Gearr - World Shorts 2: The Strange Places We Carry
Running time: 89 mins
Cork Film Festival
We continue our exploration of the world of short filmmaking, with six distinctive films that explore memory, identity, home and belonging. From childhood and displacement to resistance and the absurd, these stories take us across borders and into lives shaped by forces both personal and political.
Womb
Ira Hetaraka / New Zealand/ 2025 / 15 mins
A young Māori girl in the care of a conservative English couple savours her mother's weekly visitations, as a custody battle driven by racial bias will ultimately decide their fate.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos/ United Kingdom / 2024 / 17 mins
This tender film essay by a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland, questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.
Paradaïz
Matea Radic / Canada / 2025 / 9 mins
Welcome to a place where the houses have holes, tomatoes are ticking time bombs and snails wander the streets in search of a safe space. This must be Paradaiz. Going home, it turns out, is not so easy.
Bloodline
Wojciech Węglarz / Poland / 2024 / 13 mins
In the 1990s, a robin is tagged in Finland, but later found shot in Brescia, Italy. Years on, conservationists Katia and Paolo battle bird- poaching in Brescia.
Al Basateen
Antoine Chapon / France / 2025 / 24 mins
In 2015, Damascus’s Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population’s uprising against the regime. A decade later, two former residents recall their lost neighbourhood, awakening memories that resist deliberate erasure.
Abortion Party
Julia Mellen / Spain / 2025 / 13 mins
After managing to scrape together money to pay for an abortion after her Polish exchange student boyfriend gets her pregnant, the director decides to celebrate with a party. In attendance are her geriatric ska musician neighbour, semi-retired gang affiliates, her dirty gay roommate, and ever present bedbugs.
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