And here’s the long list of short films that have shone

÷ STUTTERER (wonin2016) Director Ben Cleary. Producer: Serena Armitage. Starring Matthew Needham and Chloe Pirrie. A lonely typographer with a speech impediment faces up to his greatest fear.

÷ PENTECOST (nominated in 2011) Director/ Writer: Peter McDonald. Producer Eimear O’Kane. Starring Don Wycherley and Simon O’Driscoll. 11-year Damien Lynch is called in to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish.

÷ SIX SHOOTER (wonin2006) Director: Martin McDonagh. Producer: Mia Bays. Starring Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. A young man and older man meet on a train by chance, leading to unlikely bloodshed.

÷ THE SHORE (wonin2012) Director: Terry George, Producer Oorlath George. Star- ring Ciaran Hinds and Kerry Condon. Two childhood friends in the North reunite after their childhood friendship was shattered by the Troubles.

÷ GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY (nominated in 2008) Director: Nicky Phelan. Produced by Darragh O’Connell. Written and performed by Kathleen O’Rourke. A grandmother tells her petrified grandchild a spooky bedtime story.

÷ THE DOOR (nominated in 2009) Director: Juanita Wilson. Producers: Louise Curren and James Flynn. Starring Igor Sigov and Liliyn Grechk. A heartbreaking tale of life after the Chernobyl disaster.

÷ GIVE UP YER AULD SINS (nominated in 2002) Director: Cathal Gaffney. Producer: Cathal Gaffney, Darragh O’Connell. Starring: Maria McDermottroe. Brown Bag Films hit is out of the park with an unconventional telling of the story of John The Baptist, as told by a young Dublin schoolgirl.

÷ 50 PERCENT GREY (nominated in 2002) Directed and written by: Ruari Robinson. A soldier wakes up alone with only a widescreen TV for company, in a place designed for him to relax in peace and tranquility, for all eternity.

÷ THE CRUSH (nominated in 2011) Directed by Michael Creagh, Producer: Damon Quinn. Starring: Neili Conroy, Rory Keenan. The story follows eight-year-old Ardal Travis, who has a crush on his second-class teacher.

÷ HEAD OVER HEELS (nominated in 2012). Directed by Timothy Reckhart. Producer: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly. Voices by Nigel Anthony and Rayyadh McCaul. Walter and Madge are a couple who have grown apart so much that one lives on the floor, while the other is on the ceiling.

÷ NEW BOY (nominated in 2007) Director: Steph Green. Written by: Roddy Doyle. Starring Olutunji Ebun-Cole and Simon O’Driscoll. Captures the experience of being the new kid in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine year-old African boy.

÷ Honorable mention for A NOTE OF TRIUMPH (won Best Documentary Short in 2006) Directed by Corinne Marrinan (who has dual US/Irish citizenship) and Eric Simonson. Stars: Robert Altman & Walter Cronkite. The documentary pays homage to the 1945 documentary On A Note Of Triumph, depicting the end of the war in Europe.