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.