Shorts Programme 4 Book Tickets Bounce A damaged war correspondent and her surgeon brother heal their acrimonious relationship and each other when he moves in with her uninvited during the global pandemic. Directed By: Alexander Dinelaris; Lloyd Owen Country: United Kingdom Year: 2021 Duration: 14:30 Miss D Referred to only as 'Miss D' because of her young age, an Irish teenager with a fatal foetal abnormality fights for her right to travel abroad for an abortion. Directed By: Paddy Hayes Country: Ireland Year: 2021 Duration: 15:00 Miss Fortunate Scarlet’s mum has died, leaving her with two cats, a huge tax bill and a crush on a boy she can’t talk to. A comedy-drama about grief, in which a young woman loses her mother, and finds herself. Directed By: Ella Jones Country: United Kingdom Year: 2020 Duration: 14:53 Neon Phantom João is a delivery man who dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film. Directed By: Leonardo Martinelli Country: Brazil Year: 2021 Duration: 20:00 Nettle Bush Over lockdown, many people began to question their gender or come out as transgender. Re-assessing your gender performance and your personal relationship to your body is one thing, but how do you go about practising feng shui with the Victoria Beckham perfume on your shelf or the delicately hidden Spiderman sheets? I’ve interviewed a small group of those questioning about the gender euphoria of repainting your bedroom walls. Nettle Bush focuses on the material possessions that clutter your room and the gaze of the house cat watching you hoover. Cat fur, a hot water bottle tattoo and the collecting dust bunnies on a shelf can either make you sneeze or feel at home. Directed By: Francis O'Mahony Country: Ireland Year: 2021 Duration: 06:34 Sparkle Feeling stuck in the drudgery of domesticity, Irene Carr (Andie McCaffrey) needs to change her life before she loses her identity completely. When her friend Jan invites her to try out the new fitness fad Aerobics she jumps at the chance. But the government in Ireland in 1984 have other ideas and propose a ban on Aerobics. Irene must look inside herself and fight the ban in order to keep the newly found joy she has discovered in life again. Directed By: Gerard Walsh Country: Ireland Year: 2021 Duration: 16:28 SQUISH (SPRÖTCH) Flo has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s Tom who takes care of Sam, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during her absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPRÖTCH. Tom just crushed something... Directed By: Xavier Seron Country: Belgium Year: 2020 Duration: 20:00 Stiletto: 'A Pink Family Tragedy' Hasan, (45) a nightshift taxi driver, sees a woman in stilettos passing by while he is on his way back home in the morning. In a world where the boundaries of being a man are already set, he does something that is to become a disaster even greater than global warming! Directed By: Can Merdan Dogan Country: Turkey Year: 2021 Duration: 17:49 This Is Why This is Why is an experimental animated short about the inadvertent pressures of a young relationship. Knowing what you want can be hard. Directed By: Sean Roberts Country: Ireland Year: 2021 Duration: 03:28 Get Tickets for Shorts Programme 4