Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Old Fangs

Adrien Merigeau, Alan Holly, 12 minutes, 2009

An anthropomorphic young wolf – named only as ‘Wolf’ - meets his father after years of separation in this atmospheric animated short. As he makes his way through the woods to his father, Wolf finds his old haunts to be…

On Departure

Eoin Duffy, 6 minutes, 2012

Directed by Eoin Duffy, On Departure is a poignant and heartfelt animation which attempts to express a personal journey centred around the loss of the filmmaker’s younger brother. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

Ooops 2: The Adventure Continues

Sean McCormack,
Toby Genkel, 85 minutes, 2020

Life in an Ark with 50,000 others has many dangers: icebergs, unwelcome visitors, storms, woodworm and a very fragile truce between carnivores and herbivores. All hopes are pinned on a dove dispatched into the wild in search of land. The…

Outside the Box

Janet Grainger, 5 minutes, 2019

Who do we see when we look at people? By putting people in a box do we restrict our own true potential?

Over the Moon

Rory Fitzpatrick, 2025

On a journey to see the stars, Jay, a young trans man confronts his childhood in the Burren.

The Overcoat

Meelis Arulepp
Sean Mullen, 31 minutes, 2018

The Overcoat is a warm and unique Christmas story about an office worker that saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand. Notes by Screen Ireland

Packrat

Shana Brewer-Gannon, 2024

The impacts of hoarding through the eyes and imagination of a child.

Paperman

Richard Kelly, 6 minutes, 2010

Living alone in a bustling city, a paper man searches for a partner to escape the loneliness of urban life. Everything in this strange world is made of paper; stacks of sheets make up tower blocks and dollar bills and…

Pet Hate

Andy Clarke, 5 minutes, 2012

A running battle between a pet shop owner and his mischievous pets grows dark in this animated short. Refusing to be sold, the animals play dead every time a customer enters the shop; with dust building in his cash register…

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