Discover emerging Irish filmmakers at this year's Galway Film Fleadh
Posted: 4th July 2020
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to support the World Premiere of four brand new Irish short films at the online Galway Film Fleadh this week, which starts this Tuesday, 7th July and runs until Sunday, 12th July. In addition, three previously successful documentary shorts, funded under the Real Shorts film scheme, will screen at the festival, with two competing for the newly created Best Documentary Short award. All seven short films are funded under Screen Ireland's Focus Shorts, Frameworks (co-funded by RTÉ) and Real Shorts short film schemes, aimed at supporting new and emerging filmmakers.
Focus Shorts (Live Action)
Stir, written and directed by Rory Bresnihan, and produced by Eithne Fitzsimons for Tailored Films. A young woman finds herself a prisoner in the home of an old man who has recently lost his wife. As her desperate attempts to escape accelerate, he soon realises that he has taken on more than he can handle. Buy tickets for Stir here.
Expulsion, written and directed by Sinead Murphy, and produced by Ciaran O'Connor for New Decade TV. Haunted by visions, a young woman revisits an abusive past seeking to expel inner demons and put an end to her torment. However. she soon finds reality is her true horror and it bears the face of man. Buy tickets for Expulsion here.
Frameworks (Animated)
The Dead Hands of Dublin, written and directed by Leo Crowley, and produced by Niamh Herrity for Pink Kong Studios. Sidney is a failed pianist who comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he soon finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams are quickly realised! Just when he thinks he has everything, fate deals him a cruel hand.
Her Song, written and directed by Jack Kirwan and Éabha Bortolozzo, and produced by Greg Connolly for Radii Animation. The Banshee’s song comforts Peggy as she unspools the threads of her past, weaving myth and reality she tells Eve her devastating story.
Buy tickets for both The Dead Hands of Dublin and Her Song here.
Real Shorts (Documentary)
Kachalka, directed by Gar O’Rourke, and produced by Ken Wardrop for Venom Films. A cinematic portrait of Kiev’s Soviet scrap metal ‘Kachalka’ gym – the world’s most hardcore gym.
Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, directed by Cara Holmes, and produced by Zlata Filipovic for Invisible Thread. Oona Doherty is a Belfast-based dancer and choreographer. She is bold, complex, arresting and ambitious. This innovative, poetic and visually arresting documentary is a portrait of Oona and the creative process of her award-winning show Hope Hunt.
Buy tickets for Kachalka and Welcome To A Bright White Limbo here.
The Grass Ceiling, directed by Iseult Howlett, and produced by Frankie Fenton for Kennedy Films. Based on Eimear Ryan’s essay ‘The Fear of Winning’, three successful female athletes explore how being physically courageous, unapologetically competitive and deeply passionate in team sport can unlock a freedom to really occupy your own skin.