Ciné Gael Montréal Evening of Award Winning Irish Short Films – 2008
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1) BUSKERS (14’), Writer/Director: Ian Power
Synopsis: Buskers is the story of Packo, a young Dubliner, and Milos, a Romanian immigrant, who battle to secure a space to beg at a Dublin train station. After a comical battle of fists and of wits, of sly tricks and hard blows, the boys find a truly special friendship in their common love of music. 2) BADLY DRAWN ROY (23’), Director: Alan Shannon
Synopsis: Set in a present day working class suburb of Dublin, we meet Roy, Ireland’s only living animated character, who was born in 1972 into an ordinary ‘live action’ family. This fly on the wall documentary film allows us exclusive access into Roy’s life where we learn of the prejudices he must overcome on a daily basis. 3) PULLIN’ THE DEVIL BY THE TAIL (6’ 20’’), Writer/Director: Stephen McCollum
Synopsis: What happens when an Irish Folk-Punk band meet the devil after killing his goat late on a Friday night? The band must play a good song otherwise they will burn in "the eternal ditches of Hell". 4) TEETH (2’), Directors: John Kennedy and Ruairi O’Brien, Producer: Noreen Donohoe
5) EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST (20’), Writer: Colum McCann, Director: Gary McKendry
Synopsis: A British soldier in Ireland becomes involved in the accidental killing of a mother and her child, then helps save a drowning horse. 6) DING DONG DENNY O'REILLY'S HISTORY OF IRELAND, Director: Cathal Gaffney, Writer: Paul Woodfull
Synopsis: A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly at the bar who insists on telling him the "real" history of Ireland over a number of pints. From the Normans to the Famine to 1916 and the sex shops of O'Connell Street, we hear Ding Dong's delusional take of events that shaped our nation. 7) FAREWELL PACKETS OF TEN (3’), Producer: Andrew Freedman, Director: Ken Wardrop
8) THE SOUND OF PEOPLE (7’30’’), Writer/Director: Simon Fitzmaurice, Producer: Noreen Donohoe
Synopsis: The story of a moment in the life of an eighteen year old boy, standing on the brink of his life and death. |
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