Toejam Sat March 1st Bernard Shaw

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FILMS TO BE SCREENED INCLUDE ----

Joyriders
Dir: Rebecca Daly
Ireland - 2006
As ten-year-old Kylie struggles with grief, she discovers that imagination can be more powerful than reality.

The Suburban Train
Dir: Maciej Cuske
Poland - 2005
The documentary is like a journey through Russian society. A wide spectrum of people, situations and behaviours. Funny, witty, refreshing.

Love Paintballing
Dir: Grant Orchard
United Kingdom - 2007
Two rival armies, camouflaged, lying in wait, guns at the ready.

Production: StudioAKA

Paintballing is part of a series of animations entitled 'Love Sport', - you can see more from the series on Qoob.tv

Mic Jean Louis
Dir: Kathy Sebbah
France - 2006
My name is Mic Jean Louis. I was born in Fleurance, in the Gers region. When I was two, I came over to Puyscasquier. And I never left. I'm firmly rooted here. Voice, off-screen: Did you know that some people call you Jesus? Jean-Louis: Really? That’s the first I've heard of it.

Lost Utopia
Dir: Mirai Mizue
Japan - 2007
A hand-drawn animation using 5000 original pictures telling the tale (Paradise Lost) of Adam and Eve.

At the End of the Sentence
Dir: Marisa Zanotti
United Kingdom - 2005
This darkly comic film follows the emotional journey of two brothers from morning through to night as they try to come to terms with their relationship with their father who stumbles back into their lives one dark Christmas night.

Pound
Dir: Evan Bernard
United States - 2007
Two friends meet on the street and greet each other by engaging in an impressively long and complex handshake and once its completed they say goodbye, starting another minute-long handshake.

Missed...
Dir: Maureen O' Connell
Ireland - 2007
When a ditsy personality & alcohol just aren't enough to sustain a romance anymore...

Miss Agnieszka
Dir: Aga Grandowicz
Poland - 2003
A short notion from a world of my imagination - "kakophony" of thoughts and visions, game with an object and its form, game with with assosiations, expressing this, what subconscious and unreal. Film debut.

Get Out Of It
Dir: Mark Dollard
Ireland - 2006
Bob is the longest serving writer on hit TV soap "Norries". Nigel is one of the characters in this soap. When Bob is instructed to kill off Nigel, things start going horribly wrong.

Boy interrupted
Dir: Tom Rowley, Max Prum
Ireland - 2007
Dejected after being 'burned' by his girlfriend, a young man tries to watch porn but must face a series of increasingly surreal obstacles. The film is shot in a delightfully buoyant 1920's silent movie style.

Situation Vacant
Dir: Tim Hanan
Ireland - 2006
Situation Vacant is essentially about an interview for a relationship that plays out like a job interview.

RETIREMENT
Dir: Joseph Campbell
Ireland - 2007
A retired man lives alone. He is unhappy when he discovers that he shares his dwelling with a mouse. His attempts to catch the creature expose his own imperfect nature.

Mother Nature's Son
Dir: Tom Rowley
Ireland - 2007
An innocent pervert is interrupted in his hermetic life by the unexpected visit of an old schoolfriend who he shows around his bizarre home. Mistaking her interest for affection he soon sets out in pursuit of her to both comic and poignant effect.

Delorentos - Do You Realise (Music Video)
Dir: Joseph Campbell & Michael Higgins
Ireland - 2007
A music video for Irish band 'Delorentos' made using a variety of video and animation techniques.

No Regrets in the West
Dir: Colm Quinn
Ireland - 2007
A Man talks about his memories of Westerns as a child.

Epilogue of a Stray Dog
Dir: Peter Delaney
Ireland - 2007
Epilogue of a Stray Dog is a modern day fable about an old mans last chance to confess his life story throughout one night, with the aid of an untrustworthy typewriter.

An End to Dreaming
Dir: Patrick O'Shea
Ireland - 2007
An End to Dreaming is a commentary on the damage the human race is doing to the planet and tells the story of Henry, an astrophysicist who realises that the life he has been living is not all it appears to be...

For more information, please see: http://www.futureshorts.com/ireland