Safe Havens - Irish Short Films for St Patrick’s Day
Available on Irish Film From Home throughout March
This year’s short film programme is an eclectic mix of comedy, drama, documentary and beautiful animation from new and emerging Irish voices.
This programme is available via our on-demand service Irish Film From Home throughout the month of March.
Films in this programme include:
Forever Hold Your Peace (2022) Dir. Jason Branagan
As the 36th anniversary of her brother's disappearance looms, a woman starts to receive phone calls which she believes hold the clues to what happened to him all those years ago.
The Happy Herd (2022) Dir. John James Kennedy
A short documentary following an artist and storyteller that lives nearly entirely off grid with a herd of goats in rural South Kerry. The film shows how Seán has created a growing international community through the shared love of stories and goats.
Haven (2022) Dir. Maureen O’Connell
Carmel is a lonely sheep farmer in her 70's & a survivor of a Mothers and Baby's Home. She strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tanaka, a young girl living in Direct Provision (an asylum seeker refuge) who wants to learn how to be a farmer.
Agape (2022) Dir. Ethan Donaghue
A young Traveler Women is forced into a marriage to a man she can't love, while the Women she does love is forced to watch everything unfold.
A Gentle Push (2022) Dir. Arabella Burfitt-Dons
Still reeling from a messy break-up, a Dublin journalist apprehensively agrees to re-enter the world of dating.
Whale (2022) Dir. Lorna Fitzsimmons
Mam seeks refuge at a women's shelter with her teenage son, Cian. Their situation is complicated and the system fails them so Cian saves Mam the only way he knows how.
The Small Makings of a Storm (2022) Dir. Avery Angle
From rising mists to billowing clouds, water weaves its way through every environment leaving an impression on even the smallest of creatures. Expanding to loftier heights, these drops of water begin to transform into something far more commanding – a force of nature.
Sparkle (2021) Dir. Gerard Walsh
Feeling stuck in the drudgery of domesticity. Irene Carr (Andie McCaffrey) needs to change her life, before she loses her identity completely. When her friend Jan invites her to try out the new fitness fad Aerobics she jumps at the chance. But the government in Ireland in 1984 have other ideas & propose a ban on Aerobics. Irene must look inside herself and fight the ban in order to keep the newly found joy she has discovered in life again.
Watch these films on Irish Film From Home using the link below