IFFG 2026 — Shorts 1

A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.

Struggling to maintain the peace she mistakes for love, Cleo's steamy New Year's Eve plans fissure into a chilling nightmare.

In the shadow of the 1994 World Cup, a heartbroken woman returns to the island of her happiest memory to end her life. But when her pay-as-you-go meter runs out, a coin hunt with the local drunk leads to an unlikely bet: Ireland to qualify.

Carried in by the sea, a red scarf becomes the final witness to a life undone by violence and silenced dreams. This haunting story unravels the fragile line between fantasy and reality, where beauty conceals pain, the truth washes up when no one is watching, and suffering can hide behind even the most picture-perfect lives.

Four women, reaching out through time and space in the Renaissance, are accused of witchcraft and fight to change their fates, and each other.

Gaïa is a planet whose body is inhabited by people. Once the body's resources start to diminish, they try to impregnate her egg cell in order to create a new habitat.

An environmentalist farmer and his biologist daughter lead efforts to save their thousand-year-old wetland community from being destroyed by Mexico City and an influx of commercial interests.

When single MISSY (39), fresh from heartbreak and desperate to conceive, discovers a world of free sperm, she dives right in. But semen with no strings attached is scuppered when newbie PATRICK (40) unwittingly breaks the rules of the game. (Inspired by the UK's real underground world of sperm.)