Month: February 2022

A beautiful little animated short about a wee grub finding another like itself to love and grow. The film manages to be surprisingly beautiful despite being quite gross, and surprisingly tender despite being quite morbid. The grub inhabits the corpse of a decaying dog, like some kind of Pickle Rick. He lives in a garbage…

Hungry Joe is a short horror film about a mother whose son’s appetite knows no cessation. The film starts with Laura, happy with her husband in a new home with a new baby on the way, but that quickly changes once her son arrives. He screams constantly, needs fed nonstop, and has chewed her breasts…

A Safe Place While It’s Raining is a short film encompassing a conversation between a brother and sister. It’s clear the talk takes place after the loss of their last parent. They discuss their mother’s illness and how they coped. It has the air of exhaustion, like a quiet and intimate time after the rigours…

Father is a short film about a father-son relationship. Jacinto picks up his teenage son Shakur for a long weekend break by the seaside. The film is full of the quite mundane, standard parental activities, like buying Shakur a new tracksuit, and asking how he’s getting on in school, along with the dreich holiday classics…

Welcome to the Ball is a beautiful short film about a kid, Sean, who is not concerned about gender norms, who makes friends with a young deaf kid. A totally joyful wee film about making a connection. The film starts with Sean delivering bed sheet dress realness and voguing in front of their teddy bears.…