TWO Limerick filmmakers will be featured at the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) this year.
Short films by Róisín Leavy-Sahn and Niamh Collins will be showcased during the festival, which runs from February 22 to March 2.
Róisín Leavy-Sahn’s short film ‘Rat King‘ and the Niamh Collins directed ‘Mob the Trench‘ will be screened on March 1 at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin.
The festival will also see a screening of Danny McCafferty’s ‘The Line‘, which sees Limerick-man Joe Mullins play the role of Joe Walsh.
‘Rat King‘ tells the story of a young boy who falls in love with a dead rat. It begins to rot him, setting off a frenzy in his village with disastrous consequences.
Niamh Collins’ short ‘Mob the Trench‘ takes place in the future where an equation disproves the existence of god, leaving a mechanically-preserved priest questioning his life choices. To make things worse, his once friendly church-going followers have become an angry mob desperate for answers.
Danny McCafferty’s ‘The Line’ tells the story of Joe Walsh, a man who lives a quiet and somewhat predictable rural life in the sleepy Irish town of Finbarrack, which is upended with the death of his older brother Patrick.
At the same time, Nina, a Ukrainian refugee, arrives in Joe’s village. They form an unlikely friendship which spurs Joe to question his prejudices towards outsiders.
