This year’s Festival will showcase a variety of Irish short films, including 11 competing for the O’Kalem Award for Audience Favorite Short Film on Friday at Wee Irish Film Night. A full list of shorts and their screening times is below. You can also see the full Festival schedule.
PURCHASE TICKETS
Friday, July 26th at the Manship Theatre
100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge
7:30pm – At WEE IRISH FILM NIGHT
 | MY FUTURE SELF This clever time travel comedy was shot 16 years apart with the same actor in the lead role. Jimmy, a middle aged man is given an opportunity to meet his younger self and in turn reverse his fortunes. Run Time: 4 minutes Genre: Comedy Writer/Director: Jake McKone Producer: Liam Beatty Key Cast: Jake McKone Company: Alice Productions |
 | RUBY It's Ruby & Len's ruby wedding anniversary. Len has a history of weird and outlandish gifts but Ruby hopes that, this time, he might just do something "nice and normal". Run Time: 19 minutes Genre: Comedy/Drama Writer/Director: Michael Creagh Producers: Damon Quinn & Liam Creagh Key Cast: Kate O'Toole & Dan Gordon Company: Red Box Media |
 | THE BUTTER BORDER When a new customs officer shows up on the border, sisters May and Imelda McHugh must hatch a cunning plan to smuggle butter from one village to the other. Run Time: 9 minutes Genre: Drama Writer/Director: Ciaran Crudden Producer: Darren Chesney Key Cast: Roma Tomelty, Rosamund Monteith, Brendan Morrissey, Eamon Rohan, Mary Ryan Company: Crude Studios |
 | THE VASECTOMY DOCTOR Dr. Andrew Rynne, known as Ireland’s first vasectomist, became famous when a man walked into his surgery with a rifle. Run Time: 11 minutes Genre: Documentary Writer/Director: Paul Webster Producer: Ronan Cassidy Company: Carbonated Content, Screen Ireland |
 | MOTHER There’s no replacement for a mother’s love. Hardworking mam GRACE has the perfect happy family; a loving husband and two wonderful children. But when her husband arrives home one day with a brand new kitchen appliance, she slowly starts to realize that there might not be room for both of them in this house. Mother is a quirky, surrealist, mostly silent comedy that will lead you to question, just how necessary are you, to the ones you love?” Run Time: 9 minutes Genre: Comedy Director: Natasha Waugh Writer: Jonathan Hughes Producer: Sharon Cronin Key Cast: Lochlann O'Mearáin, Hilary Rose, Andrea Kelly, Robyn Dempsey, Charlie Geelon |
 | MARY When youngster Charlie accidentally destroys the town’s beloved Virgin Mary statue, he does the only thing he can: frames his older brother. Run Time: 7 minutes Genre: Comedy Director: Shaun O'Connor Writer: Jonathan Hughes Producer: Sharon Cronin Key Cast: Mark O'Halloran, Lee O'Donoghue, Luke O'Donoghue, George Hanover, Cora Fenton, Mark D'Aughton |
 | BENDING GLASS This film explores the lifes work of Glass Bender Paddy Dignam. We meet the man who used the streets as his gallery, illuminating Ireland with one iconic piece of work at a time. Run Time: 7 minutes Genre: Documentary Director: Suzie Keegan Producer: Peter Murnaghan Company: Screen Ireland |
 | THAT OLD FEELING Daniel, a trumpet player whose best audience is his cows, must leave his rural surroundings to search for the uncle who inspired him, and the dream which eludes him. Run Time: 15 minutes Genre: Drama Writer/Director: Seán Maher Producer: Cian Desmond Key Cast: Mark Lawrence, Robert O'Connor, Shane Lynch, Judy Donovan |
 | THE WIREMEN When electricity is first brought to rural Ireland, a six-year-old girl believes a faerie has entered her home with ‘the Light’. Her attempts at capturing it unwittingly cause a blackout and ultimately summons the sinister, ghoulish creatures who haunt the surrounding countryside. Run Time: 10 minutes Genre: Animation Director: Jessica Patterson Writer: Paul Cahill Producer: Dave Minogue Key Cast: Ruth McCabe, Barry Ward, Alisha Weird Company: Screen Ireland, JAM Media |
 | PROCESSION A community of bedraggled misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how – an eccentric folk music funeral. Run Time: 7 minutes Genre: Comedy Writer/Director: Jeda de Brí Producer: Claire McCabe Key Cast: Olwen Fouéré, Sahar Ali, Serena Brabazon, Finbarr Doyle Company: 925 Productions |
 | ALL IN GOOD TIME A comic fantasy about two children, one in 1918, the other in 2018, who magically communicate across time through messages in a bottle and help solve each other’s problems. Run Time: 15 minutes Genre: Comedy Producer/Director: Bonnie Dempsey Writer: Rodney Lee Producers: David O'Sullivan, Una Shinners Key Cast: Johnny Byrne, Adam Dolan, Luke Lally, Dani-Rei Morrison Company: RTÉjr, Dyehouse Films |