To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Cork International Film Festival is delighted to present a free special Festival programme of Irish, and Cork, film shorts from the most recent edition in November 2022.
Fans of Irish culture nationwide can enjoy a free selection of film treats from us as part of the St. Patrick’s Day Festival, which will be available to watch for free on our Digital Festival Platform from 10am Friday 17th until midnight Sunday 19th March.
Meet an elderly woman who finds an ingenious way to get revenge on a condescending meals-on-wheels volunteer in Cork filmmaker Sarah Horgan’s Do-Gooders; watch a eulogy to local spaces, marrying diasporan histories, racial discrimination and political ideologies, magic and music in B+ and Denise Chaila’s Energy. In Mia Mullarkey’s Screen Ireland-funded Safe as Houses, Aggie, a woman with Down Syndrome, offers shelter to a young girl, and in Katarzyna Zimnoch and Pawel Kleszczewski’s In The Beginning Was Water, a girl searches for the Salmon of Knowledge. Finally, in Eoin Duffy’s Screen Ireland-funded animation, Regular Rabbit, the good name of a seemingly regular rabbit falls victim to an unstoppable tide of
disinformation.
The shorts programme:
Do-Gooders
Directed by Sarah Horgan (2022, Ireland, 13 mins)
An elderly woman finds an ingenious way to get revenge on a condescending meals-on-wheels volunteer.
Energy
Directed by B+ and Denise Chaila (2022, Ireland, 16 mins)
A eulogy to local spaces, montaging archival and contemporary footage to form visual couplets marrying diasporan histories, racial discrimination and political ideologies, magic and music.
Safe as Houses
Directed by Mia Mullarkey (2022, Ireland, 16 mins) Screen Ireland funded
On a hot summer’s day, Aggie, a woman with Down Syndrome, offers shelter to a young girl when her homelife is not so welcoming.
In The Beginning Was Water
Directed by Katarzyna Zimnoch and Pawel Kleszczewski (2021, Ireland, 20 mins)
A girl goes on a mystical trip expressed in the search for Salmon of Knowledge, but the search for wisdom is not a safe journey.
Regular Rabbit
Directed by Eoin Duffy (2022, Ireland, 9 min) Screen Ireland funded
The good name of a seemingly regular rabbit falls victim to an unstoppable tide of disinformation.
