You can watch the CIFF2020 Short Film Awards Ceremony on our Facebook and Twitter. 65th Cork International Film Festival Award Winners:Short Film Award Candidate for the 2021 European Film Awards: Blue FearBest Cork Short: BallastBest Director: Irish Short: Dúirt Tú (You Said)Grand Prix Documentary Short: Signal 8Grand Prix International Short: Sudden Light&nbsp;Grand Prix Irish Short: Flicker

A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. While she’s made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewoods, she has to face her doubts. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7516433260cb5066433fbf192757678b.png" width="188"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/5a37fe232bdb57581c6cdc6c39294932.png" width="99" style="max-width: 100%; white-space: pre-wrap;">

Blue Fear (Int. Shorts 5: Certainty & Doubt)

Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. While she’s made prisoner, he flees.

Michael, a man living in the rural west of Ireland, spends his days constructing something in his workshop with only his dog for companionship. When his life is again shattered, he must complete the means to escape his existence. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/3c3134a49c3fbe9d8df905989d420b47.png" width="280">

Ballast (Irish Shorts 5: Stories from Cork)

Beset by grief, a man builds himself the means to escape the pain of his existence.

‘Dúirt Tú’ (‘You Said’) is the story of a break-up and a breakdown in communication. Two former partners are divided by distance. One wishes to reconnect, the other refuses to answer the call. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/b5c8e76db78069804e3279456218b231.png" width="188"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f9464bfb126e1900cff1484b13e36ddf.png" width="99" style="max-width: 100%; white-space: pre-wrap;">

Dúirt Tú (You Said) - (Irish Shorts 2: Altered States)

Two former partners are divided by distance. One wishes to reconnect, the other refuses to answer the call.

Simon Liu’s eerie, entrancing portrait of Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city’s urban infrastructure. Deceptively tranquil 16mm images of everyday life are accompanied by muffled music cues, ominous radio transmissions, and intimations of an impending hazardous event that may never arrive. *Contains flashing images* <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7bbc8fef819b28c5e808029deb75f8c4.png" width="293">

Signal 8 (Int. Shorts 3: Free Radicals)

Disconnected from daily life, Simon Liu’s incursion into the alienation of Hong Kong is an enigmatic symphony of the city’s discordance and fury.

Mia takes her sister Squeeze to walk their dog in the fields near their home. The landscape begins to morph around them, tricking them and introducing Mia to a strange man lurking at the edge of a dark wood. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/db5d130aacf266237217ff8e8bf9edc6.png" width="188"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/71314da7f11ac7e210a90525b1c5044b.png" width="99" style="max-width: 100%; white-space: pre-wrap;">

Sudden Light (Int. Shorts 5: Certainty & Doubt)

Two sisters become plunged into a powerless limbo in the face of oncoming grief.

Moving through the house parties, nightclubs and bars of today’s Dublin, ‘Flicker’ explores the subtle pressures of contemporary Irish masculinity. It's a raw, visceral and intimate exploration of contemporary Irish youth culture, masculinity and trauma. *Contains flashing images* <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/55bcf294f8837834cc3a731914bb9da4.png" width="187">

Flicker (Irish Shorts 4: Tension Structures)

In the aftermath of a violent assault, twentysomething Danny struggles to accept the full extent of his injuries. Please note: the film contains strobe lighting.

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