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AN IRISH GOODBYE
SOME STILL SEARCH
STRANGER AT THE GATE
THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
SLOW PULSE
THE OUT
SAME OLD
THE RIGHT WORDS

HEADSPACE
In Headspace, written and directed by Aisling Byrne, Tony teeters on the brink of insanity when his headphones suddenly stop working. As a member of

AN IRISH GOODBYE
Gentle, funny and touching, Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s short dramedy, An Irish Goodbye, just about achieves all of its modest ambitions. It seamlessly sustains

SOME STILL SEARCH
Nesaru Tchaas’s short film Some Still Search plunges the viewer into the midst of the ongoing immigration crisis. It adopts a deeply intimate approach, portraying

STRANGER AT THE GATE
Stranger At The Gate, an Oscar-Qualifying short documentary, written and directed by Joshua Seftel, is an exploratory view into the mind of Richard “Mac” McKinney,

THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
In The Deportation of a Model Citizen, a young girl in Denmark faces deportation back to Syria. Torture and/or execution awaiting, the stakes are never

SLOW PULSE
In the opening of the Oscar-qualifying short Slow Pulse, we quietly enter the home of a father (Jimmie Fails) who’s had his life turned upside

THE OUT
It is palpably evident that writer-director Harry Brandrick’s short drama The Out (BAFTA Qualifying) represents a deeply personal project for the filmmaker. Dealing with drug

SAME OLD
Same Old, an Oscar-qualifying short written and directed by Canadian film director and screenwriter Lloyd Lee Choi, is a dark and gritty tale of desperation

THE RIGHT WORDS
When high school kids get on the school bus, they immerse themselves into an ecosystem of sorts. Confined to the claustrophobic interior, having no choice