Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Fifty Percent Grey

Ruairí Robinson, 3 minutes, 2001

Nominated for an Academy Award, Fifty Percent Grey explores the existential predicament of a space-suited character, who wakes up in a featureless grey landscape with only a series of televisions welcoming him to ‘Heaven’ for company

Geist

Sean Mullen, Ben Harper, Alex Sherwood, 11 minutes, 2015

A shipwrecked fisherman takes shelter in an abandoned house on a remote island, but soon realises he is not alone.

Girl and Robot

Joe Loftus, 12 minutes, 2020

A Girl meets a Robot while fleeing across an empty desert. They must work together if they hope to survive their pursuers.

The Girl With the Mechanical Maiden

Andrew Legge, 15 minutes, 2012

A short set in a strange, quasi-Victorian world, The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden sees an inventor (Dominic West) construct a ramshackle robotic wet-nurse for his daughter after her mother dies in childbirth. As the child grows older, a robotic…

Give Up Yer Aul Sins

Cathal Gaffney, 5 minutes, 2001

A young Dublin girl tells her own, youthfully unique version of the story of John the Baptist in this animated short. Based on recordings made in a Dublin school in the 1970s and rediscovered in the 1990s, Give Up Yer…

The Goose and the Gander

Ashley Treacy, 5 minutes, 2020

Overthinking on your first date, what could possibly go wrong?

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 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.

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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