Donegal Bay Film Festival: Day One
Bundoran film-maker Caroline Harvey has drawn together an exciting programme of short films and documentaries made by emerging filmmakers from the North and North West of Ireland.
- Date
Wed Oct 7
- Time
8pm
- Venue
Bundoran
Eclipse Cinemas
- Admission
FREE
In Piedi ( In Protest)
Dir: Edwin Mullane.
In Piedi (In Protest) – A short film about political resistance, solidarity and standing up to adversity, from the Director of the award-winning Horseshoe (Galway Film Fleadh 2025).
Emergency Accommodation
Dir: Kate Haley.
In search of a warm place to sleep, a homeless man slips Garda custody inside a chaotic Irish hospital, using the overwhelming overcrowding and relentless pressure of the emergency department as cover to hide in plain sight, in Emergency Accommodation.
Beneath The Quiet
Dir. Blaithín Gallagher.
Beneath The Quiet is an intense and highly visual re-imagining of the classic William Butler Yeats poem, The Lake Isle of Inisfree.
Field Queens
Dir: Áine Ryan.
In Field Queens, two friends tasked with cleaning a minibus after a drunken mishap end up spending a volatile, unexpected day drinking in a field with the bus driver’s wife, putting their friendship to the ultimate test.
Horseback
Dir: Mark McAuley.
Horseback is the story of Ali, a non-verbal refugee boy who is trapped by trauma and isolation, but finds hope when a piebald pony becomes the bridge between his silent world and the people around him.
Dive
Dir: Amy Joyce Hastings.
In Dive, a young woman Jess slips away from a family gathering in the West of Ireland to an iconic diving board above the Atlantic, where past and future clash like the waves below.
Capall
Dir: Glenn Gannon.
A game of ‘horse’ gets out of control for two criminals as they drive to their next job.
