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Killing the Afternoon

Margaret Corkery, 12 minutes, 2005

First-time director Margaret Corkery here displays skill at manipulating atmosphere in conveying the tedium of a day at the seaside. People sunbathe and plays sports, whilst others kayak and some hover about as voyeurs, with an uneasy atmosphere suggesting tensions…

La Petite Mort

Michael Smiley, 2019

When two people meet at a party, they have more in common than they think.

The Lad from Old Ireland

Sidney Olcot, 13 minutes, 1910

During the first Kalem visit the company shot in and around Cobh (then Queenstown) Co. Cork, where they landed, Blarney Castle (also in Cork) and by the Lakes of Killarney, Co. Kerry. The Lad from Old Ireland, the only surviving…

Lady Black Eyes

Niamh Heery, 14 minutes, 2019

Nora and Devon live in a bubble of electronic music, dance and intense young love in a tiny flat in Dublin city until they set out to confront someone from Nora’s childhood. Once there, Nora comes to the realisation of…

Lady Isobel & the Elf Knight

Cashell Horgan, 2019

A cautionary tale. If a strange bloke appears at your window in the middle of the night and asks you out on a date, just say no.

The Last Days of Peter Bergmann

Ciaran Cassidy, 19 minutes, 2013

A documentary short that is part police reconstruction, Last Days recounts one man’s mysterious death in this unlikely true story. Using the alias Peter Bergmann, the man went to considerable  lengths to maintain his anonymity, arriving as a stranger and…

The Last Elk

Alan Shannon, 6 minutes, 1998

Set more than ten thousand years in the past, this animation imagines animal life in an ancient world. Elk dance across the screen, bounding through unspoiled lands and battling both the elements and one another. Music transforms the animals’ movements…

The Last Organist

Paddy McConnell, 6 minutes, 2019

93-year-old organist George takes us though his love of music and his move from Belgium to Ireland almost 60 years ago.

The Last Time

Conor Horgan, 12 minutes, 2002

Director Conor Horgan made his debut with this heartfelt, humane short about a woman looking for love in the days before she dies. Driven to seedy nightclubs and online chatrooms, Evelyn (Linda Bassett) experiences both embarrassment and happiness in this…

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