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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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.


  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    9 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Ireland
  • Director
    Fionn Walshe
  • Producer
    Fionn Walshe
  • Cinematographer
    Matthew McGuigan
  • Editor
    Barra O'Connor
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