The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky

Country: IRELAND Year: 2008 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: ‘The Rooster, the Crocodile, and the Night Sky’ is a tale of passion, loss, surreal comedy and explosive violence. The film is animated in a cut-out style combining a variety of elements such as cardboard, tinfoil, paint on glass animation and super-8 film footage to create a dreamy, hand-made aesthetic.

Credits:

Direction: Padraig Fagan

Writers: Padraig Fagan

Production: Barry O'Donoghue

Animation: Padraig Fagan, Eimhin McNamara, Orla McHardy

Music: Pat Fagan

Sound: Kieran Horgan, Peter Blayney, Ardmore Sound

Bird Food

Country: IRELAND Year: 2012 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: Bird Food is a feast for the eyes that chews at the funny bone. On a lovely sunny day, a business man tries to eat his lunch in the park but the local pigeons have other ideas.

Credits:

Direction: Richard Keane

Cod & Chips

Country: IRELAND Year: 2023 Duration: 2 mins.

Sinopsys: A man on a bridge is about to end it all, but a nosey seagull interrupts him.

Credits:

Direction: Matt Pidgeon

Coda

Country: IRELAND Year: 2014 Duration: 9 mins.

Sinopsys: A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

Credits:

Direction: Alan Holly

Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly's History of Ireland

Country: IRELAND Year: 2017 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly at the bar. Ding Dong 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 Denny's delusional take of events that shaped our nation. Ding Dong is a comic creation of comedian Paul Woodful, and is his first adventure into animation.

Credits:

Direction: Cathal Gaffney

Donkey

Country: IRELAND Year: 2009 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: Donkey is tired of his minimum wage job at the beach.

Credits:

Direction: Louise Bagnall

Enkai

Country: IRELAND Year: 2023 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: Floating through the universe in her gourd-shaped home, young Enkai just wants to spend time with her single mother, Shiro, a cosmic deity who works all the time in the stressful and demanding job of saving the Earth from man-made destruction. With Shiro’s health fading, Enkai must uncover the secrets of creation, and use her own divine powers to bring an entirely new future into being.

Credits:

Direction: Ng'endo Mukii

Writers: Ng’endo Mukii

Production: Peter Ramsey, Tendayi Nyeke, Anthony Silverston

Music: James Bassingthwaighte

Give Up Yer Aul Sins

Country: IRELAND Year: 2000 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: A schoolgirl, interviewed for television, tells a somewhat unconventional version of the story of John the Baptist, which we see illustrated.

Credits:

Direction: Cathal Gaffney

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

Country: IRELAND Year: 2008 Duration: 6 mins.

Sinopsys: Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified grandchild.

Credits:

Direction: Nicky Phelan

Head Space

Country: IRELAND Year: 2010 Duration: 3 mins.

Sinopsys: A boy distances himself from reality in an effort to cope with a cycle of abuse.

Credits:

Direction: Patrick Semple

Herderboy

Country: IRELAND Year: 2023 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: On the wild frontier of the Chewzi Kingdom in the highlands of future Uganda, an elite trio of herders protect precious cyborg cattle from deadly spirits. Hidden amongst the herd is teenage stowaway Ndahura, who is desperate to prove himself as a warrior and become a legend like his three heroes. When the herders are attacked, Ndahura makes a reckless choice to take on a vengeful hyena monster that he must fight alone.

Credits:

Direction: Raymond Malinga

Writers: Raymond Malinga, Mpho Osei-Tutu

Production: Peter Ramsey, Tendayi Nyeke, Anthony Silverston

Music: James Bassingthwaighte

Soul Office

Country: IRELAND Year: 2021 Duration: 10 mins.

Sinopsys: Soul Office is an animated comedy short film following a criminal duo that bite the dust during the heist of an ATM. They come back as ghosts for one more shot to pull off their plot. The short is the creation of Ryan Loughran, with Taunt supporting the production. Northern Ireland Screen in partnership with BFI Network have also backed the film as part of their Creative Animation Fund. Watch the trailer here.

Credits:

Direction: Ryan Lughran

The Last Elk

Country: IRELAND Year: 1998 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: The Last Elk re-imagines the story of the last of the wild Irish elk. Each animal is represented by a different musical sound; the elk experience peace, alongside harshness and strife, but always remain harmonious. When the last elk is killed at the hand of man, the music ceases, and the elk becomes a relic of Ireland’s natural history. As each elk dies, so too does the instrument it is attached to till all is quiet.

Credits:

Direction: Alan Shannon

TOT

Country: IRELAND Year: 2020 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: TOT is a psychological thriller staged in a dense mythical forest. The story is told from the perspective of Tot, a young girl who carries the unassuming and turbulent force of grief with her, fashioned in a delicate glass jar. Unbeknownst to Tot, her grief begins to gain influence over her the longer she chooses to ignore it. She flees her nightmares only to become lost in the deep haze of the forest, where menacing creatures begin to surface.

Credits:

Direction: Aimée Kirkham Priester, Tom Getty, Fiona McLaughlin

You Give Me Heart

Country: IRELAND Year: 2023 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: In an opulent world where power is dictated by social media adoration, struggling artist Sundiata joins a talent competition in a desperate attempt to be seen and impress the most popular of them all: Maadi. Sundiata wins by a fluke, shocking the world but as he ascends, he will discover what it means to be worshipped by the masses, and who Maadi really is behind her facade.

Credits:

Direction: Lesego Vorster

Writers: Nonzi Bogatsu

Production: Peter Ramsey, Tendayi Nyeke, Anthony Silverston

Music: James Bassingthwaighte