This latest offering from the ever-intriguing Desperate Optimists is staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the colour green, The Future Tense unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, along with the brutal history that lies submerged beneath Ireland’s heavy, moist earth.

Screening on Wednesday, March 1st (18.30). Tickets are on sale from diff.ie.