15 / 87 mins / Comedy, Drama / N. Ireland / 2019
Dir: Ian Fitzgibbon
Featuring: Peter Coonan, Pat Shortt, Moe Dunford, Charlie Murphy, Jana Moheiden
Extra Features: director and cast Q&A | short film
If you’re going to get involved with men in the town of Dromord, they might as well be Mannions - and Sara is involved with them up to her neck.
She’s married to Daddy Mannion, who is more than 20 years her senior and runs the town.
But her first love is his estranged son, Doggy Mannion, a criminal recluse living in the woods outside the town.
Then there’s the younger brother, Martin Mannion, a small-town lothario and failed chicken farmer. Yes, Sara’s involved with him too.
As a result of this tangled erotic web, jealousy is rife in Dromord, and it's flinging out spears in all directions. The Mannion men have been set at each other; their long truce cannot hold. Serious violence is threatened. Will we get through the next few days without bloodshed?
www.diff.ie/festival/film/dark-lies-the-island Written by Irish author Kevin Barry and based around characters he created for his own short story collection, Ian Fitzgibbon's (Death of a Superhero) pitch-black comedy centres on a small Irish town over a week-long period.
Short: When to Fold ‘Em
12 mins
Dir: Peter Harris
Two gangsters hunting down the loot of a robbery find that nothing goes to plan.