN-TURNER | 13 MINS

This dystopian tale imagines a world in the throes of an energy crisis. Oscar and his husband Alex find themselves at the mercy of a bureaucratic medical system where energy credits are the new currency. In lieu of credits, Oscar submits to ‘generating’. Beautifully rendered in black and white 16mm, The Generators paints a portrait of love persevering that is both touching and harrowing in equal measure.

FOR THE CURE

DIR. CONOR MCCORMICK | 7 MINS

On the day of his father’s funeral, a young man loses the ability to speak. Needing a quick fix, his mother takes him to an unexpected place for an unexpected solution. This dark and unsettling comedy digs deep into the Irish psyche and roots around, finding humour in grief, trauma and mysterious country healers blessed with ‘the cure.’

GABRIEL’S TRUMPET

DIR. THOMAS BENNETT | 20 MINS

An elliptical jigsaw puzzle of a film, Gabriel’s Trumpet follows a string of young people across Belfast as they come to terms with a shocking disappearance, a wave of riots, and a standing stone that seems to haunt the very tape the film is shot on. Captured in bewitching digital textures and featuring an ensemble of brilliant performers, this is an affecting film which evokes the Belfast of today and that inescapable end-of-times feeling.