MONSTRA Festival

Cartoon Saloon - Short film retrospective

Sessions:

9 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 19:00
All films will be screened in Original version with Portuguese and English subtitles

From Darkness

Country: IRELAND Year: 2002 Duration: 9 mins.
Sinopsys:
Based on an Inuit folktale, From Darkness tells the story of a lonely fisherman who drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for.
Credits:
Direction: Nora Twomey
Production: Nora Twomey, Paul Young

Cuilin Dualach

Country: IRELAND Year: 2004 Duration: 12 mins.
Sinopsys:
Cúilín Dualach lives in a small town in the west of Ireland. He is the apple of his mother’s eye, yet his father shows him little affection. Everywhere he goes, people stare at him. Cúilín strives to fit in as best he can but that can be a difficult thing to do when your head is on backwards!
Credits:
Direction: Nora Twomey
Production: Ross Murray, Sean Ó Cúaláin

Old Fangs

Country: IRELAND Year: 2009 Duration: 12 mins.
Sinopsys:
A young wolf decides to confront his father. He had not seen him since he was a child.
Credits:
Direction: Adrien Merigeau, Alan Holy

Ledge-end of Phil

Country: IRELAND Year: 2014 Duration: 6 mins.
Sinopsys:
Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to face the world he has been ignoring. Now he must take a leap of faith or be trapped forever!
Credits:
Direction: Paul Ó Muiris
Writers: Paul Ó Muiris
Production: Pearse Cullinane, Paul Young
Animation: Pearse Cullinane

Somewhere Down the Line

Country: IRELAND Year: 2014 Duration: 11 mins.
Sinopsys:
A man's life, loves and losses are shown through the exchanges he has with the passengers in his car.
Credits:
Direction: Julien Regnard

Late Afternoon

Country: IRELAND Year: 2017 Duration: 9 mins.
Sinopsys:
An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.
Credits:
Direction: Louise Bagnall
Writers: Louise Bagnall
Production: Núria González Blanco
Animation: Anita Gaughan, Sandra Andersen, Geoff King, Andrzej Radka, Mathilde Vachet, Sílvia Vicente Barris, Mireia López Ivern, Matthew Margerison, Santiago López Jover, Javier Peces, Beth Witchalls, Graeme Lee, Jesús Parada Lamas, Szymon Kuran
Music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Sound: Shane O’Toole, Barry Reid

There’s a Monster in My Kitchen

Country: IRELAND Year: 2020 Duration: 2 mins.
Sinopsys:
There's a Monster in my Kitchen is an animated short film that tells the story of a young boy who learns of the heartbreaking reality of rampant deforestation in places like the Amazon from Jag-wah the jaguar.
Credits:
Direction: Tomm Moore, Fabian Erlinghäuser