Ghostly Shorts: Irish short films on the beyond

Ghost stories and tales of otherworldly encounters are commonplace in Irish folk history. This collection of short work by upcoming filmmakers captures the fascination with paranormal powers through various genres, styles, and themes. Ranging from spooky horror films to poetic reflections on life and loss, these shorts explore the many shapes of the things that haunt us.

In Farmers!? (Freddie Leyden), the death of a farmer plummets his community in a surreal state of grief. Popper (Bonnie Sanderson) is a 1950s-set fever dream where a pregnant housewife is subjected to an experimental superdrug. The afterlife has never sounded so good with Eldritch Karaoke (Joe Luftus), an animation marvel where a woman descends into the showtune world of spirits. In Wake of John Doyle (Niall McCloskey and Thomas Bennett) shows an excommunicated priest grappling with his return from the dead. Dragon’s Teeth (Lennart Soberon) revisits the conflict in Northern Ireland by following a lingering spirit through an abandoned military fort. Lastly, The Stone Claims (Mervyn Marshall) locks us in a room with a lone storyteller and her memories of an eerie occurrence.