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DIFF Shorts: In Transit
A celebration of movement, this programme reflects journeys of transformation and transition. Through literal travel and metaphorical growth, it examines the beauty and challenges of change.
ÉIST LIOM (LISTEN TO ME)
Dir. Zoe Ní Riordáin, Maud Lee
This is Carmen's story, told countless times worldwide. She betrays her partner, Don José. He loves her, but she doesn't feel the same.
DOLLAR BABY'S
Dir. Remi Alfallah, Megan Haly
Struggling to make ends meet, a queer couple living in Los Angeles are drawn into the alluring, yet complex world of online sex work.
WE DIDN'T KNOW WHY
Dir. Evan Henderson
Two women from different backgrounds are brought together by death, life and rebirth. Both women experience an ancestral connection through a revival of lost languages.
2004 WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO
Dir. Clare Hoey Ali returns to her Australian hometown for a visa photo. While giving advice to a bullied teenager, she realises how little she's grown in two decades.
NAY DAY
Dir. Derek Ugochukwu
A teenage TikToker narrates the story of her hectic life and aspirations while walking her dog through a menacing industrial landscape.
SHADOWS
Dir. Rand Beiruty
At a crowded airport, 15-year-old Ahlam, a young mother fleeing Baghdad, confronts her past while reclaiming her life after years of mistreatment.
EVERY OTHER WEEKEND
Dir. James Naughton
Told through the eyes of his children, a recently divorced father takes them on a camping trip in the West of Ireland.
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Dir. Nebojša Slijepčević
In 1993, during the Bosnian War, a passenger train is stopped for an ethnic cleansing operation. One man among 500 passengers becomes a lone voice of defiance.
BEATHA
Dir. Macy-Jayne Monique Stewart, Hannah Winifred McCallum
Beatha' (the sanctity of being, of all living things) explores themes of grief, forbidden love, loneliness and resilience whilst showing the evolving identity of Ireland.
INSIDE, THE VALLEY SINGS
Dir. Nathan Fagan
Trapped in the horror of prolonged solitary confinement, three individuals in prisons across the United States seek comfort in the boundless vistas of their own imaginations.
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