Shorts Programme 3: GENERATION Shorts

Sun 8th Nov | 16.00 | Pálás

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This selection of Irish and international shorts represents the most highly rated shorts, as voted by our Generation Council panel.

Chica

Brazil | 14′
Sent to deliver a pet chicken to a local cook, a rebellious 12-year-old girl must decide between following her mother’s orders and protecting her young brother’s heartwarming bond with the bird.
Dir: Matheus Malburg, João Victor Silva

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Dún do Bhéal (Shut Your Mouth)

Ireland | 11′

Returning from London to both her home country and language, Croía begrudingly joins her father in an act of vandalism against an old enemy, which reawakens old tensions between the pair.

Dir: Laura Shannon

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The End of Summer

Mexico | 15′
Upon discovering their father is having an affair, the weight of the secret has fractured the family’s fragile harmony, forcing two brothers to choose between silence and truth.
Dir: Francisco Sanchez Solis

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The Last Tourist

Ireland | 8′
In a small Roscommon town where tourism has hit rock bottom, a bunch of eager local teens spot a rare outsider and scramble to show, unaware the desperate tourist only has one goal: escape!
Dir: Ciarán Casey

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Pike

Ireland | 12′
When Owen stumbles upon a boy called Leon fishing for a mythical giant pike, the pair work together to catch the fish and prove themselves for once and for all.
Dir: Andrea Ferran

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Something Greater

Italy | 10′
A teenage boy reflects on modern life and how to break away from technology’s overwhelming presence in the world today.
Dir: Francesco Guerriero

Fragmented

Ireland | 14 ‘
After her father returns home from fighting in the Great War, Lilly discovers he is no longer the man she once knew.
Dir: George Lynch

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Lantern

Germany | 7′
A young girl forced to work in a horrible factory dares to dream upon a star, conjuring up the strength and power she needs to fight back against her captor.
Dir: Leopold Schraudolph

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