Irish Shorts 5 Northern Ireland

Running time: 79 mins

2pm / Irish Shorts 5 Northern Ireland / 79 mins / Screen 6

Pub House
Peter Young / Ireland / 2024 / 14 mins
A newly single mother and her young son move into a house attached to a pub, becoming the fixation of their invasive new landlord.

Eamann and The Aliens
Jennifer Atcheson / United Kingdom / 2023 / 8 mins
Living in Boyle, Eamonn has been researching UFOs since 1990 after a chance encounter. Are these UFOs us from the future or Extraterrestrial from other stellar systems? Could they have come to warn us of our own self destruction?

C�est Moi dans la Poubelle
Michael O'Neill / Ireland / 10 mins
A dramatization of the visit of Samuel Beckett to a depressed Ezra Pound in the early 1970s. Reportedly the two men sat in silence for 40 mins before Beckett departed leaving a book behind as a present. A film in which nothing happens, but only once.

The BannFoot Ferry
Colm Laverty / United Kingdom / 2024 / 19 mins
Short documentary film exploring how Northern Ireland's last hand-operated ferry helped put Ulster Television on the map. A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television�s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.

Good Night Midnight
Desmond Lynch / United Kingdom / 2024 / 14 mins
An escort tries to find a way to convince a married man to cheat on his wife

Dead On Arrival 14 mins
Niamh McAllister / Ireland / 2024 / 14 mins
A dark comedic short about two nurses, one dead husband and zero morals.