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 9th, 10.30am, The Regal Cinema

Disintegrate – The Cranked Amps (Kyra Owers)
Embankment (Sasha Greaves)
The Money Shot (Liam O’Leary)
Summer (Ellen McSweeney)
T&C’S (Aroush Imran)
Tendons to Trees (Ellen McSweeney & Abbi Henderson)
Devil May Care (Nora Twomey)
luv (Thomas McNamara)
Mopsie Eats a Suspicious Pill (Emmett O’Donovan)
New Year, New Me (Mark Delaney)
I Think (Rachel Griffin)

Open Call Programme 2
Saturday March 9th, 12pm, The Regal Cinema

Embracing (Patrick O’Connor-Mason)
Spacepub (Young Irish Film Makers)
The Beautiful Earth (Eve Cullen)
Don’t Make a Sound (Gavin Gilligan & Sarah Walsh)
The Big Dentist (Padraig Fagan/Matchbox Mountain for New Horizon Athlone & Gateway Project)
Tomorrow (Áine Fahy)
Reminisce (Cian Conachy)
Are These Insects Happy? (Aoife Rees)
Under Your Wing (Alisha Shiels/Kildare Young Filmmakers)
Atlas (Max Hendrickson)
Ivy (Fiachra Cotter)

Panel Discussion:
Aroush Imran, Ellen McSweeney, Áine Fahy and Fiachra Cotter will discuss their work in a Q&A moderated by Pete Moles of Emerging Limerick Filmmakers.