Irish Short Film Finalists (2021)

A showcase of 2021 Irish finalists within our short film competition
Finalists

Belfast 1912 (Dominic O’Neill)
A Christmas Drop (Stephen Canty)
Qu’est-ce Que c’est (Ian Brew)
Afterlife (Daniel Butler)
The Cancer Monster (Michael Costello)
Breach (Nathan Patrick Hughes)
She Cries At Night (Stephen Parker)
Family Tree (Emmet O’Brien)
Terrible Things (Ciarán Hickey)
Where Still Waters Lie (Adam O’Keeffe)

  • Where Still Waters Lie

    18m

    A young couple find themselves drifting apart as the burdens of parenthood weigh on them in different respects.

    Within the emotional distance they create, they leave gaps for more than just silence, turning a healing weekend away into a horror of mistrust and fear.

  • A Christmas Drop

    13m

    At midnight on Christmas Eve, a newly-married couple prepare to welcome some annual guests to their pub, which has fallen on hard times. And time is running out...

  • Terrible Things

    9m 55s

    Amidst the dead uninhabitable world of the future, the refuge of a forgotten country cottage affords a lone wanderer opportunity to acknowledge the lingering strands of her own humanity.

  • The Cancer Monster

    14m

    A girl in a cancer ward is forced to confront her deepest fears - real or imaginary. At stake is life itself.

  • Breach
    5m 30s

    Breach

    5m 30s

    Married man Josh doesn’t know what he’s got himself into when his forbidden meeting backfires with devastating consequences.

  • Belfast 1912

    11m

    Six unlikely souls gather for a seance in Edwardian Belfast. When a dark secret is revealed, their reality begins to unravel in this unsettling short horror film.

  • Qu'est-ce Que c'est

    14m

    Two serial killers go on a date not knowing the other has plans to kill them.

  • Afterlife

    14m

    A dead man wakes to discover he's a vampire only to struggle to follow through with his dreams of escape.

    Afterlife is a dark supernatural comedy set in Clones, Co. Monaghan about a deadman who discovers he's a vampire and is persuaded to go through with his own wake in order to enjoy his 'after...

  • Family Tree

    9m 21s

    An animation about Seymour, a lonely sycamore tree who becomes excited when a new family moves into the house on the grounds where he lives.

  • She Cries at Night

    14m

    A grieving schoolteacher struggles to reconnect with his wife after the death of their only child... All the while a sinister wailing echoes through their house each night. Driving them further and further apart.

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