Selection of Irish & International Short Films - SILK ROAD FILM FESTIVAL 2018

SHORTS - Uncategorised Selection of Irish & International Short Films - Free Entrance - From 7pm to 9.30pm. See Programme: http://silkroadfilmfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SRIFF18-program.pdf

Here's a list of some:

ON THE ROPES - LEBANON / 17 MINS / Director: Manon Nammour
SYNOPSIS: “On the Ropes” reflects the Lebanese society through a family whose members’ life is suspended, stuck in Limbo, like everything else in the country.

LUCY - UK / 12 mins / Director: Melinte Reitzema
SYNOPSIS: Lucy candidly shares her transgender journey, speaking in emotive detail about the struggles she has overcome and finding acceptance in East London’s euphoric queer club scene. An empowering celebration of independence, ‘Lucy’ will make you stop and think about the spectrum of gender identity and what it means to be yourself.

BATTERED DREAMS - UK, Ireland / 10 mins / Director: Federico Rea
SYNOPSIS: Santino slaves for a tough 1970’s Italian Chip shop owner. He longs for something better to come his way, until one afternoon a special delivery arrives.

TRUCK - Turkey / 13mins - Director: Canbert Yerguz
SYNOPSIS: Besim, who set out on a long interprovincial journey is stuck in the middle of a deserted road in the heart of Anatolia because of an engine breakdown. His efforts to find a mechanic and fears it will catch on fire, becomes more and more complicated with the arrival of kids, a flock of stray sheep, a peasant with a scooter, others with cars, tractor and women ...

NUMBNESS - Iran / 12 mins - Director: Milad Jarmooz
SYNOPSIS: The story of a women accused of infidelity on the day after her wedding.

MARYAM ARRIVED ON WEDNESDAY - USA / 8mins - Director: Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi
SYNOPSIS: Maryam arrives in the U.S. from Iran for the first time. Although tired and jetlagged, Maryam proceeds directly to her first destination in America, a public school in Brooklyn, where she picks up her niece. Maryam’s journey is both real and metaphorical; the story of diaspora and immigration is the story of a chain of stories of arrivals and meetings.

SADEK RAHIM - Algeria / 10mins - Director: Anne Murray
SYNOPSIS: In Oran, Algeria, Algerian artist, Sadek Rahim, talks about his series, The Gravity Paradoxes, which addresses the loss and hopes of Algerians willing to cross the Mediterranean Sea to other countries risking everything to achieve a dream.

M1-KØ - UAE/ 8mins -Director: Fahad Shaikh
SYNOPSIS: A journey to find a deeper meaning of the unknown, follows Mikolaj Zenliski, a Polish software engineer on his bicycle training in middle of the desert, who could be blasting off to the Red Planet after getting through to the next stage of the Mars One project.

STREET OF DEATH - Lebanon & Germany / 20mins - Director: Karam Ghoussein
SYNOPSIS: The narrator revisits the site of his youth – a lawless slum suburb next to Beirut’s international airport, where vendettas, displays of masculinity and raucous street weddings punctuate daily life. A treacherous stretch of highway, coined

THE CHOICE - UAE / 10mins / Short // 2016 - Director: Eman Talal Alsayed
SYNOPSIS: After her Emirati father passed away, Lauren is asked to fly to the UAE for the first time to meet with her long-lost family, and settle her father’s inheritance. However, in order to claim her right she is asked to cleanse her father’s “mistake” that estranged him for years.

AN MHALLACHT - Ireland / 16mins - Director: Cóilín Ó Scolaí
SYNOPSIS: The Mayo Football Team are once again in the GAA All Ireland Final: Dr Donal Green has his loyalties tested when he discovers that one of his comatose patients is the last living player from the infamous cursed Mayo team of 1951.

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