Irish Animated Short Films are Highlighted at IFI Screening on April 28th
Animated short films funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) are included as part of a new occasional series of short film screenings from the Irish Film Institute (IFI), which begins next Tuesday (April 28th).
The lineup of shorts includes international award winners; Somewhere Down the Line, directed by Julien Regnard and produced by Cartoon Saloon, recently won the Best Animation award at the prestigious Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival. Alan Holly’s Coda has won awards such as Best Animated Short Film at SXSW and was longlisted for the Best Animated Short Film award at this year’s Academy Awards.
Meanwhile, Eoin Duffy’s On Departure follows a lone traveller as he makes his way through an airport before accepting his final destination. Old Fangs, directed by Adrien Merigeau, tells the story of a young wolf who decides to confront his father who he had not seen since he was a child.
Donkey, written and directed by Louise Bagnall tells the story of a donkey who is sick of his minimum wage job at the beach. We the Masses was directed by Eoghan Kidney , and follows a man who falls to the ground in a barren snowy landscape. Searching to continue his fall, he discovers other men who he joins, hoping they will lead him to his destination. What he is led to is incomprehensible.
For the full list of animated short films playing at the IFI next Tuesday, see here.