LAMB (2022)
It’s a beautiful, sunny, ordinary day as Sarah (Aoife Duffin) makes breakfast for her baby daughter, opening the door to her cottage to let the summer light pour in. But things take a chilling, sinister turn when she discovers that a stranger has entered their isolated rural home, and creeping terror ensues. DIR/SCR Sinéad O'Loughlin; PROD Lara Hickey. Ireland, 2022, color, 15 min.

BABY STEPS (2023)
Presented with an outdated and vaguely misogynistic tape from her father entitled "How to Connect with your Unborn Child," Em — a young woman who is seven months pregnant and has little to no connection to the baby growing inside her — attempts to follow the instructions in the hopes that they will lead to catharsis and some form of greater understanding. DIR/SCR Hannah Mamalis; PROD Zoë Brennan-Whitmore. Ireland, 2023, 9 min.

Approx. runtime: 91 min.

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CIFF2024: Shorts Program 3

CANTATA
Darren needs help. His fears and anxieties are manifesting themselves in the most unusual of therapists to find a quick solution, but sometimes restoring harmony is about facing the music. DIR Dave Fox; SCR Fionn Foley; PROD Rob Earley, Mark Griffin. Ireland, 2023, color, 12 min. NOT RATED

WORRY WORLD
In a regimented, controlled world of black and white, where all thought is on display, a rebellious young factory worker who thinks in color makes an unexpected connection. DIR Jessica Patterson; SCR Hugh O'Conor; PROD Shauna Cullen. Ireland, 2023, color/b&w, 9 min. NOT RATED

SHAKE VERSUS SHAV
A madcap puppet film featuring the voices of Colm Meaney as George Bernard Shaw and Derek Jacobi as William Shakespeare, based on the last play completed by legendary Irish playwright and Nobel Prize–winner George Bernard Shaw. In a knockabout Punch & Judy style, Shaw himself battles it out with Shakespeare in a war of words to decide who is the greater writer. DIR/SCR/PROD Damian Farrell; DIR/SCR Gerry Hoban; PROD Elaine Gallagher, Martha Moloney. Ireland, 2023, color, 17 min. NOT RATED

BOG (2023)
The Great Irish Elk takes young Oisín on an emotional journey through the realm of the bog. With the Elk's guidance, he finds comfort in the natural world and discovers that when we are lost, looking to the simple things can guide us home. DIR/SCR Éabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwan; PROD Greg Connolly. Ireland, 2023, color, 10 min. NOT RATED

TWO FOR THE ROAD (2023)
Amid spontaneous travels around 1990s Ireland, a young boy finds himself navigating the true essence of adventure with his father, one spirited weekend at a time. DIR/SCR Lochlainn McKenna, from his short story "Guinness & Coke"; PROD Natalie Britton, Gráinne Dwyer. Ireland, 2023, color, 19 min. NOT RATED

LAMB (2022)
It’s a beautiful, sunny, ordinary day as Sarah (Aoife Duffin) makes breakfast for her baby daughter, opening the door to her cottage to let the summer light pour in. But things take a chilling, sinister turn when she discovers that a stranger has entered their isolated rural home, and creeping terror ensues. DIR/SCR Sinéad O'Loughlin; PROD Lara Hickey. Ireland, 2022, color, 15 min.

BABY STEPS (2023)
Presented with an outdated and vaguely misogynistic tape from her father entitled "How to Connect with your Unborn Child," Em — a young woman who is seven months pregnant and has little to no connection to the baby growing inside her — attempts to follow the instructions in the hopes that they will lead to catharsis and some form of greater understanding. DIR/SCR Hannah Mamalis; PROD Zoë Brennan-Whitmore. Ireland, 2023, 9 min.

Approx. runtime: 91 min.

No AFI member passes accepted.

91 Minutes
Short films

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