Collaboration is at the cornerstone of everything we do at First Cut. Since 2019 we have enjoyed a partnership with&nbsp;Cork International Film Festival&nbsp;who generously present an award and a specially curated screening of shorts selected from their programme at First Cut! every year. These films provide inspiration and new perspectives for our festival attendees. This year, we are delighted to announce that CIFF are also our digital partner in presenting our first online festival. “Cork International Film Festival is delighted once again to partner with First Cut!, a film festival that champions young filmmakers. Student works are such an important part of the filmmaking ecology and every year we watch with interest to see what new voices and talents are emerging in Ireland. Our 2020 festival programme presented a significant number of student and first filmmaker works, and we offer a choice selection of those here in films that cover comedy and drama and include animation and documentary. We also include a film by a filmmaking duo who are a little further on in their career in the shape of Drifting, which captures a moment in youthful lives where a decision has to be made to either stay or spread the wings. I hope you enjoy the journey that that and all the other films in this programme take you on.” –&nbsp;Don O’Mahony, Senior Programmer, Cork International Film Festival Method&nbsp;(Polly Holland)L’Argomento!&nbsp;(Reuben Harvey)Drifting&nbsp;(Robert Higgins, Patrick McGivney)Loving Ava&nbsp;(Kate Daly)Post Love&nbsp;(Max Barry)Hanging Over The Atlantic&nbsp;(Fionn Walshe) A panel discussion will follow the screening, moderated by Don O’Mahony and featuring Polly Holland, Max Barry and Fionn Walshe. CIFF selects and presents an annual award to a film from the First Cut! open call, the winner of which will be announced during this event. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/35ff38f7f8dd1bc307eb9b1755134037.png" width="246">

Cork International Film Festival Programme

'Method’ focuses on the anxiety that comes from the lack of control over the passing of time and the importance of self-care rituals which can subdue anxieties and help the sufferer gain a sense of control of time again.

Method

All Square Boi wants is his cuppa and he’s willing to face insanity for it.

Two music students are forced to rehearse in the same room due to a printing error on the practice rota.

L'Argomento

Cian and Pat have been joined at the hip since they were kids and have the run of their small town in the midlands. Cian is content to coast through a life of booze and casual hook-ups, while Pat has grown weary of his surroundings.

Drifting

Two lifelong friends in a small rural town find themselves at odds for the first time as their lifestyles begin to move in opposite directions.

Confusion, jealousy and betrayal are brought out in a friendship between two young girls when one of they begins to take topless photos on a Polaroid camera. ‘Loving Ava’ reveals the intense nature of female friendship and unrequited love.

Loving Ava

Confusion, jealousy and betrayal are brought out in a friendship between two young girls when one of they begins to take topless photos on a Polaroid camera.

‘Post Love’ follows the story of three elderly women from the West of Ireland who rob post offices in an attempt to move to a romantic paradise and break free from their mundane lives in nursing homes.

Post Love

Three elderly women from the West of Ireland rob post offices to break free from their nursing homes.

Dursey Island is linked to the mainland by a single cable car. This lifeline allows its people to call Dursey Island home. Sitting on the furthest edge of Ireland, life on the island has never been easy for the inhabitants.

Hanging Over The Atlantic

Dursey is linked to the mainland by cable car. This lifeline allows people to call it home.

Directors Polly Holland, Max Barry and Fionn Walshe chat with Don O'Mahony, Senior programmer for Cork International Film Festival

Cork International Film Festival Programme - Q&A

Directors Polly Holland, Max Barry and Fionn Walshe chat with Don O'Mahony, Senior programmer for Cork International Film Festival

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