• Best Short Documentary:  | Sponsor: Feldhues
  
• Best Short Fiction/Experimental:  | Sponsor: Barry-Cunningham & Henderson
  
• Best Short Animation:  | Sponsor: Liptons 

As every year, we are presenting a selection of some of the best Irish and international short live action, documentary, and animation films in our competition screenings. The winners in each category will be awarded with one of our coveted Francie awards at our closing ceremony on Sunday night.

Admission to the short film screenings is free!!  Some of the short films deal with adult themes including references to suicide and contain graphic scenes of a violent or sexual nature and strong language.

Sunday Shorts in the Courthouse:

Short Documentaries 1 pm  -  Sponsored By Feldhues

1. Flyby Kathy  | Pedro Bastos | 10:00
2. Cataract  | Łukasz Iwanicz | 15:00
3. Bubbles | Jonathan Lomar | 8:22
4. The Eel Fisher | Méabh Ní Dhoibhlin | 18:01
5. Two Mothers  | Anna Rodgers | 12:28
6. High Five | Simon Maguire | 8:57

Doc Runtime: 1:07:19

Short Fiction / Experimental  2.45 pm -  Sponsored By Barry-Cunningham & Henderson

1. A Portrait | Felix Castaldo | 22:57
2. Tandem | Katarzyna Lewek | 5:56
3. Bubbling | Che-ming Chang | 23:30
4. Mír | Brian Benjamin Dwyer | 4:14
5. Findlater | Allyn Quigley | 12:00
6. The Boat | Luke Morgan | 15:46
7. Yellow Belt | Allyn Quigley | 18:00
8. Schallner | Jon Grandpierre | 7:26 
9. Fairview Park | Ellie Hodgetts & Aymeric Nicolet | 13:58

Fiction Runtime 1:44:41

Short Animation 5.45 pm -  Sponsored By Lipton's

1. The Lost White | Laura Pizzato | 2:32
2. The Queen of Egypt | Erwan le Gal | 6:35
3. Vinny | Declan Boyle | 3:04
4. Father's Mountains | XiaoJun Tan | 11:01
5. Vision | Çağıl Harmandar | 7:18
6. 47 | Paulo Garcia | 5:41
7. Stop at the Right Moment | Arthur Khachatryan | 6:00
8. More Than Anything | Gheraldy Salomo Pangkerego | 4:21 
9. Chicken | Anna Benner | 8:03 
10. Cercare Silenzio - (Searching for Silence) | Valerio Berruti | 8:42
11. Fragments | Andreas Dürr | 6:57

Animation Runtime: 1:10:14

Judges 2024

Frank Ryan

Entranced at an early age by the delights of the big screen, Frank Ryan has been involved with waterfordfilmforall, his hometown film society, for the past three decades. On a national level, he is a former Chairperson of the Federation of Irish Film Societies and will shortly join the Board of access>CINEMA, the resource organisation for regional cultural cinema in Ireland. Not content with programming and promoting film he worked behind the scenes on two short films made by Waterford Film Production Group in the 1990s. 
Never one to pass up a PR opportunity for wffa, he was resident film reviewer for programmes hosted by Carrie Crowley and Mark Graham on WLR FM.

Colum Stapleton

(Scribe of the latter day Irish Annals brumoytura.org)

Colum Stapleton has been making documentaries since the mid-90s. He could not understand why India's most popular Godman, Sai Baba, had no neutral doco made about him, so he had a go. Next, he wondered why had a former Trappist monk hijacked an Aer Lingus 737. Then he needed to understand what marital issues seeing UFOs has in Ireland: TELL ME CAPTAIN STRANGE. TRICK OF THE LIGHT asked why do the "professional" classes not see the UFOs in Norway’s Hessdalen Valley, while the local farmers see them often. For EMPIRE OF JURAMIDAM, Winner of Grand Prize Documentary Feature 2004, San Francisco GreenCine, he went to the Amazon to chart the evolution of a community that fuses Christianity & plant hallucinogens.

Neil D’Souza

Neil D’Souza is an actor and writer based in London. His stage plays include Small Miracle at the Kiln, Coming Up at Watford Palace, and most recently  “Out of Season” for Hampstead Theatre’s 2024 season. His latest radio play The Goddess is due for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2024. His acting work includes Slow Horses, Diamonds, The Ballad of Renegade Nell, Alma’s Not Normal, and  In the Long Run for television as well as film work on Filth, Still Life, Closed Circuit, Wild Target, and Italian Movies. Neil regularly teaches classes in acting and writing at several Universities and drama schools including East 15, the University of Bath Spa and RADA, where he is currently a member of the audition panel.