Creative Heartlands Shorts Programme
Hot off the presses, this is our annual showcasing of new films realised by filmmakers in the SLR region
Handy Cam
W/Dir. Conor Lambert
A thief dumps a handy cam and there begins a roller-coaster journey through many hands and situations. Tessa Fonfara produces.
Creative Heartlands Bursary award
Svitlana
W/Dir. Patryk Łukaszewski
A Ukrainian mother and school-going daughter, separated from husband and father by war, face eviction and rising hostility in Ireland’s escalating housing crisis.
Creative Heartlands Bursary award
Ireland’s Oldest Altar Boy
W/Dir. Luke Curley
When a film crew arrives in a small parish in the mid-1980s to profile the country’s oldest altar boy, the encounter becomes an unexpected and unusual coming-of-age.
Creative Heartlands Bursary award
Capall
Dir. Glenn Gannon 2026
A game of ‘horse’ spirals out of control for two criminals as they drive to their next deadly job.
Made with the support of TG4 and Screen Ireland. (Irish with subs)
Next Door
W/Dir Ananya Sharma and Shane ÓCeallaigh
Noreen is struggling to deal with the changing complexion of her community. When an Indian family move in next door things come to a head.
Woodweb
W/Dir. Michéal Coughlan
In this witty eco-horror Dr. Battle, a frustrated biologist, enlists the help of Caelan a young PhD computer whizz-kid, to help her get a breakthrough in her research into how trees communicate.
Next Door and Woodweb were made under the Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet/Creative Heartland Summer Film Production Course with additional support from Roscommon County Council Social Inclusion Fund.