A new programme of short films and a specially curated feature documentary, exclusive to Irish Film From Home.
Our summer programme contains an eclectic mix of new Irish films taken from submissions gathered via FilmFreeway, which we’ve presented across two special short film programmes which sit alongside a timely creative documentary supported by Arts Council Ireland. Read on for information on all the great films included in this special programme.
DARK TALES
Available from Friday July 29th to Thursday August 25th.
Still from Bugaloo, featuring Moe Dunford
Bugaloo - directed by Peter McCarthy and Ben Conway. Starring Moe Dunford
Theo is on the run from the police while still in handcuffs. He hides out in a nearby mansion with the help of Arthur, the supposed owner. Things take a turn for the strange when Arthur challenges him to a game of Bugaloo and Theo realises Arthur has his own problems. A failed escape leaves Theo playing a game for his own life.
Teddy Took a Cleaner to the Cleaners - directed by Noel Holmes
A cleaning lady gets a shock when a teddy bear takes on a life of its own
Don't Open Me/Não me abre - directed by Michael McCudden
Six year old Jojo and his dog Braços receive a mysterious gift from the sky and find that it's important to always judge on what is on the inside.
Sonny, Mammy and Patch the Dog - directed by Adam Hart
Sonny leads a simple life. As the village's resident gardener, he spends his days doing odd jobs and earning a modest wage. He is an innocent soul who cares only for 3 things: his Mammy, his dog Patch and having pints on payday.
Very Slightly Included - directed by Patricia Kelly
In this quirky dark comedy, Eva finally brings the perfect girlfriend home to meet her family. Well, she may have one very slight flaw...
Imbas Forosnai - directed by Shane Serrano
Following the clairvoyant practices of poets of ancient Ireland, a young man in present day Limerick seeks answers from the Otherworld.
LUMINOUS LEGENDS
Available from August 26th to September 25th
Still from Someday Sadie directed by Imogen Murphy
Wild Hunger - directed by Conor McCormick
An anxious young woman starts her first day running her families amusement park. She tries to step into her fathers shoes while curbing criticism and sabotage from a disgruntled employee.
Letter to Lia - directed by Nicky Larkin
Letter to Lia is Nicky Larkin's most personal work to date, a message to his daughter in the future, from here now in the past.
A Good Deed - directed by Kevin Scott
A boy's moral compass is shaken after a decision to help a stranger in need.
Canvas In The Sky - directed by Tim Bingham
Often seen as symbols of prosperity, cranes are now being attributed to the unnaceptable housing crisis. However there is something majestic about them bowing and dancing amist the concrete and the glass of Dublin City - and keeping secrets.
Someday Sadie - directed by Imogen Murphy
In 1960's Dublin, a young working class singer falls pregnant at an inopportune time changing the course of her life.
Between and Almost - directed by Kimberley Harvey and Mark Fitzgerald
The film is an intimate, tender and playful look at a relationship through dance.
Whale Fall - directed by Katie McNeice
WHALE FALL is a meditation in verse on the intensity of love and connection between women. Using the metaphor of a dying whale, it pushes and pulls between the beauty of swimming in each other’s thoughts to the fear of falling too deeply – into each other and into the things which create wonder in our lives.
Bridget - directed by Ridaa Khan, Bella Park, Sima Naseem, Steven Ross, Lily Zhang, Cyril Chen
Bridget is a stop-motion animation about an old man who argues with his wife and calls her an old goat. The next morning he wakes up with a goat in his bed.
Ghost Empire § Belize
An Arts Council of Ireland funded feature documentary from Susan Thomson.
Available from Friday July 29th to September 25th
Still from Ghost Empire § Belize
Ghost Empire § Belize examines the constitutional challenge taken by Caleb Orozco against Section 53, a 19th century British colonial law which criminalizes acts “against the order of nature”. Opposition to the case by evangelical Christian groups, funded by The Religious Right in the U.S., has included symbolic hangings of an effigy of LGBTQ group UNIBAM, and Orozco has been subjected to numerous death threats and assaults.
Ghost Empire § Belize documents the fights between opposing sides, documenting Caleb Orozco's legal challenge over a period of 9 years and 99 days of years, and acts as a psychological portrait of his struggle.
Susan Thomson's Ghost Empire project is a film series, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, which explores the legacy of British colonialism on LGBTQ rights around the world. Currently half of the countries which criminalize homosexuality use British colonial laws or revised versions of these laws which means that British colonial laws are responsible for criminalizing LGBTQ people in 34 countries.