Donegal Bay Film Festival

Following last year’s inaugural Donegal Bay Film Festival, curated by the late and much missed Marc Gegan, Bundoran film-maker Caroline Harvey has drawn together an exciting programme of short films and documentaries made by emerging film-makers from the North and North West of Ireland.

Wednesday – 2nd October

• Morning After – Dir: Dorothy Duffy.
• Amygdala -Dir: Clem McInerny.
• Yara – Dir: James Doherty.
• The Crucible – Dir: Caroline Harvey.
• Simon – Dir: Ben Conway and Peter J. McCarthy.

Thursday – 3rd 0ctober

• The Girl and The Lion – Dir: Diana Cheung.
• Gerry – Dir: Sean Mullan.
• A Fairytale Romance – Dir: Kate Haley.
• Someone in Your Corner – Dir: Fiachra Ó Longáin.
• Cleaner – Dir: Edwin Mullane.

Morning After tells of a young Donegal woman’s experience of getting the morning-after pill in 2001.

Amygdala follows surf photographer Conor Flanagan as he braves Ireland’s most dangerous waves to get the perfect shot.

Yara is experimental film drama made with members of the Syrian Community in Donegal.

In The Crucible, a storm makes landfall on the day of Hannah’s surf assessment.

Simon answers a phone call from his brother, who is in the midst of a mental breakdown, driving fast with his young daughter in the back seat.

In The Girl and The Lion, Winnie is followed by a lion as she journeys through life in rural Northern Ireland, which hinders her efforts to fit in.

Gerry is a documentary film following an elderly pigeon breeder as he stops in the evening sun to watch his friends fly.

In A Fairytale Romance, a mermaid’s dream of love takes a dark turn when her prince is not what she expected.

Someone In Your Corner is a documentary on Commonwealth medal-winning boxer Sean McGlinchey.

In Cleaner, a mundane household accident forces a domestic cleaner to add emergency child-minding to her list of duties.