Irish Talent: New Shorts Six: FictionThis programme features student film and work from debuting and established filmmakers. Loneliness and escapism are key themes throughout this cinematic selection of creative work.

Bill lives an isolated and lonely life, his daily trip to the local shop is his only social event. One day on his trip, he checks his lotto ticket and discovers he has won the jackpot. By the end of the day, he realises the money won’t change anything.

The Winner

An elderly man who lives a lonely life wins the lotto and wants to reconnect with his family to share the news with them.

Meg's simple life revolves around her duties as a Jehovah’s Witness and a platonic relationship with her boyfriend Sam. It all goes well until she is summoned to a judicial committee hearing, where three congregation elders shatter Meg's carefully-constructed world.

Debutante

Meg, an Irish teenager and a devoted Jehovah's Witness, is subjected to the worst of what the religion has to offer: a judicial committee.

The Passion tells the story of a young man who accidentally kills the love of his life in a car crash, and seeks resolution and escape with her mother. This psychologically complex yet subtle story brings us into post-recession rural Ireland. A community has turned its back on who they believe is a perpetrator rather than a victim. Steven has done time for the incident, and can’t find a way to reconcile himself to his new life. He turns to his dead girlfriend’s mother for solace, and a strange relationship unfolds.

The Passion

A young man accidentally kills his girlfriend in a car crash, and inappropriately seeks solace and escape with her mother.

A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem Mycenae Lookout propels Cassandra, a young actress, into addressing her own personal trauma during the sectarian violence of 1990's Northern Ireland.A sensorial and immersive trip into a young woman’s psyche, Spirit Level, boldly dissects the emotional manipulation of re-enactment, cinema as an unreliable historian, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance.

Spirit Level

A young woman explores her family identity and personal trauma during the Troubles of 1990's Northern Ireland.

In an abandoned asbestos processing plant, two teenagers reluctantly execute a task they have both been dreading.

Faitíos (The First Fear)

In an abandoned asbestos processing plant, two teenagers reluctantly execute a task they have both been dreading.

Heavily-pregnant Pearl leaves home in distress and rages against the world, with a mysterious little girl by her side. Creating conflict and curiosity with every encounter, it’s clear she’s suffering, before returning home to confront a deep store of pain.

Bump

Heavily-pregnant Pearl leaves home in distress and rages against the world, as she tries to process a deep store of pain.

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Irish Talent: New Shorts Six: Fiction

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Our programme of short films and feature films screening online were available in Ireland during this year's festival 20th - 25th July 2021.

Galway Film Fleadh Ireland’s leading film festival, the 33rd annual event runs from July 20 – 25, featuring eleven World Premieres, forty-five new films & over 100 short films. This year’s festival features powerful, moving, funny & provocative storytelling from emerging & renowned filmmakers.

As well as some film screenings having Q+As after the screening, here are a number of talks, panels and other events you can enjoy here online: 