First Cut! welcomes short films of every genre by young people from Ireland and abroad. The skill and imagination of young filmmakers shines through in the diverse and entertaining films that make up these programmes.

Open Call Programme 1
Saturday March 11th, 10am, The Mall Arts Centre

It Makes No Scents (Liam O’Leary)
Summer of 89 (Daniel Heaphy)
Russian Military Warship Go… (Oleg Pchelkin)
I Like It Here (Tom Anson)
B Ready (George Lynch)
Dare (George Lynch)
Rock Hard (Gearoid Murphy)
Fake Reality (Dimitris Trahanis)
The Documentary (Dylan Sheehan)
When I Let Go (Kyra Owers)
Clammed Up (Thomas McNamara)
exCHANGE Year (Nora Twomey)
Collapse (Mark Delaney)
Breakable (Dylan Shortt)

Open Call Programme 2
Saturday March 11th, 11.30am, The Mall Arts Centre

Pokemaniac (Wexford Youth Film Project)
The Time I Spoke to the Sky (Rachel Griffin)
Two Fools, One Lie (Rachel Griffin)
Dslexia & Me (Patrick O’Connor-Mason)
For Crying Out Loud (Aoife Rees)
Last Seen (Wiktoria Weintritt)
Something Smells Fishy (YIFM – Young Irish Filmmakers)
The Tell Tale Heart (Max Hendrickson)
Supernova (Niamh Collins/Emerging Limerick Filmmakers)
Faith (Callum Sinnott/Kildare Young Filmmakers)
Gan Tadhall (Muirinn Carty)
The Bullies (Alicia/Drishane Direct Provision Centre)

Panel Discussion:
Rachel Griffin, Muirinn Carty, Dylan Sheehan, Kyra Owers, Mark Delaney and Faith Akinbote (from The Bullies) will discuss their work in a Q&A moderated by filmmaker Mieke Vanmechelen.