NOT A WORD
Sheila, Maggie, and David work the late shift in a department store. Can life continue to be so dull?
N. Ireland 2006 | Cathy Mooney | 10mins

LAST NIGHT
In an attempt to revive their failing marriage a couple stays at a luxurious hideaway in the Irish countryside. But as the night progresses a dreadful secret is revealed.
Ireland 2005 | Director: Conor Morrissey | 10mins

RED WIRE BLUE WIRE
Time is running out for two bomb disposal experts diffusing a bomb, with 60 seconds left they unearth an unexpected side of their relationship with disastrously funny results.
Ireland 2006 | Director: Jason Butler | 1min

EGGS
They say every harvest is a miracle, but this is ridiculous.
Ireland 2005 | Director: James Cotter | 2mins 30sec

THE 18TH ELECTRICITY PLAN
Success in his job at the mysterious ministry will impress the woman Mr. Curtin adores he believes. But drawn into a disturbing game all his hopes are jeopardized.
N. Ireland 2006 | Director: Glenn Leyburn & Lisa Barros D’Sa | 15mins

TRADE
Internal Affairs on his tail, a crooked vice cop tries to persuade his pregnant (he thinks) hooker girlfriend to flee. Her pimp has sold the baby and a deadly endgame is at hand.
N. Ireland 2006 | Director: Stephen S T Bradley | 15mins

JOYRIDERS
As 10 year old Kylie struggles to come to terms with her grief, she discovers that imagination can be more powerful than reality.
Ireland 2006 | Director: Rebecca Daly | 15mins 30secs

RUBBER PLANS
A blind woman has lost her husband and child in a recent tragedy. Explore her reality and imaginings, alluding to loss and hope.
Ireland 2006 | Director: Alex Cheung | 11mins

THE WHITE DRESS
The White Dress is the story of a girl on her communion day, but unlike most other little girls; she is making her communion all on her own. Ireland 2006 |Director: Vanessa Gildea | 4 mins 10 secs

Irish Programme 2

ANKLES
A hotel worker is distracted by the sight of female ankles.
N. Ireland 2006 | Director: Hugh McGrory | 24mins

TELL IT TO THE FISHES
Pushed from a cliff, feet set in concrete, Finn lands on a beach unable to move. Jack, who is responsible for Finn’s predicament lands next to him, feet also in concrete. The tide rolls in.
Salvation slips past.
They argue.
They drown
Ireland 2006 | Director: William Sinclair | 10mins

A LONELY SKY
Set in 1947, a conversation with a stranger forces test pilot Jack Reilly to question his reasons and ability to break the limit of how fast man could travel.
Ireland 2006 | Director: Nick Ryan | 13mins

CHICKEN SOUP
Based on a true story, Chicken Soup is set late at night in an anonymous airport bar. Khal, a young Arab, has a chance encounter with a mysterious man who teaches him that parents can make unintentional mistakes.
Ireland 2006 | Director: Farah Abushwesha | 8mins

THE SECRET LANGUAGE (An teanga runda)
A three fingered man with a shady past threatens to end the exciting career of Michael Hardy Super Spy. Standing between him and sheer disaster is his son James.
Ireland 2005 | Director: Brian Durnin | 13mins

FORGIVENESS
1922, The Irish Civil War: Erskine Childers, a leading republican prisoner, has been condemned to death by the Irish Free State. The night before his execution, he tells his young son “There is a task you must do for me”…
Ireland 2006 | Barrie Dowdall & Jamie O’Neill | 9mins

MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER
Adapted from actual events, ‘Mother’s Little Helper’ explores a violently disintegrating marriage and the lengths one mother must go to in the face of harrowing abuse.
Ireland 2004 | Director: Barry Kelly | 14mins 4secs

WHY THE IRISH DANCE THAT WAY
How did the Irish come to dance in that extraordinary foot-fidgeting way?
Ireland 2006 | Director: Nick Kelly | 5mins

Irish Programme 3

WHAT IF?
Two stuntmen, Kevin and Dave, look for a way out if the business. Using contacts, they hatch a plan to write a screenplay with ‘unforeseeable consequences’. Destiny or what?
Ireland 2006 | Director: Alan Walsh | 27mins 46secs

FINAL JOURNEY
Isn’t it a same that everything must die, but when sweet life passes on, where do our souls then fly?
Ireland 2006 | Director: Brendan Muldowney | 3mins 15secs

THE WIDOW
Grief is thought to occur in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Grief is explored in a day in the life of Helen as she returns from a funeral.
Ireland 2006 | Director: Aideen McCarthy | 15mins

THE LINNET
Bird-watching softie Patrick adores his only friend, Melanie. When her boyfriend Bill starts to get jealous, a little bird comes magically to the rescue.
N. Ireland 2006 | Director: Vincent Kinnaird | 13mins 20secs

MEBOLLIX
Despite dire warnings about botched surgery and divine retribution, Tony Doyle caves into the demands of wife Doreen and gets a vasectomy. The scare stories were right…
Ireland 2006 | Director: Simon Gibney | 10mins 30secs