Rooftop Cinema | Irish Queer Shorts

The GAZE on Tour 2017 Irish LGBT shorts programme explores the past, present and future of the Irish LGBT experience, and portrays the spectrum of storytelling produced on the island of Ireland.

Lily
Director: Graham Cantwell
The tale of an adolescent girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. In the wake of a violent and vicious homophobic attack, she is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life.
22 minutes, Ireland, 2016, colour

The Condom Man
Director: Cara Holmes
The story of how Irish people fought the system, provided front-line and core services for haemophiliacs and other HIV and AIDS patients, and ultimately saved lives.
12 minutes, Ireland, 2017, colour

Tuesday Night
Director: Michael Healy
A dark comedy about the sensationalised media representation of trans people, and the burdens of local planning regulations.
15 minutes, Ireland, 2017, colour

3 Friends
Director: Michael Moody Culpepper
Based on Colm Tóibín short story, 3 Friends follows Fergus, a pensive young man, who is propelled on a powerful journey that begins at his mother’s funeral. His grief becomes a catalyst to reflect upon his life and relationships. Ultimately it is through death, joy, and sex that Fergus looks inside to define himself.
22 minutes, Ireland, 2016, colour

I’m Roger Casement
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
In a stunningly visual and visceral artistic exploration, choreographed by Fearghus Ó Conchúir, I’m Roger Casement dances its way through the queer legacy of the Irish revolutionary. The film is a sensuous, poetic and moving evocation of a complex history seen in contemporary bodies.
12 minutes, Ireland, 2016, colour

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DESCHIS Gastrobar | 160 Splaiul Unirii, Bucharest, Romania
Free entrance
Wheelchair accessible
Bike friendly
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A Bucharest Pride 2018 event, organized by Asociatia Accept and Irish Embassy Bucharest.
Photo by Cristian Vasile