Short Film Competition – Programme 3
Fledging filmmakers - writers, directors, in front of and behind the camera talent, all get a chance to shine in our annual celebration of all things short film.
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£6
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Not Until I Know More
Directed by Michael McNulty
A tech-noir fiction set in an alternative Belfast, this film centres around a neuro- hacking console which offers knowledge and experience of the users choice, but with one minor side-effect... part of the user’s childhood memory is erased.
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£5
Here We Are
Directed by Ally McKenzie
Having gone bust in 2012, Newry City AFC were resurrected by a group of dedicated fans.
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£5
The Jar
Directed by Careton Rodgers
£2
Our Father
Directed by Johnny O'Donnell
A loud gunshot rings out at a sacred religious retreat on the coast of Ireland. Only a stone statue of Jesus crucified on the cross and the fleeing birds bear witness to the mysterious crime.
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£5
The Solace Of Orpheus
Directed by Niall Donegan, Elliot Vick
A couple from London attempt to salvage their failing relationship on a walking holiday in the Mountains of Mourne, but things do not go as hoped. After all, isn’t every love story a ghost story?
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£5
Cry Rosa
Directed by Imogen Murphy
A music obsessed mixed-race girl questions her identity when she becomes the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast.
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£3
Chancer
Directed by Patrick Maxwell
Off the rails and in and out of prison Ryan’s endless promises to change only amount to empty promises and his life plummets to rock bottom. But does this ‘chancer’ deserve another chance?
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£3
Finding Wee Paddy
Directed by Peter Roch, Jason Davidson
The incredible true story of one elderly Derrywoman’s unwavering quest to locate and honour her uncle’s long lost grave in Shanghai.
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£4
The Presidents Bodyguard
Directed by Ryan Coney
A documentary on the life of Mick McElkenny who served as personal bodyguard to JFK during his visit to Ireland in 1963.
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£4
The Pitts Family Circus
Directed by Ken Fanning
A road trip with an extraordinary Australian circus family. A post truth feature mockumentary.
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£5
Poor Mouth
Directed by Tom Collins
An animated adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s only novel written in Irish under the pseudonym of Myles Na gCopaleen, An Béal Bocht
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£4
Snowy Bing Bongs
Directed by Alex Huston Fischer, Rachel Wolther
Beach balls. Doctor boners. Farts. Snow. This film, starring Cocoon Central Dance Team, just might have invented its own genre: comedy-dance-sketch-fantasy.
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£3
DIE HEXEN
DIE HEXEN presents the debut short film Am I Dead and reimagines the score for Kenneth Anger’s cult classic The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
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£5
This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk
The moral, political and symbolic integrity of the image itself is interrogated and overturned in these richly textured films. John Maybury casts Siouxsie Sioux and fashion designer David Holah in one of the singularly most stunning and ambitious Super 8 works of the era, the existential genderfuck Court of Miracles. Young filmmakers bring on the post-modern age.
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£5
Amanda Coogan: Long Now
Directed by Paddy Cahill
A documentary exploring the importance of time and duration through Amanda Coogan, the Dublin-born performance artist who has been a close student and collaborator with Marina Abramovic throughout her career.
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£4
Ulster Television and the Singularity
Ulster Television used to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of local events. But now there are no big stories and Noel Thompson reacts randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
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£3
Nicky Keogh’s Wonderful World Of Animals
This collection of short films which show the wonder of wildlife is all its glory, featuring the odd and the unloved. Filmmaker Nicky Keogh will present his own work and we’ll see some classic nature film shorts from the last 100 years...
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£3
The Entire History Of The Louisiana Purchase
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Oppenheimer's (The Act of Killing) film is the story of a woman who has an immaculate conception and murders her infant in a microwave. A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.
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£5
Doubleband Double Bill: Belfast Boxers & Monkey Love.
A double bill from DoubleBand, the sponsors of our Documentary Shorts Competition.
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£3
Lathe Of Heaven
Directed by Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton
The Lathe of Heaven is a 1980 adaptation of the 1971 science fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was produced in 1979 as part of New York City public television station WNET’s Experimental TV Lab project.
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£5
Tati:Parade
Directed by Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati’s last - and least known - film, Parade, sees his return to the boisterous music hall world in which he began his career as a mime artist in the 1930s.
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£3
Hellmark! Presents: I Me Wed
Directed by Craig Pryce
Do you like to weep quietly in front of your TV in the middle of the day? Do you like low budgets, melodramatic plots and overwrought acting?
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£4
The Flickering Flame
Directed by Ken Loach
Documentary following dockers of Liverpool, sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at the TUC conference.
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£5
The Price of Coal
Directed by Ken Loach
Life at a South Yorkshire coalmine as it prepares for a royal visit and copes with the aftermath of a pit accident.
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£5