Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

Nicky Phelan, 6 minutes, 2008

Garnering an Academy Award for Best Animated Short, this dark comedy from multi-award winning animation company Brown Bag films, tells the story of a seemingly sweet-hearted elderly lady who tells her anti-ageist version of fairy tales to her frightened granddaughter.…

The Grass Ceiling

Iseult Howlett, 15 minutes, 2019

Three successful female athletes explore how being physically courageous, unapologetically competitive and deeply passionate in team sport can unlock a freedom to really occupy your own skin. Based on 'The Fear of Winning, an essay by Eimear Ryan.

The Great Fall

Gary O'Neill, 6 minutes, 2015

Up in the clouds, a nervous, young raindrop is terrified about his first fall to earth as an imminent storm rapidly approaches.

Guerrillere Talks

Vivienne Dick, 24 minutes, 1978

Vivienne Dick began making Super 8 films in New York in the late ‘70s as part of a group of filmmakers and musicians whose affiliation to the aesthetics of punk became known as ‘No Wave’. Guerrillere Talks is her first…

Gustav

Ken Williams, Denis Fitzpatick, 11 minutes, 2017

A man wakes up with a strange tune in his head. But what is it? And how did it get there?

HALO

Michael-David McKernan, 16 minutes, 2019

A lonely driver takes drastic action to protect a customer from heartbreak. A single-take film about loneliness, intentions and infidelity.

Hasta la Vista

Laragh McCann, 6 minutes, 2018

A genre-blending short film which sets dance, music and an ethereal aesthetic against a backdrop of friendship, love, lust, and betrayal.

Hearing Silence

Hilary Fennell, 12 minutes, 2010

Elizabeth Petcu, a professional flute player, copes with her gradual loss of hearing in this poignant documentary short. Narrating her experiences of her condition and the problems it causes, she reveals a lifelong commitment to the arts that survives despite…

Her Song

Jack Kirwan,
Éabha Bortolozzo, 7 minutes, 2020

The Banshee’s song comforts Peggy as she unspools the threads of her past, weaving myth and reality she tells Eve her devastating story.

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