Shorts Bundle

3 shorts programmes for €35 ✨

Discover bold, boundary-pushing short films from across the world with three handpicked GAZE shorts programmes.

Close Contact (Shorts Block)

Boxing, kung fu, lesbian mud wrestling. Vampire fighters, giant worm hunters, violent lesbian cat-women. Fighting, kicking, biting queer women take center stage in this block of films exploring all manners of female rage, retributive violence, and girls behaving badly.

New Irish Shorts

This year’s New Irish Shorts come to us urgent and heartfelt. They lay bare the crises facing our most marginalised communities, yet stay brimming with hope and determination. Familiar queer tales of tradition and family come to us in new shapes, through new voices, while untold queer stories of Traveller and HIV-positive migrant experiences are finally shared on the big screen. It’s a picture of Ireland as we know it, and of the country we hope it might become.

New Irish Shorts | Access Screening

This will be a relaxed screening of our New Irish Shorts with Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreters, integrated captions, dim lighting, reduced volume, and a welcoming environment where audience members are free to move, express themselves, and take breaks as needed.

New Brazilian Shorts

Mirroring the Brazilian community’s vibrant contributions to Irish culture, this block of films celebrates a wide diversity of queer and trans Brazilian stories. From pop idols and capoeira legends of the eighties to the technofuturist witches of New Rio, exploring home, migration, music and magic, these five films are a perfect snapshot of the artistry and power in new Brazilian cinema.

Under My Skin (Shorts Block)

A new block of fantasy-horror shorts creeps its way into the GAZE programme! Reflecting a queer community under increasing pressure to quieten and conform, these are eight unnerving pictures of people ill at ease in the world, doing whatever it takes to find their place. Some of them might get what they want in the end; and some might not be so lucky.

Somebody's Watching Me (Shorts Block)

Since GAZE’s founding in 1992, queer life has drastically transformed from the unspoken to the hypervisible. This block collects historical perspectives on the colonial camera, new visions of video self-portraits, and thrilling narratives of supernatural stalkers to ask: What does it mean to be queer and trans in 2026, when nearly nothing is private, everyone is witnessed, and everything is recorded?

Testing Limits (Shorts Block)

Queer desire can feel like an unstoppable force at times. It drives us to test friendships, push boundaries and flirt with danger. Sleek, sexy, thrilling, these short films dance on the knife’s edge of desire, following protagonists whose love, lust and passions push them towards confrontation and the inevitable fallout.