The Dingle International Film Festival has announced some of the feature and short films that will show at the festival in the beautiful Kerry town this March.
The festival takes place from March 12th to 15th, with the first Irish Animation Awards taking place on Friday 13th March at the Dingle Skelligs Hotel in Dingle. This is Animation Irelands’ inaugural awards ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding creative talent we have within the Irish Animation, VFX and gaming industries. They aim to recognise and support animation students and acknowledge them with the “Best Student Film” and “Best International Student Film” categories.
Dingle has been home to the Dingle International Film Festival for 9 years and specifically Animation Dingle for the last 3 years and provides the perfect backdrop for the first Irish Animation Awards.
Scannain has seen a number of these short and feature films, with In This Place, I’ve Been a Sweeper, An Cat, The Weather Report, Skunky Dog, and Our Unfenced Country being among our favourites of the last year.
All the films in the festival have been selected through an open submissions process, and there is still time to enter animated film, and/or Físín and Young Animator of the Year (For TY Students).
Films announced so far:
Shorts
Live action shorts
A Soldier’s Voice directed by Brendan McCallion
An Cat directed by Helen Flanagan
An Actor Prepares directed by Denis Halligan & Marty Stalker NI
An Obvious Jump directed by Michael Fortune
Another Number directed by Cian O Connor
Cas Timpeall directed by Glenn Gannon
In This Place directed by Tristan Heanue
Isolation directed by James Fagan & Shane Davidson
I’ve Been a Sweeper directed by Ciarán Dooly
Our Unfenced Country directed by Niamh Heery
Rinc directed by Medb Johnstone
Skunky Dog directed by Paddy Slattery
Ticket to Somewhere directed by Liam O Mochain
The Return directed by John Corcoran
The Struggle of Libations directed by Erin Mullally
The Usual directed by Ruth McNally
The Weather Report directed by Paul Murphy
Thumb Wars directed by Lisa Keogh NI
Documentary shorts
Breaking Barriers directed by Alan Cantrell and co-directed by Colin Barrett
First or Last directed by Eamonn Dunne
Keeping Time – A Portrait of Stokes Clocks directed by James O Sullivan
Memory Full directed by Tommy O Donoghue
Mother Love directed by Grainne McGuinness NI
Open Air Stories directed by Eileen Kennedy NI
The Fight directed by Keith Mannix
The Orchard Keepers directed by Bryony Dunne
Two Sugars directed by Tess Motherway
Waterlillies directed by Tanya Doyle
International Shorts
The Way Up directed by Etienne Sievers UK
El Chófer/The Driver directed by Rubén Prieto Spain
Elgin Park directed by Danny Yourd USA
El Oscuro Viajero/The Traveller in the Darkness directed by Antonio Castaño López, Juan Castaño López Spain
La Rosa del Desierto/Desert Rose directed by Emilio Alonso Spain/French/Arabic
No Tiene Gracia/Not Funny directed by Carlos Violadé Spain
Soledad directed by Fran Moreno Castellano
Béirín Beag Buí directed by Niamh Lawlor, winner of Físín 2015 will also premiere.
Features
Aspie Seeks Love directed by Julie Sokolow (USA)
Endure directed by Vincent McEntee, Larry Mulligan & Kevin McHugh (Ireland)
Guatemala directed by Pia Janning, Til Frohlich (Ireland)
It Came From Connemara directed by Brian Reddin (Ireland)
Outsider directed by Mark McLoughlin (Ireland)
Snow Wars directed by Frank Mirbach (Germany)
The Quiet Hour directed by Stéphanie Joalland (UK)
The festival has also announced a programme of FREE films with Cinemobile. Cinemobile will be offering free screenings to festival attendees as part of its North by Northwest – Films on the Fringe project. Funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme. The selected films are:
Of Those in Peril (Scotland)
The Garden Lovers (Finland)
Of Horses and Men (Iceland)