65th Cork International Film Festival

Irish Shorts 5: Stories From Cork + Q&A

Expired November 15, 2020 11:59 PM
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7 films in package
Listen (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)
Through three interwoven portraits, we explore the importance of our 'listening' sense.
Bronagh (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)
Bronagh isolates herself in a foreign place to be alone with grief but, caught between imagination and reality, she invents some contrary coping mechanisms.
A Christmas Drop (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)
An Irish pub. Christmas Eve. Phenomenal company.
Red Mary Red (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)
An 18th-century Irish farmer, robbed and humiliated by the Redcoats, negotiates his livelihood deep in the wild country.
Hanging Over the Atlantic (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)
Dursey is linked to the mainland by cable car. This lifeline allows people to call it home.
Ballast (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)
Beset by grief, a man builds himself the means to escape the pain of his existence.
Irish Shorts 5: Stories From Cork Q&A
Q&A with filmmakers Aoise Tutty Jackson, Jessica Courtney Leen, Megan Haly, Steve Canty, Brían Crotty, Fionn Walshe, Jesse Gilbert
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Insightful documentaries, suspenseful dramas and comic tales that take you from a Cork City pub on Christmas eve, find you floating over Glengarriff, hanging over the Atlantic in Dursey and dropped into an 18th-century field in West Cork. 



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A grown-up Bronagh feels guilty for experiencing a delayed grief, having lost a female role model as a child. She stalks and ‘haunts’ an estranged family member to ensure she's not alone in being unable to move on.


  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Director
    Jessica Courtney Leen, Megan Haly
  • Screenwriter
    Jessica Courtney Leen
  • Producer
    Jessica Courtney Leen
  • Cast
    Jessica Courtney Leen, Nadia Forde, Ciaran Bermingham
  • Cinematographer
    James Westlake
  • Editor
    Lori Stacey
  • Composer
    Tiz McNamara
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