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.…
In the French Canadian snows, a woman in a miserable and bullying marriage comes to the end of her tether and escapes in her husband’s truck . . . only to run smack-bang into more trouble. Desperate not to return to her old life, the day will see how far she is willing to go…
A French teenager accompanies her warring parents on a family holiday to Death Valley in the US in this emotional short animated film. Stuck between her volcanic father, whose temper is on a hair trigger, and her mother’s rictus grin which seems to convey even more tension in its efforts to dispel it, Gabrielle plays…
Jeijay is a short animation depicting the dissolution of a romantic relationship. Their house floats above the street, soaring with the elation of their new love. But as time passes, the bright skies turn gloomy, and eventually rain falls, breaching their sanctum. Being skybound, which at first seemed to symbolise how enraptured they were with…
Da Yie, meaning Good Night, is a short film following kids Matilda and Prince, as they spend a day going from the innocence of childhood to becoming aware of the dangers of the adult world lurking around them. It begins with the kids at play. Smart, capable, confident Matilda is beating the boys at football.…