To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Cork International Film Festival is delighted to present a special Festival programme of Irish, and Cork, film shorts from the most recent edition in November 2021.
Emerge blinking and dazed into the reality of post lockdown life in Broken: A Lockdown Story. Meet the wonderful Seanie Barron, who takes us on a journey of the imagination in our Audience-Award-winning short documentary Seanie Barron: Only in Askeaton. See life through the eyes of an eccentric immigrant in A Cup of Sugar. Witness a friendship blossom over cycling lessons in As Easy as Riding a Bike. And hang on to your seats for the dark comic thriller Flash_Thunder93.
Fans of Irish culture nationwide can enjoy this free selection of film treats from us as part of the St. Patrick’s Day Festival, which will be available to watch on our Digital Festival Platform from 10am Thursday 17th until midnight Sunday 20th March.
Bain taitneamh as! Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh.
IRISH SHORTS PROGRAMME
Broken: A Lockdown Story (Dir. TJ O’Grady Peyton).
Vignettes from a surreal family breakdown; visions from an unreliable narration that speaks only in idioms.
Seanie Barron: Only in Askeaton (Dir. Michael Holly).
Seanie Barron from Askeaton, Co. Limerick, spends all of his free time looking for strange and unusual branches and roots to shape into strange and beautiful walking sticks. 
A Cup of Sugar (Dir. Denis Kiely).
A nonconformist immigrant is pushed to the brink by a community’s judgmental attitude, until an unexpected encounter changes everything.
As Easy as Riding a Bike (Dir. Ronan Burke).
Andy rekindles his friendship with Mandy as she teaches him to ride a bike after his mortifying breakup.
Flash_Thunder93 (Dir. Reuben Harvey).
Two weather enthusiasts meet for the first time to watch a lightning storm together, both with ulterior motives.
