The short films:

The Bird and The Whale

  • Year: 2018
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Carol Freemand
  • Duration: 7min

Having strayed far from his family to explore a shipwreck, a curious young whale discovers the sole survivor of the disaster: a caged songbird. Lost at sea, together, they struggle with the waves.

Tricky Violin

  • Year: 2017
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Olya Golubeva
  • Duration: 3min

The young girl Lara loves playing the violin, but isn’t quite good at it. That doesn’t stop her from trying to impress those around her. 

Donkey

  • Year: 2009
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Louise Bagnall
  • Duration: 5min

Donkey is sick of his minimum wage job at the beach.

Paperman

  • Year: 2010
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Richard Kelly

A lone man's quest to find his true love in a busy paper metropolis. Will he find the Papergirl he hopes for?

The Ledge End of Phil (From Accounting)

  • Year: 2013
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Paul Ó Muiris
  • Duration: 7min

Phil, an uptight office worker, finds himself trapped on the ledge of his building. Now that all his co-workers have gone home, Phil pins his only hope on the seagull trapped inside the office. Torn between the safety of the office and the unknown city, he must make a quick decision.

Sandpiper

  • Year: 2008
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Jimmy Murakami
  • Duration: 8min

A young boy rescues a sandpiper with a broken wing from vicious seagulls, nurses the injured bird back to health, and eventually releases it into the wild.

Fear of Flying

  • Year: 2012
  • Country: Ireland
  • Director: Conor Finnegan
  • Duration: 10min

Dougal is a small bird with a fear of flying. At night his dreams are plagued with a recurring nightmare of falling towards earth and by day he walks wherever he needs to go rather than face this fear. When a harsh winter rolls around, Dougal must head South, but how?

Extra info

Ireland, land of rolling hills, green meadows, flocks of sheep, and… animation! Irish animation studios are among the leading ones in Europe. Filem’On is putting them in the spotlight this year, including during the Ciné-concert (or as the Irish say in their native Gaelic language: Ceolchoirm Scannáin). We swap the violins and tin whistles for an enchanting electro-acoustic soundscape, performed live by musicians, who provide a series of animated films with a new, fitting soundtrack. 

With support of the Irish Embassy in Belgium. In collaboration with Jeugd en Muziek Brussel en Vila’ket. 

The film score will be performed live by Sam Comerford, Marco Giongrandi and the pupils of Vila’Ket