'8 Great Shorts' Programme

A Film From My Parish - 6 Farms

Tony Donoghue

A brilliantly shot visual postcard of the shifting nature of life in six different Irish farms.
Arena

Joao Salaviza

Mauro is under house arrest. Tattooing helps him while away the time. Palm d’Or, Best Short Film – Cannes Film Festival, 2009. Best Short Film -IndieLisboa, 2009.
Contre-Jour

Christoph Girardet, Matthias Muller

Blurs, flashes and stroboscope montages disintegrate reality into shadowy images that inflict pain on the eye.
Special Mention – Berlin International Film Festival, 2009
Jade

Daniel Elliott

Jade, caught in a dilemma of her own making, struggles to choose the right path.
Silver Bear Best Short Film – Berlin Film Festival, 2009.
Lies

Jonas Odell

Three perfectly true stories about lying.
Malban

Elodie Bouédec

A young girl, Claude, is spending her holidays with her mother and her brother in their beach house. One evening, an unknown man arrives.
Marker

Susanna Wallin

One thousand reindeer are left running wild in the northern woods of Sweden. They once belonged to Anna-Sara’s dad.
The History of Aviation

Bálint Kenyeres

Normandy, 1905. An upper middle class party are waiting for just one last photograph before they go home.
Grand Prize – Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, 2009

55th festival 7–14 November 2010