18th – 20th May 2026
St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland, The Square, Ballalease, West Donabate, Co. Dublin

Monday 19th may:

Shorts 1

Followed by a Q&A session with Sinead Brassil

7.30 – 9.45pm

Free admission but booking essential

Tuesday 19th May:

Shorts 2

Followed by a Q&A session with Sinead Brassil

7.30 – 9.45pm

Free admission but booking essential

Wednesday 20th May

7.30pm Short Film Tíolacadh (The Gift) (20 mins)

Directed by Sadhbh Larkin-Coyle and Sean Coyle

8pm Feature Film Presentation  ‘Aontas’ (90 mins)

Directed by Damian McCann and written by Damian McCann and Sarah Gordon, the film stars Carrie Crowley, Bríd Brennan and Eva-Jane Gaffney.
In this Irish Language thriller, three unlikely thieves, led by a woman on the verge of a breakdown, rob a rural Irish Credit Union. Opening in the tragic aftermath of the heist-gone-wrong, Aontas unfolds backwards, chapter by chapter to unravel the events that led to this point. What starts as a poorly executed robbery becomes a portrait of a wilful woman trapped in her own past.

€10 admission

“The Bleeding Pig Festival is really well organised in a great venue. A brilliant programme of shorts. Its size makes it an ideal place to meet and network with other filmmakers. I met a future collaborator in Sinead O’Laughlin at the festival. I’d highly recommend it”

Gemma Doorly, Writer/Director of The Fireman and the Nurse